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8,407,871 | 1. A method of making a shapeable, short-resistant capacitor, comprising: providing a rigid substrate; depositing a first metal layer on the substrate; depositing a ceramic layer on the first metal layer; depositing a second metal layer on the ceramic layer to form a short-resistant capacitor comprising the ceramic layer disposed between the first metal layer and the second metal layer; separating the short-resistant capacitor from the substrate; and bending the resulting short-resistant capacitor into a serpentine-arrangement with gaps between the layers that allow venting of evaporated electrode material in the event of a benign failure. | 42,452 |
8,687,502 | 1. A method for transmitting data corresponding to an endpoint device problem to a packet network, comprising: generating the data corresponding to the endpoint device problem at an endpoint device, wherein the data comprises a statistic related to the endpoint device problem, wherein the endpoint device problem comprises a problem within the endpoint device that causes the endpoint device to have difficulty communicating with the packet network; transmitting the data from the endpoint device to the packet network, wherein the data is for diagnosing the endpoint device problem; and receiving an alarm, generated by a server in the packet network, at the endpoint device associated with a customer when a solution that resolves the endpoint device problem is not found within a predefined period of time. | 8,037 |
8,928,966 | 1. An electrochromic device, comprising: a first substantially transparent substrate having an electrically conductive material associated therewith; a second substrate having an electrically conductive material associated therewith; and an electrochromic medium contained within a chamber positioned between the first and second substrates which comprises: a crosslinked polyelectrolyte gel matrix, wherein the crosslinked polyelectrolyte gel matrix increases creep resistance of the electrochromic medium relative to a non-charged gel matrix at the same concentration. | 6,985 |
8,475,797 | 1. A method of treating systemic lupus erythematosus in a subject in need of treatment comprising administering to the subject an effective amount of an isolated anti-interferon alpha monoclonal antibody, or an antigen binding portion thereof, which binds an epitope on a human interferon alpha polypeptide recognized by an antibody comprising a heavy chain variable region comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 19 and a light chain variable region comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 22, such that systemic lupus erythematosus in the subject is treated. | 43,746 |
9,667,232 | 1. A system, comprising: an inertial and electro-chemical combined energy storage system; a first dynamo-electric machine configured to act as a prime mover, the first dynamo-electric machine having output stator windings configured to produce alternating current (AC) power, a rotor winding configured to be excited by an exciter, and at least one polyphase output stator winding with rectification to deliver electric power at a first rate to a bus; a secondary energy storage system coupled to the bus and configured to exchange electrical energy in a bidirectional manner; a second dynamo-electric machine, the first dynamo-electric machine electrically coupled to the second dynamo-electric machine through an electrical reactor, the second dynamo-electric machine coupled to the inertial and electro-chemical combined energy storage system and to a third dynamo-electric machine, the third dynamo-electric machine coupled to the inertial and electro-chemical combined energy storage system and configured to impart kinetic energy to and extract kinetic energy from the inertial and electro-chemical combined energy storage system, the second dynamo-electric machine having a multi-port stator winding, a wound-rotor with a polyphase winding for excitation, and at least one polyphase output stator winding coupled to an AC/direct current (DC) power converter, the power converter coupled to a DC output configured to couple to a pulsed load device; and a polyphase boost exciter configured to derive energy from either an AC bus or a DC bus and to excite a second dynamo-electric machine tertiary stator winding, wherein the second dynamo-electric machine is configured to be electrically excited at a second rate that is faster than the first rate in order to feed loads with fast rise times or having rapidly changing terminal impedances. | 2,053 |
9,499,940 | 1. A method for producing ultrahigh-viscosity refined cotton, the method comprising: 1) selecting linters excluding mixed foreign fibers as a raw material, wherein the linters have a fiber length of between 13 and 15 mm, an absolute dryness of 92%, and a maturity of exceeding 80%; and loosening, purifying, and opening the linters; followed by 2) spraying a 7 wt. % sodium hydroxide solution onto the linters, controlling a mass ratio of the linters to the sodium hydroxide solution to be 1:2.7-3.0; pressing the linters at an absolute pressure of between 0.18 and 0.2 megapascal to enable the sodium hydroxide solution to fully-uniformly penetrate into the linters to form alkali fibers, and controlling a relative humidity of the alkali fibers to be between 75% and 78%; 3) pretreating the alkali fibers obtained in 2), the pretreating comprising: pressing the alkali fibers at an absolute pressure of between 2 and 3 megapascal, recovering a lye from the pressing, controlling the relative humidity of the alkali fibers after the pressing to be between 42% and 45%; and spraying a 70 wt. % fatty alcohol polyoxyethylene ether sodium sulfate (AES) additive to the alkali fibers and pressing the alkali fibers, and repeating operations of the spraying and the pressing for three times, 4) placing the alkali fibers obtained in 3) in a sealed spherical digester, gradually increasing a temperature in the spherical digester to 100° C. within between 30 and 35 min, controlling an absolute pressure to be between 0.18 and 0.2 megapascal, idle rotating the spherical digester for between 30 and 35 min; rotating the spherical digester while gradually increasing the temperature therein to between 114 and 116° C. within between 40 and 45 min, and controlling an absolute pressure to be between 0.2 and 0.22 megapascal, and stopping rotating the spherical digester; releasing steam for 10 min so as to remove a part of oxygen from the spherical digester and to prevent oxidation and viscosity decrease; continuing to rotate the spherical digester while gradually increasing the temperature to between 120 and 125° C. within between 40 and 45 min, controlling the absolute pressure to be between 0.25 and 0.28 megapascal, and releasing the steam again after maintaining the temperature for 30 min; and recovering the lye, and discharging a cotton pulp when the temperature is decreased to 100° C.; 5) washing the cotton pulp after digestion for a first time for between 15 and 18 min, controlling a pH value to be between 7.0 and 7.5 and a concentration of the cotton pulp to be 5%; adding a 99.9 wt. % ethylenediamine tetraacetic acid (EDTA) additive and chlorine dioxide solution having a concentration of between 0.14 and 0.17 wt. % successively to the cotton pulp for conducting a first bleaching, stirring for 50 min and filtering the cotton pulp for 50 min to remove water therefrom; washing the cotton pulp for a second time for between 20 and 25 min, controlling the pH value to be between 5 and 6, processing the cotton pulp with a 30 wt. % sodium hydroxide solution for 40 min, and then filtering the cotton pulp for 50 min to remove water therefrom; washing the cotton pulp for a third time for between 15 and 20 min, and controlling the pH value thereof to be between 7.0 and 7.5; conducting a second bleaching using a chlorine dioxide solution having a concentration of between 0.14 and 0.17 wt. %, stirring for 30 min and filtering the cotton pulp for 40 min to remove water therefrom, regulating a concentration of the cotton pulp to be 5 wt. % by adding water; and adding a Na 6) processing the cotton pulp obtained in 5) by two-stage pressing, whereby enabling a water content of the cotton pulp to be below 48 wt. %, and drying the cotton pulp to yield a product. | 31,275 |
8,987,603 | 1. A printed wiring board, comprising: a plurality of first conductive circuits forming a first conductor circuit layer; an interlaminar insulative layer formed over the first conductor circuit layer and having a via-hole opening formed through the interlaminar insulative layer, the via-hole opening extending to one of the first conductive circuits; a via conductor structure formed in the via-hole opening of the interlaminar insulative layer and comprising a metal plating such that the metal plating is filling and closing the via-hole opening formed in the interlaminar insulative layer; and a plurality of second conductive circuits formed over the interlaminar insulative layer and forming a second conductor circuit layer comprising the metal plating filling the via-hole opening, wherein the plurality of second conductive circuits of the second conductor circuit layer includes a portion of the via conductor structure such that the portion comprising the metal plating filling the via-hole opening is extending out of the via-hole opening over the interlaminar insulative layer and has a substantially flat surface, the interlaminar insulative layer and the via-hole opening satisfy D | 10,621 |
9,325,147 | 1. An apparatus for generating a laser, comprising: on an upper surface of a printed circuit board, on a lower surface of the printed circuit board, | 4,520 |
9,468,048 | 1. An input current regulator comprising: a bleeding circuit generating a bleeding current from an input current passed through a dimmer; a sensing circuit sensing the input current, and controlling the bleeding circuit to generate the bleeding current according to a sense voltage corresponding to the input current when the input current is sensed by the sensing circuit to be smaller than a predetermined holding current of the dimmer; and a biasing circuit generating a power voltage for operation of the input current regulator during operation of a power supply. | 35,294 |
9,746,985 | 1. A computer-aided system for detecting and communicating information regarding a socially disruptive event, the socially disruptive event having an event type, the system comprising: non-transitory computer readable storage media that stores: indications and warnings associated with a plurality of event types, the indications and warnings indicative of social disruption; and keywords and synonyms associated with the plurality of event types, the plurality of event types comprising at least one of emerging threats, biological events, civil unrest, cybersecurity events, socioeconomic events, events impacting food and water security, or infrastructure events; an information collection and processing subsystem that identifies and downloads publicly available documents relevant to the socially disruptive event by searching open source electronic media sources for the indications and warnings associated with the event type of the socially disruptive event, the socially disruptive event comprising at least one of an emerging threat, a biological event involving humans, a biological event involving animals, a biological event involving plants, a political event, a socioeconomic event, an economic event, an industrial event, an infrastructure event, an environmental event, civil unrest, dislocation, riots, violence against property, violence against people, a cybersecurity event, events impacting food and water security, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, improvised explosive devices, human trafficking, narcotics, public opinion about a political topic, public opinion about public policy, public opinion about religion, public opinion about entertainment, a natural disaster, natural disaster aftermath, natural resource exploitation, or military activity; and an information analysis and reporting subsystem that provides a graphical user interface that provides functionality for a user to: characterize an action described in each of the downloaded documents by selecting a subject from a predefined list of subjects, selecting an object from a predefined list of objects, and selecting an act being performed by the subject on the object from a predefined list of acts, wherein the predefined list of subjects, the predefined list of objects, and the predefined list of acts are specially crafted to characterize events of the event type of the socially disruptive event; search or filter the downloaded documents using the synonyms and keywords associated with the event type of the socially disruptive event; and generate and output event reports characterizing the actions described in the downloaded documents. | 17,588 |
