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9,761,832 | 1. A substrate for an organic electronic device (OED), comprising: a base film including a condensation unit of an aromatic tetracarboxylic acid dianhydride and a diamine compound or an imidization unit thereof having two or more hydroxyl groups; and an inorganic material layer disposed on the base film, wherein the diamine compound is 1,3-diamino-4,6-dihydroxybenzene, and wherein a surface of the base film has a contact angle in a range of 50 to 65 degrees with respect to deionized water at room temperature. | 28,957 |
8,849,303 | 1. A computer implemented method for automatically transmitting a location of a wireless data processing device, the method comprising: determining that an incorrect security code to unlock the wireless data processing device has been entered a specified number of times, and based on the determination powering down the wireless data processing device; temporarily powering up the wireless data processing device or portion thereof, in a security mode, in response to reaching a predetermined time, wherein the security mode includes activating designated security features, the designated security features including limiting user access to the wireless data processing device; in the security mode, determining a current location of the wireless data processing device using one or more specified location determination techniques; in the security mode, transmitting the current location of the wireless data processing device over one or more specified communication channels; and powering down the wireless data processing device after the current location has been transmitted. | 34,734 |
9,834,688 | 1. A conductivity-imparting material comprising: at least one substrate, which is selected from the group consisting of aluminum, copper, glass, natural resins, synthetic resins, ceramics, paper, fibers, woven fabrics, nonwoven fabrics, and leather; and a coating film formed by coating and drying a water-based, carbon filler-dispersed coating formulation on a surface of the substrate, wherein the water-based, carbon filler-dispersed coating formulation comprises: (1) a hydroxyalkyl chitosan as a resin binder; (2) a conductive carbon filler; and (3) a polybasic acid or a derivative thereof, in a water-based medium, which is water or a mixed dispersion medium that is a mixture of water and an organic solvent miscible with water, the organic solvent being at least one solvent selected from the group consisting of alcohols, esters, ketones, amides, sulfoxides, and mixtures thereof, | 36,287 |
9,402,892 | 1. An attenuated recombinant poliovirus having: (i) a 5′ non-coding region consisting of the 5′ non-coding region of Sabin 3 strain of poliovirus, modified so that it does not have a base pair mismatch in stem (a) or (b) of domain V, wherein seven or eight of the base pairs in stems (a) and (b) are U-A or A-U base pairs, and wherein: (ii) a protease 2A coding region from Sabin 3; and (iii) an entire capsid protein coding region P1 from the Sabin 1, Mahoney, MEF, or Saukett strain of poliovirus. | 38,153 |
9,651,535 | 1. A method for determining a fuel quality of a fuel for a combustion engine, particularly for a diesel engine, wherein the fuel is conveyed from a low pressure fuel tank to a high-pressure volume, and injected into at least one cylinder of the combustion engine, wherein a control valve is provided for controlling directly or indirectly the amount of fuel injected into the at least one cylinder, wherein an actual value of a timing signal of the control valve is compared to a reference value of the timing signal of the control valve and a fuel quality parameter is derived from a difference between the actual value and the reference value of the timing signal of the control valve, wherein the timing signal of the control valve is refined with an actual value of a pumping period of a fuel pump conveying the fuel from the fuel tank to the combustion engine. | 23,554 |
9,269,839 | 1. A solar cell comprising: a semiconductor substrate; a p-type conductive region formed at the semiconductor substrate and comprising a p-type impurity; and a passivation film formed on the p-type conductive region and comprising aluminum oxide, wherein the passivation film has a thickness of 7 to 17 Å, and wherein the aluminum oxide has a chemical formula of AlO | 17,252 |
8,827,853 | 1. A power split transmission, comprising: a rotatable input shaft a rotatable output shaft, and a planetary gear assembly connected between the input shaft and the output shaft; a first hydraulic unit coupled to the output shaft via the planetary gear assembly; a second hydraulic unit coupled to the output shaft independently of the planetary gear assembly; a braking mechanism coupled to the input shaft that is selectively engagable to retard rotation of the input shaft in at least one direction; and a hydraulic energy storage device in fluid connection with the first and second hydraulic units; where each of the first unit and the second unit can function as either a pump or a motor. | 3,212 |
8,527,833 | 1. A method, performed by one or more processing devices, of generating an interleaver π(i) of a length N, comprising: partitioning a primary intermediate interleaver permutation into a number of first subgroups, wherein each of the first subgroups corresponds with a respective predetermined supplemental subpermutation mask; partitioning each of the first subgroups of the primary intermediate interleaver permutation into a number of second subgroups; applying each supplemental subpermutation mask to each of the second subgroups of the first subgroup that corresponds to the respective supplemental subpermutation mask, resulting in a corresponding portion of a secondary intermediate interleaver permutation; and generating the interleaver π(i) based at least in part on the primary intermediate and the secondary intermediate interleaver permutations. | 21,387 |
9,234,541 | 1. A suspension strut bearing comprising a first assembly including a tubular part and a second assembly including a head part, and the first and second assemblies are counter-rotatable about a longitudinal axis (z) and centered with respect to each other, each of said first and second assemblies comprising a bearing ring which is allocated to one of said assemblies which are counter-rotatable when mounted, and a two-component element provided on one of the bearing rings, said two-component element centers the two assemblies with respect to each other through a first of the components possessing a higher rigidity than a second of the components, and the second component forms a sealing device, wherein the two-component element includes an axially extending, substantially bush-shaped extension, and the sealing device includes a sealing lip that seals a gap between the head part and the tubular part, wherein the sealing lip includes two sealing lips, one of the two sealing lips contacts the head part and the other one of the two sealing lips contacts the tubular part. | 19,325 |
8,768,838 | 1. A computer implemented method for processing an online financial transaction in a computer system executed at least partially by at least one computing device coupled to a communications network, comprising the steps of: a. registering a rule-module to a user within a rule-module nexus associated with the at least one computing device, each rule-module comprising pattern data associated with an execution command, wherein said pattern data comprises at least four of the following: (i) a plurality of proprietary financial accounts of the user; (ii) a thin-client user account registry code; (iii) a thin-client primary personal verification code, comprising a non-biometric data string formed from the input of alpha-numeric-symbolic characters; (iv) a thin-client secondary personal verification code, comprising a non-biometric data string formed from the input of alpha-numeric-symbolic characters; (v) a thin-client unique user code comprising a binary data string and encoded in a nexus access token, and; (vi) a thin-client private code, comprising a non-biometric data string, distinct from a personal verification code of the user and not used in verifying the user; presented to the user in the form of visible alpha-numeric-symbolic characters or audible sound; b. processing an online payor-payee financial transaction, wherein the user is the payor and a merchant is the payee, comprising: Whereby, an on-line financial transaction is processed via a rule-module nexus and an online user account registry comprising a plurality of proprietary financial accounts of the user. | 13,755 |
9,637,738 | 1. A method for increasing the translation of dystrophin in a patient in need thereof, comprising the administration of a therapeutically active amount of a nucleic acid molecule comprising one or more protector sequences complementary to miR-146a, miR-223, miR-320a, miR374a, and/or miR-382 sequences on the 3′UTR of dystrophin; wherein the 3′UTR seed sequences of dystrophin bound by these miRNAs are selected from the group consisting of: | 2,366 |
9,599,512 | 1. A process for the preparation of a polyamide having at least one repeat unit corresponding to the formula: in which: X represents a cycloaliphatic diamine and Y represents an aliphatic dicarboxylic acid that is dodecanedioic (C said dicarboxylic acid comprising organic carbon of renewable origin, determined according to Standard ASTM D6866, said process comprising at least one polycondensation of at least one fatty diacid, said diacid comprising carbon of renewable origin determined according to Standard ASTM D6866, with a cycloaliphatic diamine, said process comprising: a) obtaining a fatty monoacid from vegetable oil, the fatty monoacid being lauric acid extracted from rich oil made up of palm kernel or coconut oil, as renewable starting material, containing mainly impurities with an even number of carbon atoms, and optionally purifying, b) preparing a diacid Y from the fatty monoacid resulting from a), c) polycondensing the said diacid Y with the cycloaliphatic diamine X. | 28,974 |
9,717,497 | 1. A stapling apparatus, comprising: (a) an end effector, wherein the end effector is operable to apply at least one staple at a surgical site; (b) a blade assembly operable to move along a first direction between a locked position and an unlocked position, wherein the blade assembly is further operable to translate along a second direction through the end effector in the unlocked position, wherein the blade assembly comprises an upper portion and a lower portion; (c) a lockout feature, wherein the lockout feature is configured to prevent the blade assembly from translating along the second direction through the end effector in the locked position; (d) a resilient member configured to bias the upper portion of the blade assembly into engagement with the lockout feature, wherein at least a portion of the lockout feature is interposed between at least part of the upper portion of the blade assembly and at least part of the resilient member, wherein the blade assembly is operable to translate relative to the portion of the lockout feature; and (e) a staple cartridge configured to fit in the end effector, wherein the staple cartridge further includes a sliding member, wherein the sliding member is configured to slide along at least part of a length of the staple cartridge, wherein the staple cartridge contains the at least one staple, wherein the staple cartridge includes a lockout bypass feature configured to maintain the blade assembly in the unlocked position to thereby enable the blade assembly to clear the lockout feature. | 18,894 |
9,058,466 | 1. A method for enabling security of a computer system, said method comprising: monitoring for physical proximity of an authorized user with said computer system without requiring said authorized user to physically access the interior of said computer system; and in response to detecting said physical proximity of an authorized user with said computer system, allowing said authorized user access to privileged operations of said computer system, wherein said detection is based on physical interaction of said authorized user with said computer system. | 42,584 |
9,840,440 | 1. A composition for forming lightweight, low shrinkage and hydrophobic cementitious matrix, said composition comprising from 1 to 95% by volume of cementitious forming material, inert filler including limestone powder with a mean particle size between 20 and 80 μm, and from 1 to 20% by weight of surface-treated clay material as a hydrophobic admixture which form powdery raw materials with a particle size below 150 μm, said composition further comprising water reducing agent, viscosity modifying agent, setting time modifying agent, water, foaming agent and foam stabilizer. | 26,117 |
