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9,212,703 | 1. A clutch comprising: a reaction plate configured to exert a compression force; a friction plate having a surface opposing the reaction plate; a friction material layer having a first surface attached to the surface of the friction plate, and a flat, planar second surface opposing the reaction plate, wherein the second surface has a plurality of raised dimples disposed therein, wherein each of the plurality of dimples includes an annular flange and a cavity defined by the annular flange, wherein the entire cavity is disposed above the planar second surface of the friction material layer; and a lubrication fluid disposed between the reaction plate and the friction material layer for transferring the compression force and providing a lubrication layer between the reaction plate and the friction plate. | 3,370 |
9,630,268 | 1. A forceless electrical erosion and disintegration “FEED” method of producing an overcut gap, the method comprising: bringing a tubular shaped erosion electrode ( bring a ground electrode in contact with the work piece ( applying high frequency high voltage pulses to an erosion electrode in the presence of dielectric fluid (DF); and, producing an overcut gap (DG) in said workpiece as said erosion electrode erodes said workpiece corresponding to said greater radius proximal segment. | 46,196 |
9,509,003 | 1. A battery comprising: a plurality of electrochemical cells connected in series with each other and adapted for each generating an electric current from an oxidation-reduction reaction between an oxidizing fluid and a reducing fluid; a controller for each electrochemical cell for controlling the voltage across terminals of the respective cell; and a voltage regulator for each electrochemical cell, distinct from the controller controlling the voltage across terminals of the respective cell and electrically connected to the respective cell so that said controller measures the voltage across the terminals of the respective cell, increased by an offset voltage across the terminals of the voltage regulator. | 15,405 |
8,691,908 | 1. A carbon nanomaterial-supported catalyst, comprising: (a) a carbon nanomaterial; and (b) a polymer grafted onto the carbon nanomaterial, wherein the polymer has a repeat unit containing a phosphonium salt and the polymer has a number average molecular weight of 1,000-200,000, wherein the repeat unit containing a phosphonium salt has a structure of formula I: wherein R R P represents phosphorus; X represents halogen; and n is an integer greater than 1 but less than 1500. | 7,221 |
8,734,255 | 1. A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving a selection of a friends option of a game center module; sending data to be presented on a graphical user interface of a system in response to the selection of the friends option, the data indicative of a list of friends; receiving a selection of a friend from the list of friends; and sending data to be presented on the graphical user interface, the data indicative of details of the selected friend, the details including a first list of games played together for games in common between a user and the selected friend and a second list of other games in common that have not been played together between the user and the selected friend, wherein each friend has an account that is associated with an account of the user. | 39,238 |
9,296,029 | 1. Control and regulating device for a drive arrangement of a displaceable press beam of a bending press, in particular a press brake, comprising a protective housing having an access orifice for a foot of an operator, and comprising a pedal-type actuating element disposed in the protective housing with a displacement range limited by end positions, and at least one detector assigned to the actuating element connected so as to communicate with a control and monitoring system of the bending press, and the detector is provided in the form of a motion profile detector connected to the actuating element so as to move in unison with it in order to detect position-related signals, wherein the motion profile detector is connected so as to communicate with a logic module incorporating a detection and evaluation circuit, and the processor is configured to generate control signals for a speed regulation of a displacing movement of a displaceable press beam of the bending press from the detected control signals and forward the control signals to the control and monitoring system of the bending press, and the displacement speed of the press beam is regulated on the basis of these control signals for defined stroke ranges of an overall displacement cycle of the press beam irrespective of a displacement speed stored in a data memory of the control and monitoring system as part of a program, and an acceleration profile of the displacing movement of the actuating element in the displacement range of the actuating element between the end positions is determined in the detection and evaluation circuit of the logic module from a time-related signal sequence of the motion profile detector and compared with a stored threshold value, and if the threshold value is exceeded, a control signal in the form of an emergency stop signal is generated and forwarded to the control and monitoring system of the bending press and the displacing movement of the press beam is halted as a result. | 12,409 |
9,032,620 | 1. A method for laterally replacing a heavy component of a plant assembly, the method comprising: disconnecting the heavy component from other components of the plant assembly and from a base plate to which the heavy component is fixed; lifting the heavy component above the base plate with a lifting system provided within the base plate; connecting at least a pair of removable rails to the base plate, under the lifted heavy component, such that the at least a pair of removable rails extends at substantially a right angle relative to a longitudinal axis of the heavy component; connecting the at least a pair of removable rails to a trolley disposed next to the base plate such that the at least a pair of removable rails spans between the base plate and the trolley; displacing the heavy component until the heavy component is above the trolley; lowering the heavy component on to at least a pair of pads coupled to a crawling mechanism disposed on the at least a pair of removable rails; and laterally moving the heavy component from the base plate and the other components of the plant assembly by actuating the crawling mechanism, wherein the at least a pair of pads is in direct contact with the removable rails, and are configured to slide directly on the at least a pair of removable rails. | 48,870 |
9,802,361 | 1. A method for making a multilaminate object, the method comprising the steps of: disposing sufficient photohardenable liquid to make the multilaminate object within a vessel that comprises a base comprising a flexible element, the flexible element comprising a photohardenable liquid receiving surface; tensioning the flexible element in both an x and a y direction by a tensioner in contact with a downwardly facing surface of the flexible element; forming a section of the object by irradiating the photohardenable liquid received by the photohardenable liquid receiving surface with a radiation, the shape of the flexible element being affected by contact between a shaping member and the flexible element. | 35,245 |
9,011,985 | 1. A method comprising: manufacturing a multilayer film by forming a barrier film containing silicon, oxygen, and carbon and a transparent conductive film on a resin film, wherein said barrier film is formed by a plasma enhanced CVD method which uses electric discharge between two rolls in which two magnets are provided respectively under a pressure of 0.1 Pa to 10 Pa in a condition where an intermediate frequency is applied between the rolls where a magnetic field is formed, and an organic silicon compound and oxygen are introduced as film formation gas to the rolls where the intermediate frequency is applied to form high-density plasma between the rolls wherein the two rolls each contain therein one of the two magnets. | 9,556 |
9,326,342 | 1. An input impedance control circuit, comprising: a circuit controller comprising: a driver in communication with the circuit controller for receiving the current enable signal and the current control output signal. | 3,330 |
8,748,438 | 1. A method for treating Sjogren's syndrome comprising administering to an individual in need thereof an irreversible inhibitor of Bruton's tyrosine kinase (Btk), wherein the irreversible inhibitor is a compound having the structure of Formula (A) wherein: A is N; R R R R each R two R R R | 44,072 |
9,254,345 | 1. A moisture-absorbing and deodorizing fiber, characterized in that, a basic polymer is ionically-bonded in an amount of 0.2 to 4 mmol/g as an amount of amino group onto the surface of a moisture-absorbing fiber having a crosslinked structure and also having 3 to 8 mmol/g of carboxyl group. | 3,650 |
9,665,778 | 1. An electronic sensor comprising: a camera configured to capture images of an area monitored by a monitoring system; an electronic storage device configured to store data; a transmitting device configured to send signals to a controller of the monitoring system; and a processing device configured to perform operations comprising: | 42,151 |
8,774,998 | 1. A vehicle control device for supporting deceleration to stop a vehicle at a predetermined stop location, comprising: energy regeneration amount computation means for computing an energy regeneration amount by the deceleration; and operational timing determination means for determining an operational timing of the deceleration based on the energy regeneration amount, wherein the operational timing determination means determines the operational timing in the deceleration so as not to be delayed in comparison with a predetermined operational timing obtained from a distance from the vehicle to the stop location, a vehicle velocity, and a deceleration velocity, wherein the deceleration velocity is constant at the timing of the predetermined operation, and wherein the operational timing determination means determines an operational timing in the deceleration in a region where regeneration efficiency relating to the energy regeneration amount is higher than regeneration efficiency in the travel pattern where the vehicle travels at the constant deceleration velocity. | 44,707 |
8,662,569 | 1. An active grille shutter system for a vehicle having a wiper control comprising: a controller; a temperature sensor provides a freeze signal to the controller when an ambient air temperature in a vehicle environment is near or below freezing; a moisture signal from the wiper control is provided to the controller to provide an indication that there is moisture present in the ambient air; and an actuator opens and closes a plurality of vanes at a first level of force and applies a second level of force in response to a signal from the controller when the controller receives the freeze signal and the moisture signal. | 3,574 |
8,568,925 | 1. A lithium secondary battery comprising: a positive electrode having a positive-electrode active material capable of occluding and releasing lithium ions, a negative electrode having a negative-electrode active material capable of occluding and releasing lithium ions, a separator interposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, and an electrolyte having lithium-ion conductivity, wherein, the positive-electrode active material contains a lithium-containing nickel complex oxide; the negative-electrode active material contains a graphite material having a reversible capacity of 350 mAh/g or more and an irreversible capacity of 30 mAh/g or less; and a ratio Qc/Qa between an irreversible capacity Qc per unit area in a portion of the positive electrode that opposes the negative electrode and an irreversible capacity Qa per unit area in a portion of the negative electrode that opposes the positive electrode satisfies 0.5≦Qc/Qa<1. | 22,125 |