9,546,612 | 1. A power system, comprising: an internal combustion engine having a plurality of combustion cylinders and a plurality of corresponding intake valves for controlling a flow of air from an air intake into the cylinders; an exhaust gas recirculation system configured to recirculate a portion of an exhaust gas flow exiting the cylinders back into the air intake; a selective catalytic reduction system configured to inject a reductant into the exhaust gas flow; a variable valve actuation system having a plurality of valve actuators for variably controlling a closure timing of the intake valves; and an engine control module configured to adjust the closure timing of the intake valves based on at least one engine parameter and optimization of an operational cost of the power system; wherein the engine control module maintains a current closure timing of the intake valves when a ratio of a fuel consumption to a reductant consumption is maintained within an optimum window dictated by a NOx emission requirement. | 13,431 |
8,676,505 | 1. A positioning method of a positioning system which includes a communication device that is provided inside a vehicle by a connector being engaged with a connector provided to the vehicle and that includes a vehicle communication section and an information processing device-communication section, a first position calculating section, and which includes an information processing device that includes a communication section configured to communicate with the information processing device-communication section and a second position calculation section configured to calculate a current position, the positioning method comprising: receiving, by the vehicle communication section, vehicle speed information or travelling distance information of the vehicle from the vehicle via the connector; calculating, by the first position calculating section, the current position based on an angular velocity acquired by an angular velocity detection sensor and the vehicle speed information or the travelling distance information when the information processing device is unable to acquire positioning signals and unable to receive communications from the communication device; transmitting, by the information processing device-communication section, transmission information including one of: the current position, when first position calculating section has calculated the current position and communications are receivable from the communication device and the vehicle speed information or the travelling distance information acquired by the vehicle communication section, to the information processing device; receiving, by the communication section, the transmission information; and calculating, by the second position calculation section, the current position based on the vehicle speed information or the travelling distance information when the transmission information does not include the current position. | 6,879 |
9,700,803 | 1. A computer-implemented method, comprising: at a server, receiving game play information from a plurality of user devices associated with a corresponding plurality of users; accessing user profile information maintained for a particular user of the plurality of users in a social networking application; generating for the particular user a recommendation of connecting with a candidate user from the plurality of users, the recommendation being based on a game-play state of a plurality of players in a game-play graph of the particular user, based on game-play states of a plurality of players in a social graph of the particular user, based at least in part on the user profile information, and being based at least in part on indication in the game play information of past in-game interaction between the particular user and the candidate user; causing display of the recommendation at a user device associated with particular user; and in response to receiving player input indicating acceptance of the displayed recommendation, establishing a connection between the particular user and the recommended candidate user within the social networking application. | 33,729 |
8,419,507 | 1. A method for texturizing a bodily implant, comprising contacting an outer uncured surface of an elastomer of said bodily implant with dry ice particles being directed by a stream of air, and creating imprints on the outer uncured surface. | 6,713 |
9,840,053 | 1. An apparatus for vertical slip forming of concrete structure on a base comprising: an attachment portion for a frame; a slipform assembly having a top open surface and a bottom open surface and being connected with the frame; concrete supply unit connected with the slipform assembly for delivering concrete to the slipform assembly through its top open surface as a gravity load; a displacing unit for vertically displacing that slipform assembly incrementally relative to the base thereby to continuously or incrementally cast a concrete structure having a vertical orientation; and a control unit, wherein the slipform assembly comprises an extrusion form providing mould walls defining a cavity between the top open surface and the bottom open surface and actuators adapted to adjust the position of the mould walls essentially arranged along the longitudinal axis of the slipform assembly, wherein the actuators are configured to adjust the position of the mould walls during the incremental vertical movement of the slipform assembly relative to the base, wherein the control unit is connected to the actuators and adapted to generate and transmit control signals to the actuators causing the vertical incremental movement and to generate and transmit control signals to the actuators causing the adjustment of the position of the mould walls during the vertical incremental movement, wherein the control unit is adapted to influence the control signals causing the vertical incremental movement and/or the adjustment of the position of the mould walls in function of the hardening of the concrete column leaving the apparatus at its bottom opening, wherein the side walls of the slipform assembly form a cylindrical tube with a circular bottom surface and wherein the actuators are adapted to change the diameter of the circular bottom surface. | 14,992 |
9,051,789 | 1. High collapse resistance composite tubular structure for casing a well including a first length of casing having an internal diameter and below said first length of casing at least a second length of casing, lowered through said first length of casing, said second length of casing having substantially the same said internal diameter after solid expansion, wherein a composite tubular structure is formed by the cooperation of the existing casings with a final length of non-expanded, casing of smaller diameter ( 101 ) covering at least two previous casings, the cooperation being done by a hardenable material ( 103 ) set in the annulus between said existing casings and said final length of casing of smaller diameter. | 22,920 |
9,384,480 | 1. A micro SecureDigital (microSD) payment card, comprising: a microSD interface configured to connect to a microSD slot of a mobile host device and communicate SD commands with the mobile host device through a wired connection; a Near Field Communication (NFC) transceiver enclosed in the microSD payment card and communicably coupled to a communication module, wherein the NFC transceiver includes an NFC antenna; the communication module that wirelessly communicates RF signals with retail terminals using the NFC antenna and configured to selectively switch the NFC transceiver for the microSD payment card between an activate state and an inactivate state in response to at least an event; secure memory that stores user credentials, account information, and a payment application used to execute financial transactions with the retail terminals and a financial institution, wherein the stored user credentials are not accessible by users of the mobile host device and the payment application is issued by the financial institution and encrypts transaction information prior to transmission to the financial institution through retail terminals; a user-interface module that stores one or more pages in the secure memory, transmits, using the microSD interface, the one or more pages from the secure memory of the microSD payment card, the one or more pages displayed through a GUI of the mobile host device request information from a user of the mobile host device, and in response to the request, receives through a GUI of the mobile host device user information; and a processing module that identifies the one or more pages that has received user information, executes the payment application using the user credentials in response to at least a transaction request received by the communication module, and transmits commands to the communication module to transmit at least one transaction response to the retail terminal based, at least in part, on the executed payment application and using the user credentials and the user information. | 22,178 |
9,383,210 | 1. A computer method for calculating position and orientation of a first vehicle using georeferenced digital imagery taken remotely from a second vehicle, comprising the steps of: transferring georeferenced digital images of earth from said second vehicle and storing said georeferenced digital images of earth in computer memory; acquiring images of earth at said first vehicle and storing said earth images in computer memory; executing a software application at an INR computer processor, said application comprising a plurality of software instructions stored on non-transitory computer-readable medium for instructing the INR computer processor to perform the steps of, | 1,580 |
8,509,970 | 1. A system for ensuring that a train is not operated above an allowable speed limit on a trip, the system comprising: a memory for storing a speed profile, the speed profile including a maximum allowable speed of the train for each point of the trip, the speed profile including a braking curve corresponding to a portion of the trip in which the maximum allowable speed transitions from a higher speed to a lower speed, the braking curve being configured to cause a gradual train speed reduction starting at a point of the trip before the portion of the trip in which the maximum allowable speed transitions from the higher speed to the lower speed; at least two axle sensors, each axle sensor being configured for connection to a different axle on a train; a pair of vital circuits, each vital circuit in the pair being connected to a respective axle sensor, each vital circuit being configured to confirm that at least some portion of the respective axle sensor to which the vital circuit is connected is functioning properly; a pair of speed comparators, each speed comparator being connected to at least one of the vital circuits, each speed comparator having an output connected to an input of a power supply; a power supply connected to the output of each of the comparators; and a valve connected to the power supply and in fluid communication with an air brake pipe, the valve being configured such that it remains closed when power from the power supply is supplied to the valve and causes an application of the train's brakes when power from the power supply is not supplied to the valve; wherein each of the speed comparators is configured to control its respective output such that the power supply does not supply power to the valve when a speed of the train exceeds a maximum allowable speed as indicated in a corresponding portion of the speed profile. | 28,143 |
9,519,521 | 1. A server device comprising: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory, wherein the processor executes a process comprising: specifying cycle information including cycles and reference times of a plurality of queries, respectively, by detecting the cycles in which data is distributed via a network to a plurality of nodes that the plurality of queries are arranged, the data being distributed to one of the plurality of nodes that the data matches condition of a query arranged, the node being a server or a virtual machine operating on a server; classifying queries that corresponding data is distributed in a same specified cycle into groups based on the cycle information; and instructing, when a first group of queries is selected to move, a first node to move the first group of queries during a period in which corresponding data for the first group of queries is not distributed, wherein the specifying includes periodically specifying the cycle information. | 6,648 |