9,442,241 | 1. An optic for use with a light source in an illumination device, the optic comprising: a light guide made of light transmissive material, the light guide comprising a redirecting layer made of light transmissive material, the redirecting layer comprising a plurality of lenses in optical communication with the light guide for emitting light, the redirecting layer being optically attached to the first surface of the light guide; and a plurality of reflector elements adjacent and optically connected to the second surface of the light guide, each reflector element being associated with a lens of the redirecting layer for ejecting light entering the reflector element from the light guide toward the associated lens, wherein each of the reflector elements comprises an inter-step portion to receive light from the light guide, a first portion to reflect light towards the associated lens, and a second portion to reflect light from the inter-step portion to the first portion; the reflector elements comprising a light transmissive material of lower refractive index than the material of the light guide, the reflector elements being arranged such that said material is adjacent to the light guide. | 49,648 |
8,893,517 | 1. An air handling system for a vehicle, the vehicle having a passenger compartment, the system comprising: a conditioner for treating air, the conditioner having an inlet selectively opening to a source of air from (a) within the passenger compartment and (b) outside of the passenger compartment, a controller for selecting the source of inlet air open to the conditioner, a sensor for sensing a signal representative of vehicle engine oil temperature and for communicating the vehicle engine oil temperature signal to the controller, wherein the controller selects inlet air open to the conditioner from within the passenger compartment when the vehicle engine oil temperature signal is within a first predetermined vehicle engine oil temperature signal range. | 25,359 |
9,293,172 | 1. A vertical type semiconductor device, comprising: a pillar structure protruding in a vertical direction from a surface of a substrate in a cell array region and including a channel pattern; lower word lines surrounding the pillar structure formed in the cell array region, wherein the lower word lines are stacked and spaced apart from each other in the vertical direction; upper word lines surrounding the pillar structure formed in the cell array region, wherein the upper word lines are disposed over the lower word lines; a MOS transistor on the substrate of a peripheral circuit region; a first insulating interlayer pattern on the substrate of the peripheral circuit region to cover the MOS transistor; a second insulating interlayer pattern on the substrate of the cell array region to cover the lower word lines, wherein top surfaces of the first and second insulating interlayer patterns are substantially coplanar with each other; a third insulating interlayer pattern directly on the first and second insulating interlayer patterns to cover the upper word lines; a first contact plug passing through the first insulating interlayer pattern; a second contact plug passing through the second insulating interlayer pattern; and a third contact plug directly contacting a top surface of the first contact plug, and passing through the third insulating interlayer pattern, wherein a bottom surface of the third contact plug is lower than a top surface of an upper most word line of the upper word lines. | 35,250 |
9,410,558 | 1. Hydraulic apparatus for recovering energy, said apparatus comprising: at least one hydraulic motor; a high-pressure fluid source; and a low-pressure fluid source suitable for supplying fluid at a “low” pressure, greater than atmospheric pressure; the apparatus being suitable: for being operated in an energy consumption mode, in which the fluid is transferred from the high-pressure fluid source to the low-pressure fluid source while driving said at least one motor in rotation; and for being operated in an energy accumulation mode, in which, by the action of said at least one motor operating as a pump, the fluid is transferred from the low-pressure fluid source to the high-pressure fluid source; wherein the apparatus further comprises a pressure reducer disposed on a first duct interconnecting the two fluid sources; the pressure reducer being arranged such that, in energy accumulation mode, if a filling indicator for indicating the level of filling of the low-pressure source is tending to become lower than a predetermined value, the reducer opens, enabling fluid to reach the low-pressure fluid source via the first duct. | 6,821 |
9,541,604 | 1. A method of determining information concerning a switching device, the method comprising: sensing a voltage at the switching device using a voltage sensing circuit, the voltage associated with a status of the switching device; converting the sensed voltage to a useable voltage regardless of a value and a type of the sensed voltage; at a single self-contained integrated circuit that is powered by the sensed voltage: converting the useable voltage into a digital representation using the conversion block, the digital representation configured to be usable by a processing device to determine the value of the voltage at the switching device; wherein the voltage sensing circuit comprises a bridge rectifier, a constant voltage block, and a reference generator and further comprises a first isolation circuit and a second isolation circuit, the first isolation circuit and the second isolation circuit coupled to the conversion block such that the first isolation circuit and the second isolation circuit isolate the conversion circuit from an external processing device. | 31,301 |
9,523,614 | 1. A device for determining sterilization conditions within a sterilization chamber, said device comprising an elongate tube to be placed within said sterilization chamber, said tube having a tube wall and a cavity therein and being open at one end and closed at the other end thereof, and at least two temperature sensors within the cavity of the elongate tube, wherein the at least two temperature sensors within the elongate tube each comprise a thermocouple and the at least two temperature sensors being spaced apart from each other along the length of the elongate tube by a predetermined distance and being spaced apart from an interior wall of the elongate tube; wherein the wall of the elongate tube comprises at least first and second passages therethrough adjacent to each thermocouple, and each thermocouple comprises two wires, one wire extending through the first passage and the other wire extending through the second passage in the tube wall, wherein each wire has a thermocouple forming end for each thermocouple, the thermocouple forming ends of the two wires are connected, wherein each wire has a diameter of equal to or less than 0.4 mm wherein the device further comprises a processor adapted to determine, on the basis of the temperatures measured by the at least two temperature sensors within said tube in conjunction with a reference temperature determined at a location within the sterilization chamber but external to the elongate tube, whether predetermined sterilization conditions are met within said sterilization chamber, and wherein the device further comprises a pressure sensor external to the elongate tube. | 1,961 |
8,432,952 | 1. A RAKE receiver comprising: a plurality of RAKE fingers to despread symbols received over multiple paths of a multi-path channel, said received symbols comprising a symbol of interest and one or more interfering symbols, wherein a first one of said plurality of RAKE fingers comprises a delay corresponding to the symbol of interest and a second one of said plurality of RAKE fingers comprises a delay corresponding to an interfering symbol; a processor to determine a cross-correlation between the symbol of interest and the interfering symbol; and a combiner to combine the symbol of interest with the interfering symbol using the cross-correlation to reduce intersymbol interference attributable to the interfering symbol from the symbol of interest, wherein the processor determines the cross-correlation between the symbol of interest and the interfering symbol by: | 20,246 |
9,674,804 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a communication unit for receiving upstream information and generating a first sample stream based on a first clock rate, the first sample stream being representative of the upstream information; a synchronization unit for converting the first sample stream to a second sample stream based on a second clock rate, the second sample stream being configured as a plurality of sequential bursts arranged in accordance with a predetermined burst plan; and an interface unit for receiving the second sample stream at the second clock rate and outputting the second sample stream in accordance with the predetermined burst plan, wherein the synchronization unit is configured to perform at least one of dropping one or more samples contained in the first sample stream and adding one or more samples to the second sample stream, during a subsequent guard period within the first sample stream, wherein the first clock rate is different from the second clock rate, and wherein the first sample stream is converted based, at least in part, on predetermined guard periods within the first sample stream. | 6,123 |
9,666,326 | 1. A storage battery comprising: a positive electrode comprising a particle comprising a crystal of Li wherein at least one of the plurality of crystals of LiMn wherein a molar proportion of the crystal of Li wherein when the storage battery is charged in higher than 4.5 V, a discharge capacity of the particle of the storage battery until discharge voltage 2.0 V is greater than 220 mAh/g. | 33,319 |
9,208,328 | 1. A device comprising an operating system to run processes in a user mode of a lower layer and a middleware layer operable to launch applications of an application layer, wherein an application launched by the middleware layer is run using one or more processes in a user mode of the lower layer in the operating system, the operating system further comprising a kernel operable in a kernel mode of the lower layer, the device further comprising: a hardware processor: a security system operating in the user mode of the lower layer comprising: monitoring entities operating in the user mode of the lower layer, each monitoring entity being configured to monitor a respective process running in the user mode of the lower layer such that each process has a dedicated monitoring entity, each monitoring entity being linked to one or more application-specific security policies of a security policy database accessible to the device that comprises one or more application-specific security policy files defining application-specific security policies for applications in the application layer and/or types of applications in the application layer; and each monitoring entity being configured to: and wherein the security system is configured to link application-specific security policies to each monitoring entity by: monitoring for a predefined event or predefined identification threshold after initial launch of the process being monitored by the monitoring entity, the predefined event or predefined identification threshold signifying a state in which the application the process is executing can be definitively identified; and linking appropriate one or more application-specific security policies of the security policy database to the monitoring entity once the predefined event is detected or predefined identification threshold is reached such that the linking of the appropriate one or more application-specific security policies to the monitoring entity for enforcement is delayed until the application the process is executing can be definitively identified. | 19,758 |
9,415,045 | 1. A method for treating pain comprising the step of administering a compound of Formula I, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, or Formula II to a subject in need thereof: Wherein: u is 0, 1 or 2; t is 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, or 7; X is S or O; Y R Each R wherein each R R R R R wherein s is 0, 1, 2, or 3; p is 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, or 7; q is 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5; each R wherein the term “substituted” refers to the replacement of one or more hydrogen radicals in a given structure with the radical selected from halogen, alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, aryl, heterocyclyl, thiol, alkylthio, arylthio, alkylthioalkyl, arylthioalkyl, alkylsulfonyl, alkylsulfonylalkyl, arylsulfonylalkyl, alkoxy, aryloxy, aralkoxy, aminocarbonyl, alkylaminocarbonyl, arylaminocarbonyl, alkoxycarbonyl, aryloxycarbonyl, haloalkyl, amino, trifluoromethyl, cyano, nitro, alkylamino, arylamino, alkylaminoalkyl, arylaminoalkyl, aminoalkylamino, hydroxy, alkoxyalkyl, carboxyalkyl, alkoxycarbonylalkyl, aminocarbonylalkyl, acyl, aralkoxycarbonyl, carboxylic acid, sulfonic acid, sulfonyl, phosphonic acid, heteroaryl, and aliphatic. | 37,171 |
9,263,198 | 1. An electrical storage device comprising: a package having a body and a lid that together define a closed space; and an electrical storage element disposed in the closed space and comprising a plurality of element terminals, a first main surface and a second main surface that opposes the first main surface, wherein the body of the package comprises: wherein the lid of the package comprises: | 28,731 |