9,425,716 | 1. A method for checking an electric energy storage device for a blade angle adjustment drive of a wind turbine, wherein the blade angle adjustment drive includes an electric motor having a motor shaft for adjusting an angle of a blade of the wind turbine, the method comprising: using a control unit to generate an electrical signal to controllably move a braking component into frictional contact with a brake disc operably associated with the motor shaft of the electric motor to provide a braking action on the motor shaft, and thereby preventing rotation of the blade of the wind turbine; loading an electric energy storage device using the electric motor with a converter, while rotation of the motor shaft of the electric motor is being physically prevented by frictional contact of the braking component with the motor shaft; observing a discharging of the electric energy storage device while rotation of the motor shaft is being physically prevented; and detecting a time course during which the discharging is taking place to produce time course data for an electrical signal relating to the discharging of the electric storage energy device, wherein the electrical signal relates to at least one of an intermediate circuit voltage associated with the converter or a current being drawn by the motor from an output stage of the converter, while the braking component is frictionally engaged with the motor shaft to simulate a load. | 40,103 |
9,537,170 | 1. A biofuel cell, comprising: a plurality of power generating bodies that include at least a pair of electrodes and a separator, the pair of electrodes forming an anode and a cathode and having at least one surface on which an oxidoreductase is present, the separator being arranged between the pair of electrodes and including a proton permeable membrane; and a gas diffusion layer that is arranged in contact with cathode-side surfaces of the plurality of power generating bodies and through which only gas is permeable, wherein: | 9,687 |
9,542,953 | 1. A method comprising: identifying a time window for transmitting content; determining peak signal-to-noise ratio information relating to one or more data blocks; associating a time parameter with each of the one or more data blocks based upon the time window and the respective peak signal-to-noise ratio information; selecting a version of each of the one or more data blocks based upon the respective time parameter, wherein the version of the one or more data blocks is selected at least in part based on a particular bit rate for presenting the version of the one or more data blocks; and transmitting the selected version of the one or more data blocks. | 23,474 |
8,771,426 | 1. A process for the pretreatment of a lignocellulosic biomass feedstock wherein the process is comprised of A) soaking a lignocellulosic biomass feedstock wherein the soaked biomass is present as a mixture with a free liquid that is present in a state of matter selected from the group consisting of vapor and liquid states of matter and wherein the free liquid comprises at least one dissolved compound selected from the group consisting of glucose, xylose and respective oligomers thereof, B) washing the mixture of the soaked biomass and the free liquid, wherein at least a portion of the free liquid containing at least one dissolved compound selected from the group consisting of glucose, xylose and respective oligomers thereof is separated from the soaked biomass to create a soaked washed biomass and at least one free liquid stream, C) compressing the soaked washed biomass at a compression ratio to create a released liquid, D) separating the released liquid from the soaked washed biomass, and E) keeping at least a portion of the released liquid separate from any free liquid. | 16,899 |
9,341,135 | 1. An internal combustion engine control apparatus comprising: a throttle valve provided in an intake pipe of an internal combustion engine; an inner-intake-pipe pressure detection unit that detects, as an inner-intake-pipe pressure, a pressure in the intake pipe at the downstream side of the throttle valve; a volume efficiency corresponding value calculation unit that calculates a volume efficiency corresponding value as an index that indicates an amount of air that flows from the intake pipe at the downstream side of the throttle valve into a cylinder of the internal combustion engine; a cylinder intake air flow rate estimation unit that estimates a cylinder intake air flow rate utilized in controlling the internal combustion engine, based on the detected inner-intake-pipe pressure and the calculated volume efficiency corresponding value; a throttle effective opening area calculation unit that calculates a throttle effective opening area corresponding to a throttle opening degree of the throttle valve, based on the estimated cylinder intake air flow rate; a throttle opening degree learning unit that learns the relationship between the calculated throttle effective opening area and the throttle opening degree; a throttle opening degree sensor that detects a throttle opening degree of the throttle valve; a throttle flow rate estimation unit that estimates a throttle flow rate of air that passes through the throttle valve and is taken into the internal combustion engine, based on the detected throttle opening degree and the result of the throttle opening degree learning; an exhaust gas recirculation path that connects the intake pipe at the downstream side of the throttle valve with an exhaust pipe of the internal combustion engine; an exhaust gas recirculation valve that opens or closes the exhaust gas recirculation path so as to control a recirculation amount of exhaust gas in the internal combustion engine; an exhaust gas recirculation amount calculation unit that calculates an exhaust gas recirculation amount, based on the estimated cylinder intake air flow rate and the estimated throttle flow rate; an exhaust gas recirculation valve effective opening area calculation unit that calculates an exhaust gas recirculation valve effective opening area corresponding to an opening degree of the exhaust gas recirculation valve, based on the estimated exhaust gas recirculation amount; an exhaust gas recirculation valve opening degree sensor that detects an opening degree of the exhaust gas recirculation valve; and an exhaust gas recirculation amount estimation unit that learns the relationship between the detected opening degree of the exhaust gas recirculation valve and the calculated effective opening area of the exhaust gas recirculation valve, and estimates an exhaust gas recirculation amount, by calculating a control exhaust gas recirculation valve effective opening area based on the learned relationship and an opening degree of the exhaust gas recirculation valve, wherein the exhaust gas recirculation amount estimated by the exhaust gas recirculation amount estimation unit is utilized in controlling the internal combustion engine. | 13,494 |
9,143,927 | 1. A method of managing communications in a wireless communications network, the method comprising: generating a plurality of sets of Connection Identifiers (CIDs) from multiple CIDs, a subset of the multiple CIDs being common in a subset of the plurality of sets and at least one of the multiple CIDs being absent in at least one of the plurality of sets of CIDs; and assigning the plurality of sets of CIDs to a plurality of Base Stations (BSs) based on a predefined condition. | 32,410 |
9,577,125 | 1. A colloidal semiconducting structure comprising: two quantum dots of different bandgap physically coupled to one another and spaced apart via a tunneling barrier material, the first of said quantum dots being light emitting while the second of said quantum dots being capable of responding to photoexcitation by creation of excited charge carriers, the materials of the quantum dots and of the barrier are selected to form a double well structure to electrically separate carriers into two spatially distinct regions, while an oppositely charged carrier is spatially localized in a single region or further delocalized throughout an entire structure, such that said quantum dots are capable upon photoexcitation of both quantum dots to emit in at least one of two distinct spectra, wherein said quantum dots and said tunneling barrier material form a potential well in at least one of a conduction band and a valence band, and said colloidal semiconducting structure is configured and operable to exhibit efficient luminescence upconversion followed by radiative recombination. | 27,210 |
8,808,947 | 1. A polymer compound represented by the following Formula (2): wherein, in Formula (2), R | 35,258 |
8,380,923 | 1. A computer-implemented method comprising: storing in memory a queue descriptor for a queue, the queue descriptor including a count identifying a number of elements in the queue and at least one pointer related to the queue; in response to a command to perform either an enqueue operation with respect to the queue or a dequeue operation with respect to the queue, fetching from the memory to a cache at least a portion of the queue descriptor, including the count; modifying at least a portion of the queue descriptor within the cache in response to the enqueue operation or the dequeue operation; and returning to the memory from the cache at least the portion of the queue descriptor modified based on the enqueue operation or the dequeue operation. | 19,283 |
9,265,328 | 1. An applicator device for applying a mass in the form of a stick extending longitudinally along a longitudinal axis, comprising a rotatable part through which the stick is guided and which has an exit opening for the stick, a hollow shaft coupled to the rotatable part via an axially fixed rotatable connection for axially advancing the stick, a body fixedly connected to the hollow shaft, and a cap for the rotatable part, which is detachably connected to the hollow shaft, wherein the axially fixed rotatable connection is formed by a coupling portion of the rotatable part and a complementary counterpart coupling portion of the hollow shaft in a coupling portion in which the hollow shaft and the rotatable part engage with each other, and the hollow shaft has a grip member disposed between the rotatable part and the body in the region of the coupling portion, wherein the grip member in the form of a sleeve is disposed around the hollow shaft. | 49,903 |
8,789,362 | 1. A reducing agent metering system for injecting a reducing agent into the exhaust gas flow of an internal combustion engine for selective catalytic reduction, the metering system being connected/connectable to a reducing agent tank from which reducing agent is taken and conveyed by means of a metering pump ( 1 ), and a compressed air supply which has an electrical air compressor ( 2 ), the metering system having at least one nozzle ( 11 ) which is in a flow connection to a pressure line ( 6 ) of the compressed air supply and a pressure line ( 8 ) of the metering pump ( 1 ) and by which the reducing agent can be injected into the exhaust gas flow by means of compressed air, characterized in that the air compressor ( 2 ) is located on a mounting plate ( 3 ) and is flanged to the latter, the mounting plate ( 3 ) integrating channels which form an intake line ( 4 ) and the pressure line ( 6 ) of the air compressor ( 2 ) and which have connection regions at outlets from the mounting plate ( 3 ), and that one or more pockets which are in a flow connection to the channels and which form an intake connection or a pressure connection of the air compressor ( 2 ) are made in the mounting plate ( 3 ). | 9,436 |
9,680,270 | 1. A power supply apparatus comprising: a. a continuous power supply conduit connected to a power source, said power supply conduit positioned along a length of a fixture; b. at least one power tap structure, said power tap structure further comprising: c. an electronic control module in operative contact with the power tap structure; and d. a power distribution trough in operative contact with the at least one power tap structure and extending a height of the fixture away from the power supply conduit, the power distribution trough further comprising: wherein the power supply conduit provides power from the power source to the power distribution trough through the power tap structure and a device requiring electrical power may access power from the power supply apparatus by interfacing with the at least one power conductor strip located in the power distribution trough. | 39,839 |
