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8,977,914 | 1. A method of detecting an imminent read failure in a non-volatile memory array, comprising: applying a gate bias voltage, higher than a normal read verify voltage level, to a plurality of cells of the non-volatile memory array for a duration of time, wherein the normal read verify voltage level is a voltage level applied to a gate of a cell of the plurality of cells of the non-volatile memory array to determine a value stored by the cell; after the applying the gate bias voltage for the duration of time, determining whether the plurality of cells exhibit an uncorrectable error correcting code (ECC) read during an array integrity check at a margin read verify voltage level, wherein the margin read verify voltage level is either higher than the normal read verify voltage level for the plurality of cells or lower than the normal read verify voltage level for the plurality of cells; and providing an indication of an imminent read failure when the plurality of cells exhibit the uncorrectable ECC read during the array integrity check. | 40,874 |
8,703,715 | 1. A method for treating a prolactin-responsive malignancy in a subject comprising administering to the subject an agent which directly inhibits an enzymatic activity of cyclophilins, and wherein said agent that inhibits cyclophilins is administered by itself and further wherein said agent is administered at a significantly lessened dosage as compared to that used in immunosuppressive therapies. | 28,467 |
8,967,498 | 1. A device for spraying a pressurized liquid, comprising: a central feed channel ( a plurality of swirl chambers ( an arrangement of inflow channels ( a feed element ( a swirl-chamber element ( and the feed element ( | 8,583 |
8,849,341 | 1. A portable electrical device, comprising: an antenna radiation body used for transceiving a first radio frequency (RF) signal belonging to a first frequency band; a wireless communication module used for processing the first RF signal; and a cable used for connecting the antenna radiation body with the wireless communication module to transmit the first RF signal; wherein, the cable has a plurality of grounding points including at least two adjacent grounding points, the adjacent two grounding points being spaces by an interval, and the interval being less than a quarter wavelength of a signal corresponding to the first frequency band. | 17,467 |
8,486,622 | 1. A method of detecting a nucleic acid sequence in a genomic sample, said method comprising: providing the genomic sample comprising a quantity of duplex nucleic acids containing target nucleic acid sequences; providing a quantity of probes comprising probe nucleic acid sequences; providing a hybridization mixture comprising the genomic sample, the quantity of probes, a quantity of hybridization promoting agents and labels; incubating the hybridization mixture to provide an incubated mixture comprising complexes of the duplex nucleic acids, the probes and the labels; irradiating the incubated mixture with radiation effective to stimulate at least some of the labels to emit energy; and detecting from a fluorescent signal whether the probe nucleic acid sequences perfectly match the target nucleic acid sequences, to thereby detect whether the nucleic acid sequence is present in the genomic sample, wherein a ratio of the quantity of probes to the quantity of duplex nucleic acids is at least 10 | 41,343 |
9,787,633 | 1. A method for dynamically configuring a dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) server in a virtual network environment, the method comprising: generating a virtual machine (VM) object attribute table by mapping VM inventory objects to associated media access control (MAC) addresses of multiple VMs running on a plurality of host computing systems in a computing network; configuring DHCP bindings using VM inventory objects from the VM object attribute table, wherein configuring the DHCP bindings using the VM inventory objects, comprises: transforming the configured DHCP bindings by replacing the VM inventory objects in the configured DHCP bindings with associated MAC addresses using the VM object attribute table; sending the transformed DHCP bindings to the DHCP server for assigning Internet protocol (IP) addresses to the multiple VMs running on the plurality of host computing systems in the computing network; and dynamically updating the transformed DHCP bindings sent to the DHCP server based on updates made to the VM object attribute table or the configured DHCP bindings. | 42,254 |
9,848,347 | 1. A method, comprising: at a station: calculating a wireless property based on the first and second reference symbols. | 7,789 |
9,612,736 | 1. A user interface method using a touch, the method comprising: calculating a time difference between a previous tap and a current tap and a distance between the previous tap and the current tap; and determining an operation mode based on the time difference between the previous tap and the current tap and the distance between the previous tap and the current tap, and wherein the determining of the operation mode based on the time difference between the previous tap and the current tap and the distance between the previous tap and the current tap comprises: changing the operation mode to a successive tap operation mode when the time difference between the previous tap and the current tap is smaller than a predetermined time threshold and the distance between the previous tap and the current tap is greater than a predetermined distance threshold. | 18,463 |
