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9,329,663 | 1. A non-transitory program storage device, readable by a processing unit and comprising instructions stored thereon to cause one or more processing units in a processing device to: compare a measured power consumption and a target power consumption of a processing device to determine a power consumption difference; compare a measured utilization ratio and a target utilization ratio of the processing device to determine a utilization ratio difference; determine a first output to reduce the power consumption difference; determine a second output to reduce the utilization ratio difference; select an output frequency for the processing device based, at least in part, on a combination of the first and second outputs; and adjust an operating frequency of the processing device based, at least in part, on the selected output frequency. | 40,154 |
8,433,942 | 1. A storage apparatus including one or more hard disk drives as a physical drive, and for providing a storage area of the one or more hard disk drives to a host computer, comprising: an operational information collection unit for collecting in predetermined time intervals, from each of the hard disk drives: a recording retaining unit for recording and retaining: a power consumption estimation unit for calculating in the predetermined time intervals, as the power consumption of the hard disk drives, the sum of first power consumption of the each of the hard disk drives which is calculated based on: second power consumption that is equal to the power during the idle state. | 25,069 |
9,060,387 | 1. An electric heating catalyst comprising: a heater element that generates heat by supply of electric current, thereby heating a catalyst; a casing that houses said heater element; an insulation member that is provided between said heater element and said casing to support said heater element and to provide electric insulation; an electrode that is connected to said heater element through an electrode chamber having a side wall formed by said insulation member to supply electricity to said heater element, the electrode chamber being a space located between an inner wall surface of said casing and an outer circumferential surface of said heater element; a bypass passage, one end of which is connected to a bottom part of said casing at a position upstream of an upstream end face of said insulation member, and which is arranged to bypass said insulation member; and a water-absorbing member with which said bypass passage is filled. | 19,367 |
8,796,289 | 1. A compound of formula (I), or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or solvate thereof; B is (a) phenyl, naphthyl, tetrahydronaphthyl, indenyl, or dihydroindenyl; and m is 1, 2, or 3; R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R | 12,439 |
9,052,491 | 1. An imaging lens assembly comprising five non-cemented lens elements with refractive power, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens element with positive refractive power having a convex object-side surface; a second lens element having refractive power, a third lens element with refractive power having a convex image-side surface; a fourth lens element having refractive power; and a fifth lens element with refractive power having a concave image-side surface at a paraxial region thereof, wherein the image-side surface of the fifth lens element has a convex shape at a peripheral region thereof, and both of an object-side surface and the image-side surface of the fifth lens element are aspheric; wherein the imaging lens assembly has a total of five lens elements with refractive power, and further comprising a stop located between an imaged object and the first lens element, a distance in a direction parallel with an optical axis from an axial vertex on the object-side surface of the first lens element to a maximum effective diameter position on the object-side surface of the first lens element is SAG | 24,849 |
8,799,286 | 1. A method for processing data, comprising: organizing medical information in a non-transitory computer readable storage medium in a concept frame data structure, which organizes the medical information for a single pathological or anatomical entity and includes medical measurements and related metadata; analyzing the medical information to extract further information using information extractors and storing extracted medical information in the concept frame; and storing references to appropriate visualization methods along with an associated concept in the concept frame by relating concept frames for different pathological or anatomical entities at a given time according to knowledge extracted from medical ontologies to construct a Concept-Graph of a patient at that time. | 30,958 |
9,067,809 | 1. An apparatus for anaerobic wastewater treatment with a membrane, comprising: an anaerobic reactor for performing anaerobic treatment to wastewater and generating biogas; an anaerobic membrane bio-reactor for filtering wastewater discharged from the anaerobic reactor by means of a membrane module and providing an additional anaerobic treatment space for the wastewater; an submerged membrane module provided in the anaerobic membrane bio-reactor to filter wastewater; rotating disks provided at both sides of the submerged membrane module to induce turbulence to the wastewater by means of rotation; and second media provided in the anaerobic membrane bio-reactor to circulate according to the flow of the wastewater so that foulants on a surface of the membrane module are detached. | 11,713 |
9,530,016 | 1. A method to predict risk of unauthorized data transfer, comprising: receiving a data set comprising an executable, together with an indication of a source, and a sink, involved in a potential data exfiltration from an application to a target, the data set received in response to detection of the potential data exfiltration by an Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) agent executing in association with the application in an enterprise environment; converting the executable into de-compiled code; performing a taint analysis against the de-compiled code to determine whether one or more data flows between the source and the sink are indicative of a write to the target being related to a read of sensitive information; and based on the determination, returning an analysis assessment. | 27,100 |
9,522,153 | 1. A pharmaceutical composition for lowering intraocular pressure in patients suffering from elevated intraocular pressure who do not have adequate intraocular pressure control with mono or dual combination therapy, the composition consisting essentially of about 0.01% w/v bimatoprost, about 0.15% w/v brimonidine tartrate, about 0.68% w/v timolol maleate, sodium phosphate dibasic heptahydrate, citric acid monohydrate, sodium chloride, and sodium hydroxide in an aqueous carrier. | 2,157 |
9,756,567 | 1. A wireless telecommunications system comprising: a base station; a first terminal device; and a second terminal device, wherein the first terminal device is a terminal device of a first type and the second terminal device is a terminal device of a second type, the second type being different from the first type, wherein the base station is configured to communicate data that is specific to the first terminal device in a synchronous manner and to communicate data that is specific to the second terminal device in a non-synchronous manner, wherein the base station is configured to communicate the data that is specific to the second terminal device in a packet format including a payload portion that encompasses an indication of resources that are not used to convey the data that is specific to the second terminal device, and wherein both the data that is specific to the first terminal device and the data that is specific to the second terminal device are communicated by the base station within a same radio frame. | 22,304 |
9,213,084 | 1. A beacon lighting system comprising: a plurality of small portable independent light sources each comprising a wireless transceiver for sending and receiving data via a wireless radio frequency control channel, an independent power source, at least one LED, a clock synchronized to a common time source and a plurality of common predefined timing diagrams each of a predetermined time length ΔT stored in memory and wherein in operation a selected timing diagram is reset after expiry of said predetermined time length ΔT and according to said common time source; and a master controller for transmitting control and clock synchronization data to each of said plurality of small independent light sources via said wireless radio frequency control channel, said control data comprising a reference to a respective one of said timing diagrams; wherein when at least a first light of said plurality of small independent light sources is outside a transmission range of said master controller and at least a second light of said plurality of small independent light sources is within range of said master controller and said first light, said second light relays said control and clock synchronization data received from said master controller to said first light for synchronizing their respective clocks with said clock synchronization data and further wherein a first group of said plurality of lights subsequently emits light flashes according to first control data to achieve a first effect in synchronization with a second group of said plurality of lights which subsequently emits light flashes according to second control data and said common time source to achieve a second effect different from said first effect, and wherein said synchronization is independent of light flashes emitted by any of said plurality of light sources. | 43,850 |
9,371,549 | 1. A methanotroph bacteria, wherein said methanotroph bacteria comprises a heterologous polynucleotide encoding a thioesterase, a malonyl-CoA-acyl carrier protein transacylase, an acetyl-CoA carboxylase or any combination thereof, and wherein said methanotroph bacteria accumulates an increased level of fatty acids when grown on a C 1 substrate as a carbon source when compared to a wild-type methanotroph bacteria without said heterologous polynucleotide and grown under same conditions. | 17,030 |
8,512,912 | 1. Membrane electrode unit for direct methanol fuel cells (DMFC), comprising five layers, namely an ion-conducting membrane, at least one anode electrode layer, at least one cathode electrode layer, at least one anode backing and at least one cathode backing, wherein, said ion-conducting membrane is in the middle, the two backings are attached on either side of the membrane and the electrode layers are present between the membrane and the respective backings, the anode backing has no compensating layer between a backing surface of the anode backing and the anode electrode layer, the anode backing has a lower water tightness (WT) than the cathode backing, and the following is applicable: and wherein the anode backing and the cathode backing include water repellent material, with a total content of water repellent material for the anode backing being in a range from 2 to 10 wt.-%, and a total content of water repellent material for the cathode backing being in a range from 10 to 30 wt.-%, based in each case on the total weight. | 24,080 |
9,238,191 | 1. A CO 2 recovery method, comprising the steps of: bringing flue gas into contact with a basic amine compound absorbent so that the basic amine compound absorbent absorbs CO bringing the decarbonated flue gas in which an amount of CO releasing the CO bringing circulating acidic water into contact with the decarbonated flue gas that has undergone the step of bringing the decarbonated flue gas into contact with the wash water to thereby further reduce the amounts of the basic amine compounds entrained in the decarbonated flue gas, wherein the step of releasing the CO wherein part of the acidic water containing the basic amine compounds removed from the decarbonated flue gas is supplied to the step of adding basic sodium. | 10,688 |
9,007,846 | 1. A non-volatile semiconductor storage device comprising: a memory cell which has a gate electrode including a control gate and a charge storage region above a semiconductor substrate and which has a channel region under the gate electrode in the semiconductor substrate; and a control unit which, during an erase operation where electric charges written in the charge storage region are extracted to the channel region, periodically varies a voltage to be applied between the control gate and the channel region, the control unit periodically varying the to-be-applied voltage between a first level where electric charges are not extracted from a cell in an erased state to the channel region and a second level where electric charges are extracted from a written cell to the channel region. | 28,880 |