9,006,207 | 1. A method for treating chronic or acute pain in a human, the method comprising administering an effective amount of a composition comprising a compound of Formula I, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof | 15,102 |
9,151,512 | 1. A ventilation system including a heat recovery assembly comprising a first heat exchanger for heat recovery having a first flow path and a second flow path, the first heat exchanger adapted to exchange heat energy from air transported in one of the first or second flow paths to the air transported in the other flow path, wherein a peripheral inlet to the first flow path is arranged to surround a central outlet of the second flow path, and a peripheral inlet to the second flow path is arranged to surround a central outlet of the first flow path, wherein the first flow path comprises a plurality of channels arranged in a loop at the peripheral inlet that converge to define the central outlet of the first flow path, wherein the second flow path comprises a plurality of channels arranged in a loop at the peripheral inlet that converge to define the central outlet of the second flow path, the plurality of channels of the first and second flow paths being defined by a plurality of radially extending dividers, and the plurality of channels of the first and second flow paths being arranged to cross over one another as they converge. | 48,541 |
8,977,922 | 1. An apparatus, comprising: a receiver configured to receive an inbound RF signal from a source device, the inbound RF signal including a plurality of code words forming a transport block; a processing module configured to determine whether any of the code words within the transport block were received in error and generating an Acknowledgement-Negative Acknowledgement (ACK-NACK) message in response thereto, wherein when one or more of the code words were received in error, the ACK-NACK message indicates the one or more of the code words that were received in error; and a transmitter configured to transmit the ACK-NACK message to the source device. | 17,643 |
8,979,490 | 1. A fan inlet diffuser housing (FIDH) system, comprising: an air cycle machine (ACM); an FIDH housing coupled to the ACM; an inlet fan disposed on the ACM and configured to pass inlet air into the FIDH; a center tube disposed in the FIDH housing, wherein the center tube further comprises acoustical foam disposed therein; a diffuser cone disposed around at least a portion of the center tube; an inboard strut supporting the center tube within the diffuser cone, the inboard strut having a substantially Y-shaped cross-section and comprising three outer diameter walls and three inner diameter walls; and an outboard strut supporting the center tube within the diffuser cone, the outboard strut being integral with the diffuser cone, the outboard strut having a substantially Y-shaped cross-section and comprising three outer diameter walls and three inner diameter walls, wherein the three inner diameter walls of the inboard strut are coupled to the center tube with a first plurality of mechanical fasteners, the three inner diameter walls of the outboard strut are coupled to the center tube with a second plurality of mechanical fasteners, the three outer diameter walls of the inboard strut are coupled to the diffuser cone with a third plurality of mechanical fasteners, upset ends of the first and second plurality of mechanical fasteners are disposed in the acoustical foam, and the first plurality of mechanical fasteners comprises six rivets distributed in pairs at each of the three inner diameter walls of the inboard strut. | 22,509 |
9,199,871 | 1. A continuous strengthening device, comprising: a bracket; at least a strengthening furnace located below the bracket, wherein the strengthening furnace comprises: at least a pre-heating/annealing furnace movably located on the bracket, wherein the pre-heating/annealing furnace comprises: | 16,706 |
9,358,719 | 1. An apparatus for use with plastics material pre-forms and with respect to a dwell period, the apparatus comprising: a tempering space for receiving a plurality of plastics material pre-forms, a supply device in order to supply the plastics material pre-forms to the tempering space, a removal device in order to remove the plastics material pre-forms out of the tempering space, and a conveying device which conveys the plastics material pre-forms from the supply device to the removal device in such a way that each plastics material pre-form remains in the tempering space for a pre-set duration of the dwell period, wherein a temperature of the plastics material pre-forms leaving the removal device is substantially constant irrespective of the duration of the dwell period of the plastics material pre-forms in the tempering space and the conveying device is designed with respect to dimension and conveying speed of the conveying device in such a way that each plastics material pre-form remains in the tempering space for a period of time of at least 5 minutes; wherein the conveying device conveys the plastics material pre-forms non-sorted at least locally through the tempering space; wherein the plastics material pre-forms lie non-soiled in the manner of bulk material in direct contact with the conveying device; and wherein the plastics material pre-forms are cooled or heated with a defined air flow. | 25,203 |
9,440,185 | 1. A polymer membrane comprising a crosslinked thermally rearranged poly(benzoxazole-co-imide) having a repeating unit represented by the following Chemical Formula 1: wherein, in Chemical Formula 1, Ar is an aromatic cyclic group selected from substituted or non-substituted tetravalent C6-C24 arylene groups and substituted or non-substituted tetravalent C4-C24 heterocyclic groups, wherein the aromatic cyclic group is present alone; two or more of the aromatic cyclic groups form a condensed ring together; two or more of the aromatic cyclic groups are linked to each other via O, S, CO, SO 2 , Si(CH 3 ) 2 , (CH 2 ) p (1≦P≦10), (CF 2 ) q (1≦q≦10), C(CH 3 ) 2 , C(CF 3 ) 2 or CO—NH, Q is a single bond; or O, S, CO, SO each of x and y represents a molar fraction in the repeating unit, wherein 0.8≦x≦0.95, 0.05≦y≦0.2 and x+y=1. | 508 |
9,726,081 | 1. An exhaust-gas turbocharger ( 1 ) comprising: a compressor ( a turbine ( a control rod ( an actuator ( wherein a damping apparatus ( | 13,423 |
8,391,852 | 1. A communication method of a communication system communicating between a communication terminal apparatus and a base station apparatus at least in a first session and a second session, wherein the first session is a direct communication connection between the communication terminal apparatus and the base station apparatus over a first communication protocol and the second session is another direct communication connection between the communication terminal apparatus and the base station apparatus over the first communication protocol, and the first session has a period in which the first session is shifted alternately between an active state and a sleep state at predetermined time intervals, wherein the second session has a period in which the second session is at least in the active state when the first session is in the sleep state, the communication method comprising: a session state recognizing step at which the base station apparatus recognizes the states of the first session and the second session; an instructing step at which the base station apparatus gives an instruction to the communication terminal apparatus to change the sleep state of the first session to the active state via the second session when the base station apparatus obtains first session data to be transmitted via the first session from a network while the first session is in the sleep state and the second session is in the active state based on the recognition; a session state changing step at which the communication terminal apparatus changes the first session to be in the active state from the sleep state when receiving the instruction even before a lapse of the predetermined time interval; and a data transmitting step at which the base station apparatus transmits the first session data to the communication terminal apparatus via the active state first session changed from the sleep state. | 35,894 |
8,714,621 | 1. A visor system for a vehicle having a headliner comprising: a visor body; a pivot mount to attach said visor body to a vehicle below the headliner for pivotal movement from a raised stored position downwardly away from the vehicle windshield and headliner to a lowered use position; and wherein said pivot mount for said visor body is mounted on a slide assembly, such that pivoting movement of said visor body in lowering said visor body causes said visor pivot mount to slide forwardly toward the vehicle windshield. | 32,176 |
8,798,833 | 1. A vehicle, comprising: a power storage device configured to be rechargeable; an electric motor configured to generate driving force for driving said vehicle by using electric power stored in said storage device; a charging mechanism configured to supply electric power output from a power source outside said vehicle to said power storage device; and a controller configured to control state of charge of said power storage device when said power storage device is charged, said controller including a state estimating unit configured to calculate an index value indicating said state of charge, and a setting unit configured to increase an upper limit value of said index value when prescribed condition related to deterioration of said power storage device is satisfied, and to set amount of change of said upper limit value such that said upper limit value is lower than a prescribed value, wherein said setting unit is capable of switching between a first mode having said prescribed value set as said upper limit value and a second mode allowing adjustment of said upper limit value, and sets said amount of change such that possible distance of travel of said vehicle becomes a target distance or longer and said upper limit value is lower than said prescribed value, in said second mode, the vehicle further comprising: a command generating unit configured to switch between generation of a command to extend a useable period of said power storage device and stopping of generation of said command, by a manual operation; wherein said setting unit selects said second mode from said first and second modes when said command generating unit generates said command, and selects said first mode from said first and second modes when said command generating unit stops generation of said command. | 28,301 |
8,505,685 | 1. A roof scaffolding system for temporary attachment to a roof surface, the roof scaffolding system comprising: a roof hook member removably attached to a first end of a first linear metal membrane strip unit having first and second ends, the roof hook member adapted for engagement with the peak of the roof with the first linear metal membrane strip unit extending down the roof; a second linear metal membrane strip unit having first and second ends, the second strip unit removably attached at the first end thereof to the second end of the first linear metal membrane strip unit opposite the roof hook member; the first and second linear metal membrane strip units each having at least one connector rivet adjacent each first and second end thereof; a hollow coupler connector member encircling and locking connected first and second ends of the connected first and second linear metal membrane strip units, the connector member including a pair of sprint-loaded tabs, each tab extending beyond one end of the connector member, each tab including a double keyhole aperture adapted for engaging the a least one connector rivet adjacent one end of a linear metal membrane strip unit, thereby locking the hollow coupler connector member over joined first and second ends of adjacent linear metal membrane strip units; a roof jack member removably connected to a second end of one linear metal membrane strip unit, the roof jack member adapted for securing a foot board perpendicular to the connected linear metal membrane strip unit; and a plurality of spacer block members rigidly attached along a common side of each of the first and second linear metal membrane strip units and to a common side of the roof jack member, the spacer block members adapted for elevating the attached strip units and roof jack member above the roof surface. | 2,529 |
8,940,576 | 1. A method of n-type doping of graphene, said method comprising introducing a phosphorus-containing and hydrogen-containing dopant fluid to a surface of graphene, under effective conditions in a vacuum chamber at a pressure greater than 10 torr and less than 50 torr, to dope said graphene with phosphine fragments each consisting of phosphorus in molecular combination with hydrogen, wherein said phosphorus-containing and hydrogen-containing dopant fluid is selected from the group consisting of phosphine, starting phosphine fragments, phosphine derivatives, and combinations thereof, and wherein said doping is substitutional doping of said phosphine fragments into said graphene. | 17,638 |