9,400,750 | 1. A method of reading data in a nonvolatile memory system that comprises a plurality of pages including a first page, the first page including a plurality of sectors, the plurality of sectors including a first sector and a second sector, an address of the first sector preceding an address of the second sector, the method comprising: receiving a read request for reading data in the second sector, the read request including a page address corresponding to the first page and a sector address corresponding to the second sector; generating a first seed based on the page address; generating a second seed based on the first seed and on the sector address; generating a second random sequence corresponding to the data in the second sector based on the second seed; and generating output data based on the second random sequence and on the data in the second sector, wherein a first random sequence corresponding to data in the first sector is not generated in response to the read request for reading the data in the second sector. | 36,145 |
8,371,455 | 1. A card holder comprising: a base unit; at least two sets of holding ribs disposed on the base unit; at least two slots formed between each of the at least two sets of holding ribs, each slot adapted to receive and hold at least a portion of an edge of a card, wherein a first one of the at least two slots runs parallel with a longitudinal axis of the base unit, and a second one of the at least two slots is horizontally arcuate with respect to the longitudinal axis of the base unit in order to impart a slight vertical bend in the card providing vertical stability to the card; holding nubs disposed on the holding ribs, the holding nubs extending from the holding ribs into the slot; and at least one stacking alignment nub at a bottom side of the base unit, the stacking nub of the card holder fits into a slot of a lower card holder when the card holder is stacked on top of the lower card holder. | 34,378 |
9,764,281 | 1. A process for removing contaminants from a flue gas stream of an industrial process comprising the steps of: directing a flue gas stream containing nitrogen oxide contaminants from an industrial process at an elevated temperature to an exhaust duct, quenching the flue gas stream from the exhaust duct with an aqueous medium, mixing the quenched flue gas stream with ozone in a sub-stoichiometic amount for partial oxidation of NO injecting the ozone into the flue gas stream at a flow velocity in a range two to three times greater than the flow velocity of the flue gas stream, absorbing the flue gas stream containing NO and NO mixing the nitrous acid with compounds of ammonia to react and release nitrogen. | 17,945 |
9,285,749 | 1. An image forming apparatus comprising: a main body formed with an opening; a storage portion configured to store a sheet, on which an image is formed, inside the main body; a conveyance unit configured to convey the sheet, on which the image is formed, to the storage portion; a moving unit configured to move the sheet stored in the storage portion and stop the sheet in an exposed state in which a part of the sheet is exposed outside the main body through the opening; and a detection unit configured to detect the sheet in the exposed state, wherein, in a case where the image forming apparatus receives a first instruction to convey a first number of sheets, which is more than a storable number in the storage portion, to the storage portion, the conveyance unit conveys a second number of sheets, which is equal to or less than the storable number in the storage portion, to the storage portion, and then in a case where the image forming apparatus receives a second instruction to take out the sheets stored in the storage portion, the moving unit moves the second number of sheets being stored in the storage portion, and stops the sheets in the exposed state and then in response to the detection unit detecting that the second number of sheets in the exposed state is taken out from the storage portion, even if the image forming apparatus doesn't receive any further instruction to convey sheets or further instruction to take out sheets, the conveyance unit and the moving unit repeats an operation to convey rest of the sheets other than the second number of sheets among the first number of sheets to the storage portion and to move the rest of the sheets being stored in the storage portion and stop the rest of the sheets in the exposed state. | 1,585 |
9,258,256 | 1. A method comprising: (a) receiving frames onto a physical MAC port of a Network Flow Processor (NFP) integrated circuit; (b) supplying configuration information to an Inverse PCP Remap Look Up Table (IPRLUT) circuit of the NFP integrated circuit; (c) writing frame data of the frames into a linked list of buffers, wherein the linked list of buffers stores frame data for a single virtual channel, wherein the single virtual channel is identified by a virtual channel number; (d) maintaining a buffer count for the linked list of buffers; (e) determining that the buffer count has exceeded a predetermined threshold value; (f) supplying the virtual channel number to the IPRLUT circuit such that the IPRLUT circuit outputs a multi-bit value, wherein the multi-bit value includes a plurality of bits, wherein each respective one of the plurality of bits corresponds to a respective one of eight PCP (Priority Code Point) priority levels; (g) in response to the determining of (e) using the multi-bit value to generate a Priority Flow Control (PFC) pause frame, wherein the PFC pause frame has a priority class enable vector field, wherein the priority class enable vector field includes a plurality of enable bits, wherein each respective one of the plurality of enable bits corresponds to a respective one of the eight PCP priority levels, and wherein multiple ones of the enable bits are set thereby indicating that multiple ones of the PCP priority levels are to be paused; and (h) outputting the PFC pause frame from the physical MAC port. | 14,554 |