8,546,039 | 1. A fuel cell, comprising: a solid polymer electrolytic membrane; a cathode disposed in contact with a side of said solid polymer electrolytic membrane, and an anode disposed in contact with another side thereof; a cathode-side collecting electrode and an anode-side collecting electrode disposed in contact with said cathode and said anode, respectively; a sealing material located along a perimeter of said solid polymer electrolytic membrane, and interleaved between said solid polymer electrolytic membrane and said anode-side collecting electrode; a fuel supply controller that vaporizes a liquid fuel and supplies said vaporized fuel to said anode, said sealing material being disposed on a surface of said anode-side collecting electrode that opposes another surface of said anode-side collecting electrode that is disposed on a surface of said fuel supply controller; and a discharging device that discharges a product generated through an electric reaction on said anode, wherein said sealing material is provided in a frame-shape around said anode, and wherein said discharging device includes a ventilation port formed on said sealing material, and a water repellent material is provided at least at one of an inside of said ventilation port and between said ventilation port and said anode. | 42,845 |
9,231,391 | 1. An electric vehicle charging-socket flap device, comprising: a frame comprising a peripheral sidewall, an aperture which extends through the frame, and a housing which is coupled to the peripheral sidewall adjacent to the aperture, the housing having a bottom wall connected to the peripheral sidewall to define an internal region, and an upper orifice that exposes said internal region; a mobile gate coupled to the frame and forming a flap which closes the aperture of the frame, the mobile gate comprising an articulation element which is made in one piece with the mobile gate and is accommodated in the housing; and a cover which closes the upper orifice of the housing, wherein the cover is mounted on the upper orifice of the housing so as to be separated from the upper orifice on at least one edge of the upper orifice, in a position in which the upper orifice is kept closed on the housing and the cover being kept separated from the at least one edge of the upper orifice by a retaining element of the cover which permits the cover to be displaced in a damped manner toward the at least one edge of the upper orifice in event of an impact of a pedestrian on an area of a wall of a body of the vehicle covering the charging-socket flap device. | 11,838 |
8,456,605 | 1. A flat display panel comprising: a first substrate; a display unit disposed on the first substrate; a second substrate disposed on the first substrate to cover the display unit and not covering a predetermined region of the first substrate; a terminal unit disposed on the predetermined region of the first substrate and electrically connected to the display unit; and a glass strengthener coated on a portion of the first substrate and adjacent to the second substrate at a location where the first substrate and the second substrate are not overlapped with each other to increase the strength of the first substrate. | 14,586 |
9,709,244 | 1. A light-source module, comprising an optical film and at least one light-source unit, wherein the at least one light-source unit and the optical film together enclose a space, the light-source unit comprises a reflective assembly, a light-concentrating unit and at least one light-emitting assembly, the reflective assembly disposed under the optical film, has a first connection end and a second connection end opposite to the first connection end, and in comparison with the first connection end, the second connection end is more close to the optical film, the light-concentrating unit has a light exiting end and a light incidence end opposite to the light exiting end, the light-concentrating unit is adjacent to the first connection end and the optical film, and the light exiting end faces the space, the at least one light-emitting assembly is disposed beside the light incidence end for providing a light-beam to enter the light-concentrating unit via the light incidence end and then enter the space via the light exiting end, wherein optical-axis direction of the light-emitting assembly is defined as a first direction and the direction perpendicular to both the first direction and the optical film is defined as a second direction, the length of the light-concentrating unit in the first direction is defined as a light-concentrating distance, width of the light exiting end in the second direction is defined as a light exiting width, and ratio of the light-concentrating distance over the light exiting width is greater than 0.5 but less than 10. | 41,016 |
9,406,987 | 1. A twist for coupling electro-magnetic radiation between orthogonal waveguides, the twist comprising: at least three cavities formed in a single metal block having at least three respective shapes, the at least three cavities opening from at least one of a first X wherein the orthogonal waveguides are formed from the first cavity and the last cavity. | 46,930 |
9,220,166 | 1. A method to manufacture an LED (light emitting diode) backlight module comprising steps: providing a substrate with circuits arranged thereon; pasting a plurality of LEDs on the substrate, wherein positions of the plurality of LEDs are movable and the LEDs are in electrical connection with the circuits; providing a luminance photometer and measuring an illumination of the LEDs in luminous state and getting an actual intensity distribution of light generated by the LEDs using the luminance photometer; providing a computer and detecting whether there is bright or dark band or spot in the actual intensity distribution of light generated by the LEDs using the computer; and adjusting locations of the pasted LEDs on the substrate when the computer detects that there is bright/dark band/spot in the actual intensity distribution of light generated by the LEDs to eliminate the detected bright or dark band or spot. | 43,472 |
8,427,957 | 1. A communication terminal included in an ad-hoc network, the communication terminal comprising: a communication section that communicates a data packet to a reception terminal via at least one relay terminal; and a control section, which broadcasts, prior to a communication of the data packet, a first control packet that is used for creating routes that lead to the reception terminal, and which selects, in a descending order of broadness of bandwidth or in an ascending order of delay time and based on a response result of the first control packet, a plurality of routes that lead to the reception terminal as route candidates, and which unicasts, at predetermined time intervals during the communication of the data packet, a second control packet that is used to confirm, via all or some of the route candidates, a change of a communication state to the reception terminal; selects, based on a response result of the second control packet which includes information on the bandwidth or the delay time in the route candidates between a communication terminal to the reception terminal, a route, among the route candidates through which the response result of the second control packet has been obtained, that has the broadest communication bandwidth or the smallest delay time; switches a route used by the communication of the data packet to the selected route; and continues the communication of the data packet. | 40,839 |
9,076,663 | 1. A semiconductor die, comprising: a driver, wherein the driver is configured to provide a temporal sequence of electrical signals during a time interval; wherein each electrical signal in the sequence has a duration; wherein a given electrical signal in the sequence has a temporal frequency that is different than the temporal frequencies associated with the other electrical signals, and wherein the driver is configured to sequentially increase the temporal frequency during the time interval using discrete frequency increments; and a spatial alignment transducer electrically coupled to the driver, wherein the spatial alignment transducer is proximate to a surface of the semiconductor die, and wherein the driver is configured to establish a spatially varying electric charge distribution in at least one direction in the spatial alignment transducer, thereby facilitating determination of a vertical spacing between the surface of the semiconductor die and a surface of another semiconductor die. | 46,324 |
8,530,737 | 1. A solar panel apparatus comprising: a set of photovoltaic modules configured to photovoltaically generate electricity from light, each module elongated along an axis and having first and second axially opposite ends; and an end rail having a groove into which the first end of each module is potted in place with potting material, the end rail and the potting material being separate components wherein a flexible sheath is inserted in the end rail such that the flexible sheath is disposed between the bottom of the groove and the potting material, wherein the set of photovoltaic modules are electrically-interconnected by an electrical line that is covered by the potting material. | 19,247 |
8,761,755 | 1. A wireless communication device comprising: a Physical (PHY) layer comprising circuitry and configured to provide a first communication service and a second communication service across a communication network; and control circuitry in communication with the PHY layer and distinct from the PHY layer, the control circuitry configured to: | 44,625 |
8,534,711 | 1. A fuel piping assembly, comprising: a piping unit for transporting a fuel; and fixing clamps for supporting the piping unit; wherein the piping unit has a resin tube, and a connector attached to an end portion of the resin tube for connecting the resin tube to a mating pipe, the connector having a connector body including a retainer holding portion on one end of the connector body along an axial direction of the connector body and a tube connecting portion on the other end of the connector body along the axial direction for connecting to the resin tube, a retainer held in or on the retainer holding portion for engaging with the mating pipe to securely fix the connector body in the axial direction, and a sealing member for providing a seal between the connector body and the mating pipe, wherein the resin tube has a multilayered construction including an inner fuel barrier layer and an outer layer made of polyamide covered further with a protective layer on an outer peripheral surface of the outer layer, the resin tube inside the protective layer having a small outer diameter (od) up to 6 mm and a wall-thickness (t), a ratio of the outer diameter (od) of the resin tube/the wall thickness (t) of the resin tube being in a range of 4 to 8, wherein the resin tube which is flexible throughout is bent in arcuate shape at a plurality of bent points along a longitudinal direction of the resin tube and along a motor vehicle body, and both side portions of each of the plurality of the bent points being supported by a pair of the fixing clamps which are unconnected and separated from one another, the fixing clamps being positioned and attached to the motor vehicle body to define the ends of the bent points without any additional support for the bent points between the fixing clamps, each of the fixing clamps of the both side portions of each of the bent points being fastened to a different point of the motor vehicle body, whereby the lengths and curvatures of the bent points and the positions of the ends of the bent points can be adjusted between the fixing clamps, wherein each fixing clamp has a tube holding portion and a mounting portion for securely fixing the tube holding portion to the motor vehicle body, the mounting portion having an insert portion which is inserted in a holding bore in the motor vehicle body, an outside pinching portion which is formed integrally on an outer end portion of the insert portion to be located adjacent to an outer surface of the motor vehicle body, and an inside pinching portion which is formed integrally on an inner end portion of the insert portion to be located adjacent to an inner surface of the motor vehicle body, and wherein the inside pinching portion includes foot portions on both lateral sides of the inner end portion of the insert portion and turned-back portions, each of the foot portions extending in a laterally outward direction at an angle toward the inner surface of the motor vehicle body, and each of the turned-back portions extending in a laterally inward direction from a laterally outer end of the foot portion at an angle toward an outer side of the motor vehicle body; wherein all of the fixing clamps open in the same orientation with respect to the resin tube along the motor vehicle body. | 31,435 |
9,356,448 | 1. An electric power converter for a combined power generation system, the electric power converter being provided at a power supply system constituted by a plurality of electric power generation facilities each including a power storage facility including a power storage device and an electric power converting unit, the electric power converter comprising: a voltage measuring unit configured to measure a voltage of the power supply system; a frequency measuring unit configured to measure a frequency of the power supply system; an electric power measuring unit configured to measure active electric power and reactive electric power at an output terminal of the power storage facility; and a system control device, wherein: the system control device includes the system control device outputs the command value of the output current to the electric power converting unit to control the electric power converting unit. | 16,877 |