9,749,792 | 1. A water use monitoring and leak detection apparatus comprising: a base station apparatus designed to be connected to a main water supply means; said base station includes a joint means for connecting to a cold/ambient water supply, or a joint means for connecting to a cold/ambient water supply and a joint means for connecting to a hot water supply, said base station have a joint means for connecting to outgoing water supply line(s) for a home residence, company or building structure; electrical circuitry including one or more microprocessors or microcontrollers with a power source contained with said base station apparatus; said power source is either AC powered, DC powered, or powered with one or more batteries, said power source is electrically connected to said electrical circuitry; one or more flow sensors in communication with a water supply, said one or more flow sensors in electrical communication with said electrical circuitry; one or more wired or wireless electrical communication means, said wired or wireless electrical communication means having the capability to transfer water parameter, water energy and/or water quality information or data to one or more remote apparatuses, said wired or wireless electrical communication means utilizes protection technology to securely provide water use, water energy and/or water quality information and/or data in a confidential format; said base station includes mesh-enabled circuitry that can communicate with other base stations for transferring water flow, water energy and/or water quality data; said base station(s) functioning as one or more access points that transfer said water flow, water energy and/or water quality data, using encryption and identification technology to an internet connection; said water flow, water energy and/or water quality data transferred over the internet connection to one or more remote computers or computer servers, and; said remote computers or servers allow registered owners and users to access their registered water flow, water energy and/or water quality data using a cell phone, smart phone, mobile phone, or a mobile electronic communication device. | 248 |
8,381,763 | 1. A gas filling and dispensing device comprising a body adapted for operable fluid connection to an orifice of a pressurized-gas storage reservoir, a gas withdrawing circuit running between an upstream first end adapted for operable fluid connection to an inside of the reservoir and a downstream second end adapted to be connected to a user of the gas, the withdrawing circuit comprising a first isolating valve, the device further comprising a safety relief valve configured to be subjected to the pressure in the reservoir, wherein the safety relief valve is adapted to close or open a passage for the gas from the reservoir to a discharge zone according to the temperature and/or the pressure of the gas in the reservoir with respect to at least one set threshold, characterized in that the discharge zone of the safety relief valve is situated upstream of the first isolating valve, wherein the gas withdrawing circuit comprises a second isolating valve, and wherein the discharge zone of the safety relief valve is situated between the first and second isolating valves. | 6,415 |
9,496,564 | 1. A method for fabricating a metal electrode from seawater and generating electric power with the metal electrode, comprising Step 1: providing a power generation system neighboring a sea, wherein the power generation system includes a seawater treatment apparatus with a first solar collector, a precipitation apparatus with a second solar collector, a separation apparatus with a third solar collector, and a power generation apparatus, and wherein the power generation apparatus includes a first electrode carrier, a second electrode arranged opposite the first electrode carrier and comprising a carbon material, and an electrolyte; Step 2: obtaining seawater from the sea, guiding the seawater to the seawater treatment apparatus, and heating the seawater to a first temperature ranging from 100 to 120° C. to obtain concentrated seawater; Step 3: guiding the concentrated seawater to the precipitation apparatus, and adding a precipitation agent to the concentrated seawater to obtain a first crystalline material comprising magnesium hydroxide (Mg(OH) Step 4: heating the first crystalline material to a second temperature ranging from 600 to 1100° C. to remove water from the first crystalline material and convert the first crystalline material into a second crystalline material comprising magnesium oxide; Step 5: transporting the second crystalline material to the separation apparatus, adding a reducing agent to the second crystalline material, heating the second crystalline material to a third temperature ranging from 1200 to 2400° C. to convert the second crystalline material into magnesium metal; and Step 6: transporting the metal magnesium to the power generation apparatus, wherein the metal magnesium is arranged on the first electrode carrier to function as a first electrode, and wherein the first electrode and the second electrode react with the electrolyte to form electrochemical reactions, which generate an electric potential drop between the first electrode and the second electrode and output electric power. | 7,278 |
8,819,756 | 1. A digital video recorder (DVR), comprising: at least one memory device; a plurality of communication access points for receiving at least one program play; an open application programming interface associated with said at least one memory device, wherein a plurality of applications using said open application programming interface (API) allow a user to interact directly with a display of the program play, based on metatags associated with prevalent objects appearing in ones of the programs plays, wherein said metatags provide for viewer interactivity directly with the metatagged objects appearing in the program plays, and wherein the interactivity includes access to externally accessible media, information in the world wide web, advertising, and/or purchasing points, external to the DVR and having a predetermined relationship with the metatagged objects of the program plays; and a correlation engine in communication with said open application programming interface, wherein said correlation engine relates metatagged objects in a portion of one program play and corresponding interactivity provided thereby, to metatagged similar objects appearing in others of the program plays, and in other portions of the same program play, for use by at least a portion of the plurality of applications that use the open API to employ correlation functions and correlation branching with regard to program plays accessible to the DVR. | 28,701 |
9,017,521 | 1. A process for heat treatment of a first solid, with a coolant solid, in which a stage for mixing the first solid with pre-heated coolant solid is carried out, with the coolant solid being a solid hydrocarbon which solid hydrocarbon is ground, before mixing with the first solid, to obtain a solid hydrocarbon powder with a grain size of between 20μm and 300μm and in which the first solid is shredded, before the mixing stage with the coolant solid, to obtain solid pellets having a thickness of between 1 mm and 30 mm, a width of between 1 mm and 40 mm, and a length of between 1 mm and 100 mm, and is heated, before mixing with the coolant solid, to 300° -592° C. | 30,149 |
9,108,991 | 1. A process for providing a low-chloride hydrolyzate comprising contacting an acid or base hydrolyzed substrate of a chlorosilane direct process residue with nitric acid to provide a hydrolyzate with a chloride content of less than about 1.8% by weight. | 38,120 |
9,293,539 | 1. A nitride semiconductor epitaxial wafer, comprising: a substrate; and a nitride semiconductor layer formed on the substrate, the nitride semiconductor layer comprising a (002) plane in an upper surface thereof, wherein an in-plane dispersion of a full width half maximum (FWHM) of an X-ray rocking curve in the (002) plane or a (100) plane of the nitride semiconductor layer is not more than 30%, wherein the in-plane dispersion of the FWHM of the nitride semiconductor layer is represented by a formula ((maximum value)−(minimum value))/(average value) based on values of the FWHM of the nitride semiconductor layer measured in a center of the nitride semiconductor epitaxial wafer, at least two first measurement points located from the center along a X direction, and at least two second measurement points located from the center along a Y direction, wherein the X direction and the Y direction are mutually arranged perpendicularly, and wherein the wafer is not less than 100 μm in thickness and not less than 50 mm in diameter. | 21,382 |
8,805,923 | 1. A method for updating contents of a Digital Media Player (DMP) in communication with a Digital Media Server (DMS) in a network having IP connectivity and including a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) server and client, comprising the steps of: a) performing an update process through a periodic update event in the DMP that receives all content information of the DMS in eXtensible Markup Language (XML) format through a modified browse action in which a state variable is defined relative to the DMS and the state variable obtains a smaller amount of data than by a non-modified browse action; b) sending a request for information by the DMP about a list of items possessed by the DMS to the DMS, upon determining that information loss has occurred in the update process; c) receiving from the DMS by the DMP information about the list of items and comparing by the DMP the received information about the list of items with information about pre-stored items at the DMP to obtain a comparison result, the list of items including information about item tree layers and layer-by-layer IDs in the form of the state variable with a maintained state variable at the DMP for the given DMS to obtain the comparison result; d) obtaining by the DMP all information about contents of the DMS associated with received information indicated to be different in XML format through the browse action when a difference occurs as a comparison result of step c). | 5,213 |
8,553,434 | 1. A method of controlling the grid-side current of a single-phase grid-connected converter having an LCL filter connected between an output of the converter and the grid, the method comprising the steps of: measuring, by a processor of a computing device, a grid voltage (v estimating a fundamental component (v forming a grid-side current reference (i forming estimates for any of the non-measured signals in said group of signals; forming a grid-side current difference term (ĩ forming an injection term for damping the resonance of the LCL filter by using an active damping injection mechanism (ADI), in which the grid-side current difference term (ĩ forming an estimate of a harmonic distortion term ({circumflex over (φ)}) using the grid-side current difference term (ĩ controlling the output voltage (e) of the converter on the basis of the grid voltage, formed injection term and formed estimate of the harmonic distortion term ({circumflex over (φ)}) to produce a grid side (i | 17,367 |