9,345,535 | 1. A surgical instrument, comprising: a handle assembly; at least one electromechanical device in operative communication with the handle assembly, the at least one electromechanical device adapted to connect to an energy source and configured to receive an actuation signal from the energy source when the handle assembly is actuated; an end effector assembly operably coupled to the at least one electromechanical device to enable the at least one electromechanical device to impart movement of the end effector assembly from a first configuration to a second configuration; at least one mechanical interface associated with the at least one electromechanical device; and at least one corresponding mechanical interface associated with the end effector assembly and operably engaged with the at least one mechanical interface associated with the at least one electromechanical device such that, upon actuation of the handle assembly, the at least one electromechanical device receives the actuation signal and is energized to impart movement of the end effector assembly from the first configuration to the second configuration. | 34,761 |
8,673,768 | 1. A fabrication method for improving surface planarity after tungsten chemical mechanical polishing (W-CMP), the method comprising the steps of: providing a substrate having at least one device formed thereon; forming a pre-metal dielectric layer over surface of the substrate; forming contact holes and dummy patterns in the pre-metal dielectric layer by two respective processes of photolithography-and-etching, wherein the contact holes are formed through the pre-metal dielectric layer, while the dummy patterns have a depth smaller than a depth of the contact holes, and wherein each of the contact holes is a distance of 0.5 μm to 10 μm from a dummy pattern closest thereto; forming a tungsten layer over surface of the pre-metal dielectric layer, such that the contact holes and the dummy patterns are filled with tungsten; and removing the portion of the tungsten layer above the pre-metal dielectric layer with a W-CMP process to form tungsten contact layers in the contact holes and dummy metal layers in the dummy patterns. | 35,455 |
9,528,693 | 1. A lighting device comprising: a heat sink including a first heat radiation part formed of a non-insulating material and a second heat radiation part formed of an insulating material; a light source module including a substrate disposed on the first heat radiation part of the heat sink, and a light emitting device disposed on the substrate; and a power supply unit which is disposed within the second heat radiation part of the heat sink and supplies power to the light source module, wherein the second heat radiation part of the heat sink comprises an inner portion receiving the power supply unit therewithin, an outer portion enclosing the inner portion, and a first receiver disposed between the inner portion and the outer portion, wherein the first heat radiation part of the heat sink comprises an upper portion which is disposed on the inner portion of the second heat radiation part and on which the substrate of the light source module is disposed, and a lower portion disposed in the first receiver of the second heat radiation part, wherein the first receiver is a gap formed between the inner portion and the outer portion, wherein a shape of the gap of the first receiver corresponds to a shape of the lower portion of the first heat radiation part, wherein the inner portion of the second heat radiation part of the heat sink includes a top surface which contacts with a bottom surface of the upper portion of the first heat radiation part, and wherein the second heat radiation part surrounds all of the lower portion of the first heat radiation part. | 40,171 |
8,412,179 | 1. A method of configuring power tool electronics in a hand-held power tool ( 10 ) including sensor means ( 20 ) for acquiring measurement data, a control unit ( 50 ) for processing measurement data and for controlling power tool functions, and a data transmission unit ( 30 ), with data transmission being carried out between the data transmission unit ( 30 ) and an evaluation location ( 62 ) by means of a mobile wireless network, wherein in a first step ( in a subsequent, second step ( in a subsequent, third step ( in a subsequent, fourth step ( and, in a further subsequent step ( | 41,325 |
9,667,627 | 1. A decryption system for decrypting user information encrypted on a storage device associated with an identity document of a user, the system comprising: a server configured to collect user identity document data from the user and to construct a token comprising the user identity document data; a mobile device comprising a reader configured to read the user identity document data from the token by radio frequency identification communication, wherein the reader uses the user identity document data read from the token to decrypt the user information stored on said storage device and wherein the reader is further configured to read, by radio frequency identification communication, a user identity document biometric facial image from said storage device using the user identity document data; a camera configured to capture an image of the user's face; a comparator configured to compare the captured image of the user's face with the user identity document biometric facial image read from the user identity document; and authentication means for authenticating the user depending upon the result of the comparison. | 24,243 |
8,435,224 | 1. A device for facilitating administration of dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO), comprising: a container for holding or delivering dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO), wherein said container comprises an inner layer, an outer layer, an indicator layer, and an intermediate layer; wherein said inner layer comprises a material that is insoluble in dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO); wherein said inner layer comprises a homophase copolymer of propylene containing from about 1% to about 50% of polyethylene; wherein said indicator layer is disposed between the inner layer and the intermediate layer; wherein said indicator layer is configured to indicate that dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) has escaped from the inner layer, wherein said intermediate layer comprises a binding layer for binding said inner layer and said outer layer; and wherein said outer layer is resistant to abrasion. | 11,508 |
9,783,184 | 1. A hybrid vehicle comprising: an engine; a rotary electric machine connected to an output shaft of the engine; an electric storage device configured to supply electric power to a drive source of the hybrid vehicle and to be chargeable with electric power from an external power source, the external power source being disposed outside the hybrid vehicle; an air conditioner configured to adjust a temperature of an interior of the hybrid vehicle; and an electronic control unit configured to: supply the electric power from the external power source to the rotary electric machine such that the output shaft is rotated when the electric storage device is chargeable with the electric power from the external power source, the air conditioner is operated along with the rotary electric machine, and a state of the electric storage device is greater than a predetermined value, and supply the electric power from the electric storage device to the rotary electric machine such that the output shaft is rotated when the electric storage device is chargeable with the electric power from the external power source, the air conditioner is operated along with the rotary electric machine, and the state of the electric storage device is less than the predetermined value. | 409 |
9,570,209 | 1. A conductive layer, that has a peak at (222) or (400) plane in an X-ray diffraction (XRD) pattern and a resistivity measured by a four-point probe method of 2×10 −3 Ω·cm or less and that is formed on a surface, of which a contact angle at a room temperature with respect to distilled water is 75 degrees or more, wherein the surface is a surface of a plastic base layer on which ion beam treatment is performed with an ion beam energy of 50 to 70 eV. | 43,217 |
9,351,437 | 1. A tool bar apparatus comprising: an elongate center tool bar having a longitudinal tool bar axis, and ground engaging tools fixed to the center tool bar; center wheels rotatably fixed to the center tool bar and oriented to support the center tool bar and roll on a ground surface about a rotational axis that is in a fixed position with respect to the center tool bar and oriented substantially parallel to the tool bar axis in an operating travel direction substantially perpendicular to the tool bar axis; a hitch frame pivotally attached at a rear end thereof to the center tool bar about a hitch pivot axis oriented substantially parallel to the tool bar axis, the hitch frame having a hitch tongue at a front end thereof adapted for connection to a towing vehicle; an actuator operative to pivot the center tool bar about the hitch pivot axis from a field operating position, where the ground engaging tools extend rearward from the center tool bar and are supported on the ground surface and the hitch pivot axis is above and forward of the tool bar axis, through an intermediate position where the ground engaging tools extend rearward and upward from the center tool bar above the ground surface, to a transport position where the ground engaging tools extend upward from the center tool bar and the hitch pivot axis is below and forward of the tool bar axis; wherein the center wheels move rearward under the center tool bar when the center tool bar pivots from the field operating position to the transport position such that a downward hitch force is exerted on the hitch tongue when in the transport position. | 19,486 |
9,315,995 | 1. A method for protecting a stiffener of composite panels, the stiffener including an edge and first and second lateral flanks, the method comprising: coupling a structural section to the stiffener, the coupling comprising: | 34,300 |
9,669,723 | 1. An electronic storage module, comprising: a plurality of batteries; a primary monitoring circuit configured to detect an operating state of the plurality of batteries, a microcontroller unit connected to the primary monitoring circuit via a primary communication path; and a secondary monitoring circuit connected to the microcontroller unit via a secondary communication path, wherein the secondary monitoring circuit is configured to detect the operating state of the plurality of batteries based on a determination of an abnormality in the primary communication path, or an abnormality in the operating state of the primary monitoring circuit. | 49,600 |
9,714,773 | 1. An air conditioner comprising: a housing; a heat exchanger disposed inside the housing; and a suction panel having a circular shape and a plurality of openings to introduce air to be cooled by the heat exchanger therethrough and configured to decouple from or couple to the housing by being rotated with respect to the housing in a circumferential direction of the suction panel. | 49,251 |
9,288,239 | 1. A method for a device to retrieve a message from a data source, the method comprising the steps of: establishing a first network connection with the data source, wherein the message is separated into a plurality of fragments, and wherein a stamp that is associated with a rule is assigned to the plurality of fragments; sending, to the device retrieving the message, the stamp associated with the plurality of fragments independently of the plurality of fragments; and sending, to the device retrieving the message over the first network connection, a subset of the plurality of fragments in accordance with one or more assigned stamps and subsequent to a determination, by the device retrieving the message, to retrieve the plurality of fragments based on the one or more assigned stamps. | 4,730 |
9,341,080 | 1. A gas turbine engine comprising: a fan; a compressor section; a combustion section; a turbine section; a fan drive gear system configured for driving the fan at a speed different than the turbine section; a lubricant system including a lubricant pump delivering lubricant to an outlet line, said outlet line splitting into at least a hot line and into a cool line, said hot line being directed primarily to locations in the gas turbine engine that are not intended to receive cooler lubricant, and said cool line being directed through one or more heat exchangers at which the lubricant is cooled, and said cool line splitting into a first line and a second line, said first line then being routed to said fan drive gear system; at least one of said one or more heat exchangers is a fuel/oil cooler at which lubricant will be cooled by fuel leading to the combustion section, and said fuel/oil cooler being downstream of a point where said outlet line splits into said at least said hot line and said cool line, such that said hot line is not directed through said fuel/oil cooler; and a valve located downstream from where the second line combines with said hot line after all of said one or more heat exchangers, the valve selectively supplying the lubricant to the fan drive gear system by routing the lubricant from said hot line to the first line without routing through an additional heat exchanger when additional lubricant is necessary for the fan drive gear system. | 48,193 |