8,852,771 | 1. A battery including: a cylindrical shaft core having a bore extending in an axial direction; and a wound electrode assembly formed by winding a first electrode plate, a second electrode plate, and separators around an outer circumference of the cylindrical shaft core, the wound electrode assembly including: wherein the shaft core includes a metal current collector portion having a current collector joint portion to be joined with the first wound portion or the second wound portion, wherein portions of the first wound portion or the second wound portion located on a radially outer side of the shaft core relative to the current collector joint portion are overlapped and welded to the current collector joint portion, wherein the shaft core includes a protruding portion protruding from the wound electrode assembly towards the distal end in the axial direction; wherein the battery includes: a cylindrical case body with a bottom for accommodating the wound electrode assembly, a lid member closing an opening of the case body and having an insertion hole, into which the protruding portion is inserted, and a safety vent closing a distal end opening of the protruding portion, the safety vent being capable of opening when internal pressure of the battery reaches a predetermined vent-opening pressure to discharge gas introduced into the bore of the shaft core inside the battery through the bore from the safety vent to the outside of the battery, wherein the protruding portion of the shaft core includes a through hole extending through the wall forming the protruding portion at a position further on the rear end side in the axial direction than the lid member, or, a cut-out formed by cutting off part of the wall forming the protruding portion from a distal end of itself to a position further on the rear end side in the axial direction than the lid member; wherein the lid member is an external electrode terminal made of metal and exposed to the outside of the battery; wherein the protruding portion protrudes out of the case body through the insertion hole; and wherein protruding portion is a part of the current collector portion, and the protruding portion is welded to a portion of the lid member, located around the insertion hole. | 22,955 |
8,711,947 | 1. A digital broadcast receiver, comprising: a processor; a receiving unit for receiving a transmission stream comprising known data and supplementary data from a digital broadcast transmitter; and a turbo decoder for performing turbo decoding on the supplementary data, wherein the transmission stream comprises a plurality of packets at least one of which comprises a segment sync, known data and the supplementary data, and wherein the supplementary data is interleaved in a symbol state after being convolution-encoded, before the transmission stream is received at the receiving unit. | 13,295 |
9,410,222 | 1. A method for treating a steel article to form a high yield strength and ductile alloy comprising the steps of: (a) providing a steel composition having a material thickness no greater than 0.5 inches (12.7 mm), having an initial microstructure of at least ferrite and pearlite, and having a composition of, by weight, carbon between 0.25 and 0.55%, silicon between 0.15 and 0.35%, manganese between 0.40 and 1.0%, chromium between 0.40 and 1.10%, nickel less than 4.5%, molybdenum between 0.15 and 0.35%, sulfur less than 0.040%, phosphorus less than 0.035%, balance iron and other elements and compounds in making steel; (b) preheating the provided steel composition to not more than 594° C. (1100° F.); (c) heating the preheated steel composition to a peak temperature of between 800° C. (1472° F.) and 1150° C. (2102° F.) in less than forty seconds; (d) holding the heated steel composition at the peak temperature range for between two and twenty seconds; (e) quenching the heated steel composition from the peak temperature range to below 177° C. (350° F.) at a temperature rate reduction of between 200 and 3000° C./sec (360-5400° F./sec); (f) removing residual quench media from the surface of the quenched steel composition; (g) tempering the quenched steel composition at a temperature from 100° C. to 704° C. (212-1300° F.) for less than ninety minutes; and (h) air cooling the tempered steel composition to less than 100° C. (212° F.) to form a steel article having at least 80% martensite and up to 5% bainite by weight, a yield strength of at least 160 Ksi (1100 MPa), and a total elongation between 5% and 22%. | 4,688 |
9,630,655 | 1. A grille carrier, comprising: a base having first and second ends; a first wall attached to and extending from said first end of said base; a second wall attached to and extending from said second end of said base; a top having first and second connected portions, each of said first and second connected portions having first and second ends and an upper surface; and a stem having a first end attached to and extending from said base and a second end attached to a U-shaped support, said U-shaped support having first and second upwardly extending arms, wherein a first end of said first connected portion of said top is supported by and connected to a second end of said first wall and a second end of said first connected portion of said top is supported by and connected to said first upwardly extending arm of said U-shaped support, a first end of said second connected portion of said top is supported by and connected to a second end of said second wall and a second end of said second connected portion of said top is supported by and connected to said second upwardly extending arm of said U-shaped support, and said upper surface of said first connected portion and said upper surface of said second connected portion each include a projection for at least partially supporting a grille during installation. | 17,997 |
9,130,939 | 1. A mobile computing device for utilizing a decentralized cloud infrastructure, the mobile computing device comprising: a communication module to (i) broadcast for the formation of the decentralized cloud infrastructure, and (ii) establish a wireless communication connection with at least one secondary mobile computing device; and a decentralized service module to (i) establish the decentralized cloud infrastructure by sharing decentralized cloud services with the at least one secondary mobile computing device and (ii) establish shared cloud resources usable by the mobile computing device and the at least one secondary mobile computing device, wherein to establish the shared cloud resources comprises to: offer local resources of the mobile computing device to the at least one secondary mobile computing device; receive offers of shared local resources of the at least one secondary mobile computing device; and aggregate the local resources of the mobile computing device and the shared local resources of the at least one secondary mobile computing device to generate a virtual aggregated node resource. | 35,724 |
8,841,854 | 1. A driving device for a discharge lamp comprising: an alternating current supply section adapted to supply two electrodes of the discharge lamp with an alternating current; a frequency modulation section adapted to modulate a frequency of the alternating current along a modulation pattern including a plurality of periods with frequencies different from each other in which the frequency varies with time in a step-like manner in each of a rated power mode and a lower power mode in accordance with a predetermined condition of the discharge lamp within a range between a predetermined upper limit frequency and a predetermined lower limit frequency; a modulation condition setting section adapted to set a modulation condition of the frequency modulated by the frequency modulation section; and a power mode setting section adapted to set a power value supplied to the discharge lamp so that a RMS power supplied to the discharge lamp in the lower power mode is lower than a RMS power supplied to the discharge lamp in the rated power mode, the modulation condition setting section adapted to set, in accordance with the lower power and the rated power mode, modulation patterns corresponding respectively to the lower power mode and the rated power mode in the frequency modulation section so that the lower limit frequency when the discharge lamp is in the lower power mode is higher than the lower limit frequency when the discharge lamp is in the rated power mode. | 48,247 |
9,527,029 | 1. A circulating moving bed system comprising a sorbent, a CO 2 feed stream, a regeneration stream, an adsorption reactor and a desorption reactor, wherein the adsorption reactor comprises a first entry point for the sorbent at an end of the adsorption reactor, a second entry point for the CO the regeneration reactor comprises a first entry point for the sorbent at an end of the regeneration reactor, a second entry point for the regeneration stream distal to the first entry point, a sorbent exit point for the sorbent proximal to the second entry point, and a regeneration stream exit point proximal to the first entry point; wherein the circulating moving bed system does not operate by temperature swing or pressure swing adsorption, and wherein the regeneration reactor configured for a concentration swing and a desorptive displacement, the concentration swing comprising partial pressure purge desorption and the desorptive displacement comprising a process wherein an adsorbed CO | 20,153 |
9,847,984 | 1. A method for generating and storing challenge-response pairs for the authentication of a consumer electronics (CE) device, the method comprising: sharing at least one challenge K sharing at least one proxy response K for each said K producing one of said challenge-response pairs from each said K for each of said K storing each of said EK | 45,369 |
8,529,965 | 1. A dog or cat pet food composition comprising: (a) a source of protein; (b) a source of fat; (c) soluble fiber in an amount of about 1% to about 4% of the total composition; and (d) metabolizable cations and metabolizable anions, wherein said metabolizable cations are selected from the group consisting of calcium, sodium, potassium, magnesium, and mixtures thereof, said metabolizable anions are selected from the group consisting of phosphorous, chloride, sulfur, and mixtures thereof, said dog or cat pet food composition has a dietary cation to anion balance (DCAB) of from about 50 to about 300 mEq; and wherein the dog or cat pet food composition is a nutritionally-complete dog or cat pet food composition. | 6,186 |
9,362,978 | 1. In a frequency hopping network, a method for synchronizing a clock of a first network device with a network time, the first network device having a transceiver, the method comprising: listening, by the transceiver of the first network device, for information from a second network device via the frequency hopping network, wherein the first network device operates in accordance with a first frequency hopping sequence, wherein the first frequency hopping sequence includes a first plurality of data channels and a first plurality of acquisition channels, and wherein the second network device operates in accordance with a second frequency hopping sequence, wherein the second frequency hopping sequence includes a second plurality of data channels and a second plurality of acquisition channels, wherein the second frequency hopping sequence is different from the first frequency hopping sequence, and wherein the first plurality of acquisition channels of the first frequency hopping sequence and the second plurality of acquisition channels of the second frequency hopping sequence are arranged in their respective frequency hopping sequences such that when the first network device is tuned to one channel of the first plurality of acquisition channels, the second network device will be tuned to a corresponding channel of the second plurality of acquisition channels, and the frequency of each channel of the first plurality of acquisition channels is the same as the frequency of the corresponding channel of the second plurality of acquisition channels; tuning the transceiver of the first network device to one channel of the first plurality of acquisition channels of the first frequency hopping sequence; if a time synchronization message is received on the one channel of the first plurality of acquisition channels, synchronizing the clock of the first network device to the network time based on the time synchronization message; and if a time synchronization message is not received on the one channel of the first plurality of acquisition channels, tuning the transceiver of the first network device to another one of the first plurality of acquisition channels. | 23,255 |