8,974,336 | 1. A power transmission belt comprising: a belt body which is made of a solid nonfoam rubber composition including a backing layer having a flat contact face consisting of said solid nonfoam rubber composition for contact with a flat pulley and which is made of rubber composition containing an ethylene-α-olefin elastomer with an ethylene content of less than or equal to 60% by mass as raw rubber, wherein the rubber composition forming the contact part with the flat pulley has a storage modulus of 20-60 MPa at 25° C. and a storage modulus of 12 MPa or more at 100° C., short fibers are not blended into the rubber composition, and the grain direction of the rubber composition corresponds to a belt lengthwise direction, wherein the flat contact face for contacting the flat pulley is a back face of the belt, and wherein the belt body further comprises a V-ribbed compression layer that includes a front face of the belt and which is made of a rubber composition that includes short fibers, and an adhesion rubber layer is provided between and is in direct contact with both the compression rubber layer and the backing layer, and a cord is embedded in and completely surrounded by the adhesion rubber layer along a thickness of the adhesion rubber layer. | 47,704 |
9,189,182 | 1. A method of waking up from an inactive state, the method comprising: receiving, via a narrowband linkage, scan signals comprising a slave device identifier at a lower layer communication comprising a physical layer and a data link layer for a predetermined time when a communication via a wideband linkage from a master device is determined to be unavailable; controlling a main power supply of the slave device when the slave device is in an inactive state; performing a waking-up from the inactive state; executing the communication via the wideband linkage after the waking-up, wherein the scan signals are communication medium scan signals defined according to a narrowband communication standard. | 4,815 |
8,860,548 | 1. An art supply system comprising: a selectively enabled art supply for insertion in a holder mechanism: the holder mechanism holding the selectively enabled art supply upon insertion, and detecting a compliant usage area; and a control system which enables use of the art supply in the compliant usage area and disables use of the art supply outside the compliant usage area by activating the holder mechanism to enable use of the art supply only upon the holder mechanism detecting the compliant usage area. | 9,443 |
8,622,044 | 1. An intake arrangement for a combustion chamber, comprising: a first intake duct configured to produce a first substantially rotational flow in the combustion chamber; and a second intake duct configured to produce a flow having a first component and a second component, the second intake duct comprising: wherein the first component is directed axially into the combustion chamber, and wherein the second component represents a second substantially rotational flow in the combustion chamber and the first substantially rotational flow and the second component have a same sense of rotation. | 43,548 |
9,430,027 | 1. An integrated circuit comprising: a memory array; a control interface to receive, synchronously with respect to a first timing signal, commands for accessing the memory array; a data interface to receive, synchronously with respect to a second timing signal, write data destined for storage within the memory array in association with one or more of the commands; and enable circuitry to independently enable and disable distribution of the first and second timing signals to the control interface and the data interface, respectively, such that distribution of one of the first and second timing signals may be enabled while distribution of the other of the first and second timing signals is disabled. | 10,464 |
8,386,430 | 1. A network backup device implementing a partial data recovery-supporting file storage method comprising: a processor; a memory operably coupled to the processor; and a computer-readable medium operably coupled to the processor, the computer-readable medium comprising instructions that when executed by the processor cause the device to | 34,420 |
9,040,809 | 1. A method for manufacturing electromagnetic radiation sensitive particles, the method comprising: embedding a plurality of particles into a barrier sheet; etching the barrier sheet to expose a top portion and a bottom portion of each particle embedded in the barrier sheet, wherein the exposed top portions of the particles are separated from the exposed bottom portions by the barrier sheet; attaching a metal material onto the exposed top portions; and attaching a dye material to the exposed bottom portions to create electromagnetic sensitive particles. | 9,161 |
9,815,218 | 1. A slicer for cutting slices of an elongated food product, the slicer comprising: a machine housing; a circular slicing blade held by the machine housing; a carriage configured to move back and forth with respect to the machine housing and to carry the elongated food product; a stop plate configured to set a slicing thickness of the elongated food product disposed on the carriage; an asynchronous electric slicing motor that rotates the circular slicing blade; a control unit that actuates the asynchronous electric slicing motor using a pulse-width modulation, the control unit including a microcontroller and a first motor output stage connected to the asynchronous electric slicing motor, wherein the microcontroller is configured to generate pulse-width-modulated control signals by varying at least one of an amplitude, a frequency, or a pulse width of the control signals as a function of a load status of the asynchronous electric slicing motor, and wherein the first motor output stage is configured to forward the control signals to the asynchronous electric slicing motor to rotate the circular slicing blade. | 33,804 |
8,966,941 | 1. A glass production method, comprising: charging raw materials in an upstream part of a furnace, wherein a plurality of burners are disposed along the upstream part, obtaining a mass of molten glass, and then leading said mass of molten glass to a zone of the furnace situated further downstream, wherein at least one burner is disposed in the region of this zone being fed with an over-stoichiometric quantity of oxidant, and then, forming a glass sheet, said glass sheet having a chemical composition that comprises the following constituents in an amount varying within the weight limits defined hereinafter: | 29,057 |
9,192,860 | 1. A method, comprising: providing access via a network interface for a single user identified by a single user account to a virtual environment hosted in a memory of a computer server, wherein the single user is a person; generating multiple avatars for the single user account concurrently coexisting and interacting with second avatars, wherein each of the second avatars are separately controlled within the virtual environment by respective ones of other users; concurrently controlling the multiple avatars by the single user via the network interface, thereby enabling an independent interaction between each of the multiple avatars and each of the second avatars being separately controlled by the respective ones of the other users; and communicating, via the network interface, virtual environment data regarding the interactions of more than one of the multiple avatars from the memory to at least one client operated by the single user; configuring the virtual environment data to cause at least one of: (a) shading of each different one of the multiple avatars, or (b) an associated indicative icon to be altered for other users of the virtual environment in response to respective focus states of the multiple avatars. | 29,408 |
9,353,950 | 1. A combustor comprising: an outer casing; an end cap assembly disposed within the outer casing, the end cap assembly having an upstream surface defined by an upstream plate, a downstream surface defined by a downstream plate axially spaced from the upstream plate and a shroud that extends axially between the upstream plate and the downstream plate, the upstream plate, the downstream plate and the shroud at least partially defining a fuel plenum within the end cap assembly; wherein the end cap assembly further comprises a plurality of tubes, each tube extending from the upstream plate, through the fuel plenum and through the downstream plate, each tube having a fuel port in fluid communication with the fuel plenum and an inlet defined along the upstream surface; wherein the plurality of tubes comprises a first tube and a second tube, the first tube having an outlet defined at a downstream end of the first tube and the second tube having an outlet defined at a downstream end of the second tube, wherein the downstream end of the first tube is axially offset from the downstream end of the second tube with respect to an axial centerline of the end cap assembly; and wherein the first tube converges radially inwardly between the downstream surface and the downstream end of the first tube, wherein the downstream end of the second tube has a first portion and a second portion, wherein the second portion converges radially inwardly between the downstream surface and the downstream end of the second tube along an axial centerline of the second tube while the first portion extends axially along the centerline of the second tube. | 36,040 |
9,655,195 | 1. A method for controlling a lighting device to generate light of a desired natural scene, the lighting device comprising a plurality of warm white LEDs having a first intensity range and a plurality of cool white LEDs having a second intensity range, the method comprising: dividing each of the first intensity range and the second intensity range into a predetermined number of intensity levels; initializing the plurality of warm white LEDs to a first intensity level and initializing the plurality of cool white LEDs to a second intensity level, the first intensity level and the second intensity level being determined based on the desired natural scene; iteratively adjusting at least one of the intensity level of the warm white LEDs or the intensity level of the cool white LEDs by at least one level in each iteration, until the light generated by the lighting device matches a desired correlated color temperature predetermined for the desired natural scene; and iteratively adjusting at least one of the intensity level of the warm white LEDs or the intensity level of the cool white LEDs, until the light generated by the lighting device matches a desired illuminance predetermined for the desired natural scene. | 41,107 |
8,762,656 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a non-volatile memory including a first counter to store a first level of granularity of time the non-volatile memory operates at a temperature above a threshold temperature; a second counter to store a second level of granularity of time the non-volatile memory operates at a temperature above the threshold temperature, the second counter to be incremented by the first counter each time the first counter reaches a unit of the second level of granularity; at least one step module to provide a weighting factor to the first counter or the second counter, the weighting factor being a multiplier at each increased level of operating temperature; and a controller to determine that the temperature alert is active and, in response to determining that the temperature alert is active, refresh at least a portion of the non-volatile memory. | 47,779 |
9,709,525 | 1. A device, comprising: a biological field-effect transistor (BioFET) device, the BioFET device including: | 30,182 |
9,075,105 | 1. A wireless integrated circuit testing environment, comprising: a coupling element configured to proximity couple to a second coupling element within an integrated circuit to passively observe a signal passing through the second coupling element, the integrated circuit being located within a semiconductor wafer; and wireless automatic test equipment configured to determine a signal metric of the signal as observed by the coupling element and to compare the signal metric with a plurality of predetermined signal metrics to determine a location of the integrated circuit within the semiconductor wafer. | 25,032 |