9,330,073 | 1. A computer system, comprising: a processor; a memory storage device in communication with the processor; the processor configured to: receive an identification of an electronic file, stored on a remote storage device and accessible to a user system, the electronic file being in any one of a plurality of formats and having data related to a request for an insurance transaction; receive mapping data, the mapping data mapping data fields classifying data for requests for insurance transactions to data identifiers in the electronic file; access the electronic file; map data elements using the received mapping data to a document in a predetermined format, the elements including at least a name of a proposed insured and an address of a proposed insured, identified in the electronic file; determine whether the mapped data elements constitute all required data for submission of a request for an insurance transaction; and if the mapped data elements do not constitute all required data, prompt for further data; otherwise provide an output signal for communicating the document in the predetermined format to a remote device. | 31,295 |
9,013,830 | 1. A PMR writer for shingle writing, comprising: (a) a write pole formed along an air bearing surface (ABS) with a leading edge and sections of a trailing edge formed parallel to a top surface of a substrate, and having two sides wherein each side intersects the trailing edge at a corner, said trailing edge comprises: (b) a write gap formed on the trailing edge and having a non-planar top surface, comprising: (c) a side gap that adjoins each side of the write pole and having a side formed substantially parallel to a nearest side of the write pole and located a gap distance therefrom; (d) a side shield that adjoins a side of each side gap and interfaces with an overlying trailing shield; and (e) the trailing shield that adjoins a top surface of each side shield and is formed on the top surface of the write gap. | 34,194 |
9,758,880 | 1. A method for controlling water chemistry in a power generation plant including a low-pressure feedwater heater, a deaerator, and a high-pressure feedwater heater disposed sequentially along a carbon steel pipe from a condenser to a steam generator or a boiler made of a Ni-based alloy to thereby control the chemistry of water guided to the steam generator or the boiler, the method comprising: injecting an oxidant gas of oxygen or ozone into water flowing through the carbon steel pipe downstream of the condenser and upstream of the low-pressure feedwater heater; injecting an oxidant gas of oxygen or ozone at an injection rate ranging from 0.01 to 100 kg/hr into the carbon steel pipe of a primary steam pipe and a drain pipe of a main steam system in such a way that the oxidant gas mixes with steam in the main steam system and a dissolved oxygen concentration in the water guided to the steam generator or the boiler ranges from 5 to 100 ppb while the water is maintained to be neutral; thereby forming an iron oxide film on carbon steel surfaces that come into contact with the water; and injecting a deoxidant into the oxidant-injected water flowing through the carbon steel pipe-disposed between the deaerator and the high-pressure feedwater heater in such a way that the dissolved oxygen concentration in the water prior to flowing into the steam generator or the boiler made of the Ni-based alloy lowers to 5 ppb or lower, in which the deoxidant is hydrazine injected so that a dissolved hydrazine concentration in the water flowing through the carbon steel pipe ranges from 3 to 100 ppb or hydrogen injected so that a dissolved hydrogen concentration in the water flowing through the carbon steel pipe ranges from 10 to 40000 ppb. | 32,256 |
9,520,601 | 1. A heater comprising: a heater housing including a space and extending along a heater axis; a fuel cell stack assembly disposed within said heater housing and having a plurality of fuel cells which convert chemical energy from a fuel into heat and electricity through a chemical reaction with an oxidizing agent, said fuel cell stack assembly having 1) a fuel inlet for introducing said fuel to a plurality of anodes of said plurality of fuel cells, 2) an oxidizing agent inlet for introducing said oxidizing agent to a plurality of cathodes of said plurality of fuel cells, 3) an anode exhaust outlet for discharging an anode exhaust comprising unspent fuel from said plurality of fuel cells, and 4) a cathode exhaust outlet for discharging a cathode exhaust comprising unspent oxidizing agent from said plurality of fuel cells; and a combustor disposed within said space of said heater housing in fluid communication with said anode exhaust outlet and said cathode exhaust outlet, said combustor being arranged to combust a mixture of said anode exhaust and said cathode exhaust to produce a heated combustor exhaust; and said combustor including a combustor exhaust outlet which discharges said heated combustor exhaust directly into said space of said heater housing; whereby said heater housing is heated by said fuel cell stack assembly and said heated combustor exhaust. | 9,545 |
8,591,271 | 1. An electrical connection terminal for a clamping connection of at least one electrical wire, comprising: an insulating material housing including a conductor insertion opening for receiving the at least one electrical wire; and a contact frame accommodated in the insulating material housing, the contact frame including | 7,029 |
9,723,318 | 1. A method for transforming a reconstructed frame block, comprising: providing the reconstructed frame block by decoding a coded frame block; transforming the reconstructed frame block with a compression filter to thereby increase a compression rate of a frame compression unit, wherein the compression filter transforms the reconstructed frame block as a function of at least one of the following parameters: compressing the transformed reconstructed frame block by a frame compression unit to a transformed, compressed reconstructed frame block; storing the transformed, compressed reconstructed frame block in a reference buffer; retrieving the transformed, compressed reconstructed frame block from the reference buffer; decompressing the transformed, compressed reconstructed frame block by a frame decompression unit to generate a decompressed reconstructed frame block; and selecting a reference frame block, using a motion compensation unit, based on the decompressed reconstructed frame block for decoding a subsequent coded image. | 25,173 |
8,534,134 | 1. A system for load testing a photovoltaic module, comprising a structure for positioning a photovoltaic module surface at a load test position; and a load test device proximate to the structure, comprising an array of pressure applicators and respective actuators, wherein the actuators are capable of moving the pressure applicators toward the load test position such that the pressure applicators can engage with the photovoltaic module surface. | 38,039 |
8,933,574 | 1. Apparatus for generating usable power derived from hydro-kinetic energy available in a body of water moving in at least one direction of movement, the apparatus comprising: a continuous, endless conveyor for being immersed in the body of water, the conveyor being movable through a looped path of travel along which a first leg of the conveyor is advanced in a direction of advancement while a second leg of the conveyor is returned in a return direction, with the first and second legs aligned substantially with the direction of movement of the body of water, and with the conveyor held substantially stationary relative to the moving body of water; and a plurality of vanes carried by the conveyor, the vanes being mounted on the conveyor for movement between a first orientation, wherein the vanes intercept the body of water for effecting advancement of the vanes with the movement of the body of water, and a second orientation, wherein the vanes permit relative movement between the body of water and the vanes; the first and second legs of the conveyor both being arranged for at least partial immersion in the moving body of water as the body of water moves along the at least one direction such that the vanes along one of the first and second legs of the conveyor will be moved by the moving body of water into one of the first and second orientations, while the vanes along the other of the first and second legs will be moved by the moving body of water into the other of the first and second orientations, thereby effecting advancement of the conveyor along the looped path of travel; and | 26,545 |
9,197,117 | 1. An electromagnetic system with magnetically coupled rotors comprising: a first magnetic assembly comprising a first rotor, the first rotor comprising a first array of permanent magnets, wherein the permanent magnets of the first rotor are arranged to provide alternating polarity around outside of the first rotor; and a second magnetic assembly comprising a second rotor, the second rotor comprising a second array of permanent magnets, wherein the permanent magnets of the second rotor are arranged to provide alternating polarity around outside of the second rotor; wherein the second magnetic assembly is positioned relative to the first magnetic assembly such that the second rotor is outside of the first rotor and such that the second array of permanent magnets of the second rotor is positioned to be magnetically influenced by the first array of permanent magnets of the first rotor; wherein the first rotor and the second rotor are arranged such that when the first rotor is rotated, the rotation of the first rotor magnetically induces rotation of the second rotor; wherein the first magnetic assembly further comprises a first fixed stator comprising a plurality of coils for carrying electric current, wherein the first fixed stator is positioned inside the first array of permanent magnets; wherein each permanent magnet in the first array of permanent magnets has an inwardly-facing curved single polarity side that faces inwardly toward the first fixed stator and an outwardly-facing straight single polarity side that faces outwardly away from the first fixed stator, wherein for each permanent magnet in the first array of permanent magnets, the inwardly-facing curved single polarity side has a polarity that is opposite to a polarity of the outwardly-facing straight single polarity side; and wherein each permanent magnet in the first array of permanent magnets is arranged such that when the first rotor is rotated, the inwardly-facing curved single polarity side of that permanent magnet electromagnetically interacts with the coils of the first fixed stator, and the outwardly-facing straight single polarity side of that permanent magnet magnetically interacts with the second array of permanent magnets, resulting in both the polarity of the inwardly-facing curved single polarity side and the polarity of the outwardly-facing straight single polarity side of each permanent magnet in the first array of permanent magnets being utilized when the first rotor is rotated. | 24,539 |
8,937,240 | 1. A cable installation, comprising: a support structure hinged to a base structure about a first axis, wherein a rotatable deviation roller is provided at each end of the support structure, wherein each of the rotatable deviation rollers is arranged with a continuous transmitting element that is fixed at one end to a first area of the base structure while another end of the continuous transmitting element is fixed to a second area of the base structure, and wherein the continuous element is configured to be wound or unwound on a winch disposed between the deviating rollers. | 49,120 |
9,774,271 | 1. A converter comprising: an input stage coupled to a power source, wherein the input stage comprises a plurality of power switches; a first resonant tank coupled to the input stage, wherein the first resonant tank is of a first Q value; a second resonant tank coupled to the input stage, wherein the second resonant tank is of a second Q value, and wherein the first resonant tank is configured to be enabled and the second resonant tank is configured to be disabled when the converter operates at a load level less than a predetermined load threshold; a transformer coupled to the input stage through the first resonant tank and the second resonant tank; and an output stage coupled to the transformer. | 19,727 |