9,036,620 | 1. In a mobile communication system comprising a circuit-switched mobile communications network, a packet-switched mobile communications network and an interworking function that enables a signaling exchange between the circuit-switched and packet-switched mobile communications networks, a method of providing combinational circuit-switched plus packet-switched services to mobile users, wherein the combinational circuit-switched plus packet-switched services are a combination of services delivered through at least one circuit-switched session and at least one concurrent packet-switched session between the mobile users, the method comprising: receiving, at a serving network entity in the packet-switched mobile communications network, a user request issued from a first user on the packet-switched mobile communications network, the user request relating to combinational services; and having the serving network entity manage the received request, wherein managing the received request comprises controlling an establishment of a session in the circuit-switched mobile communications network through the interworking function, by sending to the interworking function: wherein the established circuit-switched bearer is controlled through one or more packet-switched signals received by the serving network entity in the packet-switched mobile communications network. | 6,012 |
9,698,500 | 1. A joint sleeve for connecting at least two busbar sections, each having connectable contacts; said joint sleeve comprising: a case defining butt ends, wherein each said butt end is occluded with a flange disposed inside the case, and each said flange has a hole for securing the respective busbar section therein, wherein the case and the flanges are made of non-magnetic metal; an outer fire-resistant coating outwardly covering the case; an electrically insulated supporting tube disposed within the case, said supporting tube defines a chamber therein; the chamber encloses said connectable contacts; a grounding screen disposed within the case, said grounding screen wraps around the supporting tube and is secured thereto; and a composite fire-resistant layer disposed between the case and the grounding screen adjoining respective surfaces thereof; said composite fire-resistant layer includes a filler capable of thermal expansion upon heating; and said filler is impregnated with a binder such that the filler and the binder form cavities during said thermal expansion. | 43,317 |
8,537,951 | 1. A method for detecting occurrence of a transmission resynchronization of data packets subject to variable delays in a communications network, the packets received at a network entity and forwarded by the network entity are delayed by a jitter protection time, the network entity comprising a processor and the method comprising performing at the network entity the steps of: determining for a predetermined time period by the network entity a set of arrival time jitter values comprising values corresponding to jitters of data packet arrival time for at least a plurality of the received data packets; determining a peak to peak value by the network entity indicating a largest difference among the values comprised in the determined set of arrival time jitter values; detecting by the network entity an out of range condition when it is verified that at least one arrival time jitter value is larger than an upper threshold or at least one arrival time jitter value is smaller than a lower threshold; comparing by the network entity the peak to peak value with the jitter protection time, when the out of range condition is detected; and detecting by the network entity that a resynchronization occurred on the basis of the comparison of the peak to peak value with the jitter protection time. | 6,951 |
9,854,514 | 1. A small cell for use in a communication system, comprising: a processor, being configured to generate a maintaining downlink signal according to a common cell identity or an adjacent cell identity of an adjacent small cell received from a backhaul network when it is determined that the small cell is in an off-state, the maintaining downlink signal utilizing fewer radio resources compared to a normal downlink signal which is generated when the small cell is in an on-state, the adjacent small cell being in the on-state; and a transceiver electrically connected to the processor, being configured to continuously transmit the maintaining downlink signal when the small cell is in the off-state and receive an uplink signal from a user equipment (UE); wherein the processor further switches the small cell from the off-state to the on-state according to the uplink signal, and generates the normal downlink signal according to a dedicated cell identity after the small cell is switched to the on-state, and wherein the uplink signal has a physical random access channel (PRACH), and the processor further determines whether a received signal strength of the PRACH is larger than a threshold value, and switches the small cell from the off-state to the on-state when the received signal strength is larger than the threshold value. | 15,568 |
9,790,479 | 1. A nucleic acid comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding a hybrid nuclease molecule comprising human RNase 1 operatively coupled with or without a linker to an Fc domain, and human DNase I operatively coupled with or without a linker to the Fc domain, wherein the Fc domain is a human immunoglobulin Fc domain or a mutant human immunoglobulin Fc domain. | 29,689 |
8,945,892 | 1. A method for the continuous liquefying of organic solids, the method comprising the steps of: (a) providing: (i) a fermenter having arranged therein: (ii) said liquid, consisting essentially of water and enriched with fermentation residual substances; and (iii) said organic solids biomass; (b) introducing into the lower region of the fermenter the liquid and the organic solids biomass through said first and/or second inlets, and a microorganism or enzyme, thereby forming said biomass fluid; (c) incubating the biomass fluid for a residence time and under reaction conditions sufficient for microbially or enzymatically liquefying the organic solids biomass contained therein and at a biomass fluid through-flow rate through said fermenter sufficient for continuous liquefying of the organic solids biomass therein, thereby producing in the lower region of the fermenter a solid fermentation residue portion and a dissolved decomposition liquid and/or gas portion, the biomass fluid damming up against the sieves and said dissolved decomposition liquid and/or gas portion passing through said sieves into the upper sieved region; (d) collecting the solid fermentation residue portion in an upper region of the fermenter below a liquid surface level of the dammed-up fluid; (e) removing the collected solid fermentation residue portion from the fermenter through said residue discharge outlet, thereby separating the collected solid fermentation residues from the liquid portion of the incubated dammed-up fluid; and (f) discharging from the fermenter the sieved liquid and dissolved gas portion. | 11,750 |
8,365,718 | 1. A method of controlling heliostats in a solar energy collection system, the method comprising: receiving, at one or more controllers, at least one sensor signal regarding a thermal state of a primary receiver, the at least one sensor signal being effective to indicate a thermal profile or a heat flux profile on a surface of the primary receiver, the primary receiver superheating steam therein using insolation incident on said surface; calculating, by the one or more controllers, difference data responsive to a difference between said thermal state and a predetermined state for the surface of the primary receiver; aiming heliostats so as to direct insolation at respective first aiming points on the surface of the primary receiver responsively to said different data; after the aiming, repeating the receiving and the calculating; after the repeating, re-aiming at least one of the heliostats so as to direct insolation at a different aiming point than the respective first aiming point responsively to the difference data resulting from the repeated calculating. | 9,749 |
8,696,406 | 1. A device for blast-machining or abrasive blasting objects such as structural elements, tools, household objects, pots, pans or the like, comprising: a blasting space in which the objects to be irradiated can be placed during a working process; a pressure chamber abrasive depot for receiving during the working process at least a minimum level of an abrasive comprising at least one of a granular material, a granular material mixture and a granular material in a suspension; at least one abrasive blasting nozzle for blasting the abrasive on an article placed in the blasting space during the working process; a pressure-generating device configured to provide compressed air into the pressure chamber abrasive depot above the abrasive in the pressure chamber abrasive depot; a pressure medium line connecting the pressure chamber abrasive depot to the abrasive blasting nozzle for conveying the abrasive, the pressure medium line having inlet side in the abrasive in the pressure chamber abrasive depot during the working process and an outlet end comprising the at least one abrasive blasting nozzle; and a return line connecting the blasting space to a portion of the pressure chamber abrasive depot below the minimum level of the abrasive during the working process through which the abrasive is recycled by means of compressed air. | 37,965 |
9,746,733 | 1. A method for driving a liquid crystal panel, wherein the liquid crystal panel comprises a display area, a plurality of scan lines and a plurality of data lines, wherein an array of pixel units is disposed in the display area, each pixel unit of the pixel units at least comprises a blue sub-pixel, the scan lines provide a plurality of scan signals to the pixel units, and the data lines provide a plurality of data signals to the pixel units, wherein blue sub-pixels of the pixel units in every two separated columns, which are separated by one column, are coupled to a first data line, and the first data line provides an identical data signal to the blue sub-pixels in a same line of the two separated columns; wherein driving the liquid crystal panel so as to display an image according to a reset data parameter of the blue sub-pixel comprises: obtaining a brightness curve corresponding to a whole grey level of the blue sub-pixel in the liquid crystal panel; when a brightness values of m respectively; wherein m=1, 5, 9, 13 . . . , and m=2, 6, 10, 14 . . . ; determining a grey value corresponding to LvB according to the obtained brightness curve and re-defining a look-up table of the liquid crystal panel related to the blue sub-pixel; and driving the liquid crystal panel according to the look-up table, wherein every two blue sub-pixels in the same line of the two separated columns are provided with the identical data signal. | 42,838 |
9,373,105 | 1. A mobile device configured for processing a paper financial document, the mobile device coordinating processing of digital data by interacting with a key data module of a plurality of deposit modules, the digital data including at least a digital image of the paper financial document and respective deposit information, the plurality of deposit modules being on a server in communication with the mobile device over a communications network, the plurality of deposit modules facilitating a distribution of deposit functions for the deposit processing of the digital data, the mobile device comprising: a user interface for receiving key data for submission to the key data module; a processor and associated memory having instructions stored thereon for execution by the processor for: receiving the key data associated with the digital image of the paper financial document; communicating with the key data module by sending the key data to the key data module as a first module of the plurality of deposit modules on the server in order to continue said processing of the digital data; communicating with a decisioning module that provides decisioning of the digital data received by the plurality of deposit modules and generates a decision with respect to the decisioning; and receiving an assignment of one or more of the plurality of deposit modules to a respective user of the mobile device via a hierarchical structure, the hierarchical data structure having a plurality of nodes including at least one parent node for a respective user and at least one dependent node assigned to others of one or more users, the hierarchical structure for coordinating the assignment of the one or more deposit functions to the respective user and the others; wherein the server includes a second module for implementing on the key data a second deposit function of the plurality of the deposit functions. | 5,712 |
8,886,959 | 1. A secure processor comprising: an instruction execution unit configured to execute instructions; a load/store control unit configured to control loading/storing of the data for an external memory in response to a command from the instruction execution unit; an encryption processing unit configured to perform data encryption/decryption of data between the load/store control unit and the external memory; and a key storing unit configured to store multiple encryption keys and multiple decryption keys, wherein the instruction execution unit specifies an encryption key to be used for data encryption by the encryption processing unit in response to an instruction being executed, the specified encryption keys being varied among a plurality of instructions or a plurality of intervals of instructions being executed, outputs an encryption key number to specify the encryption key to the key storing unit, specifies a decryption key to be used for data decryption by the encryption processing unit in response to an instruction being executed, the specified decryption keys being varied among a plurality of instructions or a plurality of intervals of instructions being executed, and outputs a decryption key number to specify the decryption key to the key storing unit, and the key storing unit gives the encryption key to be used for data encryption to the encryption processing unit in response to the encryption key number and gives the decryption key to be used for data decryption to the encryption processing unit in response to the decryption key number. | 38,843 |