9,308,097 | 1. A method, comprising: forming a hole through a calcaneus and a talus and into a portion of a tibia; resecting at least a portion of the tibia; resecting at least a portion of a talus to form a resected talar surface; inserting a first tibial prosthesis component into the hole formed in the tibia; coupling a second tibial prosthesis component to the first tibial prosthesis component; and securing a talar prosthesis to the resected talar surface such that the talar prosthesis is in an articulating relationship with the second tibial prosthesis component. | 47,233 |
8,571,713 | 1. A humanoid robot hand comprising: a hand body part; and at least one finger part connected to the hand body part, wherein the hand body part or the finger part has a keyboard function used to input commands through the humanoid robot hand. | 1,754 |
9,249,681 | 1. A turbine engine fan case assembly comprising: a structural case; a liner assembly; and a radially accommodating attachment system connecting the liner assembly to the structural case and comprising: | 6,292 |
9,534,924 | 1. A method for calibrating a sensor on a mobile device, the method comprising: detecting, via a temperature sensor coupled to the mobile device, temperature of an operating environment for a sensor coupled to the mobile device; identifying, via a processor coupled to the mobile device, a temperature bin from a plurality of temperature bins for the sensor using the detected temperature, in response to detecting temperature of an operating environment for the sensor, wherein the temperature bin comprises a range of temperatures, wherein the temperature bin has one or more sensor measurements received at a temperature within the range of temperatures associated with the temperature bin; determining, via the processor, that diversity among previously stored sensor measurement data at or near the temperature is below a threshold; in response to determining that the diversity associated with the sensor measurement data at or near the temperature is below the threshold, generating, via the processor, calibration data for the sensor for the detected temperature using sensor measurement data from a previously detected temperature, wherein the generating comprises using sensor measurement data from another temperature bin; lowering, via the processor, a weight associated with the sensor measurement data from another temperature bin by adjusting one or more parameters of a filter associated with the temperature bin; calibrating, via the processor and based at least in part on the generated calibration data, output from the sensor at or near the temperature; and operating, via the processor, the sensor based on the calibrated output. | 11,414 |
8,773,875 | 1. A power conversion apparatus comprising: a first LC circuit that includes a first capacitor and a first inductor connected in series to each other and is connected to an AC power supply; a first switch that connects, at a terminal of the first switch, to a terminal of the AC power supply through the first LC circuit and connects, at an other terminal of the first switch, to an other terminal of the AC power supply; a second switch that connects, at a terminal of the second switch, to a connection point between the terminal of the first switch and the first LC circuit; a smoothing capacitor that connects, at a terminal of the smoothing capacitor, to an other terminal of the second switch and connects, at an other terminal of the smoothing capacitor, to a connection point between the other terminal of the first switch and the other terminal of the AC power supply; a second LC circuit connected to a second capacitor and a second inductor in series, wherein a terminal of the second LC circuit is connected to a connection point between the first switch and the second switch, and an other terminal of the second LC circuit is connected to a load and forms a series circuit between the connection point between the first switch and the second switch and the load; and a controller that outputs a first pulse signal for pulse-driving the first switch when a voltage polarity of the AC power supply is positive, and outputs a second pulse signal for pulse-driving the second switch when the voltage polarity of the AC power supply is negative. | 9,861 |
8,395,232 | 1. A semiconductor device comprising: an antifuse element, the antifuse element comprising: | 20,528 |
8,467,647 | 1. A method for making an optical fiber ribbon containing a plurality of optical fibers being co-planar and arranged in parallel, the ribbon being splittable longitudinally along a path between at least two adjacent border fibers among the plurality, the method comprising: coating the border fibers with a first radiation-curable ink; partially curing the first radiation-curable ink; covering the plurality of optical fibers other than the border fibers with a second radiation-curable ink; substantially fully curing the second radiation-curable ink; applying a matrix material over the partially-cured ink on the border fibers; and substantially fully curing the matrix material and the partially-cured ink substantially simultaneously. | 37,203 |
9,538,099 | 1. An X-ray detector, comprising: a scintillator configured to convert X-rays into visible rays; an X-ray detection region including a plurality of photodiodes connected to each other by a plurality of gate lines for each row, and by a plurality of data lines for each column and configured to convert the visible rays into electrical signals; a gate driver configured to apply a turn-on signal to the gate lines sequentially; a readout circuit configured to read out the electrical signals converted by the photodiodes and transmitted through the data lines; and a detector controller controlling if the readout circuit detects an existence of an electrical signal from the photodiode connected to one gate line of one region when the gate driver applies the turn-on signal to the one gate line, the gate driver to apply another turn-on signal having a turn-on time period that is different from a turn-on time period of the one region, to the gate lines of another region, and the one region and the other regions are divided based on the one gate line. | 26,401 |