9,413,292 | 1. A resonant oscillator circuit, comprising: a clipping mechanism configured to clip an output voltage of a signal pulse generated by the resonant oscillator circuit to a predefined constant level; and a feedback path configured to return energy from the clipping mechanism to an input of the resonant oscillator circuit so as to increase the efficiency of the resonant oscillator circuit, wherein the input is a node in the resonant oscillator circuit that is coupled to an input voltage for the resonant oscillator circuit. | 24,267 |
9,142,701 | 1. A tandem type integrated photovoltaic module comprising: a first cell and a second cell, all of which are formed respectively by stacking on a substrate a lower electrode, a photoelectric conversion layer including a plurality of unit cell layers, and an upper electrode, wherein the lower electrode of the first cell and the lower electrode of the second cell are separated by a lower electrode separation groove, the lower electrode separation groove extending in a first direction, and wherein a plurality of through holes are formed spaced from each other in the first direction and are disposed in the photoelectric conversion layer of the second cell in order to connect the upper electrode of the first cell with the lower electrode of the second cell, wherein the photoelectric conversion layer and the upper electrode of the first cell are separated by an upper separation groove from the photoelectric conversion layer and the upper electrode of the second cell, wherein a portion of the upper separation passes over the lower electrode separation groove. | 25,869 |
8,591,284 | 1. A toy playset, comprising: a housing, the housing including a wall having an inner side and an outer side, the wall defining an opening extending from the inner side to the outer side, the housing defining a receiving area; a door, the door being coupled to the wall proximate to the opening, the door being movable between a raised position and a lowered position; a platform, the platform being movably mounted to the housing and located in the receiving area, the platform being movable from a first position to a second position, the platform being both structurally linked to the door and moving from its first position to its second position as the door moves from its raised position to its lowered position; and an actuator coupled to the housing, wherein the actuator is configured to move the door from its lowered position to its raised position. | 32,339 |
9,194,310 | 1. A control apparatus for a vehicle, which includes an engine, a battery that is chargeable with power of the engine, a manual transmission and a clutch that connects and disconnects the engine with and from the manual transmission, the control apparatus comprising: a configurator that sets a start condition for starting the engine according to a voltage value of the battery; and a starter that starts the engine when the start condition is satisfied, wherein the configurator sets the start condition at a timing of: a start of disconnection of the engine from the manual transmission by the clutch when the voltage value of the battery is less than a first threshold value; a change in gear position of the manual transmission from a neutral position to a drive position when the voltage value of the battery is equal to or greater than the first threshold value but is less than a second threshold value that is greater than the first threshold value; and a start of connection of the engine with the manual transmission by the clutch when the voltage value of the battery is equal to or greater than the second threshold value. | 30,930 |
8,532,080 | 1. A method for processing wireless signals in a receiver, the method comprising: receiving a plurality of signals, wherein each signal in the plurality of signals corresponds to at least one received signal path; shifting the phase of at least one signal in the plurality of signals; tracking a collection of the received signal paths; and estimating a complex phase and amplitude corresponding to the collection of received signal paths, wherein estimating the complex phase uses the shifted phase of at least one signal in the plurality of signals. | 26,270 |
9,797,317 | 1. A method for controlling fuel switching of a fuel switching system in a vehicle via a controller configured to receive one or more measured signals in order to issue a fuel shortage warning or in order to control fuel switching, the fuel switching system including an LPG level sensor for measuring an LPG level in a bombe, an LPG rail pressure sensor for measuring a pressure in an LPG rail, and a bombe pressure sensor for measuring a pressure in the bombe, the method comprising: determining whether the LPG level is lower than a first reference value or not; maintaining running of the vehicle on LPG if the LPG level is higher than the first reference value; a first LPG rail pressure determining step of determining whether the pressure in the LPG rail is lower than a second reference value or not if the LPG level is lower than the first reference value; a first bombe pressure determining step for determining whether the pressure in the bombe is lower than a third reference value or not if the LPG level is lower than the first reference value; and switching the fuel to gasoline when either one of the first LPG rail pressure determining step and the first bombe pressure determining step is positive, wherein, if both of the first LPG rail pressure determining step and the first bombe pressure determining step are negative, the method further comprises: a second LPG rail pressure determining step of determining whether a pressure change in the LPG rail is larger than a fourth reference value or not; and a second bombe pressure determining step of determining whether a pressure change in the bombe is larger than a fifth reference value or not. | 24,929 |
8,974,407 | 1. A syringe comprising: a first chamber; a second chamber separated from the first chamber; a slideable piercable piston sealing a first end of the first chamber; a syringe plunger movable within the syringe from a first position spaced away from the slideable piercable piston to a second position extending through the piercable piston to deliver contents of the second chamber to the first chamber; and wherein the second chamber is formed in the slideable piercable piston, whereby movement of the syringe plunger to the second position forms a fluid communication channel extending through the slideable piercable piston between the first chamber and the second chamber. | 21,933 |
9,569,264 | 1. A multi-core system for processing a plurality of threads, the multi-core system comprising: a memory for storing the plurality of threads, a plurality of data packets, and a plurality of buffer descriptor (BD) rings corresponding to the plurality of threads, wherein each BD ring includes a plurality of BDs, and wherein a BD corresponds to a data packet; a host processor coupled to the memory and having a plurality of cores, a co-processor, connected to memory and to the host processor for receiving the notification command, polling the set of BD rings based on the notification command, and processing a set of data packets corresponding to the set of BD rings, wherein the co-processor stores a list of active BD ring IDs and polls the set of BD rings by performing the steps of: | 49,772 |
9,714,586 | 1. A combined heat and power system comprising: a heat source; a Rankine cycle apparatus comprising, as an evaporator for heating a working fluid, a first heat exchanger that absorbs thermal energy produced in the heat source; and a second heat exchanger that is a heat exchanger for heating a heat medium flowing in a circuit different from a circuit in which the working fluid of the Rankine cycle apparatus flows, that is located farther from the heat source than is the first heat exchanger, that is in direct contact with the first heat exchanger or in indirect contact with the first heat exchanger via a thermally-conductive member, and that absorbs thermal energy produced in the heat source and transfers the thermal energy to the heat medium. | 8,198 |
8,826,879 | 1. A variable intake system for regulating an amount of air introduced into a combustion chamber, the variable intake system comprising: an air cleaner body to which a main duct and an auxiliary duct for suctioning air are connected; a valve housing installed within the air cleaner body connected to the auxiliary duct; a valve assembly installed in the valve housing and to selectively regulate a pipe passage opening degree of the auxiliary duct; and an actuator installed in the valve housing and to supply a driving force to the valve assembly, wherein the actuator includes a linear motor having a motor shaft linearly moved by a current applied to a permanent magnet. | 12,480 |
9,273,755 | 1. A method of balancing a flywheel having a relatively dense outer rim, the method incorporating the steps of: rotating the flywheel in a vacuum chamber containing at least a partial vacuum, controlling admission of a gas into the vacuum chamber so as to admit a predetermined amount of a gas into the vacuum chamber while the flywheel is still rotating, such that the admitted gas interacts with surface irregularities of the flywheel to vaporize, melt, sublimate, erode, or abrade the surface irregularities to reduce their size and thereby improve the balance of the flywheel. | 13,988 |
9,061,525 | 1. An image forming method using an ink set, comprising: applying a liquid composition onto a recording medium; applying a ink composition onto a liquid-composition-applied surface of the recording medium with an ink jet method to form an image after applying the liquid composition; drying the image formed on the recording medium at a surface temperature of the image of 35° C. to 55° C. until a difference between a residual water content of a non-image portion on the recording medium where the ink composition is not applied and a residual water content of a portion of the image where an application amount of the ink composition is the maximum is 2 g/m irradiating the image with active energy rays after drying the image: the ink set includes the ink composition which contains at least a pigment, water, 3% by mass or less of polymer particles with respect to the total mass of the ink composition, and 5% by mass to 15% by mass of a polymerizable compound having an acrylamide structure represented by the following formula (1) with respect to the total mass of the ink composition; and the liquid composition which contains an aggregation component capable of aggregating the ink composition In the formula (1), Q represents a n-valent linking group; X represents CH | 10,600 |
8,847,220 | 1. A semiconductor device comprising: a metal oxide layer; an oxide semiconductor layer containing indium, titanium, and zinc, the oxide semiconductor layer being provided over the metal oxide layer; a first electrode and a second electrode over the oxide semiconductor layer and the metal oxide layer, a gate insulating film over and in contact with the oxide semiconductor layer, the first electrode and the second electrode; and a gate electrode layer over the gate insulating film. | 27,711 |
9,002,212 | 1. An optical line terminator (OLT), comprising: a receiver configured to receive an optical signal including packet data from one of a plurality of optical network units (ONUs), the received optical signal including a silent interval during which no packet data is transmitted by the ONUs; a power recovery device configured to convert the received optical signal to thereby generate an electrical signal, the generated electrical signal having a temporal position corresponding to that of the received optical signal, such that the generated electrical signal has a silent interval corresponding to that of the received optical signal; and a data inserter connected to the power recovery device and configured to generate an electrical signal including the electrical signal generated by the power recovery device with dummy data in the silent interval, the dummy data having a same transmission rate as, and being synchronized with, the packet data of the received optical signal, to thereby form in the silent interval a monotonous electrical signal from which a clock corresponding to the packet data is recoverable; and a Media Access Control (MAC) device configured to determine start and end points of the silent interval and to generate a control signal indicative thereof, the control signal being sent to the power recovery device and the data inserter, and being configured to cause the power recovery device to stop generating electric signals during the silent interval, and to cause the data inserter to generate the monotonous electrical signal during the silent interval. | 41,534 |