9,239,020 | 1. A method for an engine, comprising: estimating an amount of accumulated condensate based on an amount of formed condensate and an amount of evaporated condensate within an exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) cooler of the engine over a given duration; and increasing EGR flow responsive to the estimated amount of accumulated condensate within the EGR cooler. | 44,271 |
9,598,483 | 1. A monoclonal antibody that binds specifically to human delta-like ligand 4 (DLL4) to inhibit an interaction between human delta-like ligand 4 (DLL4) and Notch receptor, wherein the monoclonal antibody comprises: | 11,050 |
9,648,352 | 1. A method for decoding video data, the method comprising: receiving, by a video decoder, a bitstream that comprises a series of Network Abstraction Layer (NAL) units, the series of NAL units including a non-Video Coding Layer (VCL) NAL unit; based on the non-VCL NAL unit having a nal_unit_type equal to EOS_NUT, EOB_NUT, in the range of RSV-NVCL45 to RSV_NVCL47 or in the range of UNSPEC56 to UNSPEC63, associating, by the video decoder, the non-VCL NAL unit with a most recent VCL NAL unit preceding the non-VCL NAL unit in decoding order, at a determined Coded Picture Buffer (CPB) removal time of the DU, removing, by the video decoder, video data associated with the DU from the CPB and decoding the video data associated with the DU. | 26,789 |
9,234,677 | 1. An electric heating device for providing additional heating for motor vehicles comprising: a plurality of heating elements assembled to form a heating block; a heating block housing accommodating the heating block; control means for controlling the heating elements, the control means including a printed circuit board, wherein the control means and the heating block together form a constructional unit; a control means support that holds the control means; at least one of contact elements and cooler elements extending between the control means and the heating block; a control means housing accommodating the control means support; and a plurality of sealing elements provided between the control means housing and the heating block housing, wherein | 3,106 |
9,243,364 | 1. A method of pretreating lignocellulosic biomass, the method comprising: a) mixing the lignocellulosic biomass with either a sulfite solution having an initial pH of at least about 3 or a hydroxide solution having an initial pH of at least about 9, as measured at room temperature, and maintaining the mixture at a temperature in the range from about 150° C. to about 200° C. for a first treatment period; and b) subsequently decreasing the pH of the intact mixture of step a) to a pH in the range from about 1 to less than 3 by introducing a pH-reducing agent into the mixture and maintaining the mixture at a temperature in the range from about 150° C. to about 200° C. for a second treatment period to provide a treated product comprising pretreated biomass solids and a process liquor. | 16,462 |
8,456,130 | 1. A battery charging apparatus, comprising: a case having a bottom surface and a vertical portion attached to the bottom surface in a substantially perpendicular configuration that defines a volume of space above the bottom surface, and a circumferential edge at the top of the vertical portion; a case top having circumferential edge matching the circumferential edge of at the top of the vertical portion of the case, wherein the circumferential edge of the case top is sealed against the circumferential edge of the case to enclose the space within the case; a plurality of batteries placed within the case in a vertical manner and with adjacent positions with respect to each other so that each battery in the plurality is adjacent to at least two other batteries in the plurality, wherein batteries in the plurality are substantially cylindrical in shape and have a positive connection at a first end of the cylindrical shape and a negative connection at the opposite end of the cylindrical shape, wherein batteries in the plurality are disposed in opposing configurations so that batteries in the plurality having positive connections facing upwards are next to neighboring batteries with negative connections facing upwards; a circuit board placed beneath the case top and above the plurality of batteries and in contact with connections facing upwards on the plurality of batteries; a circuit panel placed above the bottom surface of the case and below the plurality of batteries and in contact with connections facing downwards on the plurality of batteries, the circuit board and circuit panel connecting the plurality of batteries electrically in series by circuitry; and an electrical connector, the electrical connector having a positive lead and a negative lead coupled with the plurality of batteries and providing electrical current from the plurality of batteries to an interface with a target battery. | 7,928 |
9,789,781 | 1. A charging device for a vehicle, the vehicle configured to carry out timer charging in which the charging device is set in a standby state without charging until charging start time comes when the charging start time is set for a vehicle-mounted electrical storage device, the charging device comprising: a charger configured to charge the electrical storage device with electric power supplied from a device outside the vehicle; and an electronic control unit configured to determine whether to carry out the timer charging or carry out instant charging without carrying out the timer charging on the basis of a state of a switch associated with an open-close state of a charging lid, the electronic control unit being configured to control the charger. | 25,992 |
9,447,104 | 1. A method for attenuating or ameliorating one or more symptoms of a cancer in a mammal in need thereof, the method comprising: (a) determining if the cancer exhibits one or more of overexpression, activation, amplification, and mutation of a Trk kinase; and (b) if the cancer is determined to exhibit one or more of overexpression, activation, amplification, and mutation of a Trk kinase, administering to the mammal a therapeutically effective amount of a compound of Formula (I): or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein: R 1 is H or (1-6C alkyl); R 2 is NR b R c ; NR b R c forms a 5-6 membered heterocyclic ring having a ring heteroatom which is nitrogen and optionally having a second ring heteroatom or group selected from N, O and SO 2 , wherein the heterocyclic ring formed by NR b R c is optionally substituted with one or two substituents independently selected from OH, F, NH 2 , CO 2 H, CO 2 Et, NHCO 2 C(CH 3 ) 3 , CF 3 , methyl, ethyl, isopropyl, CO 2 C(CH 3 ) 3 and oxo; Y is phenyl optionally substituted with one or more substituents independently selected from halogen, (1-4C)alkoxy, CF X is —CH 2 —; R 3 is H or (1-4C alkyl); each R 4 is independently selected from halogen, (1-4C)alkyl, OH, (1-4C)alkoxy, NH 2 , NH(1-4C alkyl) and CH 2 OH; and n is 0, 1, or 2; wherein the cancer is selected from the group consisting of: a solid tumor, a hematological malignancy, a breast cancer, a prostate cancer, a lung cancer, a renal cancer, a thyroid cancer, an ovarian cancer, a pancreatic cancer, a colorectal cancer, a neuroblastoma, a multiple myeloma, an astrocytoma, a medulloblastoma, a glioma, a melanoma, a bone metastasis, and a large cell neuroendocrine tumor. | 31,122 |
8,979,064 | 1. A positioner comprising: a control calculating portion that inputs an opening setting signal for a valve, sent from a higher level device, and an actual opening signal that indicates the current degree of opening of the valve, to produce a control signal from the opening setting signal and the actual opening signal; an electropneumatic converter that converts the control signal from the control calculating portion into an air pressure; a pilot relay that uses, as an input air pressure, the air pressure converted by the electropneumatic converter, to amplify the input air pressure to produce an output air pressure, and to output to a driving unit that drives the valve; and a shift magnitude calculating portion that calculates a shift magnitude from the equilibrium state of the pilot relay, from the input air pressure that is inputted into the pilot relay and the output air pressure that is outputted from the pilot relay, wherein the control calculating portion determines the control output to the electropneumatic converter from the actual opening signal, the opening setting signal, and the shift magnitude from the equilibrium state of the pilot relay, and wherein the shift magnitude calculating portion calculates the shift magnitude from the equilibrium state of the pilot relay as Po−(K·Pn−F), wherein: Pn is the input air pressure that is inputted into the pilot relay, Po is the output air pressure that is outputted from the pilot relay, F is the force required before Po starts to change, and K is dPo/dPn. | 11,729 |
8,434,446 | 1. An air intake device for a multi-cylinder internal combustion engine having two cylinder banks, the air intake device comprising: a tank having an upper tank chamber, a lower tank chamber disposed downwardly of the upper tank chamber, and a communication portion providing communication between an internal space of the upper tank chamber and an internal space of the lower tank chamber; a plurality of first intake pipes having communication with the upper tank chamber, the first intake pipes supplying air to a first cylinder bank; a plurality of second intake pipes having communication with the lower tank chamber, the second intake pipes supplying air to a second cylinder bank; and a valve disposed in either the upper tank chamber or the lower tank chamber, the valve being displaceable between a closed position, in which the internal space of either the upper or lower tank chamber, whichever is mounted with the valve, is divided into a main space having communication with the first intake pipes or the second intake pipes and a sub-space facing the communication portion, and an open position, in which the main space and the sub-space are integrated with each other; wherein the internal space of the upper tank chamber and the internal space of the lower tank chamber are integrated with each other through the communication portion to function, as a whole, as a single surge tank when the valve is in the open position, wherein a space integrating the internal space of either the upper tank chamber or the lower tank chamber, whichever is not mounted with the valve, with the sub-space through the communication portion, and the main space each function as an independent surge tank when the valve is in the closed position, wherein a partition separating the upper tank chamber from the lower tank chamber, and a bottom surface of the lower tank or a ceiling surface of the upper tank, which faces the partition are formed in the tank, wherein the valve is placed between the partition, and the bottom surface or the ceiling surface, and wherein the valve rotates about a rotation axis extending in a direction transverse to a direction of flow in at least one of the first intake pipes or second intake pipes where the first or second intake pipes communicate with the respective upper or lower tank. | 21,338 |
8,759,630 | 1. A seed of soybean cultivar S110125, representative seed of said soybean cultivar having been deposited under ATCC Accession No. PTA-12795. | 6,107 |
9,715,765 | 1. An apparatus comprising one or more processors carrying out functions of a first obtaining unit, a second obtaining unit, a generation unit, a synthesizing unit, a determination unit, and a display control unit; the first obtaining unit obtaining a physical space image obtained by sensing a physical space by an image sensing device; the second obtaining unit obtaining a position and orientation of the image sensing device; the generation unit generating a virtual object based on the position and orientation obtained by the second obtaining unit; the synthesizing unit generating a synthesized image by synthesizing the physical space image with the virtual object; the determination unit determining whether an error region exists in the synthesized image; and the display control unit causing a display device to display the synthesized image in a case where the determination unit does not determine that the error region exists in the synthesized image, and to cause the display device to display the physical space image in a case where the determination unit does determine that the error region exists in the synthesized image. | 31,901 |
9,524,265 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a transmit logic including: | 22,196 |