9,621,044 | 1. A power conversion circuit comprising: a voltage source having first and second output terminals configured to supply power to the power conversion circuit; a first solid-state switch having a pair of first power terminals and a first gate terminal wherein one of the pair of first power terminals are connected to a switch node of the power conversion circuit; a first driver circuit transmitting a first gate drive signal to the first gate terminal in response to receiving a first gate control signal; a second solid-state switch having a pair of second power terminals and a second gate terminal, wherein one of the pair of second power terminals are connected to the switch node of the power conversion circuit; a second driver circuit transmitting a second gate drive signal to the second gate terminal in response to receiving a second gate control signal; an inductor having a pair of inductor terminals, wherein one of the pair of inductor terminals are connected to the switch node of the power conversion circuit; and a controller configured to: | 33,825 |
8,905,889 | 1. A planetary gear train of an automatic transmission for a vehicle, comprising: a first shaft receiving engine torque; a second shaft disposed in parallel with the first shaft at a predetermined distance; a first planetary gear set disposed on the first shaft, and including a first rotation element selectively connected to the first shaft and a transmission housing, a second rotation element selectively connected to the first shaft and selectively connected to the transmission housing, and a third rotation element; a second planetary gear set disposed on the second shaft, and including a fourth rotation element selectively connected to the first rotation element, a fifth rotation element connected to the third rotation element and directly connected to an output gear, and a sixth rotation element always connected to the first shaft and selectively connected to the first rotation element; a first transfer gear connecting the first shaft to the sixth rotation element, wherein the first transfer gear includes a first transfer drive gear and a first transfer driven gear; a second transfer gear connecting the first rotation element to the fourth rotation element and the sixth rotation element, wherein the second transfer gear includes a second transfer drive gear and a second transfer driven gear; a third transfer gear connecting the third rotation element to the fifth rotation element, wherein the third transfer gear includes a third transfer drive gear and a third transfer driven gear; and frictional elements including clutches and brakes including: wherein the second rotation element of the first planetary gear set is not directly connected to any of the fourth, fifth and sixth rotation elements of the second planetary gear set through the first, second or third transfer gear. | 43,686 |
8,519,941 | 1. An apparatus for driving a backlight unit comprising a lamp unit including a plurality of lamps, the apparatus comprising: an error amplifying unit configured to detect an error voltage between a feedback voltage corresponding to a current flowing to the lamp unit and a preset first reference voltage; a soft signal generating unit configured to generate a soft start signal of the lamp unit; a high-frequency driving signal generating unit configured to generate a high-frequency driving signal of the lamp unit; a high-frequency driving termination determining unit configured to generate a high-frequency driving termination signal when the error voltage is equal in voltage level to the soft start signal; and a high-frequency driving signal blocking unit configured to block the high-frequency driving signal in advance when the high-frequency driving termination signal is inputted, wherein the soft signal generating unit comprises: the high-frequency driving signal generating unit comprises: | 40,302 |
8,603,898 | 1. A method for forming a conformal layer on a silicon substrate, sequentially comprising: removing a native oxide from the silicon substrate; heating the silicon substrate in a processing chamber to a first temperature to remove contaminants from the substrate; cooling the silicon substrate to a second temperature; maintaining the second temperature while flowing a group III precursor into the processing chamber for 15 seconds or less to create a nucleation layer on the surface of the silicon substrate; and growing a binary group III/V layer of a desired thickness on the nucleation layer by MOCVD. | 39,213 |
9,293,407 | 1. A semiconductor package, comprising: a baseplate having a die attach region and a peripheral region; a transistor die having a first terminal and a second terminal facing away from the baseplate; and a frame comprising an electrically insulative member having a first side attached to the peripheral region of the baseplate, a second side facing away from the baseplate, a first metallization at the first side of the insulative member and a second metallization at the second side of the insulative member, wherein the insulative member extends outward beyond a lateral sidewall of the baseplate, the first metallization is attached to the part of the first side which extends outward beyond the lateral sidewall of the baseplate, and the first and second metallizations are electrically connected at a region of the insulative member spaced apart from the lateral sidewall of the baseplate. | 16,124 |
9,275,024 | 1. A computer-implemented method comprising: in response to a user request that identifies one of a plurality of produced unique identifiers, providing one style sheet from a collection of style sheets, wherein the provided style sheet is exclusively assigned the one unique identifier, wherein the one unique identifier includes a portion that is shared among other unique identifiers assigned to other style sheets and that describes a commonality of web assets producible by applying one or more of the style sheets whose assigned unique identifier includes the shared portion, each style sheet is a cascading style sheet and includes data that represents a series of style elements and properties of each style element included in the series of style elements; and logging data that represents the providing of the one style sheet from the collection of style sheets, wherein logging data includes confirming the identifier of the style sheet of the collection of style sheets. | 31,624 |
8,697,696 | 1. A compound of formula (I) wherein A —CH═CH—; X is S or CH; Y is O, NR u and v each independently represent a single bond or a double bond, with the proviso that u and v are not both double bonds and are not both single bonds; R R R R R or R R R n is an integer from 0 to 6; and m is an integer from 2 to 6; or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. | 10,155 |
9,211,809 | 1. A method comprising: determining a first vehicle reference speed of a vehicle system that is capable of traveling along a route using an off-board-based input speed and an onboard-based input speed, the off-board-based input speed representative of a first moving speed of the vehicle system and determined from data received from an off-board device the onboard-based input speed representative of a second moving speed of the vehicle system and determined from data obtained from an onboard device; controlling at least one of torque applied by or rotational speed of one or more motors of the vehicle system based at least in part on the first vehicle reference speed; determining an uncertainty parameter of the off-board-based input speed, the uncertainty parameter representative of a potential inaccuracy of the off-board-based input speed and of a range of potential actual speeds of the vehicle system, the uncertainty parameter derived from the data received from the off-board-based input device; modifying the off-board-based input speed using the onboard-based input speed responsive to determining that the onboard-based input speed is within the range of potential actual speeds that is represented by the uncertainty parameter; controlling a rotational speed at which a first axle of the vehicle system is rotated by a first motor of the one or more motors based on a throttle setting of the vehicle system and a second vehicle reference speed determined from a group of input speeds that includes an onboard-based input speed and an off-board-based input speed; and controlling a rotational speed at which at least a second axle of the vehicle system is rotated by a second motor based on the throttle setting and a second vehicle reference speed determined from the onboard-based input speed, wherein the rotational speeds of the first axle and the at least second axle are controlled based on the respective first and second vehicle reference speeds. | 3,570 |
9,477,428 | 1. A computer program product for managing storage of data in storage tiers of storage devices in a storage system, wherein each storage tier has storage devices having a different access profile, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code embodied therein that executes to perform operations, the operations comprising: receiving a command including a key, a value for the key, and access information for the key, wherein the access information indicates a level of access to the value for the key in a key-value store; determining a logical address for the key and value indicated in the command; using the access information for the value to determine one of the storage tiers onto which to store the value for the key; determining a physical address in the determined storage tier to store the value for the key in the command; associating the determined logical address and the determined physical address; and returning the logical address in response to the command. | 10,686 |
9,148,060 | 1. A switching controller of power converter, comprising: an oscillator generating a feedback signal and a pulse signal in response to an output of the power converter; a PWM circuit receiving the pulse signal to generate a PWM signal; a burst-mode management circuit receiving the feedback signal and the PWM signal to generate a switching signal and a current-limit signal, the switching signal generating a switching current and regulating the output of the power converter; and a current-limit comparator coupled to the burst-mode management circuit and a current-sense device for limiting the switching current to decrease a switching frequency or stop switching of the power converter in response to the current-limit signal and a current signal, the current signal being correlated to the switching current. | 46,261 |
9,571,890 | 1. A method for selectively presenting broadcast content, the method comprising: receiving, using a hardware processor, user information associated with a user of a user device; associating a plurality of entities with the user based on the user information, wherein each of the plurality of entities corresponds to one or more athletes on a roster of a particular team that is a member of a sports organization; identifying a plurality of broadcast programs that the user device is capable of presenting; determining that each of one or more broadcast programs of the plurality of broadcast programs that the user device is capable of presenting that depict a game between teams that are members of the sports organization is relevant to at least one of the plurality of entities associated with the user based on program metadata for each of the plurality of broadcast programs; receiving event metadata for each of the one or more broadcast programs, wherein event metadata is indicative of events in the game depicted by a particular broadcast program; determining, during a broadcast of a first broadcast program of the plurality of broadcast programs, that an upcoming portion of the first broadcast program is relevant to a first entity of the plurality of entities based on the received event metadata indicative of events in the game depicted in the first broadcast program; and in response to determining that the upcoming portion of the first broadcast program is relevant to the first entity, causing the user device to present the upcoming portion of the first broadcast by tuning to the first broadcast without user intervention. | 1,116 |