9,178,578 | 1. A method of wireless communication operable at a base station, comprising: receiving a transmission comprising a primary pilot channel and a secondary pilot channel; determining a first finger timing of a rake receiver configured to receive the primary pilot channel; deriving a second finger timing of the rake receiver configured to receive the secondary pilot channel exclusively based on the first finger timing, independent of any characteristic of the secondary pilot channel; and applying the first finger timing and the second finger timing to the rake receiver of the base station for compensating a characteristic of the transmission. | 882 |
9,849,748 | 1. A sprung vibration suppression device for a vehicle, comprising: a motor for generating torque to be transmitted to at least one of a pair of right and left front vehicle wheels and a pair of right and left rear vehicle wheels via a gear device to generate driving/braking force at the at least one of the pair of right and left front vehicle wheels and the pair of right and left rear vehicle wheels; shock absorbers for generating damping force to damp sprung vibration; and an electronic control unit programmed to control driving/braking force output from the motor and damping force generated by the shock absorbers, the electronic control unit being programmed: to calculate a target driving/braking force including a base requested driving/braking force requested for driving the vehicle and a damping driving/braking force necessary for sprung damping control; and to control the driving/braking force output from the motor in accordance with the calculated target driving/braking force; to determine whether the base requested driving/braking force is within a rattling noise generation range, which is set for determining whether there is a possibility that rattling noise is generated in the gear device, the rattling noise generation range being defined by a first set value as a lower limit value and a second set value as an upper limit value, the first set value being a negative value and the second set value being a positive value; to set the damping driving/braking force to zero and increase the damping force generated by the shock absorbers when the electronic control unit determines that the base requested driving/braking force is within the rattling noise generation range; to set an increase amount for increasing the damping force depending on an absolute value of the damping driving/braking force when the electronic control unit determines that the base requested driving/braking force is within the rattling noise generation range; and to add the increase amount to the damping force to increase the damping force. | 38,034 |
9,332,489 | 1. A method for operating a multi-Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) mobile device, the method comprising: determining whether at least one Registered Public Land Mobile Network (RPLMN) among a first RPLMN of a first SIM and a second RPLMN of a second SIM of the multi-SIM mobile device is unavailable to the multi-SIM mobile device when the multi-SIM mobile device triggers a Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN) search; identifying a common PLMN, from a first PLMN set associated with the first SIM and a second PLMN set associated with the second SIM, in response to determining that the at least one RPLMN among the first RPLMN and the second RPLMN is unavailable; and camping on the common PLMN by the first SIM and the second SIM after acquiring camping information of the common PLMN. | 16,891 |
8,580,522 | 1. A method for determining if an individual has, or can develop, Parkinson's disease, comprising: obtaining a stool sample from the individual; analyzing the stool sample with a stool immunoassay for the presence or absence an antigen associated with a pathogen, wherein the pathogen comprises detecting the level of chymotrypsin present in the stool sample; and determining that the individual has, or can develop, Parkinson's Disease based on the presence of the antigen and an abnormally low level of chymotrypsin in the stool sample. | 24,911 |
9,732,588 | 1. A downhole assembly comprising: a structure defining a chamber; and a pressure path between a first end of the chamber and a second end of the chamber; a pressure damper positioned in the pressure path, the pressure damper operable for reducing a rate at which pressure is communicated in the pressure path; a pressure source external to the chamber and in fluid communication with the pressure path and the pressure damper such that a pressure communicated from the pressure source is communicated to the first end of the chamber at a first rate different than a second rate that the pressure from the pressure source is communicated to the second end of the chamber; and a member positioned in the chamber between the first end and the second end, the member being operable for actuating a downhole tool in response to a pressure difference between the first end and the second end, the pressure difference resulting from a difference in rates between the first rate and the second rate, wherein the pressure path extends around the member and not through the member; wherein the pressure damper comprises one of the following: (a) a piston positioned in the pressure path such that fluid flow past the piston is prevented, the piston having a first end in communication with the pressure source and a second end in communication with the second end of the chamber, the piston moveable in response to the pressure communicated from the pressure source such that the piston communicates the pressure from the pressure source to the second end of the chamber, wherein friction between the piston and the pressure path reduces a rate at which the piston moves, thereby reducing a rate at which pressure is communicated from the pressure source to the second end of the chamber; or (b) a magnetic assembly coupled with the piston and arranged to provide magnetic fields operable to cause an eddy current in fluid in the pressure path, wherein the rate at which the piston moves is reduced in response to the eddy current. | 37,510 |
9,306,485 | 1. An electrical supply line for operating a first electric motor, the supply line comprising: a first converter for supplying electric energy to the first electric motor depending on a first control variable; a connected network connecting the first converter to a DC voltage source; an oscillation suppression controller for generating a first correction information from a voltage and a current supplied to the first converter via the connected network, and a first correction module receiving at a first input from a first motor controller a first raw control variable representing a first operating parameter of the first electric motor and receiving at a second input from the oscillation suppression controller the first correction information, wherein the first correction module adds the first raw control variable and the first correction information by vector addition and generates therefrom the first control variable. | 34,697 |
9,683,519 | 1. A gas injector for directly injecting gaseous fuel into a combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine, comprising: a valve seat; a valve needle having a sealing region, the valve needle releasing a first cross-sectional area at the valve seat in response to a lift; a component surrounding the valve needle; and a gas control region, which is situated at the valve needle directly next to the sealing region; wherein the gas control region provides a constant cross-sectional area between the valve needle and the component surrounding the valve needle across a lift length from a first lift position to a second lift position, wherein the valve needle provides a second cross-sectional area that is larger than the constant cross-sectional area at a lift length greater than the second lift position. | 22,522 |
9,457,403 | 1. A method of sintering small particles, comprising: holding the particles in contact with one another; generating an alternating electric current; and exposing the particles to an alternating magnetic field generated by the alternating electric current so that they heat and join, wherein each particle has a cross-dimension that is more than 2δ and δ is defined as wherein ρ is the resistivity of the material of the particle, f is the frequency of the alternating magnetic field, and μ is the magnetic permeability of the material of the particle. | 45,164 |
9,211,087 | 1. A self-contained hand-held test device for the single-use determination of an analyte in a bodily fluid sample, the self-contained test device comprising: a housing with: a housing cap configured for removable attachment to the distal end of the housing; a single analytical test strip disposed partially in the housing and extending from the distal end thereof, the single analytical test strip having: a meter module disposed in the housing; and a lancing module attached to the proximal end of the housing and configured to lance a user's target site for the expression of a bodily fluid sample, and wherein the single analytical test strip is operably connected to the meter module in a user irreplaceable manner. | 29,455 |
8,539,932 | 1. A system for an engine comprising: a mode determination module that generates a mode signal based on an engine speed signal and an engine load signal, wherein the mode signal indicates transitioning from a spark ignition (SI) mode to a homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI) mode; an intake air control module generating a temperature signal based on at least one of a coolant temperature of the engine and an oil temperature of the engine, a throttle valve control module that both transitions from the SI mode to the HCCI mode and generates a valve control signal based on the mode signal, the temperature signal, and a plurality of valve position signals that indicate positions of a first throttle valve and a second throttle valve, wherein the throttle valve control module controls positions of: a valve actuation module that actuates the first throttle valve and the second throttle valve based on the valve control signal. | 7,369 |
8,906,556 | 1. A rechargeable electrochemical battery cell having a negative electrode, an electrolyte containing sulfur dioxide, a positive electrode and a reservoir for storing active metal resulting from an electrode reaction at the negative electrode during the charging of the cell, wherein the cell contains a positive electrode layer having a porous structure comprising a structure-forming solid material and pores distributed therein, the structure-forming solid material comprising an active mass of the positive electrode, the storing of the active metal resulting from the electrode reaction at the negative electrode takes place, at least in part, by deposition in metallic form, and the positive electrode layer is arranged in the vicinity of an electronically conductive substrate of the negative electrode such that during charging of the cell at least a part of the active metal in metallic form resulting from the electrode reaction at the negative electrode penetrates into the pores of the porous structure comprising the active mass of the positive electrode and is deposited in the pores, wherein the cell is configured such that the deposition of the active metal into the pores of the positive electrode layer causes the active metal to grow into the positive electrode layer. | 44,788 |
9,730,237 | 1. A wireless device for a mobile communication system, the mobile communication system defining a plurality of preambles, the wireless device comprising: a transceiver; a storage, being configured to store the preambles; and a processor electrically connected to the transceiver and the storage, being configured to receive a system message carrying a random access success rate from a base station via the transceiver and divide the preambles into N preamble subsets according to the random access success rate, each of the N preamble subsets including a part of the preambles, an i wherein the processor further executes a random access initial procedure which comprises the following steps of: | 6,235 |
9,356,480 | 1. A production method of an electric motor comprising a stator and a rotor configured to be rotated relative to the stator, wherein the method comprises the steps of: | 4,674 |