8,852,295 | 1. A method of producing a secondary battery, the method comprising the following sequential operations: dipping a separator in a polymer electrolytic precursor solution to prepare an impregnated separator; adhering the impregnated separator to each of a positive electrode layer and a negative electrode layer by sandwiching the impregnated separator between the positive and negative electrode layers and polymerizing an electrolyte of the impregnated separator while applying a pressure to the positive electrode layer, the impregnated separator and the negative electrode layer in a direction of thickness of the positive electrode layer, the impregnated separator and the negative electrode layer, to thereby form a stack structure of the positive electrode layer, a separator layer and the negative electrode layer; and injecting a liquid electrolyte to the stack structure, wherein a conductivity of an electrolyte of the negative electrode layer in the secondary battery is higher than a conductivity of an electrolyte of at least one of the separator layer and the positive electrode layer. | 28,125 |
8,995,572 | 1. A method, comprising: aligning a received data sequence with a transmitted data sequence to produce an aligned data sequence, wherein the received data sequence is based on an output of a power amplifier having one or more nonlinear characteristics that is responsive to the transmitted data sequence; dividing the aligned data sequence into N segments; obtaining first nonlinear parameters for the power amplifier based at least on first segments of the N segments; obtaining one or more second nonlinear parameters corresponding to one or more second segments of the N segments based at least on an extrapolation of the first nonlinear parameters, wherein the one or more second segments have lower transmitted data sequence values than the first segments; and performing digital predistortion on a transmit data sequence based at least on predistortion parameters to compensate for the one or more nonlinear characteristics of the power amplifier, the predistortion parameters comprising the first nonlinear parameters and the one or more second nonlinear parameters. | 47,323 |
9,368,283 | 1. A method of fabricating an electrochemical cell, comprising the steps of: providing a first electrode ink and a second electrode ink; providing liquid electrolyte ink; printing a first electrode layer of the first electrode ink; printing an electrolyte layer of the liquid electrolyte ink, wherein the electrolyte layer comprises a polymer into which at least one ionic liquid and at least one electrolyte salt have been imbibed; and printing a second electrode layer of the second electrode ink; wherein the electrolyte layer provides physical separation between the first electrode layer and second electrode layer to form an electrochemical cell; wherein the electrolyte layer is configured to provide ionic communication between the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer by facilitating transmission of multivalent ions between the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer; and wherein the electrolyte salt dissolved into the ionic liquid releases multivalent cations selected from ions of at least one of zinc, aluminum, magnesium and yttrium. | 29,247 |
9,064,963 | 1. A field-effect transistor, comprising: a substrate; an undoped GaP layer overlying the substrate; a Si a fin-shaped Si structure overlying the Si a gate overlying the fin-shaped Si structure. | 34,045 |
9,337,370 | 1. An apparatus for the automatic assembly of photovoltaic panels with back-contact architecture, comprising a plurality of stations that are configured in sequence in a carousel with recirculation of trays and a device, which is adjacent to one or more of said stations, for controlling the correctness of the processes performed, said control device enabling the processing or the mere transit of said tray into the subsequent station by comparing an actual state with a predefined state, said apparatus further comprising: a first station for loading a BCBS, with the conducting side facing upwardly, into an empty tray; a first verification, by means of a first control device, of the position of said BCBS and of the regions onto which a deposition of conducting material is to be performed; at least one second station for depositing said conducting material in the seats or holes identified in said BCBS; a second verification, by means of a second control device, of the actual location of the conducting material deposited in said BCBS; at least one third loading station for the repeatable loading of one or simultaneously a plurality of pre-oriented cells on said previously processed BCBS; a third verification, by means of a third control device, of the position of said cells on said previously processed BCBS; a fourth station for loading one or more encapsulating layers in contact with the upper side of said previously processed BCBS and with the previously positioned cells; a fourth verification, by means of a fourth control device, of the presence of said encapsulating layer; a fifth station for loading a glass on said previously processed BCBS so as to obtain a structure that corresponds to the structure of said panel, said fifth station comprising at least one heating source that is adapted to allow said one or more encapsulating layers to attach to each other by means of the activation of the adhesives and/or of said one or more encapsulating layers themselves without triggering the polymerization thereof; a sixth station for tipping said tray, which contains said panel, without offset or relative separation of the individual components contained therein and for positioning said glass in a downward position and for subsequently disengaging said tray from said panel and tipping said emptied tray in said first station and unloading said panel to a lamination unit. | 29,786 |
8,631,206 | 1. A set-associative cache comprising: a data cache configured to provide a plurality of cache lines in response to a set index of a virtual address, wherein each of the cache lines corresponds to one of a plurality of ways of the set-associative cache; a translation lookaside buffer configured to provide one of a plurality of way selections in response to (i) the set index of the virtual address and (ii) a virtual tag of the virtual address, wherein each of the way selections corresponds to one of the ways of the set-associative cache, and wherein the translation lookaside buffer comprises: a way multiplexer configured to select one of the cache lines provided by the data cache in response to the one of the plurality of way selections retrieved by the way module. | 25,844 |
8,991,674 | 1. An adhesive tape cutting device adapted to be mounted to an adhesive tape roll, the adhesive tape roll having an inner surface, an outer surface opposite to the inner surface, a first side surface, a second side surface opposite to the first side surface, and a peeled tape section, said adhesive tape cutting device comprising: a cutting unit including a cutting member that has a blade; and a supporting unit including an elongated shaft seat adapted to be mounted to the outer surface of the adhesive tape roll and permitting said cutting member to be disposed thereon, a first pressing member disposed on an end of said shaft seat and adapted to be adjacent to the first side surface of the adhesive tape roll, and a first supporting member disposed on an opposite end of said shaft seat and adapted to be adjacent to the second side surface of the adhesive tape roll, said first pressing member having a biasing rod section extending from said shaft seat and adapted to be adjacent to the second side surface of the adhesive tape roll, and a pressing portion extending from said biasing rod section toward said first supporting member and adapted to press against an inner surface of the adhesive tape roller, said first supporting member having a biasing rod section extending from said shaft seat such that said biasing rod sections of said first pressing member and said supporting member flank the adhesive top roll, and a retaining portion connected to said biasing rod section of said first supporting member and retaining removably said pressing portion of said first pressing member thereon, such that said biasing rod sections of said first pressing member and said first supporting member cooperate to bias said pressing portion of said first pressing member to press against the inner surface of the adhesive tape roll; wherein said supporting unit further includes a second pressing member disposed on said shaft seat and adjacent to said first pressing member, and a second supporting member disposed on said shaft seat and adjacent to said first supporting member, such that said first pressing member and said first supporting member are located at a side of said shaft seat, and said second pressing member and said second supporting member are located at an opposite side of said shaft seat, said second pressing member having a biasing rod section extending from said shaft seat and adapted to be adjacent to the first side surface of the adhesive tape roll, and a pressing portion extending from said biasing rod section toward said second supporting member and adapted to press against an inner surface of the adhesive tape roller, said second supporting member having a biasing rod section extending from said shaft seat such that said biasing rod sections of said second pressing member and said supporting member flank the adhesive top roll, and a retaining portion connected to said biasing rod section of said second supporting member and retaining removably said pressing portion of said second pressing member thereon, such that said biasing rod sections of said second pressing member and said second supporting member cooperate to bias said pressing portion of said second pressing member to press against the inner surface of the adhesive tape roll. | 28,889 |
8,809,732 | 1. A method of ablation processing, the method including a steps of: ablating a region of a substrate by a laser beam by using either a laser beam focusing or imaging lens to expose the substrate; and further comprising the step of removing debris ablated from the region by a flow of a fluid, namely, a gas or vapour, a liquid or a combination of the fluids, wherein the flow of fluid is directed to flow over the region so as to entrap debris as aforesaid and thereafter to remove the entrapped debris from the region by directing the flow of fluid, with any entrapped debris, away from the region along a predetermined path avoiding subsequent deposition of entrapped debris on the substrate, wherein the directing of the flow of fluid is achieved by a debris extraction module located to fill some part of the space between the substrate and the laser beam focusing or imaging lens, the debris extraction module being attached to an air puck and being attached to a device that holds the laser beam focusing or imaging lens, the debris extraction module having a lower edge adjacent to the surface of the substrate, wherein a distance between the debris extraction module with the laser beam focusing or imaging lens and the substrate is at all times maintained constant by the air puck which floats on the surface of the substrate, and wherein the fluid is contained in a closed cycle flow loop system. | 39,382 |
9,135,070 | 1. A support apparatus that supports an information processing apparatus that executes a plurality of jobs, the support apparatus comprising: a storage unit configured to store (i) a plurality of memory leak amounts corresponding respectively to the plurality of executed jobs and (ii) a plurality of peak memory usage amounts corresponding respectively to the plurality of executed jobs; an acquisition unit configured to, before executing a first job, (a) acquire a total memory leakage of the information processing apparatus based on at least one of the plurality of memory leak amounts corresponding to the plurality of executed jobs and (b) acquire a peak memory usage amount based on at least one of the plurality of peak memory usage amounts, wherein the at least one of the plurality of peak memory usage amounts is selected for the acquisition based on comparison of a parameter setting of the first job and a parameter setting of each of the plurality of executed jobs; and a determination unit configured to determine, before executing the first job, whether or not an increasing memory usage that would be caused by executing the first job exceeds a memory capacity of the information processing apparatus that is allowed, based on the peak memory usage amount and the total memory leakage acquired by said acquisition unit, wherein, based on the determination by the determination unit, (a) not executing the first job if the increasing memory usage exceeds the memory capacity of the information processing apparatus, and (b) executing the first job if the increasing memory usage does not exceed the memory capacity of the information processing apparatus, and wherein said acquisition unit (a) acquires the peak memory usage amount corresponding to the first job based on average values of the peak memory usage amounts corresponding to jobs similar to the first job stored by said storage unit, or (b) acquires the peak memory usage amount based on the maximum value of the at least one of the plurality of peak memory usage amounts corresponding to the jobs similar to the first job stored by the said storage unit, and wherein the support apparatus includes a processor. | 9,326 |