8,943,838 | 1. An integrated turbomachine plant, comprising: a combustor; a turbomachine operably connected to the combustor and including a compressor and a turbine expander; a main pathway to flow compressed air from the compressor through the turbine expander to heat the compressed air; an additional pathway and a heater disposed along the additional pathway by which high temperature fluids output from the turbomachine are heated by the heater and subsequently employed to heat the compressed air; and an air separation unit operably connected to the main pathway and configured to separate the heated compressed air into oxygen and oxygen-depleted air. | 41,693 |
9,105,928 | 1. A positive active material for a rechargeable lithium battery, comprising: a solid solution represented by Chemical Formula 1, the solid solution including primary particles and a secondary particle, the primary particles having a number average particle diameter of about 0.5 μm or more, wherein, in Chemical Formula 1, 0.2≦x≦0.5, and M is a metal composite Compound represented by Chemical Formula 2, wherein, in Chemical Formula 2, 0.3≦a≦0.5, 0.05<b≦0.3, 0.3≦c≦0.55, and a+b+c=1. | 40,995 |
9,006,979 | 1. A protection circuit with low energy-consumption, which comprises: a detection circuit and a switch circuit, the switch circuit being disposed between a power supply circuit and a peripheral step-down shunt; the detection circuit and the switch circuit being connected for controlling; wherein the switch circuit comprises a PNP triode or a P MOS transistor connected between the power supply circuit and the peripheral step-down shunt; and a base of the PNP triode or the P MOS transistor being connected to a drain of another N MOS transistor through a resistor, a gate of the N MOS transistor being connected to a status pin of the detection circuit. | 46,695 |
9,298,242 | 1. An optical mouse apparatus, comprising: a light source unit, arranged for generating and emitting an optical signal, wherein the optical signal is emitted upon a surface, and then forms an optical reflected signal; a sensing unit, arranged for generating a sensed image output according to the optical reflected signal, wherein the sensed image output is utilized for estimating an image displacement of the optical mouse apparatus; and a processing unit, coupled to the light source unit and the sensing unit, the processing unit arranged for controlling the light source unit to emit the optical signal, and controlling an exposure of the sensed image output to dynamically switch between at least two exposure value ranges according to the sensed image output, wherein the processing unit adjusts the exposure of the light source unit to dynamically switch between the at least two exposure value ranges according to a quality parameter of the sensed image output, the quality parameter is a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), when the SNR of the sensed image output is higher than a first signal threshold, the processing unit reduces the exposure of the sensed image output, and switches the exposure to a second exposure value range from a first exposure value range, and wherein the first exposure value range is higher than the second exposure value range. | 2,318 |
9,122,478 | 1. A power supply used in an information processing system wherein the information processing system comprises a base system and an application system, the power supply feeds power to a first computer comprised in the base system, the application system comprises an application computer and a second power supply, the second power supply feeds power to the application computer, the first computer and the application system communicate with each other, and the first computer runs a first VM in emulation, the application computer runs a second VM in emulation, and the first VM controls the second VM, the power supply comprising: a power manager to control a feed of power to the first computer, a VM manager to control the first VM, and a controller, the controller | 12,851 |
9,657,629 | 1. An exhaust gas purification apparatus for an internal combustion engine, comprising: an oxidation catalyst that is provided in an exhaust gas passage of the internal combustion engine and has an oxidation ability, the oxidation catalyst reducing NOx contained in an exhaust gas by using fuel supplied by the aid of the exhaust gas as a reducing agent when a catalyst temperature belongs to a predetermined temperature range equal to or higher than an active temperature thereof; a fuel supply unit that supplies the fuel to the oxidation catalyst by the aid of the exhaust gas flowing into the oxidation catalyst; a selective catalytic reduction catalyst that is provided in the exhaust gas passage on a downstream side of the oxidation catalyst and reduces NOx contained in the exhaust gas by using ammonia as a reducing agent; a reducing agent supply unit that supplies ammonia or a precursor of ammonia to the selective catalytic reduction catalyst by the aid of the exhaust gas flowing into the selective catalytic reduction catalyst; and an electronic control unit that controls a fuel supply amount by the fuel supply unit, wherein the control unit executes: first control of controlling the fuel supply amount by the fuel supply unit so that NOx is reduced by the oxidation catalyst when the selective catalytic reduction catalyst is in an inactive state when the temperature of the oxidation catalyst belongs to the predetermined temperature range; and second control of controlling the fuel supply amount by the fuel supply unit so that a temperature of the exhaust gas flowing into the selective catalytic reduction catalyst is raised by oxidation of the fuel in the oxidation catalyst irrespective of an NOx purification rate of the selective catalytic reduction catalyst when the selective catalytic reduction catalyst is in the inactive state in cases where the temperature of the oxidation catalyst exceeds the predetermined temperature range. | 32,519 |
9,786,856 | 1. A method of manufacturing an image sensor device comprising: providing a metalized thin film transistor layer form on a glass substrate; forming a first inter-layer dielectric layer on the metalized thin film transistor layer; forming a via through the first inter-layer dielectric layer; forming a metal layer on an upper surface of the first inter-layer dielectric and within the first inter-layer dielectric layer via for contacting the metalized thin film transistor layer; forming a second inter-layer dielectric layer on an upper surface of the metal layer and the first inter-layer dielectric layer; forming a via through the second inter-layer dielectric layer; forming a conductive oxide layer on an upper surface of the second inter-layer dielectric layer and within the second inter-layer dielectric layer via for contacting an upper surface of the metal layer; forming an electron transport layer on an upper surface of the second inter-layer dielectric layer and the conductive oxide layer; forming a bulk heterojunction layer on an upper surface of the electron transport layer; forming a hole transport layer on an upper surface of the bulk heterojunction layer; and forming a top contact layer on an upper surface of the hole transport layer. | 3,357 |
9,494,428 | 1. An attitude determination method comprising: measuring local coordinate movement vectors v measuring an absolute coordinate attitude measurement in an absolute coordinate system by the sensor system; converting the local coordinate movement vectors into absolute coordinate movement vectors using the absolute coordinate attitude measurement; and determining an attitude of the sensor with respect to the moving body using the absolute coordinate movement vectors and the absolute coordinate attitude measurement after the moving body starts to move from a stop position and has reached a predetermined threshold velocity or a predetermined threshold acceleration, wherein the determining the attitude of the sensor is delayed until the moving body has reached the predetermined threshold velocity or the predetermined threshold acceleration following the stop position. | 43,280 |
9,766,501 | 1. A liquid crystal display device comprising: a liquid crystal layer between a pair of alignment films, wherein the pair of alignment films are formed from a solution of a precursor mixture having first and second precursors dissolved in an organic solvent, the first precursor with a photo-decomposable material and the second precursor without the photo-decomposable material, wherein the second precursor has a higher weight average molecular weight than a weight average molecular weight of the first precursor, wherein the first precursor includes polyimide with the photo-decomposable material, wherein the polyimide in the first precursor is a compound represented by Chemical Formula 1: where X represents cyclobutane, Y represents an aromatic hydrocarbon group having 2 or more rings, and n represents a natural number no less than 1, wherein the second precursor includes polyamic acid without the photo-decomposable material and the polyamic acid without the photo-decomposable material is a compound represented by Chemical Formula 2: where X represents an aromatic hydrocarbon group having 2 or more rings, Y represents an aromatic hydrocarbon group having 1 or more rings, and n represents a natural number no less than 1. | 4,035 |
9,372,215 | 1. An electrical resistance measurement apparatus comprising: a light irradiation unit that irradiates a conductive thin film with terahertz light; a reflection light detection unit that detects reflection light from the conductive thin film; and a computer containing a storage that stores a single equation representing correlation between the reflectance of the terahertz light from the conductive thin film and electrical resistance of the conductive thin film, the computer further containing a processor that determines reflectance of the terahertz light from the conductive thin film based on a result of detection performed by the reflection light detection unit, and calculates the electrical resistance of the conductive thin film by substituting the reflectance obtained by the determination into the equation, wherein the single equation is an exponential approximation equation y=A·x the light irradiation unit radiates the terahertz light having a frequency of 23 THz; and the exponential approximation equation is y=16.04x | 42,705 |
9,404,651 | 1. A method for producing synthesis gas by gasification of solid fuels in a fluidised bed reactor wherein gas containing oxygen is delivered to a cavity of a heater, wherein the gas containing oxygen and/or a combustible gas flows through a porous, gas-permeable section of the heater, wherein the combustible gas is oxidised at least partially by the gas containing oxygen while releasing heat, wherein the heat released by the at least partial oxidation heats the porous, gas-permeable section of the heater, and wherein the heat absorbed by the porous, gas-permeable section of the heater is transferred to the fluidised bed of the fluidised bed reactor. | 441 |
8,869,890 | 1. A system for processing produced fluids from a subterranean reservoir, the system comprising: (a) a separator for separating produced fluid from a subterranean reservoir into a primly stream of associated gases, water and crude oil, the primary stream of associated gases containing carbon dioxide and at least 4 hydrogen sulfide by volume; (b) a membrane which receives and separates a first portion of the associated gas stream portion into a permeate stream enriched in hydrogen sulfide and carbon dioxide and a retentate stream depleted in hydrogen sulfide and carbon dioxide but enriched in hydrocarbon gases; (c) an amine plant which receives a second portion of the associated gas stream and the retentate stream, the amine plant being capable of removing carbon dioxide and hydrogen sulfide from the second portion and retentate stream and producing a hydrocarbon enriched stream; and (d) a sour gas injection unit which receives a third portion of the associated gas stream and the permeate stream and is capable of reinjecting the third portion of the associated gas stream and permeate stream into a subterranean reservoir; wherein the combined retentate stream and second portion are lower in hydrogen sulfide concentration than the primary stream of associated gases; and wherein the combined permeate stream and third portion are higher in hydrogen sulfide concentration than the primary strewn of associated gases. | 46,363 |