8,636,696 | 1. A microneedle assembly comprising: a support comprising a first outer surface and a second outer surface, the second outer surface having sections that are parallel and sections that are slanted relative to the first surface; a plurality of microneedles projecting outwardly from the second outer surface of the support, the microneedles comprising a base, a tip and an exterior surface; a pathway comprising | 16,070 |
8,905,626 | 1. A food preparation apparatus comprising; a chamber comprising a door which seals, the chamber when the door is in a closed position; a carriage comprising a cup holder; a motor that transports the carriage with the cup holder into the chamber from a starting position and returns the carriage to the starting position wherein said chamber door is opened when said carriage enters said chamber and closed after said carriage leaves said chamber; and a cleaning system comprising a plurality of nozzles, a fluid reservoir and a fluid pump wherein, after said carriage leaves said chamber, pump pressurized fluid from said reservoir is sprayed into said chamber from said nozzles to clean said chamber. | 34,999 |
8,909,202 | 1. A method of managing user interaction with an application on a mobile device, the method, comprising: determining presence of user activity at the mobile device; identifying or determining, at the mobile device, characteristics of the user activity; communicating the characteristics of the user activity to an entity remote from the mobile device, such that the user activity is able to be simulated or mimicked by the remote entity; wherein, the user activity is simulated or mimicked remotely to monitor or observe content change at a server or resource; determining or computing, with the mobile device, a time to live (TTL) associated with the user activity by comparing whether the user activity has been repeated a number of time exceeding a predetermined number of time within a period of time; in response, indicating to the remote entity said TTL, which includes an amount of time for which the remote entity is to simulate or mimic the user activity to monitor or observe the server or the resource for content changes; upon subsequent detection of user interactions having same or similar characteristics as the identified characteristics, blocking the user interactions from powering on or switching up the radio; and stopping the simulating or mimicking when the TTL expires. | 48,240 |
8,657,559 | 1. A method for reducing wear in a water turbine where the water turbine comprises a turbine housing and an impeller, and where between the turbine housing and the impeller is arranged a seal being supplied with water, the method comprising: providing a water cleaner; connecting a water supply to the water cleaner; and leading the cleaned water to the seal. | 15,127 |
8,423,645 | 1. A method of managing a denial of service attack in a multiprocessor environment comprising the steps of: establishing baseline values for normal network traffic usage in the multiprocessor environment; monitoring outgoing traffic to detect a high proportion of packets being sent to a specific destination address, and a high number of outbound packets compared to said baseline values; in response to detecting a high proportion of packets being sent to said specific destination address, and a high number of outbound packets compared to said baseline values, monitoring port and protocol to detect a high proportion of packets sent to a specific port, and a consistent use of a protocol for all packets for that port; in response to detecting a high proportion of packets sent to a specific port, and a consistent use of a protocol for all packets for that port, monitoring outgoing traffic to detect a high proportion of timeouts compared to said baseline values coming from a portion of a subnet address space of said network; and in response to detecting a high proportion of timeouts compared to said baseline values coming from said portion of a subnet address space of said network, starting blocking measures to mitigate an apparent denial of service attack. | 39,168 |
9,502,979 | 1. A comparison unit for a switching circuit, comprising: a comparator configured to compare an input signal with a feedback signal to provide a first signal; a sampling circuit configured to sample the first signal according to a reference clock to provide a sampling signal, the sampling signal having a first level or a second level; and a comparison signal generating circuit configured to provide a comparison signal having the first level when the sampling signal is at the first level for a longer time duration than the second level or having the second level when the sampling signal is at the first level for a shorter time duration than the second level. | 41,052 |
8,939,171 | 1. A system for controlling microfluidic flow comprising: a. microfluidic circuit comprising at least two inlet ports through which fluid is introduced into said circuit, at least one microchannel for microfluidic flow in fluid communication with said inlet port, and an outlet port in fluid communication with said microchannel through which fluid from said microchannel is collected; and b. at least first and second pressure sources in selective communication with said outlet port and each of said at least two inlet ports to initiate and stop fluid flow from any of said at least two inlets to the outlet. | 29,481 |