9,005,890 | 1. A method of enhancing the fluorescence of luminophores comprising: providing bimetallic nanoparticles wherein the nanoparticles form a platform; determining surface plasmon resonance (SPR) spectrum of the nanoparticle platform; modifying the atomic composition of the bimetallic nanoparticles to change peak position and width of the SPR spectrum; modifying the atomic arrangement of the bimetallic nanoparticles to change peak position and width of the SPR spectrum; providing luminophores wherein the luminophores are positioned at a predetermined distance from the nanoparticles; determining emission spectrum of the luminophores; determining absorption spectrum of the luminophores; and calculating an overall quantum efficiency factor for the luminophores using emission enhancement factors and excitation rate enhancement factors to determine a specific level of enhancement for the luminophores; wherein the atomic composition and the atomic arrangement of the nanoparticles are modified to provide spectral overlap between the SPR spectrum of the nanoparticle platform and the emission and the absorption spectra of the luminophores; whereby the maximum spectral overlap results in enhanced luminescence. | 22,358 |
9,347,401 | 1. A method, comprising: operating an internal combustion engine having an exhaust stream, an exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) stream, and an exhaust NO interpreting an engine speed value and an engine load value, and determining a target NO determining a NO operating a proportional-integral (PI) or a proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controller on the NO determining a lambda (λ) target value in response to the engine speed value and load value; determining a λ error value in response to the λ target value and an O adjusting the operations of the PI or PID controller in response to an absolute value of the λ error value decreasing. | 10,263 |
8,557,356 | 1. A translucent insulated glass panel, said glass panel comprising: a first glass plate, said first glass plate having preselected dimensions and area and having two faces, said first glass plate having outer edges, said outer edges defining a perimeter of said first glass plate; a spacer, said spacer being elongated and having a width and a first side and a second side, said first side of said spacer being attached to one of said two faces of said first glass plate inward of said outer edges, said spacer forming a continuous closed path on said first glass plate; a second glass plate, said second glass plate having preselected dimensions and area substantially identical to said preselected dimensions and area of said first glass plate, said second glass plate having two faces and outer edges, said outer edges defining a perimeter of said second glass plate, one of said two faces of said second glass plate being attached to said second side of said spacer, said spacer being inward of said edges of said second glass plate, said spacer and first and second glass plates thereby forming a closed cavity between said first and second glass plates; a translucent insulating material, said translucent insulating material being a particulate material and filling said cavity between said first and second glass plates, said translucent insulating material being in a compressed state whereby said cavity holds a greater amount of translucent insulating material than said cavity would hold if said translucent insulating material were in an uncompressed state; and at least one connector disposed within the closed cavity between the first and second glass plates, the connector being connected to each of the first and second glass plates, the connector being arranged to permit the translucent insulating material to flow around the connector when the cavity is being filled with the translucent insulating material. | 21,234 |
8,595,208 | 1. One or more computer-readable storage devices storing computer-useable instructions that, when used by one or more computing devices, cause the one or more computing devices to perform a method for enabling hover translation of a portion of a search engine results page, the method comprising: receiving a search query input by a user, the search query being received via a browser; and attaching instructions to a plurality of search results determined to satisfy the query, the instructions causing the browser to: wherein the particular user action that triggers the event includes hovering or clicking a pointer, hovering or touching with an electronic pen, hovering or touching with a finger, or a vocal command. | 38,824 |
9,312,797 | 1. A motor driving circuit, comprising: a supply line connected to a direct-current power source; an inverter of which an input side is connected to the supply line and of which an output side is connected to a motor, the inverter converting direct-current electric power fed from the supply line into alternating-current electric power and feeding the alternating-current electric power to the motor; a power switch inserted in the supply line for switching the supply line between a conducting state and a cut-off state; a voltage detector for detecting a voltage between the direct-current power source and the power switch; and an insulation resistance detector for | 46,368 |
9,231,464 | 1. A method for reducing the common mode current flowing between the internal ground of an electrical circuit in an automotive vehicle, and the earth when electric power is exchanged between an electric power storage unit of the electrical circuit and an electric power source that is external to said circuit, the method comprising: applying an electrical quantity by an electronic component at least as a function of said common mode current to an injection point in the circuit, said electrical quantity being applied so as to reduce the common mode current; obtaining the value of the common mode current using a measuring device comprising: wherein the common mode current corresponds to the value of the current in the electric line that is obtained on the basis of the mean value of the current in the secondary winding over an oscillation period covering a complete magnetization and demagnetization cycle for the torus. | 4,788 |
8,771,026 | 1. A conductive assembly, comprising: a conductive terminal ( an elongated conductive ribbon ( a clamp structure ( a base plate ( a pair of jaws ( wherein a transverse width of the aperture ( | 29,420 |
8,352,095 | 1. An electric power generation device comprising: a storage unit that stores information about the electric power generation device; a transmitting unit that transmits information about the electric power generation device to a neighboring electric power demand device; wherein the information about the electric power generation device comprises an electric power amount in which the electric power generation device holds and a position of the electric power generation device; a receiving unit that receives an electric power demand request from the neighboring electric power demand device; and an allocation unit that allocates electric power according to the electric power demand request. | 3,757 |
8,992,642 | 1. A method of preparing hydrogen from fuel and water using an integrated reformer and combustion apparatus, said apparatus comprising: a reformer inlet to the apparatus, a reformate outlet from the apparatus, and a reformer unit in which a reforming reaction can take place, the apparatus defining a reforming-reaction flow path through the apparatus from the reformer inlet, through the reformer unit, to the reformate outlet; a combustible-fuel inlet to the apparatus, an exhaust outlet from the apparatus, and a combustion unit in thermal communication with the reformer unit, in which a combustion reaction can take place, the apparatus defining a combustion-reaction flow path through the apparatus from the combustible-fuel inlet, through the combustion unit, to the exhaust outlet; and a temperature-control fluid inlet to the apparatus, a temperature-control fluid outlet from the apparatus, and a temperature-control fluid circuit from the temperature-control fluid inlet to the temperature-control fluid outlet, wherein the temperature-control fluid circuit is separate from the reforming-reaction and combustion-reaction flow paths, and is in thermal communication with at least one of said reformer unit and said combustion unit so as to allow the temperature of said unit to be controlled, said method comprising: passing a reformer feedstock comprising fuel and water through the reformer unit such that a reforming reaction takes place to produce a reformer product stream comprising hydrogen, and simultaneously passing a combustible feedstock through the combustion unit such that combustion takes place to produce a combustion product stream, wherein the combustion provides heat for the reforming reaction, and controlling temperature by circulating a fluid through the temperature-control fluid circuit; said method further comprising the step of circulating a fluid through the temperature-control fluid circuit, said fluid having a temperature between 150 and 250° C.; wherein the fuel for the reforming reaction comprises methanol and said fluid comprises oil. | 15,699 |
9,701,219 | 1. A vehicle seat slide device adapted for a seat including a seatback, the vehicle seat slide device comprising: a lower rail and an upper rail coupled to each other in a manner movable relative to each other; a lock member that selectively allows and restricts relative movement of the lower rail and the upper rail; a memory piece located in the lower rail, wherein the memory piece is engaged with the upper rail by urging force of a memory piece urging member, and the memory piece is engaged with the lower rail by pressing force that counters the urging force; a memory link pivotally coupled to the upper rail in the upper rail, wherein the memory link releases the lock member and the memory piece with urging force of a memory link urging member, and the memory link pivots in a releasing direction to press the lock member in a pivot direction in which restriction of the relative movement is cancelled and press the memory piece against the urging force of the memory piece urging member; a slide member coupled to the upper rail in a manner movable in a direction of the relative movement, wherein the slide member releases the memory link with urging force of a slider urging member, and the slide member moves to press the memory link in the releasing direction when the seatback is collapsed forward; and a stopper member fixed to the upper rail, wherein after the seatback is collapsed forward and the upper rail is moved in a seat-frontward direction, when the upper rail is moved in a seat-rearward direction, the stopper member contacts the memory piece and restricts seat-rearward movement of the upper rail at a relative position of the lower rail and the upper rail prior to the movement. | 46,499 |
8,947,110 | 1. A suspension clamp for use in testing a membrane sample, the clamp comprising: a frame; a clamp member hingedly attached to one end of the frame; a plurality of electrodes configured to be connected to a voltage/current source, with each of the plurality of electrodes extending along a membrane-facing surface of at least one of the clamp member and the frame; and a suspension component attached to at least one of the clamp member and the frame configured to suspend the suspension clamp, wherein the plurality of electrodes is configured such that at least one of the plurality of electrodes contacts one face of the membrane sample and at least another of the plurality of electrodes contacts an opposing face of the membrane sample when the membrane sample is retained by the suspension clamp. | 24,246 |
9,000,644 | 1. An apparatus, comprising: a hub, including opposing faces, a first sidewall fixed to the opposing faces to define a first interior and a second sidewall fixed to one of the opposing faces to define a second interior within the first interior; a first assembly, disposed within the second interior, to generate current from input mechanical energy; a second assembly, electrically coupled to the first assembly and disposed within the first interior, to generate mechanical energy to be transmitted to external mechanical elements from current associated with the current generated by the first assembly; and first and second couplings, the first coupling being a clutch disposed to mechanically couple the first and second assemblies such that at least a portion of the input mechanical energy is transferable from the first assembly to the second assembly and the second coupling being a clutch disposed to mechanically couple the second assembly and the external mechanical elements. | 49,589 |
8,745,934 | 1. A method of reducing the magnitude of seismic vibrations experienced by an object, comprising the step: placing said object on an isolation platform comprising said lower plate being secured on a surface upon which the object otherwise would have rested, wherein, in response to an external vibration of sufficient magnitude, as said rigid spherical balls roll along said flat segment of at least one of the upper or lower bearing surfaces and the upper and lower plates displace laterally relative to one another, a restoring force experienced by said object is substantially constant. | 7,655 |