9,551,178 | 1. A vacuum insulated glass, which comprises two or more glass plates, which can be evacuated, are oriented in parallel and which are sealed in an air-tight manner at the outer edge, with respect to the interior formed by means of spacers that are punched out from metal strips that are strip-shaped and connected in a vacuum-tight manner to one another, wherein the spacers are attached onto at least one of the two or more glass plates via a plurality of fixing elements that each produces one of a magnetic field or an electric field, the spacers having the following features: a) the spacers ( b) the spacers ( c) the segments ( d) the segments ( | 32,736 |
8,854,118 | 1. A charge pumping apparatus, comprising: a voltage pumping unit for pumping an input voltage; a voltage pumping control unit for controlling the voltage pumping unit according to a comparison result between the input voltage and an input criterion voltage and a comparison result between an output voltage output from the voltage pumping unit and an output criterion voltage; and an optimum power point tracking unit for tracking an optimum power point in the case of detecting that the output voltage decreases lower than the output criterion voltage, and adjusting an input impedance to change the input criterion voltage to a voltage corresponding to the optimum power point, wherein the optimum power point is a power point where an input power according to the input voltage becomes a maximum. | 37,925 |
8,976,104 | 1. A display device comprising an optical member; a plurality of light sources facing a side surface of the optical member in a first direction and arranged in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction to illuminate the optical member; a representative determining part to determine representative values of image blocks based on image signals applied to the image blocks, wherein the image blocks are arranged in a matrix and correspond to portions of a display panel; a representative integration part to integrate the representative values of the image blocks for each of image block groups respectively corresponding to the plurality of light sources in the first direction and determine integrated representative values thr the image block groups, respectively; a light control part to control the plurality of light sources respectively based on the integrated representative values, wherein the integrated representative values are determined by applying weight values to the representative values, and a weight value for a first image block is larger than a weight value for a second image block closer to the light sources than the first image block is; and a boundary compensation part to determine boundary representative values based on the integrated representative values of at least one neighboring image block. | 1,242 |
8,400,025 | 1. A method for substantially reducing the electrical power consumption of household or residential plug in or hard wired electric motor driven appliances comprising the steps of: a. Determining said electric motor driven appliance type, motor type, and motor horsepower of a wide variety of electric motor driven appliances, and b. Operating said electric motor driven appliances, and c. Measuring the voltage, operating current, inrush current, and power factor or real power, of said operating electric motor driven appliances, and d. Calculating the power factor correcting capacitance value from said voltage, operating current, inrush current, and power factor or real power measured values, that substantially power factor corrects said electric motor driven appliances, and e. Calculating the inrush current limiting inductance value from said voltage, operating current, inrush current, and power factor or real power measured values, that substantially limits said inrush current of said electric motor driven appliances, and f. Creating a first electric motor driven appliance type/motor type/horsepower to power factor correction capacitance value database that relates a specific type, or types, of electric motor driven appliances to a specific capacitance value or range of capacitance values that substantially corrects the power factor of said electric motor driven appliances, and g. Creating a second electric motor driven appliance type/motor type/motor horsepower to inrush current limiting inductance value database that relates a specific type, or types, of electric motor driven appliances to a specific inductance value or range of inductance values that substantially reduces or limits said inrush current of said electric motor driven appliances, and h. Utilizing said first database to select an appropriate capacitance value, or range of capacitance values, with which to make a power factor correction apparatus of a power saving apparatus of the present invention for specific said electric motor driven appliances, and i. Utilizing said second database to select an appropriate inductance value, or range of inductance values, with which to make an inrush current limiting apparatus of a power saving apparatus of the present invention for specific said electric motor driven appliances, and j. Making instances of said power factor correction apparatus of said power saving apparatus of the present invention for specific said electric motor driven appliances, and k. Making instances of said inrush current limiting apparatus of said power saving apparatus of the present invention for specific said electric motor driven appliances, and l. Publicizing said first and second databases to consumers, retail outlets, and licensed electricians, enabling the proper selection of instances of said power saving apparatus to substantially power factor correct, or power factor correct and inrush current limit, specific electric motor driven appliances, and m. Offering for sale instances of said power savings apparatus of the present invention, without the necessity of making preliminary power factor, or power factor and inrush current, related electrical measurements for each and every deployment of said power saving apparatus of the present invention. | 38,193 |
8,579,575 | 1. A wind turbine having a spindle; a first fan device rotatably mounted around the spindle and having a second fan device rotatably mounted around the spindle and having | 13,760 |
8,371,820 | 1. Paneling of a nacelle of a wind energy installation, the paneling comprising: a ceiling panel; a hatch opening formed in the ceiling panel, the hatch opening being large enough as to accommodate components of the entire area of a drive train of the wind energy installation being removed upward or inserted from the top into the nacelle through the hatch opening; a bridge platform on the ceiling panel intended to support service personnel and offset from the hatch opening and; a hatch cover shiftable between a closed position covering the hatch opening and an open position offset from the hatch opening directly underneath the bridge platform. | 19,373 |
8,412,475 | 1. A synchronized pseudorandom sequence injector injection system for injecting a plurality of pseudorandom signals at selected locations in a power system having a plurality of locations forming a transmission and distribution grid, comprising: a synchronization pulse generator for generating an accurate clocking signal; a pseudorandom clocking and sequence generator for receiving the clocking signal and generating a string of pseudorandom sequences; a binary drive control for creating a tri-state voltage output from a logic level output of the pseudorandom clocking and sequence generator; and a signal conditioning interface for processing the voltage output to attenuate any protection related carrier signals from a pseudorandom signal injection point at a selected location; and an electrical power system component for injecting the pseudorandom signals at the selected location. | 21,019 |
8,748,443 | 1. A compound or salt thereof, wherein the compound corresponds in structure to formula I-1: R R R R as to L and R each R each R each R each R each R each R each R | 41,729 |
9,427,041 | 1. An article of footwear comprising: an outer shell, the outer shell including an upper and a sole structure; an inner liner, the inner liner being a separate component designed to be inserted and also removed from within an interior of the outer shell; the inner liner further comprising a heating system, the heating system including a power source and a heating element; wherein the heating system is disposed within the inner liner; the inner liner having an upper liner portion and a lower liner portion, wherein the upper liner portion includes a cuff; the lower liner portion having a forefoot region, a heel region opposite the forefoot region, a midfoot region disposed between the forefoot region and the heel region, and an outermost front tip portion of the forefoot region; wherein the outermost front tip portion of the forefoot region, is disposed adjacent a toe cap perimeter and extends vertically between a bottom of the inner liner and a top portion of the forefoot region, wherein the outermost front tip portion comprises a gap, the gap is positioned between the toe cap perimeter and an interior liner layer; wherein the forefoot region having a lateral side and a medial side; wherein the cuff includes a battery compartment area disposed in between an outer layer of the inner liner and an inner layer of the inner liner, the battery compartment area being configured to receive the power source of the heating system; and wherein the heating element is a toe cap heating element that is designed to be positioned only within the gap, the heating element having a rectangular and arcuate geometry including a vertical portion extending vertically between the bottom of the inner liner and the top portion of the forefoot region and a horizontal portion extending in a curve from the lateral side to the medial side of the forefoot region. | 30,758 |
8,360,927 | 1. A vehicle power transmission device comprising: a carrier of a planetary gear device brought into spline fitting with a case that is a non-rotating member to stop rotating and a ring gear of the planetary gear device rotatably supported by the case via a bearing, and a play reducing device that presses the carrier against the case to reduce a play in a thrust direction formed between the carrier and the case, wherein the play reducing device abuts the bearing and the carrier to press the carrier against the case. | 13,918 |
9,467,001 | 1. A vehicle comprising: a rotating electric machine mounted on the vehicle; a power storage device configured to supply electric power to the rotating electric machine; and an electronic control unit configured to set a charging schedule of the power storage device, the setting of the charging schedule by the electronic control unit including: | 24,149 |
9,782,820 | 1. A production method for an elongated semi-finished product having at least two differently profiled first and second sections of prescribed lengths, comprising the following steps: rolling a continuously fed wire lengthwise using a rotating roller, the rotating roller, along its circumference, having a first segment with a roller profile rolling a profile into the first section of the wire, and having a second segment without a roller profile rotated contact-free relative to the wire, adjusting a speed of the roller, during the rolling of the profile, in such a way that the speed of the roller profile is the same as the feeding speed of the wire, adjusting the speed of the roller, during the contact-free rotation, in such a way that a length of the wire corresponding to the prescribed length of the second section passes the roller contact-free, and cutting a semi-finished product, having the first section and having the second section, off of the shaped wire. | 20,071 |