8,449,680 | 1. A method for treating a cellulosic feedstock, the method comprising: a) subjecting the cellulosic feedstock to impregnation comprising: b) subsequently subjecting the heated moistened feedstock to a downstream hydrolysis process in a steam explosion reactor to obtain an activated feedstock; and, c) subjecting the activated feedstock to an enzymatic hydrolysis process. | 12,545 |
8,933,701 | 1. A method of determining the state of charge in a flow battery comprising: measuring a mass distribution characteristic of the flow battery to determine the state of charge, wherein the measuring comprises measuring one or more of: a weight of an electrolyte reservoir; a weight of an electrolyte in the electrolyte reservoir; a pressure difference of an electrolyte between a lower portion of the reservoir and an upper portion of the reservoir; or a weight of a stack of flow battery cells; measuring the weight of the stack of flow battery cells, wherein measuring the weight of a stack of flow battery cells comprises measuring a change in strain in a stack support with one or more strain gauges or load cells. | 37,672 |
8,794,649 | 1. A transport apparatus, comprising: a rotary portion for providing a source of a rotary motion; a motion transfer portion for mechanically transferring a rotation force of the rotary portion; a battery pack; and a cooling portion for receiving the rotation force transferred from the motion transfer portion and cooling the battery pack by moving a fluid, wherein: the motion transfer portion includes: a sprocket mechanically connected to the rotary portion, and a power transfer unit having one end connected to the sprocket and another end connected to the cooling portion, the battery pack includes an inlet and an outlet arranged and configured such that the fluid is provided through the inlet of the battery pack via the cooling portion and is discharged through the outlet of the battery pack, the outlet of the battery pack is open in one direction to direct the fluid provided via the cooling portion outside of the battery pack and closed in an opposite direction, and the cooling portion includes a fan connected to the power transfer unit, and a hose having one end accommodating at least part of the fan and another end connected to the battery pack. | 839 |
8,986,732 | 1. A biphasic vesicle composition comprising: (a) a first phase comprising an oil-in-water emulsion which oil-in-water emulsion comprises oil in a water phase, wherein a sufficient amount of oil is employed to form a composition suitable for topical application, and wherein the water phase comprises interferon alpha-2b, an antioxidant and an anti-aggregant; and (b) a second phase comprising multilamellar lipid vesicles suspended in said first phase wherein said vesicles contain entrapped therein a composition comprising an oil-in-water emulsion wherein the oil-in-water emulsion comprises a water phase comprising interferon alpha-2b, an antioxidant and an anti-aggregant, wherein the composition comprises a therapeutically effective amount of said interferon alpha-2b, and wherein said anti-aggregant preserves interferon alpha-2b in the monomeric form and the anti-aggregant is arginine or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. | 16,993 |
8,446,716 | 1. A combinative outer frame for a flat panel display, comprising: a front frame including an inner surface; a support frame including a sidewall, said sidewall including a top surface, wherein said top surface including a ridge protruding therefrom is distributed along an extending direction of said sidewall in a zigzag-like manner and is opposite to said inner surface of the front frame; and an elastic pad joined to said inner surface and said top surface respectively, so that said ridge is pressed into said elastic pad, wherein said elastic pad has a pad thickness, said ridge has a ridge height, and said pad thickness is larger than or equal to said ridge height. | 21,304 |
8,459,222 | 1. A laser spark plug device for an internal combustion engine, comprising: a prechamber configured to receive an ignitable medium; and at least one overflow channel configured to provide a fluid connection between an internal space of the prechamber and an external space surrounding the prechamber, wherein the at least one overflow channel is configured in such a way that when a fluid flows through the overflow channel into the internal space of the prechamber a fluid flow having at least one eddy is generated in the internal space of the prechamber, the at least one eddy rotating on an eddy axis forming an angle of more than approximately 45° with a longitudinal axis of the laser spark plug device; wherein a plurality of overflow channels are provided, and wherein longitudinal axes of at least three overflow channels intersect at a point of intersection located in the internal space of the prechamber. | 30,047 |
8,822,710 | 1. A process for preparing an epoxide from an oxygenate, the process comprising the following steps: a) contacting the oxygenate with a molecular sieve-comprising catalyst, at a temperature in the range of from 350 to 1000° C. to obtain an olefinic product stream comprising ethylene, propylene and a C4+ hydrocarbon fraction comprising C4+ paraffins and C4+ olefins including isobutene; b) supplying at least part of the C4+ hydrocarbon fraction and methanol to an etherification reaction zone comprising an etherification catalyst and reacting, in the etherification reaction zone, at least part of the isobutene with an alcohol selected from the group consisting of methanol, ethanol and a mixture thereof to obtain an etherification product stream comprising an alkyl tert-butyl ether; c) separating at least part of the etherification product stream into an alkyl tert-butyl ether-enriched stream and an isobutene-depleted C4+ hydrocarbon stream; d) converting at least part of the alkyl tert-butyl ether in the alkyl tert-butyl ether-enriched stream into the alcohol and isobutene via cracking and hydrogenation; e) oxidizing isobutane obtained in step d) into tert-butyl hydroperoxide; and f) reacting tert-butyl hydroperoxide obtained in step e) with ethylene and/or propylene separated from the olefinic product stream obtained in step a) to obtain the epoxide and tertiary-butanol. | 3,639 |
9,567,893 | 1. A method of operating a cooling system for a vehicle engine, the cooling system including a motor operable to rotate a fan and a motor controller operable to drive the motor, the method comprising: supplying electrical power to the motor controller from an electrical power source; determining if a control signal has been received by the motor controller; determining if an enable signal from a source separate from the source of the control signal has been received by the motor controller; and operating the motor controller to drive the motor at a non-zero speed if at least one of the control signal and the enable signal is received, wherein the control signal is a pulse-width modulated signal having a duty cycle ranging from 0% to 100% and wherein the non-zero speed is a predetermined speed if the control signal is received with a duty cycle that is less than a standby duty cycle and the enable signal is received by the motor controller, and wherein the standby duty cycle is 3%. | 43,515 |
9,612,975 | 1. A page cache controller, comprising: a request receiving module configured to receive a request including a virtual memory page address; and a mapping module including a skip list or a page table, wherein at least one of the skip list or the page table is configured to map the virtual memory page address to a physical memory page address, wherein the mapping module further includes a mapping logic section configured to dynamically convert a section of the skip list to the page table; and wherein the mapping logic section is configured to dynamically convert the section of the skip list to the page table responsive to at least one of: | 5,597 |
8,633,052 | 1. A method of imparting a pattern to a substrate comprising the steps of: a) providing the substrate and a stamp with, elastically deformable, raised features, arranged in a pattern, each raised feature having a, tip with an un-deformed shape and an un-deformed tip width, where the stamp has an elastic modulus of less than approximately 0.1 GPa; b) providing, on at least one region of the substrate, an etch resist material that becomes flowable upon heating to a flow temperature; c) disposing the stamp raised feature tips to contact the etch resist material; d) pressing the raised features into the etch resist material, to a degree such that the raised features deform, elastically to have a deformed shape that is flatter than the un-deformed shape, the elastically deformed raised features having a tip width that is larger than the un-deformed tip width; e) heating the etch resist material to the flow temperature of the material; f) cooling the etch resist material so that it becomes solid; g) retracting the stamp to reveal patterned etch resist material covering regions of the substrate, wherein a pattern of the etch resist material includes at least one open region of the substrate not covered by the etch resist material that was previously covered with the etch resist material, said open region corresponding to a raised feature of the stamp and having a width defined by the elastically deformed tip width; and h) subjecting the substrate to an etching step. | 8,723 |
9,486,716 | 1. An apparatus for extracting an essential oil from an essential oil-containing material, the apparatus comprising: a container configured to hold an essential oil-containing material and configured to transmit microwaves through the container to the essential oil-containing material to cause the essential oil to vaporize; a condenser coupled to the container and configured to receive and condense essential oil-containing vapor emitted by essential oil-containing material within the container, wherein the condenser comprises a volume of condensing material having a temperature below a condensation temperature of the received vapor such that the received vapor condenses on the condensing material; a microwave blocking shield positioned around the condensing material, the shield comprising a plurality of holes that allow received vapor to pass through the shield to reach the condensing material but do not allow microwaves to pass through the shield to reach the condensing material; and an essential oil extract receiver positioned within the container and below the condenser and configured to receive condensed essential oil from the condenser; wherein the apparatus has an overall dimension that is sized to fit inside a microwave oven. | 41,788 |
8,960,113 | 1. A marine vessel, comprising: a hull; a propulsion arrangement, including: at least one vertically arranged cylinder including a cylindrical shell and having a first vertical axis, wherein said vertically arranged cylinder is rotatable around the first vertical axis, wherein the cylindrical shell comprises three sections with a curved portion extending between two opposite ends, each of the three sections comprises a respective second vertical axis around which a respective one of the three sections is turnable, each second vertical axis is positioned at a circumference of the cylindrical shell, and each of the three sections is adjustable into a given rotated position about a respective second vertical axis for positioning the three sections in various configurations suitable for a prevailing operation mode of the marine vessel, and wherein two sections of said three sections are adjustable to a rotated position in which vertical edges of the two sections are adjacent to each other to form a sail structure. | 16,545 |
8,359,030 | 1. A method for searching for a base station using a paging procedure in a mobile communication network having a paging agent that performs the paging procedure, the method comprising: receiving, at the paging agent, subscriber information including information of a service, to which a mobile node subscribed, from a home location register while performing a location registration procedure in response to a location registration request from the mobile node; setting an available scan time based on the time required to perform the paging procedure; generating a paging request message including the available scan time and the subscriber information to send the paging request message to a base station required for paging; and generating base station information based on the subscriber information to input into the paging request message to transmit it with the available scan time to the mobile node, wherein the mobile node selects a base station by using the base station information within a range of the available scan time, wherein said setting an available scan time sets the available scan time based on a type of a packet received from a counterpart node of the mobile node, an overall delay time for controlling call drop probability to be less than a preset value, and the time required for the paging procedure. | 9,523 |