8,786,398 | 1. A dispenser for dispensing material from a refill container to a user, the dispenser comprising: a controller to monitor at least one operating parameter associated with the dispensing of the material; a pump coupled to said controller, said pump adapted to be in fluid communication with the refill container; an actuator coupled to said controller, such that when said actuator is engaged, said pump dispenses the material from the refill container; a sensor coupled to said controller, said sensor configured to anonymously identify at least one physical attribute associated with the user; an indicator coupled to said controller; and a transceiver coupled to said controller, said transceiver configured to receive content stored at a remote computer; wherein said controller transmits a reference identifier that includes both the anonymously identified at least one physical attribute and the at least one operating parameter associated with the dispensing of the material to the remote computer, whereupon the remote computer identifies and transmits content associated with both the anonymously identified at least one physical attribute and the at least one operating parameter associated with the dispensing of the material for receipt at said transceiver for presentation by said indicator. | 27,499 |
9,246,026 | 1. A method of manufacturing a solar cell, the solar cell comprising: a photoelectric conversion section; and a collecting electrode on one main surface of the photoelectric conversion section, wherein the collecting electrode includes a first electroconductive layer, an insulating layer and a second electroconductive layer in this order from a photoelectric conversion section side, the method comprising: | 38,263 |
9,163,733 | 1. A fluid circulation valve comprising: a body defining a fluid flow duct; a flap able to move between a closed position, preventing circulation of the fluid in the duct, and an open position, allowing the fluid to circulate in the duct; and a seal having only one opening for the passage of the fluid, wherein the flap is designed to be able to close the opening in the seal when it is in the closed position, wherein the flap is equipped with a first wing and with a second wing, the first and second wings being provided one on either side of the seal when the flap is in the closed position, the flap comprising an intermediate zone connecting the first wing and the second wing that passes through the opening in the seal, wherein the seal comprises a planar zone having a first surface against which the first wing comes to bear and a second surface against which the second wing comes to bear when the flap is in the closed position, and wherein the first surface is substantially parallel to the second surface, the opening comprising smaller and larger rectangles disposed side-by-side, the smaller rectangle having a dimension that is shorter than the larger rectangle along an axis of articulation of the flap, and the second wing having a rectangular shape shutting off a part of the opening that comprises the smaller rectangle, the first wing having a rectangular shape shutting off a part of the opening that comprises the larger rectangle. | 11,475 |
8,666,080 | 1. A hearing apparatus, comprising: two speakers for binaural supply for presenting acoustic signals to a user wearing the hearing apparatus on the head, the speakers adapted for positioning on a pair of ears of the user; and a transformation system for generating a dual-channel audio signal comprising a left audio signal and a right audio signal from a multi-channel audio signal having at least three individual channels representing acoustic signals located separately in space having spatial information from several spatial directions, the left audio signal connected to one of the two speakers for output, the right audio signal connected to another of the two speakers for output; wherein a position of a hearing apparatus wearer is changed, the transformation system modifies the left and right audio signal creating an impression of a change in a user position in a virtual surrounds of the above individual channel is divided into left and right signals each of which is transformed via a corresponding head transmission function (HRTF) related to a standard head, and a combined signal of all transformed left signals and a combined signal of all transformed right signals are provided, correspondingly, to the left and right speakers of the binaural bearing apparatus. | 390 |
8,375,966 | 1. An umbrella apparatus, comprising: a pole portion having a hollow interior; a canopy portion hingedly coupled to the pole portion; a rechargeable electrical power system for providing electrical power to the umbrella apparatus; a solar energy system carried by a multi-piece power unit, the power unit being carried by the pole portion above the canopy portion, the solar energy system being adapted to collect solar energy and convert the solar energy into electrical energy, the solar energy system being conductively coupled to the rechargeable electrical power system, such that the solar energy collected and converted into electrical energy recharges the rechargeable electrical power system; an electromechanical opening and closing system for opening and closing the canopy portion, the electromechanical opening and closing system being conductively coupled to and powered by the rechargeable electrical power system, the electromechanical opening and closing system, having: a light subassembly carried by the canopy portion. | 11,977 |
9,145,266 | 1. An improved belt scraper mounting, comprising: a scraper blade module assembly and a scraper fixing mount holding said blade module assembly with said conveyor frame/stringer on both sides of said scraper blade module assembly, said scraper fixing mount being configured and adapted to function in an auto adjusting mode, wherein said scraper blade module assembly works in the range from 300 millimeters and 3200 millimeters of belt width and said upper dynamic spring adjuster and said lower dynamic spring adjuster together constitute a dynamic auto adjusting scraper fixing mount, and wherein said dynamic auto adjusting scraper fixing mount comprises of a pair of helical springs in which a lower of the pair of helical springs has higher suspension stability than an upper of the pair of helical springs. | 12,414 |
9,125,804 | 1. A liquid pharmaceutical composition consisting of (a) botulinum toxin complex type A, (b) 0.01% (v/v) POLYSORBATE 80 (polyoxyethylene (20) sorbitan monooleate), (c) 0.15 M sodium chloride, (d) 10 mM histidine to maintain the pH at 6.5, (e) 11.7 mM sucrose, and (f) sterile water. | 27,754 |
9,745,950 | 1. A submersible power plant, comprising: a structure; and a vehicle, the vehicle being arranged to be secured to the structure by at least one tether; the vehicle being arranged to move in a predetermined trajectory by a fluid stream passing the vehicle, the vehicle being positioned in a reference frame with a first extension along an x-axis of the reference frame and a second extension along a y-axis of the reference frame, where the x-axis runs in a direction from a rear of the vehicle to a front of the vehicle, and the y-axis runs in a direction perpendicular to the x-axis from a bottom of the vehicle to a top of the vehicle, the vehicle comprises a first wing and a second wing, where the first wing is arranged at a first distance above the second wing along the y-axis, and the first wing is arranged at a second distance in front of the second wing along the x-axis, and the vehicle comprises a nacelle comprising a generator, the nacelle being attached to a turbine, where the nacelle is positioned between the first wing and the second wing. | 47,373 |
9,364,353 | 1. A stent comprising: a plurality of stenting rings, each stenting ring including a plurality of struts and points of inflection, each point of inflection connecting adjacent struts, the points of inflection of adjacent stenting rings facing each other along an axis parallel to a longitudinal axis of the stent in a radially expanded stenting disposition while the stent is in an unbent configuration; adjacent stenting rings connected by connectors extending from a point of inflection on one stenting ring to a facing point of inflection on another stenting ring, the connectors being linear along an entire length thereof and parallel to the longitudinal axis of the stent, each of the connectors having a length shorter than a length of each of the struts; each stenting ring including connected points of inflection and unconnected points of inflection; and wherein | 21,752 |
8,944,032 | 1. A diesel fuel feed system comprising: a diesel engine ( a fuel cooler ( a fuel tank ( a makeup valve ( | 34,109 |
8,543,246 | 1. A first distribution controller for controlling a distribution of electrical power in a first power distribution region, wherein the first distribution controller is configured to communicate with a second distribution controller assigned to a second power distribution region distinct from the first power distribution region, and wherein the first distribution controller comprises: processing means for processing data received from process devices connected to the first distribution controller, the process devices connected to the first distribution controller being configured to interact with at least one primary device of the first power distribution region, and for proposing actions related to the at least one primary device of the first power distribution region based on the received data; and coordinating means for coordinating conflicting actions in the event of conflicting proposed actions, the coordinating means being configured to at least one of: coordinate conflicting actions related to the at least one primary device and proposed by the processing means of the first distribution controller, based on a decision supporting input from the second distribution controller, and coordinate conflicting actions related to the at least one primary device and proposed by at least one of the processing means of the first distribution controller and a processing means of the second distribution controller. | 5,651 |
9,664,086 | 1. A heatable fluid line comprising: a tube; a connector comprising a housing arranged at an end of the tube; a heating rod arranged in an interior of the tube to enter into the housing through an inlet channel having a longitudinal axis and to exit out of the housing through an opening arranged in a neck; and a seal, which is arranged in the neck to surround the heating rod, is held in the neck by a plug, that comprises at least two parts that are connected to one another by an articulation section having an articulation axis, wherein the plug is welded to the heating rod. | 27,837 |
8,352,828 | 1. An apparatus, comprising: circuitry of a forward error correction (FEC) sublayer to perform forward error correction, the FEC sublayer coupled to a physical coding sublayer and a physical medium attachment (PMA) sublayer, the FEC sublayer comprising an encoder having: | 35,417 |
9,691,918 | 1. A manufacturing method for a solar battery cell, comprising: forming and laminating a second conductive-type layer and an antireflection film on a first conductive-type semiconductor substrate; applying a conductive paste containing a conductive particle and a glass frit to a predetermined position of the antireflection film; firing the semiconductor substrate with the conductive paste applied thereto; and forming an electrode penetrating the antireflection film and electrically connected to the second conductive-type layer, wherein the semiconductor substrate with the conductive paste applied thereto is consecutively subjected to heat treatment just after the firing instead of being returned to room temperature, wherein a heating temperature of the heat treatment is 300° C. or more and 500° C. or less when the semiconductor substrate with the conductive paste applied thereto is consecutively subjected to the heat treatment just after the firing instead of being returned to room temperature, and wherein a heating time of the heat treatment is one second or more and 60 seconds or less when the semiconductor substrate with the conductive paste applied thereto is consecutively subjected to the heat treatment just after the firing instead of being returned to room temperature. | 6,358 |
8,725,402 | 1. A flight management system for an aircraft, the flight management system comprising: a processor; and a memory accessible to the processor, the memory storing instructions that are executable by the processor to: | 26,101 |
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