9,775,744 | 1. A laser probe comprising: a handle having a handle distal end and a handle proximal end; an actuation structure of the handle having an actuation structure distal end and an actuation structure proximal end; a front plug; an end plug at least partially disposed in the actuation structure; a distal ring disposed over a portion of the front plug wherein the distal ring forms a hermetic seal within an actuation guide; a proximal ring disposed over a portion of the end plug wherein the proximal ring forms a hermetic seal within an actuation guide; a nosecone; a first link; a first link pin disposed in the first link and the nosecone; a spacer disposed over a portion of the first link pin, the spacer configured to prevent movement of the first link relative to the first link pin; a second link pin disposed in the first link and the actuation structure; a second link; a third link pin disposed in the second link and the nosecone; a fourth link pin disposed in the second link and the actuation structure; a flexible housing tube having a flexible housing tube distal end and a flexible housing tube proximal end; and an optic fiber having an optic fiber distal end and an optic fiber proximal end, the optic fiber disposed in the handle and the flexible housing tube wherein the optic fiber distal end is adjacent to the flexible housing tube distal end and wherein a portion of the optic fiber is fixed to the flexible housing tube and wherein a compression of the actuation structure is configured to curve the flexible housing tube and the optic fiber. | 36,389 |
9,028,913 | 1. A method for preparing a coated titanium dioxide pigment, comprising: (a) forming an aqueous suspension of titanium dioxide particles having a pH of from about 5.0 to about 7.0; (b) adding an aluminum oxide-forming solution to the suspension of particles in an amount sufficient to increase the pH of the suspension to about 9.0 or higher, the aluminum oxide-forming solution comprising a water-soluble aluminum oxide-forming compound and water and being free of any additional pH-adjusting compounds other than the water-soluble aluminum oxide-forming compound; and (c) forming an aluminum oxide coating on the titanium dioxide particles; wherein the method is free of adding any additional pH-adjusting compounds other than the water-soluble aluminum oxide-forming compound. | 8,042 |
8,765,912 | 1. An isolated and purified T1R receptor polypeptide encoded by a polynucleotide comprising: a nucleotide sequence encoding the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:9. | 32,532 |
8,760,551 | 1. An image capturing apparatus comprising: a first image capturing unit configured to capture an image of a scene for a user; a second image capturing unit configured to capture an image of the user; an identification unit configured to identify at least one region of interest of the scene based on a combination of eye and facial characteristics of the user of the image capturing apparatus during an image capturing operation; a processing unit configured to analyze at least facial characteristics of the user associated with each region of interest during the image capturing operation; a determining unit configured to determine a facial expression classification associated with each region of interest based on corresponding analyzed facial characteristics for each region during the image capturing operation; a recording unit configured to record facial expression metadata based on information representing the at least one region of interest and the facial expression classification associated with an image captured during the image capturing operation; and a rendering unit configured to render the image using the recorded facial expression metadata. | 10,595 |
9,733,428 | 1. A flexible photonic device, comprising: a flexible polymer substrate; a first layer of isolation material directly on the flexible polymer substrate; a photonic circuit layer on the first layer of isolation material, wherein the photonic circuit layer comprises at least one photonic waveguide formed from a single-crystalline semiconductor; and a second layer of isolation material on the photonic circuit layer, wherein the first layer of isolation material and the second layer of isolation material do not comprise a polymer. | 5,042 |
8,756,939 | 1. A method of testing an overspeed protection system of a powerplant, the method comprising: providing a powerplant comprising a powerplant machine, a shaft, and an operational control system, wherein the operational control system is configured for operating the powerplant machine and comprises an overspeed protection system configured for detecting an overspeed event associated with the shaft; determining whether the speed of the shaft is within a testing range; changing an overspeed trip value to a value within the testing range; and determining whether the overspeed protection system would operate to trip the powerplant machine; wherein the method reduces the possibility of a trip occurring during testing of the overspeed protection system. | 21,802 |
8,599,601 | 1. A method for fabricating a resistive memory device, the method comprising: providing a substrate; forming a bottom electrode over the substrate; forming a switching medium over the bottom electrode, the switching medium defining a first region proximate to the bottom electrode and a second region distal from the bottom electrode, the first region having a higher defect density than the second region in order to facilitate a filament formation in the first region; and forming a top electrode over the switching medium, the top electrode configured to provide at least part of metal particles needed to form the filament in the first region. | 47,487 |
8,661,418 | 1. A computer-readable, non-transitory medium storing a program that causes a computer to execute a procedure, the procedure comprising: acquiring a state of each of a plurality of components in a first server device group before and after execution of a task contained in a first workflow that is executed by the first server device group, the components being hardware or software and whose dependencies are previously defined; determining that the task is an operational task, when the acquired state before and after the execution of the task is changed; extracting, from a table storing dependency between a plurality of components in the first server device group and a second server device group, a plurality of components in the second server device group having same relationship as operation target components of the operation task; and combining the first workflow and a second workflow containing a task for the extracted components to generate a new workflow. | 10,269 |
9,299,979 | 1. A method for producing a storage structure of an electrical metal-air energy storage cell comprising an active storage material and an inert material, the method comprising: producing a porous green body, which comprises the active storage material, infiltrating the porous green body with an infiltration medium, which contains the inert material, and heat treating the infiltrated green body to produce an inert envelope structure, which at least partially envelops the grains of the active storage material. | 15,733 |
9,831,416 | 1. A piezoelectric member comprising: a silicon-containing substrate; and a piezoelectric layer disposed on the silicon-containing substrate; wherein at least a surface layer of the piezoelectric layer on a side opposite to the silicon-containing substrate is made of B a portion of the piezoelectric layer made of B the portion of the piezoelectric layer made of B | 17,703 |
8,470,569 | 1. A hydrometallurgical procedure for producing ferric sulfate solutions comprising an iron concentration greater than 20 g/L, and less than 1 g/L of silicon and other impurities, wherein the process is carried out in continuous mode in three sequential steps comprising: 1) acid leaching fayalite slag in a leaching heap, wherein the fayalite slag comprises fayalite slag from an electric furnace for reductive slag cleaning and is granulated and classified 100% with a particle diameter greater than 0.1 cm.; 2) collecting percolated leaching liquid from the leaching heap and removing silicon, aluminum and other impurities in the percolated leaching liquid, through thermal coagulation and precipitation of colloidal silica, or alternatively, neutralization with lime slurry, to form a ferrous solution comprising less than 1 g/L of silicon; and 3) bio-oxidizing the ferrous solution in a bioreactor to form the ferric sulfate solution comprising an iron concentration greater than 20 g/L. | 8,678 |
8,576,726 | 1. A signal processor for use in a communication device, the signal processor comprising: a perceiving unit configured to acquire an initial scheduled frame number and a current frame number from MAP information; an operator unit configured to receive the initial scheduled frame number and the current frame number from the perceiving unit, and calculate a difference between the initial scheduled frame number and the current frame number; and a determining unit configured to compare the difference between the initial scheduled frame number and the current frame number with a reference value, and set a new scheduled frame number based on a result of the comparison, wherein if the difference between the initial scheduled frame number and the current frame number is equal to zero, the determining unit further is configured to determine the current frame number as a scheduled frame number, and wherein if the difference between the initial scheduled frame number and the current frame number is larger than the reference value, the determining unit further is configured to determine that the mobile station has normally received the MAP after the scheduled frame due to MAP loss. | 47,409 |
8,991,153 | 1. A system for treating emissions, the system comprising: a housing with a passage having an inlet and an outlet; a first chamber having a lone first chamber charging system comprising a first corona discharge device which generates a non-thermal plasma that charges carbon particles in an exhaust stream in the passage with ions from the first corona discharge, excites gas atoms and produces one or more radicals, and oxidizes a portion of the charged carbon particles with a portion of the produced one or more radicals to remove a portion of the carbon particles in the exhaust stream; a flow-through maintenance-free non-charging attraction system comprising a substrate core having a plurality of individual passages that extend through from one end to the other end of the core and which fills a space in the housing passage that attracts a portion of the charged carbon particles in the exhaust stream on a conductive catalyzed attraction surface in direct contact with the plasma, which surface is at least one of oppositely charged from the charged carbon particles and grounded in the housing passage, wherein the attraction system is positioned downstream from the first chamber charging system, such that the attracted particles are resident on the attraction surface for a sufficient time to be oxidized by the non-thermal plasma with another portion of the one or more produced radicals to self regenerate the attraction surface; and a second chamber having a lone second chamber charging system comprising a second corona discharge device which generates a non-thermal plasma that oxidizes a portion of the charged carbon particles with ions from the second corona discharge and converts residual compounds from the first chamber into other compounds capable of treatment by a catalyst system and a non-charging flow-through catalyst system comprising a substrate having a plurality of individual passages that extend therethrough and which fills a space of the housing passage between the second chamber and the outlet that catalyzes the other compounds from the second chamber to reduce or eliminate emissions from the exhaust stream. | 19,288 |
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