8,871,654 | 1. A film deposition apparatus for forming a thin film by laminating layers of reaction product after repeating a plurality of cycles of sequentially supplying mutually different process gases to a substrate mounted on a turntable inside a vacuum chamber while orbitally revolving the substrate mounted on the turntable, the film deposition apparatus comprising: a first process gas supplying portion that supplies a first process gas containing silicon to the substrate to cause the substrate to absorb the first process gas; a second process gas supplying portion that is located apart in a rotational direction of the turntable from the first process gas supplying portion, the second process gas supplying portion supplying a second process gas containing active species obtained by activating oxygen to the substrate to oxidize the first process gas absorbed by the substrate in order to produce a silicone dioxide; a separating area that is located between the first gas supplying portion and the second gas supplying portion, the separating area preventing the first process gas and the second process gas from mixing; a main heating mechanism that heats the turntable to heat the substrate through the turntable from a lower side of the substrate; and an auxiliary heating mechanism that includes a heat lamp located above the turntable so as to face an area where the substrate on the turntable passes, the heat lamp irradiating light having an absorption wavelength range absorbable by the substrate to directly heat the substrate so that the substrate has a processing temperature equal to or higher than a temperature at which an ozone gas is thermally decomposed by radiation heat generated by the irradiated light, wherein a maximum temperature of the turntable allowed for performing functions of the film deposition apparatus is lower than the temperature at which the ozone gas is thermally decomposed, and at the processing temperature, the first process gas is absorbed by the substrate and the absorbed first process gas is oxidized by the second process gas. | 33,058 |
8,486,869 | 1. A plugging composition comprising: a cementitious component comprising: water; wherein the plugging composition is essentially free of latex. | 49,069 |
9,462,329 | 1. A method for frame rate control in a transmitter of a wireless communications system, the method comprising: generating a frame and a first information corresponding to a first expiration time of the frame by a frame generating module, wherein the first information is a frame generating time; transmitting or dropping the frame according to the first expiration time by a driver module; and informing the frame generating module an adjusting information according to a first pre-determined rule by the driver module. | 37,530 |
8,935,556 | 1. A standby power cut-off device for a computer peripheral, comprising: a sync signal sensing controller for sensing a presence or absence of a sync signal transmitted from a computer body to a monitor and outputting a switching control signal according to the sensing; and a power switch installed in a power supply path along which external power is received and supplied to a peripheral device, the power switch being arranged to interrupt the power supply path based on the switching control signal; a first connector connected to a second connector for signal transmission from the computer body to the monitor by a first cable, and a third connector connected to a fourth connector of the monitor by a second cable, for forwarding signals received from the computer body to the monitor; wherein the sync signal sensing controller is configured to cause the power switch to interrupt the power supply path when the sync signal is not sensed; wherein the sync signal includes at least one of a horizontal sync signal and a vertical sync signal; wherein the power switch comprises a first relay for opening or blocking the power supply path and a first outlet connected to the first relay; wherein the sync signal sensing controller and the power switch are installed outside the computer body; wherein the sync signal sensing controller comprises a first controller for sensing the presence or absence of the sync signal and performing a control operation and a first switching transistor for driving the first relay of the power switch under the control of the first controller; wherein the power switch further comprises a second relay and a second outlet, the second relay and the second outlet being connected in parallel to the first relay and the second relay, wherein the sync signal sensing controller further comprises a second switching transistor for driving the second relay of the power switch under the control of the first controller, and wherein the first relay is open when in a deenergized state and the second relay is closed when in the deenergized state. | 31,652 |
8,539,818 | 1. A method for leak testing a commercial aircraft fuel tank, said method comprising: providing an environment within the fuel tank that is at a lower humidity than the environment surrounding the fuel tank, and that is at a pressure less than about 4 psi greater than a pressure of the environment surrounding the fuel tank by at least forming a quasi-closed loop in which air is drawn from the fuel tank, routed to a dehumidifier, and pumped back into the fuel tank; and using a thermographic imaging system to identify any leaks associated with the fuel tank by detecting any areas of decreased temperature resulting from evaporative cooling that occurs when a portion of the lower humidity environment escapes from the fuel tank and mixes with the higher humidity environment surrounding the fuel tank. | 21,051 |
8,846,474 | 1. A method for forming a dual workfunction semiconductor device, comprising: providing a substrate containing first and second device regions; depositing a dielectric film on the substrate; forming a first metal-containing gate electrode film on the dielectric film, wherein a thickness of the first metal-containing gate electrode film is less over the first device region than over the second device region; depositing a second metal-containing gate electrode film on the first metal-containing gate electrode film; patterning the second metal-containing gate electrode film, the first metal- containing gate electrode film, and the dielectric film to form a first gate stack above the first device region and a second gate stack above the second device region, and wherein forming the first metal-containing gate electrode film comprises: depositing the first metal-containing gate electrode film on the dielectric film; forming a first patterned film on the first metal-containing gate electrode film above the first device region; depositing additional first metal-containing gate electrode film on the first patterned film and on the first metal-containing gate electrode film; forming a second patterned film on the additional first metal-containing gate electrode film above the second device region; removing the additional first metal-containing gate electrode film above the first device region to expose the first patterned film, and removing the first and second patterned films, wherein the patterning further comprises patterning the additional first metal containing gate electrode film above the second device region. | 38,726 |
9,418,766 | 1. A fuel assembly for a boiling water reactor, the fuel assembly comprising: a filter plate having an upper side; a fuel assembly base having an upper side with a top and closed at said top by said filter plate disposed above said fuel assembly base; a separate holding part fastened to said filter plate on said upper side of said filter plate and thereby connected to said upper side of said fuel assembly base, said separate holding part including a plurality of latch assemblies projecting away from said filter plate; a fuel assembly head; a bundle of fuel rods, including long fuel rods and medium-length fuel rods, extending away from said fuel assembly base and disposed between said fuel assembly base and said fuel assembly head, a plurality of said medium-length fuel rods each being fixed axially on a respective one of said latch assemblies, each of said plurality of said medium-length fuel rods being held entirely above said filter plate by said respective latching assembly; and a water channel disposed inside of said bundle of fuel rods. | 12,509 |
9,404,396 | 1. A motor vehicle valve train adjustment device comprising at least one camshaft ( 10 ) with first and second cam elements ( 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 ) axially displaceably disposed thereon, the first cam elements ( 13 , 14 ) having a cam track ( 20 , 21 , 22 , 23 ) with a first valve lift and an adjacent cam track ( 28 , 29 , 30 , 31 ) with zero cam lift for cylinder deactivation and the second cam elements ( 12 , 15 ) having a cam track ( 36 , 37 , 38 , 39 ) with the first valve lift and a cam track ( 44 , 45 , 46 , 47 ) with a second valve lift designed for operation in connection with a cylinder deactivation by activation of the zero lift cams ( 28 , 29 , 30 , 31 ) of the first cam elements ( 13 , 14 ), and a control unit ( 52 ) for axially displacing the first cam elements ( 13 , 14 ) between an all cylinder activation and a partial cylinder deactivation position, in which the zero lift cams are activated and the second cam element ( 12 , 15 ) are moved to a position providing for the second valve lift associated with the partial cylinder inactivation providing for a continuing engine power generation by increased power output of the remaining active cylinders. | 40,747 |
9,599,093 | 1. A blade connection apparatus for connecting a wind turbine blade to a wind turbine rotor hub, comprising: a first and second engagement surface, wherein the first engagement surface is located at the root of the wind turbine blade and the second engagement surface is located on the wind turbine rotor hub for engaging with the first engagement surface; a plurality of fasteners for releasably and securely connecting the first engagement surface to the second, the fasteners comprising a male part provided on one of the engagement surfaces for connection with a corresponding female part provided on the other engagement surface; first and second guide members located on the wind turbine blade and the rotor hub respectively and arranged to cooperate as they are brought into contact with each other, wherein when the first and second engagement surfaces are brought towards one another for connection, the first and second guide members engage one another in advance of contact between the first and second engagement surfaces to adjust the angular relative positioning of the first and second engagement surfaces and ensure that the male and female parts of the fasteners are aligned for connection. | 38,343 |
9,386,581 | 1. A method comprising: generating a data symbol at a station; and transmitting, from the station, the data symbol via a television (TV) high throughput (TVHT) bandwidth channel, wherein one or more inter-frame timing parameters are used to transmit the data symbol via the TVHT bandwidth channel, and wherein the one or more inter-frame timing parameters comprise a short inter-frame space (SIFS) time of 120 microseconds (μs) for a 6 megahertz (MHz) bandwidth channel or for a 7 MHz bandwidth channel. | 3,077 |
9,156,715 | 1. An apparatus for treating a liquid comprising: a pump volute or hydrocyclone head having an inlet and a throat having an outlet and a central axis; a tank connected to the outlet of the throat, the tank has a maximum inner diameter that is larger than an inner diameter of the outlet of the throat; a wave energy source comprising a first electrode within the pump volute or hydrocyclone head that is aligned with the central axis, and a second electrode within the tank that is spaced apart and axially aligned with first electrode along the central axis; and the liquid is supplied to the inlet of the pump volute or hydrocyclone head, and is irradiated with one or more wave energies produced by the wave energy source. | 6,395 |
9,165,591 | 1. A head assembly, comprising: a submount; a body having a first surface; an optical path disposed in the body and adapted to receive light and convey the light to a distal end of the optical path; a near field transducer (NFT) disposed adjacent the distal end of the optical path and having an output end proximate the first surface of the body; a sensor interfacing with the submount; and a laser attached to the submount along a non-primary lasing surface thereof, wherein the laser is adapted to inject light into the optical path and includes a grating adapted to diffract a portion of the light through the non-primary lasing surface to the sensor. | 4,988 |
8,400,976 | 1. A method for grouping control information for wireless communication with mobile devices, the method comprising: a station associated with a wireless communication system defining at least one multicast group, each of the at least one multicast groups being defined by a multicast group ID and a list of member mobile stations, wherein defining the at least one multicast group includes: the station transmitting at least a part of the control information by multicasting to the multicast group ID. | 43,809 |