8,502,832 | 1. A texture filtering system, comprising: a hardware-based pre-formatter module configured to receive texel data and generate normalized fixed point texel data; a hardware-based interpolator module configured to perform an interpolation on the normalized fixed point texel data from the pre-formatter module and generate re-normalized floating point texel data; a hardware-based accumulator module configured to accumulate the floating point texel data from the interpolator module; and a hardware-based format module configured to convert the texel data from the accumulator module into a standard floating point representation. | 40,564 |
9,013,067 | 1. Method for automatic stabilization of an electric power supply network system comprising a network and at least one converter adapted to exchange maximum transferrable power with the network at steady state stability limit of the electric power supply network system by change of real current flowing between the network and a converter through a stabilizing controller, whereby the necessary direction of current change is determined through real-time stability analysis comprising the following steps: determining at least two electrical main circuit quantities, forming derivatives of the at least two main circuit quantities with respect to time, comparing the signs of the derivatives, and generating a steady state stability limit detection signal in dependency on the outcome of the comparing step, wherein the change of the current direction is achieved by reversing a control loop feedback sign of the stabilizing controller via application of the generated stability limit detection signal, and wherein the stability limit detection signal is generated by comparing the signs of gradient values of real power with respect to time with the signs of gradient values of a second real power dependent quantity with respect to time and if the signs are different the stability limit detection signals is set to a true value and if the signs are equal the stability detection signal is set to false. | 16,394 |
9,065,147 | 1. A battery system comprising: a lithium ion secondary battery having a power generating element including control means for controlling the lithium ion secondary battery; wherein a positive and negative extending direction is defined as a direction joining the positive extended part and the negative extended part, and wherein the laminated part is divided in the positive and negative extending direction into three sections of: a central laminated part, a positive-side laminated part, and a negative-side laminated part, central temperature detecting means for detecting a temperature of the central laminated part located in the center of the laminated part in the positive and negative extending direction; and at least one of: the control means being arranged to control the lithium ion secondary battery by use of the temperature of the central laminated part and at least one of the temperature of the positive-side laminated part, and the temperature of the negative-side laminated part. | 25,612 |
9,162,671 | 1. A hybrid vehicle drive system installed in a hybrid vehicle, the hybrid vehicle drive system comprising: an engine; a motor-generator generating electricity by a drive force of the engine; a main battery chargeable and dischargeable in an exchange of electricity with the motor-generator; a sub-battery electrically connected with the main battery; a DC-DC converter disposed between the main battery and the sub-battery and converting an input voltage from the main battery to an output battery voltage that is output to the sub-battery which is designated as a sub-battery voltage; and a hybrid vehicle control unit (HV-ECU) controlling the sub-battery voltage of the sub-battery, wherein a normal time is defined as a time when a main battery SOC is equal to or higher than a preset threshold, and when the main battery SOC is less than the preset threshold, (i) in an engine non-operation time, the HV-ECU sets a sub-battery voltage during the engine non-operation time to be lower than a sub-battery voltage during the normal time to decrease sub-battery charging during the engine non-operation time relative to sub-battery charging during the normal time, and (ii) in an engine operation time, the HV-ECU sets a sub-battery voltage during the engine operation time to be higher than the sub-battery voltage during the engine non-operation time to increase sub-battery charging during the engine operation time relative to sub-battery charging during the engine non-operation time. | 7,612 |
8,808,790 | 1. A process for manufacturing a submillimetric electroconductive grid coated with an overgrid on a main face of a substrate comprising: producing a network mask having submillimetric openings on the main face, the producing including: forming the electroconductive grid from the network mask, the forming comprising depositing at least one electroconductive grid material until a fraction of the depth of the openings is filled; heat treating the masking layer with the electroconductive grid material at a temperature greater than or equal to 0.8 times T forming the overgrid on the grid, the forming of the overgrid comprising depositing an overlayer, made of an overlayer material, on the grid and in the space between the edges of mask zones and the lateral edges of the grid; removing the masking layer, until the electroconductive grid coated with the overgrid is revealed. | 10,011 |