8,603,213 | 1. As-atomized, prealloyed particles, each comprising a matrix metal comprising iron, an environmental resistance-imparting alloying element, a dispersoid-forming element to form dispersoid particles, and a reactive species present in solid solution and/or as a compound in an amount sufficient to complete a reaction with said dispersoid-forming element to form dispersoid particles but not exceeding about 10,000 ppm by weight wherein the atomized particles each include a metastable surface compound that is formed by reaction of the reactive species with the alloying element and that is relatively less thermodynamically stable than the dispersoid particles. | 32,524 |
8,836,181 | 1. A vehicle drive device, comprising: a rotating electrical machine having a rotor that rotates about a central axis; a case accommodating the rotating electrical machine; and an oil passage provided in the case to supply oil to a predetermined element to be supplied with an oil pressure, wherein the case has a support wall that extends at least radially, and an axially protruding portion that is cylindrically shaped and formed integrally with the support wall and protrudes axially from the support wall toward the rotating electrical machine, a rotor support member that extends at least radially to support the rotor is supported radially and axially so as to be rotatable with respect to the axially protruding portion via a support bearing that is provided on an outer peripheral surface or an inner peripheral surface of the axially protruding portion, the element to be supplied with the oil pressure is positioned on a side axially opposite to the support wall with respect to the rotor support member, and an accommodating member that accommodates the element to be supplied with the oil pressure is positioned axially in contact with the rotor support member, the vehicle drive device includes a supply oil passage to the element to be supplied with the oil pressure, which is provided inside the support wall and the axially protruding portion, and the supply oil passage has an end face opening that is formed in an end face located in a protruding direction of the axially protruding portion. | 3,217 |
8,916,370 | 1. An isolated host cell comprising a heterologous polynucleotide sequence encoding an isoprene synthase variant in operable combination with a promoter, wherein said isoprene synthase variant comprises one or more amino acid substitution(s) at one or more amino acid residues corresponding to a poplar isoprene synthase having the sequence of SEQ ID NO: 120, wherein said substitution(s) are selected from the group consisting of V10M, F12S, T15A, E18G, V58I, V58F, L70Q, L70R, L70V, L70T, T71P, V79L, E89D, G94A, S119F, F120L, G127R, E175V, T212I, S257A, R262G, A266G, F280L, N297K, F305L, L319M, E323K, A328T, D342E, A359T, K366N, E368D, L374M, S396T, V418S, K438N, H440R, T442A, I449V, A469S, K500R, K505Q, G507S, S509N, F511Y, and N532K; and wherein the variant is capable of more effectively converting dimethylallyl diphosphate (DMAPP) to isoprene, as compared to an isoprene synthase variant without a substitution. | 26,939 |
8,999,020 | 1. A process for converting a carbonaceous feedstock into a plurality of gaseous products contained in a gas stream, and for separating hydrogen and methane from the gas stream, the process comprising the steps of: (a) supplying a carbonaceous feedstock to a gasification reactor, wherein the carbonaceous feedstock includes a carbon source selected from the group consisting of coal, petroleum coke, asphaltene, liquid petroleum residue, biomass and mixtures thereof; (b) reacting the carbonaceous feedstock in the gasification reactor in the presence of steam and a gasification catalyst and under suitable temperature and pressure to form a first gas stream comprising methane, hydrogen, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, and one or more additional gaseous by-products; (c) removing a substantial portion of the carbon dioxide and a substantial portion of the one or more additional gaseous by-products from the first gas stream to produce a second gas stream comprising methane, hydrogen, and optionally carbon monoxide; (d) at least partially separating hydrogen from the second gas stream to form a hydrogen-enriched gas stream and a hydrogen-depleted gas stream, wherein the hydrogen-depleted gas stream comprises methane, optionally carbon monoxide and up to about 4 mol % hydrogen; wherein, if the heating value of the hydrogen-depleted gas stream is less than 950 btu/scf (dry basis), and if the hydrogen-depleted gas stream comprises 1000 ppm or more of carbon monoxide: (1) at least partially separating carbon monoxide from the hydrogen-depleted gas stream to form (i) a carbon monoxide-enriched gas stream and (ii) a methane-enriched gas stream having a heating value of at least 950 btu/scf (dry basis); or (2) at least partially methanating the carbon monoxide in the hydrogen-depleted gas stream to form a methane-enriched gas stream. | 15,772 |
9,498,832 | 1. A saw blade assembly for a power saw, the assembly comprising: a housing blade assembly having a first panel and a second panel connected to each other, at least one of the first and second panels having a first plurality of saw teeth depending therefrom, the housing blade assembly further including a first means for connection to a reciprocating driver mechanism, the housing blade assembly being drivable in a first direction and in an opposing second direction by the reciprocating driver mechanism; and a blade interposed between the first panel and the second panel of the housing blade assembly, the blade having a second plurality of saw teeth depending therefrom and including a second means for connection to the reciprocating driver mechanism, the blade being drivable opposite the housing blade assembly in one of the first direction or the opposing second direction by the reciprocating driver mechanism, the blade further comprising a plurality of dust cleaning teeth disposed apart from the second plurality of saw teeth, the plurality of dust cleaning teeth being configured to eject cutting byproduct. | 36,521 |
9,324,037 | 1. A method for monitoring of a rotary machine which is provided with a plurality of sensors for detection of physical parameters and is operated in variable operating states, the machine being a wind power plant, comprising the steps of: obtaining start sensor data in at least one basic operating state (A, B, C) of the machine; based on the start sensor data, setting up a knowledge-based starting model for the machine with a rule set for conducting the monitoring, the rule set determining which parameters are to be monitored in which manner and with which weighting and which sensor data are to be obtained and used for this purpose; preparing a reference self organizing map (SOM) using the rule set with sensor data which are selected using the rule set and which are obtained in a reference operating phase of the machine; during a monitoring operating phase, tracking the time characteristics of a quantization error of the sensor data which have been selected using the rule set with respect to the reference SOM; starting troubleshooting if the quantization error meets a criterion which is dictated by the rule set, using the rule set, at least one first diagnosis SOM with a subset of the sensor data which have been obtained in the monitoring operating phase being prepared with respect to at least one of the measurement instants, the number of sensors and sensor data obtained in the reference operating phase, preparing at least one 3D graph of the at least one first diagnosis SOM and evaluating the at least one 3D graph prepared using the rule set to identify a fault cause; if the identification of a fault cause from the evaluation of the at least one first diagnosis SOM is unsuccessful, preparing and evaluating at least one second diagnosis SOM with another subset of the sensor data which have been obtained in the monitoring operating phase with respect to at least one of the measurement instants, the number of sensors and sensor data obtained in the reference operating phase to identify a fault cause; and checking the starting model, and thus, the rule set, and if needed, modifying the rule set using evaluations of at least one of the at least one first and second reference SOMs and the at least one first and second diagnosis SOMs. | 49,624 |
8,622,041 | 1. A circuit, comprising: a switch connected in a current discharge path, the current discharge path representing a path via which current through a plasma between a pair of electrodes is configured to flow, wherein the switch is of a type that can be switched while current through the switch is not zero, to modulate a current through the current discharge path by changing a magnitude of the current. | 43,327 |
9,124,270 | 1. An electric power conversion device comprising: a voltage-driven wide bandgap switching element that uses a wide bandgap semiconductor; and a drive circuit that preliminarily specifies a characteristic of a drain current for a drain voltage of the wide bandgap switching element, sets an area where a change of the drain current for the drain voltage becomes non-linear in the characteristic as a non-linear region. and controls a voltage for driving the wide bandgap switching element at a time of turning off the wide bandgap switching element based on a voltage profile being specified such that the wide bandgap switching element is operated in the non-linear region. | 31,730 |
9,146,671 | 1. An image display device comprising: a display configured to display different images that represent respective parts of information content; an image switch determination section configured to determine whether or not to switch an image being displayed, in response to an object contacting the display; a speed storage section configured to store a speed at which the image is switched in the case where the image switch determination section determines to switch the image; and an image display controller configured to change an image switching mode from a manual switching mode to an automatic switching mode, in response to the image being switched a predetermined number of times or more, wherein, in the manual switching mode, the image display controller controls the display to switch the image in response to the object contacting the display, and wherein, in the automatic switching mode, the image display controller controls the display to automatically switch the image at the speed stored in the storage section to represent a subsequent part of the information content at the speed stored in the speed storage section, wherein in response to i) a first image being manually switched at a first speed, ii) a second image being manually switched at a second speed different from the first speed, and iii) the image switching mode switching to the automatic switching mode, a third image is automatically switched at the first speed and a fourth image is automatically switched at the second speed. | 45,946 |
9,205,927 | 1. An aircraft environmental control system, comprising: an air cycle machine having a bleed air inlet and a conditioned air outlet, the air cycle machine adapted to selectively receive a flow of bleed air at the bleed air inlet and configured, upon receipt thereof, to discharge conditioned air from the conditioned air outlet, the conditioned air having a temperature lower than the bleed air; an inlet flow control valve coupled to the bleed air inlet and adapted to receive bleed air discharged from a gas turbine engine, the inlet flow control valve coupled to receive valve commands and configured, in response to the valve commands, to move between a closed position and a plurality of open positions; an exhaust gas temperature (EGT) sensor configured to sense EGT of the gas turbine engine and supply an EGT signal representative thereof; a conditioned air temperature sensor configured to sense the temperature of the conditioned air and supply a conditioned air temperature signal representative thereof; and a controller coupled to receive the EGT signal and the conditioned air temperature signal and, based on the EGT and conditioned air temperature signals, configured to supply valve commands to the inlet flow control valve to thereby control the flow of bleed air into the bleed air inlet. | 12,155 |