8,729,331 | 1. A process for electrochemical separation of hydrogen from a hydrogen-comprising reaction mixture R, the method comprising: contacting the hydrogen-comprising reaction mixture R with a gastight membrane-electrode assembly comprising at least one selectively proton-conducting membrane and at least one electrode catalyst on each side of the membrane, wherein at least part of the hydrogen present in the reaction mixture R is oxidized to protons over an anode catalyst on a retentate side of the membrane and the protons are, after passing through the membrane to a permeate side, at least one of (I) reduced to hydrogen over a cathode catalyst, and (II) reacted with oxygen over a cathode catalyst to form water, with oxygen originating from an oxygen-comprising stream O which is brought into contact with the permeate side of the membrane. | 36,030 |
9,237,416 | 1. A system, comprising: a service provider configured to output content, including a first content and a second content, to a communication network, the communication network configured to transmit the content to a communicator device; and a prioritization unit configured to: receive real-time data indicative of the spatial location of the communicator device, the real-time data indicative of the spatial location of the communicator device being a spatial location dynamic code determined using global positioning satellite technology or a mobile phone network; and associate priority information with the content based on the spatial location of the communicator device, including associating first priority information with the first content based on the spatial location of the communicator device and associating second priority information with the second content based on the spatial location of the communicator device, wherein the first content is transmitted to the communicator device based on the first priority information and the second content is not transmitted to the communicator device based on the second priority information. | 11,598 |
9,717,793 | 1. A method of improving survivability or quality of life of a patient diagnosed with a disease associated with reduced serum albumin, wherein said disease is selected from cancer, advanced cancer, liver disease, renal disease, inflammatory bowel disease, celiac's disease, trauma, burns, or any combination thereof, by increasing the patient's serum albumin level, said method comprising administering to the patient an effective amount of an anti-IL-6 antibody or antibody fragment that blocks the binding of human IL-6 to IL-6R1 and the binding of IL-6 to gp130, whereby the patient's serum albumin level is increased, and further wherein the anti-IL-6 antibody or antibody fragment comprises a V L polypeptide comprising CDR1, CDR2 and CDR3 polypeptides respectively having the amino acid sequences of SEQ ID NO:4, 5 and 6 and a V H polypeptide comprising CDR1, CDR2 and CDR3 polypeptides respectively having the amino acid sequences of SEQ ID NO:7, 8 or 120, and 9. | 17,506 |
8,710,054 | 1. A method for the treatment of an oncological condition for which the administration of a selective PI3K inhibitor is indicated which comprises administering to a patient in need of such treatment an effective amount of 3-{[(3S)-4-(6,6-dimethyl-4-oxo-4,5,6,7-tetrahydro[1,3]thiazolo[5,4-c]pyridin-2-yl)morpholin-3-yl]methyl}-N,N,1-trimethyl-1H-indole-5-carboxamide, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. | 25,189 |
8,556,231 | 1. A vertical rotor-type gas solenoid valve comprising: a valve case provided with a gas inlet, a gas outlet and a valve port; a regulating spring; a regulating nail; a rotor regulating screw; a regulating screw bracket; a swing arm; and a vertical rotor-type electromagnet and a rubber sealing gasket assembly arranged at an outer end of the swing arm; the vertical rotor-type electromagnet including a coil winding, a stator core, two stator side sheets, a rotor, an upper rotor-retainer sheet and a lower rotor-retainer sheet, the rotor being in a shape of elongated strip provided with external arcuate surfaces symmetrically at its front and back ends; wherein a rotor shaft of the vertical rotor-type electromagnet is located at a centerline of the stator core, the upper and lower rotor-retainer sheets each is at an angle of 90° with respect to the rotor shaft, the upper rotor-retainer sheet is located on an upper side of the rotor and proximate to an external surface of the coil winding, the lower rotor-retainer sheet is located on a lower side of the rotor and at outer ends of the stator side sheets, outer end arcuate surfaces of the upper and lower rotor-retainer sheets are fastened and connected to the associated internal arcuate surfaces of the stator side sheets respectively, the outer ends of the stator side sheets are fastened on the valve case, the rotor shaft penetrates through the valve case with the swing arm being fixedly mounted at an outer end of the rotor shaft, a rubber sealing gasket of the rubber sealing gasket assembly connected at the outer end of the swing arm is attached against the valve port, a sealing ring is arranged between the rotor shaft and the valve case, a circular hole is provided at the center of the lower rotor-retainer sheet, a bearing boss is secured in the circular hole and an associated portion of valve case, the rotor shaft can be movably connected with a center hole of the bearing boss, the regulating screw bracket that can be displaced in a transverse direction and the rotor regulating screw are arranged outside of the valve case with the regulating spring mounted therebetween, and an outer end of the regulating nail is contacted with and connected to an adjacent side surface of the rotor. | 32,967 |
9,743,390 | 1. User equipment (UE) comprising: a receiver component configured to: a processor configured to detect an event based on the signal parameter for the reference signal and the event definition, the event indicating a change in the signal parameter for the reference signal; and a transmission component configured to report, in response to detecting the event, the signal parameter for the reference signal to the eNB, wherein the event definition defines occurrence of a first signal parameter for the reference signal improving above a second signal parameter for a reference signal of a device that is a member of a D2D group comprising the UE. | 41,397 |
9,443,008 | 1. A method, comprising: clustering a plurality of documents to obtain one or more first sets of clusters, wherein a first cluster of the one or more first sets of clusters comprises at least two first individual documents of the plurality of documents; accessing a search query after the clustering the plurality of documents; identifying a search result in response to the search query, wherein the search result comprises the at least two first individual documents of the plurality of documents; and clustering the search result to obtain a second set of clusters, wherein second individual documents of the search result belong to one second cluster of the second set of clusters, the clustering the search result comprising: wherein the query-based similarity between the second individual documents is based, at least in part, on a fraction of a sum of: wherein the clustering similarity between the second individual documents with respect to the one or more first sets of clusters is based, at least in part, on a weighted combination of agreements between the one or more first sets of clusters and the second individual documents. | 44,295 |
8,806,240 | 1. A battery management system comprising: a battery cell; an analog front end coupled to a first ground; a computer coupled to a second ground; an insulating unit for insulating the analog front end from the computer; and a first power switching unit for receiving a control signal from the computer through the insulating unit, controlling a distribution of power from the battery cell according to the control signal, and controlling a supply of the power to the insulating unit, wherein the first power switching unit comprises: | 30,715 |
9,580,309 | 1. A process for producing hydrogen by carrying out oxidation/decomposition of ammonia in the presence of an ammonia oxidation/decomposition catalyst comprising a support composed of an oxidizable and reducible metal oxide and a catalytically active metal supported thereon, the process comprising: reducing the support by heating in a hydrogen stream, bringing ammonia and air into contact with the catalyst at room temperature, and decomposing ammonia in the presence of the catalyst, thereby producing hydrogen; wherein: the metal oxide is a composite oxide comprising a rare earth metal oxide; the rare earth metal oxide is samarium oxide; the catalytically active metal is at least one metal selected from the group consisting of copper, silver, manganese, chromium, and vanadium; and the hydrogen stream is heated to 200° C. or higher. | 12,670 |
9,017,288 | 1. An apparatus comprising; a cylindrical housing provides a contoured central portion and a single luer-type connector site only, said luer-type connector site formed by and integral to said cylindrical housing on a proximal end of said cylindrical housing, a catheter hub formed integral to said cylindrical housing on a distal end of said cylindrical horsing adjacent the contoured central portion, and an open fluid transfer conduit disposed between said luer-type connector site and said catheter hub, wherein the single and only luer-type connector site provided by the cylindrical housing is a male luer-type connector site and the catheter hub is flange free, and further wherein a diameter of said cylindrical housing progressing from adjacent said mechanical connection feature through said distal end of said catheter hub has a continuously decreasing uninterrupted smooth surface, the continuously decreasing uninterrupted smooth surface mitigates skin irritation of a patient using the cylindrical housing; a catheter tube confined by said open fluid transfer conduit, said catheter tube extending from a distal end of said catheter hub; and a pre-slit cannula diaphragm capping said fluid transfer conduit at a proximal end of said luer-type connector site, in which said luer-type connector site forms a mechanical connection feature adjacent said pre-slit cannula diaphragm, and wherein a diameter of said cylindrical housing progressing from adjacent said mechanical connection feature through said distal end of said cylindrical housing decreases, and in which said mechanical connection feature is formed by and integral to said cylindrical housing. | 40,348 |
9,114,877 | 1. A thermal management system (TMS) comprising: an engine heat exchanger comprising an engine liquid system of a propulsive engine of a vehicle, said engine liquid system configured to channel a flow of lube oil therethrough that recovers waste heat conducted from engine accessories of the vehicle, wherein said engine heat exchanger facilitates transferring the waste heat from the lube oil to a pumped heat transfer fluid channeled through said engine heat exchanger; an engine exhaust heat exchanger coupled in serial flow communication with said engine heat exchanger, said engine exhaust heat exchanger configured to transfer heat from an exhaust stream of the propulsive engine to the pumped heat transfer fluid; a bypass valve coupled in parallel with said engine exhaust heat exchanger, said bypass valve selectable to modulate a flow of the pumped heat transfer fluid through the engine exhaust heat exchanger; and a plurality of accessory heat exchangers for each of a plurality of heat loads of the vehicle coupled in flow communication with at least one of said engine heat exchanger and said engine exhaust heat exchanger, each said plurality of accessory heat exchangers flow controllable using a modulating valve. | 38,213 |
8,664,815 | 1. A flywheel based energy storage apparatus, comprising: a housing; a hub-less, ring-shaped flywheel mounted within the housing and rotatable about a horizontal axis, wherein the flywheel comprises a plurality of magnets aligned to form a rotor; a flywheel support system; and a plurality of coils, the plurality of coils and the rotor being aligned to form a motor/generator, wherein the flywheel support system comprises: | 33,003 |
8,581,908 | 1. A graphics-rendering apparatus comprising: a vector data group management unit that manages a vector data group including sets of vector data forming a polygon based on first management information; a vector data extraction unit that extracts vector data as a target vector to be processed from the vector data group in accordance with the first management information; a starting-point-and-end-point computing unit that computes starting-point-and-end-point information that indicates starting and end points of the processing, based on the vector data extracted by the vector data extraction unit; a target point management unit that generates a second management information for managing a target point by determining the target point to be processed in accordance with the starting-point-and-end-point information, and notifies the vector data group management unit of completion of processing of the target vector; a target point computing unit that computes coordinates of a pixel of the target point to be processed, based on the second management information; a target point determination unit that determines whether or not to fill in each of pixels positioned at both sides of the coordinates of the pixel of the target point to be processed by examining a vector of the vector data set forming the polygon and considering (i) positional relations of the pixel of the target point relative to the examined vector, and (ii) whether the examined vector changes from right to left or from left to right; a fill-in information computing unit that computes fill-in information regarding the target point based on the determination result of the target point determination unit and predefined rules for filling in a closed area of the polygon; a fill-in information storage unit that stores the fill-in information; a fill-in information registration unit that registers into the fill-in information storage unit the fill-in information computed by the fill-in information computing unit; a rendering area computing unit that computes and updates a rendering area where the polygon is to be rendered, based on the vector data extracted by the vector data extraction unit; a rendering area correction unit that generates rendering area information by performing a correction to the rendering area computed by the rendering area computing unit; a rendering data correction unit that generates data optimal for rendering by performing a correction to the fill-in information stored in the fill-in information storage unit; and a rendering unit that renders the polygon by use of the rendering area information and the data generated by the rendering data correction unit. | 49,753 |