9,623,756 | 1. A power control unit mounted on a vehicle, the power control unit comprising therein an electric power converter module and a charging device configured to be used when a battery mounted on the vehicle is charged from an external source, the power control unit further comprising: a case; an electric power converter chamber disposed in the case and comprising the electric power converter module therein; and a charging device chamber disposed in the case and comprising the charging device therein, wherein the case comprises a metal partition wall partitioning the charging device chamber from the electric power converter chamber such that the charging device chamber is separated from the electric power converter chamber, wherein the electric power converter chamber and the charging device chamber have a common bottom surface, and the electric power converter module and the charging device are fixed to the bottom surface respectively in the corresponding chambers, the case includes a space above the charging device and the case includes a peripheral wall surrounding the space, the peripheral wall including the partition wall, the power control unit further comprising a controller configured to control the electric power converter module, the controller being disposed in the space above the charging device, wherein the charging device does not operate while the controller is in operation and the controller does not operate while the charging device is in operation. | 13,247 |
8,703,642 | 1. A method of forming a supported oxidation catalyst, comprising: providing a support comprising a metal oxide or a metal salt, and depositing first palladium compound particles and second precious metal group (PMG) metal particles on said support while in a liquid phase including at least one solvent to form mixed metal comprising particles on said support, wherein said second PMG metal particles is not palladium, and separating said mixed metal comprising particles on said support from said liquid phase to provide said supported oxidation catalyst. | 2,997 |
9,264,597 | 1. An apparatus, comprising: an integrated circuit configured to generate one or more clock signals to control timing of a set of operations performed by an image sensor external to the integrated circuit; a sensor component associated with the image sensor that is configured to implement the set of operations based on a state map and the one or more clock signals generated by the integrated circuit, wherein the state map is a table that comprises a set of sequential locations where each location in the set of sequential locations is associated with a destination state to define an operation from the set of operations that is performed by the image sensor, and an exit criterion to sequentially advance to a next location in the state map that is associated with another operation performed by the image sensor that is different than the operation; and one or more registers each configured to store a data value to represent one of the destination states. | 40,015 |
9,131,637 | 1. An apparatus for transferring load between: a) a towing vehicle having a front end and a rear end respectively with front and rear wheels, wherein the towing vehicle comprises a tow assembly including a tow bar at the rear end; and b) a towed device which includes a drawbar at the front end; wherein the tow bar and drawbar are attached to one another, the apparatus comprising: a shock absorber; and a load transfer mechanism configured for adjustably transferring at least a portion of the load, via the tow bar and draw bar connection, of the towed implement to the front of the vehicle in a region leading the front wheel axle via the shock absorber. | 39,284 |
9,557,981 | 1. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing instructions that, when executed by a vehicle computing system, cause a processor thereof to perform the method comprising: determining at a vehicle that a connection to an update server should be established; establishing a wireless connection between the vehicle and the update server using a wireless device in wireless communication with a vehicle computing system; sending at least a vehicle identification number (VIN) number to the update server; downloading one or more module updates corresponding to the sent VIN number; flashing one or more modules to which the one or more updates correspond; saving a backup copy of the modules in a working state in the event that the flashing fails if memory exists locally; reconnecting to the update server to upload the backup copy of the modules to the update server if no local backup is available, where it can be temporarily saved for rollback if the flashing fails; and alerting the update server in the event of an unsuccessful upload when the wireless connection times out before the upload is successful and if no other means of restoring an improperly flashed module exists. | 20,753 |
9,664,131 | 1. A method of controlling exhaust injection in an exhaust gas aftertreatment device including an exhaust pipe injector at an exhaust pipe of an engine for perform exhaust pipe injection, a diesel oxidation catalyst connected to the exhaust pipe downstream of the exhaust pipe injector, and a diesel particulate filter connected to the exhaust pipe downstream of the diesel oxidation catalyst, the exhaust gas aftertreatment device being configured to perform multiple-injection, post injection and the exhaust pipe injection when particulate matter accumulates in the diesel particulate filter, thereby burning a reduction gas in the diesel oxidation catalyst, raising an exhaust gas temperature, burning the particulate matter, which has accumulated in the diesel particulate filter, for regeneration of the diesel particulate filter, the method comprising: preparing, in advance, a light-off performance map that indicates a combustion efficiency relative to a diesel oxidation catalyst temperature in the post injection and in the exhaust pipe injection, both when the catalyst is fresh and when the catalyst has deteriorated; setting the catalyst temperature that enables the exhaust pipe injection, from a degree of deterioration of the catalyst based on the light-off performance map; performing the multiple-injection and/or the post injection when the set catalyst temperature is not reached; and performing the exhaust pipe injection when the catalyst temperature reaches or exceeds the set catalyst temperature, wherein the light-off performance map decides activation temperatures from a light-off performance of the catalyst in a multiple-injection region, a post injection region and an exhaust pipe injection region, and the multiple-injection, the post injection and the exhaust pipe injection are sequentially selected based on the catalyst temperature. | 31,321 |