8,778,290 | 1. An exhaust gas treatment system for a diesel engine, the exhaust gas treatment system comprising: an exhaust gas conduit in fluid communication with a diesel engine for receiving a flow of exhaust gas from the diesel engine; a Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR) device having an inlet and an outlet in fluid communication with the exhaust gas conduit, and including a selective catalytic reduction composition for reducing oxides of nitrogen in the flow of exhaust gas in the presence of an ammonia reductant; a Diesel Oxidation Catalyst (DOC) converter having an inlet and an outlet in fluid communication with the exhaust gas conduit and disposed upstream of the selective catalyst reduction device in the exhaust gas conduit; and a Diesel Emission Fluid (DEF) dosing system including an injector in fluid communication with the exhaust gas conduit and disposed upstream of the DOC converter in the exhaust gas conduit; wherein the DEF dosing system is operable to inject the ammonia reductant into the flow of exhaust gas upstream of the DOC converter; and wherein the DOC converter includes an ammonia-neutral oxidation catalyst compound operable to oxidize hydrocarbons and carbon monoxide in the flow of exhaust gas, while not reacting with the ammonia reductant in the flow of exhaust gas to allow the ammonia reductant to pass through the DOC converter for reaction with the selective catalytic reduction composition in the SCR device. | 40,044 |
9,702,299 | 1. An assembly for a turbocharger comprising: a pinched nozzle cartridge that comprises a base component, an insert component and vanes disposed at least in part between the base component and the insert component, wherein the insert component comprises a shroud surface and an upper pinch profile, wherein the base component comprises an annular surface that defines a turbine wheel opening and a lower profile, wherein the upper pinch profile and the lower profile form a pinched nozzle, wherein the vanes comprise a minimum open position and a maximum open position, and wherein for the maximum open position of the vanes, trailing edges of the vanes overlap with the pinch profile. | 14,486 |
9,586,955 | 1. A compound of Formula (IIa1): or a form thereof, wherein: R wherein, heterocyclyl is optionally substituted with one, two or three R wherein, heterocyclyl is optionally substituted with one, two, three or four R R wherein, heteroaryl is optionally substituted with one, two or three R R R R R R R R R | 10,246 |
8,877,097 | 1. Method for the generation of synthesis gas via gasification of solid or liquid carbonaceous fuels with an oxidation agent containing oxygen, in a reactor, wherein the synthesis gas is passed out of the reactor overhead, and the mineral ash/slag droplets that occur during the reaction are passed out of the reactor downward, in the direction of gravity, wherein gasification is carried out in the reactor at temperatures of 800° C. to 1800° C., wherein the synthesis gas is passed over a hot-gas filter, without being cooled, and subsequently passed through a flue-tube boiler, for cooling, and wherein ash/slag particles precipitated on the hot-gas filter are passed back into the gasification reactor, in the direction of gravity. | 6,973 |
9,537,020 | 1. A method of manufacturing a fine line solar cell electrode comprising steps of: preparing a semiconductor substrate, applying a conductive paste onto the light receiving side of the semiconductor substrate, wherein the conductive paste comprises (i) a conductive powder, (ii) a glass frit, (iii) an organic polymer comprising an elastomer and (iv) an organic solvent, wherein the elastomer is thermoplastic, wherein the elastomer is selected from the group consisting of acrylic elastomer, ethylene acrylic elastomer, polyisoprene elastomer, styrene elastomer, polyester elastomer, butadiene elastomer, polyisobutylene elastomer, polyisobutylene-isoprene elastomer, nitrile-butadiene elastomer, polynitrile elastomer, ethylene-propylene elastomer, ethylene propylene diene elastomer, polyurethane-polyether block elastomer, polyamide-polyether block copolymer, siloxane elastomers, ethylene-propylene elastomer, isoprene elastomer, nitrile elastomer, natural elastomer, poly(ethylene-co-methyl acrylate) elastomer and a mixture of said elastomers, wherein the elastomer is 6 to 90 wt % based on the weight of the organic polymer; and firing the applied conductive paste to form the fine line solar cell electrode with a width of 10 to 60 μm. | 47,040 |
9,449,636 | 1. An optical disc actuator comprising a magnet and a coil substrate for driving a movable portion of the optical disc actuator relatively to a fixed portion, wherein the coil substrate is formed by a plurality of laminated substrate layers, coil patterns are formed on predetermined portions of each of the substrate layers, the coil patterns having an approximately same shape are connected with each other to form coils at each of the predetermined portions, the magnet has an approximately rectangular shape, center locations in the shape of the coil patterns are displaced between neighboring substrate layers opposite to each other with respect to a center in the approximately rectangular shape of the magnet in a direction of driving the movable portion, the coil patterns include a focus coil that drives the movable portion in a Z-axis direction and a tracking coil that drives the movable portion in an XY-plane, and the center locations in the shape are displaced a longer distance in the coil patterns of the focus coil than the coil patterns of the tracking coil. | 3,919 |
9,187,436 | 1. A process for the selective nitration of hydrocarbons, the process comprising: providing a down-flow configured reactor; reacting a hydrocarbon feedstock with aqueous nitric acid at a pressure of at least about 500 psi and a temperature of between about 150 and about 325 degrees Celsius; and recovering the formed nitrated compounds, wherein the aqueous nitric acid is a 10 to 35 weight percent solution, and wherein the hydrocarbon feedstock is an alkane. | 44,573 |
9,286,561 | 1. A method for controlling a payment card comprising a magnetic stripe emulator, a first input region, and a second input region, the method comprising: establishing a wireless connection between a mobile computing device and the payment card; transmitting a first magnetic sequence command to the payment card over the wireless connection, the first magnetic sequence command associated with a first payment method assigned to the first input region; transmitting a second magnetic sequence command to the payment card over the wireless connection, the second magnetic sequence command associated with a second payment method assigned to the second input region; and on a digital display of the mobile computing device, displaying virtual representations of the first input region and the second input region, a visual identifier of the first payment method displayed proximal the virtual representation of the first input region, and a visual identifier of the second payment method displayed proximal the virtual representation of the second input region. | 31,208 |
9,465,645 | 1. A computer-implemented method for managing task execution, comprising: under the control of one or more computer systems configured with executable instructions, | 49,864 |
9,407,144 | 1. A method to improve performance of buck-boost converters, the method comprising the steps of: (1) providing a buck-boost regulator configured for current sensing and for generating a slope ramp for a buck-side comparator, comprising an error amplifier, configured to compare an output voltage of the buck-boost converter with a reference voltage, a buck mode comparator, a boost mode comparator, circuitry to generate a control voltage of a boost-side comparator, and circuitry to generate a buck mode duty cycle, wherein an arrangement of switches is configured to operate the buck-boost converter either in buck mode or in boost mode, wherein buck mode pulses drive the arrangement of switches in buck mode and boost mode pulses drive the arrangement of switches in boost mode; (2) utilizing current mode control for the buck-boost converter; (3) using separated buck mode and boost mode pulses, wherein, if the buck-boost converter is switching in buck mode and a duty cycle in buck mode is higher than a defined duty cycle, then in a next cycle boost mode switching will occur and wherein, if the buck-boost converter is switching in boost mode and a buck mode duty cycle is lower than a defined duty cycle, then in a next cycle buck mode switching will occur, wherein the buck-boost converter is configured to track an output of the buck comparator and a related buck mode duty cycle during boost mode operation and thus enable a mode change decision being only dependent on a single input; and (4) utilizing a buck-boost mode decision method with a continuous control voltage for both modes wherein control voltages V | 15,583 |
9,673,681 | 1. A density engine comprising: a chamber containing a host liquid having a first density; an object movably positioned in the host liquid and having a second density less than the first density such that the object is buoyant in the host liquid; an injector that intermittently injects bursts of a gas into the chamber below the object, each burst of the gas thereby creating a respective rising fluid region including a portion of the gas and a portion of the host liquid, each rising fluid region having a density that is less than the second density such that the object is not buoyant in said each rising fluid region, wherein said each rising fluid region intermittently passes the object thereby causing oscillatory motion of the object; and an electrical generator coupled to the object, and upon the oscillatory motion of the object as said rising fluid region intermittently passes the object, the electrical generator generates electricity. | 34,095 |
9,487,303 | 1. A machine of a vehicle, comprising: a fixed member; a structure coupled to the fixed member; an engine coupled to at least one of the structure and the fixed member; an electrical load of the vehicle having a high energy device including a high power directed energy device that is associated with the machine and utilizes above 270 volts during operations of the vehicle; a generator coupled to the engine and configured to generate electrical power at a voltage above 270 volts for the electrical load of the high energy device during operations of the vehicle; first and second conductors electrically disposed between the electrical load and the generator; first and second conduits arranged along each other and configured to house the respective first and second conductors; and a dielectric gas disposed in at least one of the first and second conduits; wherein the at least one of the first and second conduits is configured to envelop the conductor in the dielectric gas. | 25,446 |
8,847,208 | 1. A photoelectric conversion device comprising a transparent electrically conductive film, a photoelectric conversion film, and an electrically conductive film, wherein said photoelectric conversion film contains a compound represented by the following formula (i): wherein R wherein in formula (i), each of R | 8,156 |
8,525,202 | 1. A packing member housing an LED package, comprising: a carrier member, a recessed portion to locate the LED package being formed in the carrier member, first unevenness being formed on at least a portion of a side surface of the recessed portion; and a cover member for covering the recessed portion, second unevenness being formed on a lower surface of the cover member, the LED package having: first and second lead frames apart from each other; an LED chip provided above the first and second lead frames, the LED chip having one terminal connected to the first lead frame and another terminal connected to the second lead frame; and a resin body covering the first and second lead frames and the LED chip, and having an upper surface with a surface roughness of 0.15 μm or higher, the second unevenness of the cover member being greater than the surface roughness of the upper surface of the resin body. | 33,423 |
9,775,640 | 1. A surgical device, comprising: an external sheath having a proximal end and a distal end for insertion through an opening of a body; and a plurality of tool components extending from the distal end of the external sheath, the tool components being independently deflectable with respect to each other and with respect to the external sheath and removable from the device without requiring withdrawal of the sheath through the opening of the body, and including a deflection control assembly that controls the deflection of the tool components from the proximal end of the external sheath, wherein the deflection control assembly comprises a plurality of deflectable tool supports at the distal end of the external sheath, the plurality of deflectable tool supports associated with and arranged to each receive at least one of the tool components whereby deflection of the respective deflectable tool support causes its associated tool component to be deflected, the device further comprising a plurality of tool supports each containing a deflectable tool support extending therefrom, the plurality of tool supports hingedly connected to each other about a pivot axis at a proximal end of each of the tool supports and biased against one another such that the plurality of tool supports project radially outwardly from the external sheath without connection to each other beyond a proximal end of each of the plurality of tool support when the plurality of tool supports are moved beyond the distal end of the external sheath. | 16,436 |