8,502,688 | 1. A process of configuring a self-supplied relay for providing phase and earth over current protection to electrical systems by current measurement, comprising: rectifying current from at least one current sensor via a full-bridge rectifier to provide a power supply; storing the power supply in a capacitor, three phases being connected in parallel with respect to the capacitor; reducing the capacitor voltage from a first voltage to a second voltage at a first stage by a first linear regulator, the second voltage being supplied to an analog sensing circuit, a trip coil energy reservoir, and a FLAG operation energy storage as a regulated voltage; reducing at least one of the first voltage and the second voltage to a third voltage at a second stage by a second linear regulator, the third voltage being supplied to a microcontroller; converting a current signal to a voltage signal via a shunt in series with a current path of the current sensor; and dividing the voltage signal via a voltage divider and a spike suppressor across the current sensor and supplying conditioned current via the voltage signal to the microcontroller to monitor a line current and a line current frequency. | 17,614 |
9,187,747 | 1. An isolated iRNA agent comprising a sense strand and an antisense strand, wherein the agent is targeted to at least 15 contiguous nucleotides of the target sequence of AL-DUP 5098 (SEQ ID NO:155 and SEQ ID NO:156) within the ApoB mRNA, and wherein each strand is between 15 and 30 nucleotides in length. | 26,544 |
8,544,814 | 1. A biodegradable assembly useful in suspending anchor bolts of a selected one of a plurality thickness into a poured concrete form characterized by a width and a length for immersion of portions thereof into the poured concrete, comprising: a generally elongate planar segment defined by longitudinally folding a corrugated cardboard panel into a plurality of overlying segments each having a longitudinal dimension greater than the span across said concrete form for forming a bridging suspension thereacross, each said segment further including a at least one opening aligned with corresponding openings in the other ones of said overlying segments for receipt of the shank of said anchor bolt in each said opening upon the overlying alignment of said segments; and a corrugated cardboard retaining strip including a plurality of spaced holes each dimensioned for conforming interior receipt of said anchor bolt shank upon the repeated folding of said strip for common alignment of said holes for providing a suspending support of said anchor bolt within the common interior of said strips and said segments each being coated with a selected biodegradable color in accordance with the selected thickness of said anchor bolts receivable therein. | 28,440 |
9,247,752 | 1. A shaping assembly for producing a discrete spiral shaped food product comprising: a die defining at least one aperture centered on an aperture axis and extending to an aperture exit for movement of a stream of food mass through said at least one aperture and out said aperture exit; at least one shaping tool including a plate portion having an outer plate periphery and an inner plate periphery that defines a plate opening overlying said at least one aperture, and at least one slicing blade disposed across said plate opening and fixedly connected to said plate portion on opposing sides of said inner plate periphery, said at least one slicing blade also disposed over at least a portion of said aperture exit and extending axially along said aperture axis to slice the stream of food mass along said aperture axis into a plurality of sliced food mass portions; and a coupling arrangement engaging said shaping tool to rotate said at least one slicing blade and spin the plurality of sliced food mass portions into a spiral shaped stream of food mass, wherein said at least one slicing blade simultaneously slices and spins the stream of food mass to create the spiral shaped stream of food mass. | 2,408 |
9,045,821 | 1. A laminate comprising: a substrate; a buffer layer selected from the group consisting of a gallium oxide thin film, a gallium, indium oxide thin film, a gallium, indium, aluminum oxide thin film, a gallium oxynitride thin film, a gallium indium oxynitride thin film, and a gallium indium aluminum oxynitride thin film, formed on the substrate; and a transparent conductive film layer made of an oxide thin film, mainly composed of titanium oxide, containing at least one element selected from the group consisting of niobium, tantalum, molybdenum, arsenic, antimony and tungsten, and consisting of an anatase phase grown by epitaxial growth with twelve-fold symmetry formed on the buffer layer. | 30,498 |
8,735,720 | 1. A photoelectric conversion device comprising a methine dye represented by the following Formula (2) supported on a thin film of oxide semiconductor fine particles provided on a substrate: (wherein, in Formula (2), m represents an integer between 1 and 3; R (wherein, in Formulas (2005), (2007), and (2012), the symbol * indicates a carbon atom where X binds to Y in Formula (2)); Z('s) represents a sulfur atom, A | 43,428 |
9,000,622 | 1. A vehicular power transmission device comprising: a power transmission unit which is provided in a vehicle and transmits electromagnetic waves to a mobile device to transmit power to a power reception unit of the mobile device; and a frequency changing unit which, when it is determined based on a transmission frequency of the electromagnetic waves to be transmitted from the power transmission unit to the mobile device and a reception frequency of a radio receiver that radio noise is caused by the power transmission unit, changes the transmission frequency of the electromagnetic waves of the power transmission unit, wherein the power transmission unit changes a transmission power of the electromagnetic waves based on an amount of change in the transmission frequency of the electromagnetic waves changed by the frequency changing unit. | 2,197 |
9,437,473 | 1. A process for separating at least two substrates forming part of a structure comprising at least two separation interfaces extending parallel to main faces of the structure, along one interface selected from the at least two separation interfaces, at least one of the two substrates being intended to be used in electronics, optics, optoelectronics and/or photovoltaics, the separation of the at least two substrates being carried out by inserting a blade between the at least two substrates and applying a parting force, via the blade, and at least partially parting the at least two substrates, the method comprising: before inserting the blade into an insertion region between the at least two substrates, damaging at least one portion of a peripheral region of the one interface in the insertion region such that a rupture energy in the at least one portion of the peripheral region is lower than a rupture energy of other interfaces of the at least two separation interfaces in the insertion region; inserting the blade into the insertion region between the at least two substrates and applying a parting force, via the blade, and partially parting the at least two substrates along the one interface in the damaged region; and applying a fluid in a space between the partially parted at least two substrates while the blade remains inserted therebetween and decreasing the rupture energy of the one interface by stress corrosion involving breaking of siloxane bonds present at the interface. | 21,981 |
9,480,642 | 1. A method, comprising: administering, to the skin of a subject to affect a mood state of the subject, a composition comprising an effective amount of thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH) and molecular nitric oxide to affect the mood state of the subject, and a carrier comprising lecithin containing the molecular nitric oxide, wherein the composition is stable at room temperature wherein the molecular nitric oxide is present within the composition as a gas or bound by hydrogen bonds or van der Waals forces to the lecithin. | 354 |
9,205,676 | 1. A printer comprising: a printhead configured to eject aqueous ink; a rotating member having an intermediate imaging surface with a low surface energy, the rotating member being positioned to rotate the intermediate imaging surface in front of the printhead to enable the printhead to eject aqueous ink onto the intermediate imaging surface to form an aqueous ink image for a print cycle, and the rotating member being connected to a first electrical potential; a dryer configured to at least partially dry the aqueous ink image ejected onto the intermediate imaging surface; a transfer roller configured to form a nip with the intermediate imaging surface to enable the at least partially dried aqueous ink image on the intermediate imaging surface to transfer to media as the media passes through the nip; and a surface energy applicator configured to generate an electric field to produce and direct energized particles towards the intermediate imaging surface, the surface energy applicator being positioned to direct the energized particles towards the intermediate imaging surface after the aqueous ink has been transferred to the media and before the printhead ejects aqueous ink onto the intermediate imaging surface treated with the energized particles, and the surface energy applicator being connected to a second electrical potential that is different than the first electrical potential and the first and the second electrical potentials have a same polarity. | 31,555 |
8,853,959 | 1. A controller for a driver circuit of a solid state lighting, referred to as SSL, device, wherein the driver circuit comprises a power converter configured to convert a varying input voltage into a drive voltage for the SSL device; wherein the input voltage is derived from a rectified AC mains voltage at a mains frequency; wherein the power converter is used with a maximum voltage step-up conversion ratio; wherein the controller is configured to synchronize to the mains frequency; determine a plurality of pulse intervals repeated at a pulse frequency; wherein the pulse frequency is greater than a perceptual frequency of light intensity variations perceivable by a human eye; wherein the varying input voltage within the plurality of pulse intervals is greater than or equal to a pre-determined minimum input voltage; wherein the minimum input voltage corresponds to an on-voltage of the SSL device divided by the maximum voltage step-up conversion ratio; and control the power converter to generate the drive voltage for the SSL device within the plurality of pulse intervals, such that the drive voltage within the plurality of pulse intervals corresponds at least to the on-voltage of the SSL device. | 6,160 |
8,433,253 | 1. An RF transceiver for an RFID interrogator or the like, comprising: a transmitter circuit; and a receiver circuit, the receiver circuit comprising a mixer circuit, the mixer circuit being capable of receiving an RF signal at a first input and a local oscillator signal at a second input to mix the RF signal and the local oscillator signal at an output; wherein the mixer circuit operates at a power supply voltage selected based at least in part on a power level of a self-jammer signal transmitted by the transmitter circuit and received at the receiver circuit. | 34,803 |
8,943,803 | 1. A power system for an engine having at least one cylinder, a piston disposed within the at least one cylinder, and a fuel injector and an exhaust valve associated with the at least one cylinder, the power system comprising: an exhaust passage connected to the engine and configured to direct exhaust from the at least one cylinder to the atmosphere; an aftertreatment component disposed within the exhaust passage and configured to treat exhaust flowing through the exhaust passage; a valve actuator configured to selectively move the exhaust valve; and a controller in communication with the fuel injector and the valve actuator, the controller configured to: | 6,351 |
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