8,464,564 | 1. A key ring comprising: a wire arranged in at least two rounds providing a resilient spiral, said spiral having a first and a second end, wherein the first end by means of inertial resiliency is forced to tightly contact a first surface of a lower round and the second end is forced to tightly contact a second surface of an upper round wherein at least one end is openable, by means of arranging a peak providing a compressible gap between said at least two rounds, wherein said wire in at least one of the rounds has a cross-section wherein the thickness (h) and width (w) is such that 2h≦w≦15h, wherein the combination of the position of peak and the form of the wire is arranged to enable said first end to open up an insertion opening when compressing said gap, and not to enable said second end to open up an insertion opening. | 41,911 |
9,666,772 | 1. A light emitter, comprising: a substantially planar supporting surface comprising a thermally conductive heat spreader and a reflective layer on said thermally conductive heat spreader, said reflective layer shaped to define a discontinuity; a solid state light source on said reflective layer and in thermal communication with said thermally conductive heat spreader to draw heat away from said light source, said supporting surface providing a substantially planar surface around said light source; and an encapsulant on said substantially planar supporting surface and surrounding said light source, said reflective layer between said encapsulant and said thermally conductive heat spreader, said encapsulant only constrained at an interface with said solid state light source and said substantially planar supporting surface, such that said encapsulant is capable of expanding and contracting in response to a change in temperature; wherein said encapsulant comprises a curved external surface and substantially straight surface which is inwardly angled with respect to said substantially planar supporting surface, said curved external surface adjacent to said substantially straight surface, said inwardly angled encapsulant surface both refracting and reflecting light emitted by said light source. | 19,322 |
9,599,976 | 1. A method for selecting at least one effective power source among a plurality of disparate power sources for a smart grid, the said method comprising: receiving, by a power management computing device, power from the plurality of disparate power sources; selecting, by the power management computing device, one or more power sources among the plurality of disparate power sources based on one or more predefined requirements; determining, by the power management computing device, at least one effective power source from the one or more power sources by applying one or more algorithm based on number and range of the one or more power sources, wherein the one or more algorithm comprise Complete Karmarkar Karp (CKK), pbrute, Heuristic based pbrute; generating, by the power management computing device, a signal for selection of the at least one effective power source; and sending, by the power management computing device, the signal to a circuit switcher to supply the power from the at least one effective power sources to the smart grid. | 20,649 |
8,494,897 | 1. A method of generating demographic profiles of network-accessible sites, the method comprising: obtaining demographic information relating to each network user of a first set of network users, said demographic data supplied by the respective users; obtaining network usage information relating to each of the network users of the first set of network users; training a computer-implemented classifier using the demographic information and the network usage information relating to each of the network users of the first set; obtaining network usage information for a second set of users for whom demographic information is unknown or incomplete; applying the computer-implemented classifier to the network usage information of said second set of users to generate predictive demographic information for the users in the second set; and generating, by a computer system that comprises one or more computing devices, a demographic profile of a network-accessible site based on a combination of (1) the demographic information supplied by users who have accessed the site, and (2) the predictive demographic information of users who have accessed the site, wherein generating the demographic profile of the site comprises giving an amount of weight to a user's supplied or predictive demographic information that is proportional to a measure of the user's quantity of usage of the site. | 45,108 |
9,780,223 | 1. A method of forming a thin film transistor structure, comprising: transferring a substrate having a dielectric layer disposed thereon into a processing chamber, supplying a GaAs containing precursor disposed in a solvent to the processing chamber; evaporating the GaAs containing precursor solvent in the processing chamber to form a GaAs based layer on the substrate; and forming a source-drain metal electrode layer adjacent to the GaAs based layer to form a thin film transistor structure. | 48,175 |