8,806,605 | 1. A method comprising: determining, by one or more devices, one or more rules for provisioning access to a resource; communicating, by the one or more devices, the one or more rules to a firewall, receiving, at the one or more devices and from the firewall, a redirection of the device, receiving, at the one or more devices and from the firewall, an indication that the firewall did not forward the data unit to the destination address; determining, by the one or more devices and based on accessing a memory containing information associated with the device, that the firewall should forward the data unit to the destination address; determining, by the one or more devices and based on determining that the firewall should forward the data unit, a new rule to allow the firewall to forward the data unit to the destination address; communicating, by the one or more devices, the new rule to the firewall; receiving, at the one or more devices, confirmation from the firewall that the firewall received the new rule; determining, by the one or more devices and based on receiving the confirmation, whether the firewall has provisioned access to the resource for the device; and redirecting, by the one or more devices and when the firewall has provisioned access to the resource for the device, the device to the destination address via the firewall. | 40,908 |
9,427,998 | 1. A method of imbedding an image in a stone substrate, the method comprising: (a) printing an image onto a first planar surface of a stone by transferring inks directly from a printer to the first planar surface of the stone without the inks being deposited on an intermediate medium; (b) waiting for the inks to transfer into the surface of the stone substrate; (c) repeating steps a-b until the image is imbedded into the stone substrate. | 36,591 |
9,422,579 | 1. A method for producing methane from a halophyte substrate comprising: providing a composition comprising said substrate in a saline medium, wherein said saline medium has a salt concentration of from about 30 g/L to about 60 g/L NaCl adding an adapted halophilic microbial culture to said composition in an amount effective to digest said halophyte substrate by digestion under an anaerobic condition, wherein the culture has been adapted by exposure to the halophyte substrate and saline medium in a previous fermentation and wherein said adaptation increases the yield of methane from said halophyte substrate compared to non-adapted halophilic microbial culture; and then, digesting said substrate with said culture for a time sufficient to produce methane therefrom, wherein said digesting is carried out in batch mode, fed-batch mode, continuous mode, or sequential batch reactors. | 21,604 |
9,380,480 | 1. A mobile wireless communication device comprising: a memory; a receiver configured to receive a control signal and measurement signals, the control signal comprising a minimization drive test (MDT) configuration parameter indicating at least a measurement interval; a controller configured to: | 29,466 |
9,419,142 | 1. A semiconductor device comprising: a first flexible substrate; an organic compound layer in which inorganic compound particles are dispersed over and in contact with the first flexible substrate; an insulating layer over and in direct contact with the organic compound layer; an electrophoresis element over and in direct contact with the insulating layer; and a second flexible substrate over and in direct contact with the electrophoresis element, wherein the inorganic compound particles comprise one of silicon oxide, silicon nitride, aluminum oxide, tantalum oxide, and barium fluoride magnesium, wherein the insulating layer is a single layer selected from silicon nitride, silicon oxide, and aluminum nitride, and wherein the electrophoresis element includes a first conductive layer, a second conductive layer in direct contact with the second flexible substrate, and a microcapsule. | 16,749 |
8,946,417 | 1. A compound represented by one of the following formulas: | 45,388 |
9,137,675 | 1. A system for supporting cellular mobile transceiver device communications, comprising: a cellular LTE base transceiver station that is adapted for RF time-division duplexing (TDD) communication with a plurality of mobile transceiver devices within a cell coverage area of a cell of the cellular LTE base transceiver station, wherein the cell is a sector that operates a single carrier, the cellular LTE wireless base transceiver station comprising an agile beam forming antenna subsystem that is adapted to generate a number m different sets of fixed-position patterns of a number N RF beams, wherein each of the N RF beams transmitted in a given time interval is sized to cover a corresponding sub-area of the cell coverage area with the cell coverage area being covered by the number m times the number N RF beams, wherein the agile beam forming antenna subsystem is adapted to generate each of the m sets of N RF beams in two or more one-millisecond sub-frames of each LTE frame, such that the m sets of N RF beams are generated in a manner to enable operation of Hybrid-ARQ functionality with a p millisecond interval between a data packet transmission from a respective one of the plurality of mobile transceiver devices to the cellular LTE base transceiver station and an ACK or NAK sent from the cellular LTE base transceiver station in response to receipt of the data packet transmission, and a q millisecond interval between the data packet transmission and a retransmission of the same data packet from the respective one of the plurality of mobile transceiver devices if a NAK is received, wherein p and q are fixed integers and depend on the TDD Up/Down configuration, wherein if the TDD Up/Down configuration is 5 or 6, m is equal to one, wherein if the TDD Up/Down configuration is 0, 1, 2, or 4, then m is equal to one or two, and wherein if the TDD Up/Down configuration is 3, then m is equal to one, two, or three. | 31,211 |
8,577,853 | 1. A method of upgrading a version of a shared file system to an upgraded shared filed system without taking the shared file system offline, wherein the shared file system is supported by at least one storage array and accessed by a plurality of host computer systems, each host computer system including a file system driver for accessing data on the at least one storage array stored in accordance with the shared file system, said method comprising: transmitting a request to each host computer system to upgrade its respective file system driver to a new file system driver that corresponds to the upgraded shared file system; upon receiving a notification from each of the host computer systems that the host computer system has upgraded its respective file system driver to the new file system driver, transmitting a request to a selected host computer system to upgrade file system management data structures stored in the shared file system for correspondence with the upgraded shared file system; and transmitting a request to each host computer system to upgrade file descriptors for each file for which the host computer system currently holds a file lock for correspondence with the upgraded shared file system, wherein each file descriptor that corresponds to a file for which no host computer system currently holds a file lock is upgraded by the new file system driver of a host computer system that subsequently obtains a file lock in order to access the file that corresponds to the file descriptor. | 8,582 |
9,577,646 | 1. A frequency divider, comprising: a plurality of cascaded divider stages forming a divider chain, wherein each of the divider stages is configured to receive one or more respective control bits and to set a divider value of the divider stage based on the one or more respective control bits, and wherein the plurality of cascaded divider stages is configured to propagate an input signal down the divider chain from a first one of the divider stages to a last one of the divider stages, to divide a frequency of the input signal, and to propagate a modulus signal up the divider chain from the last one of the divider stages to the first one of the divider stages, and each of the divider stages is configured to output a respective local load signal when the modulus signal propagates out of the divider stage; and an extension device coupled to the plurality of divider stages, wherein, for each of the divider stages, the extension device is configured to receive the respective local load signal from the divider stage and to input the one or more respective control bits for the divider stage to the divider stage based on the respective local load signal. | 23,736 |
9,829,965 | 1. A multi-core processor comprising: a first processing core and a second processing core, each including one or more arithmetic logic units and an instruction decoder; wherein the first processing core is capable of operating at a higher processing throughput than that of the second processing core, wherein the first and second processing cores have different instruction sets; wherein, in response to an occurrence of an event, a task processed on the first processing core is to be translated and transferred from the first processing core to the second processing core after saving a core state of the first processing core and providing the core state to the second processing core; and wherein instructions to run on the second processing core are to be translated from the instruction set of the first processing core to the instruction set of the second processing core by a software binary translation shell, wherein the first processing core and the second processing core are to concurrently execute instructions, each according to its own instruction set. | 33,644 |
8,474,619 | 1. A box of rectangular shape fabricated of a single cardboard sheet bounded by interior and exterior faces and a contoured primary perimeter, and a layer of wrapping paper attached to said exterior face and extending beyond said primary perimeter to a contoured secondary perimeter, said sheet containing scored lines which permit folding to produce said box which is comprised of: a) a lower portion integrally joined to an upper portion by way of folding upon two lines spaced apart so as to constitute a rear sidewall of said box, said lower and upper portions each bounded by straight front and side extremities, said folding interaction sequentially producing: b) means for releasably securing a gift card within said compartment in a manner which moves said card into parallel relationship with said upper portion in the open state of said box, wherein said means is a panel insert comprising two parallel cuts each disposed perpendicular to and in communication with three inner folding lines, which together provide for a pop-up platform for the gift card when the box is open, and wherein two outer folding lines define an upper and lower base of the platform but the parallel cuts are not in communication with either of the two outer folding lines, wherein said pop-up platform projecting horizontally forward of said upper portion, wherein panel shoulders embrace said platform, and have card-holding slots which releasably secure said gift card in a prominently viewable position parallel to said upper portion. | 32,241 |
9,806,379 | 1. A non-aqueous electrolyte solution comprising: i) a non-aqueous organic solvent including propylene carbonate (PC) as a first solvent and an ester-based solvent as a second solvent; ii) a first lithium salt comprising lithium bis(fluorosulfonyl)imide (LiFSI); and iii) a second lithium salt, wherein an amount of the ester-based solvent is in a range of 10parts by weight to 70parts by weight based on 100parts by weight of the non-aqueous organic solvent, and wherein a mixing ratio of the propylene carbonate to the ester-based solvent is in a range of 1:0.5to 1:4as a weight ratio; and wherein the mixing ratio of the second lithium salt to the lithium bis(fluorosulfonyl)imide is in a range of 1:6 to 1:9 as a molar ratio. | 10,800 |
9,608,242 | 1. An electronic device, comprising: one or more electronic components; a first set of battery cells enclosed in flexible pouches, having different capacities and dimensions, and electrically coupled in a parallel configuration; and a second set of battery cells enclosed in flexible pouches, having different capacities and dimensions, and electrically coupled in a parallel configuration, the second set of battery cells having substantially the same capacity as the first set of battery cells and being electrically coupled in series with the first set of battery cells; wherein the first and second sets of battery cells are arranged to accommodate the electronic components and maximize the use of free space within the electronic device. | 42,221 |
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