8,926,589 | 1. A method for medical treatment, comprising: inserting a sheath, having a longitudinal axis and a distal opening, through a body passage into a cavity within a body of a patient; inserting into the sheath a catheter having a resilient distal end that is formed so that, when unconstrained, the distal end bends away from the longitudinal axis in a curved shape consisting of a single arcuate segment, and when subjected to a force, the distal end straightens toward the longitudinal axis, the catheter further comprising a first and second magnetic position transducers, wherein the first magnetic position transducer is positioned proximal the resilient distal end and the second magnetic position transducer is positioned near the distal end of the resilient distal end; advancing the catheter through the sheath so that the distal end of the catheter passes through the distal opening of the sheath into the cavity and assumes the curved shape; manipulating the catheter within the cavity so that the distal end contacts tissue in the cavity; generating magnetic fields with magnetic field generators; sensing the magnetic fields produced by the field generators with the magnetic position transducers and outputting signals to a processor; processing the signals in the processor to determine the bend angle of the of the distal end of the catheter and the radial force exerted thereon by tissue within the body cavity; and moving the catheter within the sheath while the distal end contacts the tissue so as to cause the distal end to trace a desired path along the tissue. | 974 |
8,502,615 | 1. A circuit, comprising: a phase shifter configured to selectively shift a phase of a baseband phase signal in accordance with a zero crossing signal to output a selectively phase-shifted signal; a phase modulator configured to provide a phase modulated carrier signal in accordance with the selectively phase-shifted signal; and an inverter configured to selectively invert the phase modulated carrier signal in accordance with the zero crossing signal. | 4,161 |
8,583,202 | 1. Method of managing thermal contraction of a superconductor cable having a cable body surrounded by an external screen made from mechanically strong wires or tapes wound with a certain pitch and installed between its ends in an enclosure or cryostat filled with a cryogenic liquid said method comprising the steps of: mechanically applying a locking force, loading only said screen at a so-called locking point in the vicinity of said ends of the cable, wherein the pitch of said wires or tapes remains constant spite of a resulting constant cooling contraction force tending to tighten said wound wires or tapes of the screen and to reduce their winding pitch between the two ends of the cable, and consequently a radial pressure resulting on all the other elements or layers of the superconductor cable constituting the cable body, which locks them, preventing longitudinal displacement caused by thermal contraction of the cable. | 15,070 |
9,377,258 | 1. A charging handle for a rifle having a receiver, the charging handle comprising: a shaft having a grasping handle at a rearward end and a bolt carrier engagement portion at a forward end; a primary handle: a spring; a plunger; and a recess in said grasping handle, wherein said recess is configured to receive a portion of said primary handle; wherein said primary handle is attached to said grasping handle so that said primary handle can rotate about an axis; and wherein said spring and said plunger are housed within an interior space of said grasping handle and said spring biases said plunger towards the rearward end of the charging handle. | 15,444 |
8,668,009 | 1. A method for extracting oil from an underground oil deposit comprising: injecting a mixture of oxygen, steam and oil into an injection well to upgrade oil in an oil deposit below ground to decrease the viscosity of the oil to produce upgraded oil, wherein the mixture provides hydrogen to hydrogenate with oil in the oil deposit; extracting the upgraded oil with a production well to bring upgraded oil aboveground; monitoring at least one characteristic of the upgraded oil to determine when the at least on characteristic exceed a threshold; and adjusting the mixture of oxygen, steam and oil when the at least one characteristic exceeds the threshold value so that the mixture of oxygen, steam and oil does not exceed the threshold. | 38,492 |
9,296,363 | 1. An arrangement for drying paint or lacquer on a product, which arrangement is intended to be disposed in a suitable installation space with a support surface for processing the product, wherein the arrangement comprises a drying arch with drying elements, the drying arch extending over the installation space, wherein the drying arch is divided into two arch segments, wherein the two arch segments are mounted at a respective one of two sides opposing each other of the installation space, on a respective one of two actuating units, which actuating units are arranged at the support surface and comprise, on the one hand, means for moving the actuating unit with its arch segment along its side of the installation space, and, on the other hand, means for tilting the arch segment mounted to the actuating unit at the respective side of the installation space, as well as means for displacing the arch segment mounted to the respective actuating unit outward and inward relative to the installation space and the opposite side thereof. | 18,145 |
9,351,356 | 1. A method comprising: (a) sensing a value of a current in a switching power converter during a switching cycle of the switching power converter; (b) detecting a target peak value of the current value; (c) adjusting the detected target peak value of the current value with a post-detection delay compensation factor to generate a delay compensated current value; (d) determining an amount of current provided to a load coupled to the switching power converter based on the delay compensated current value; and (e) generating a switch control signal to control the value of the current in the switching power converter to provide energy to the load in accordance with the delay compensated current value. | 12,568 |
8,945,821 | 1. A method for patterning a flexible substrate, comprising: providing a carrier substrate; forming a release layer on the carrier substrate; forming a plurality of UV blocking mask patterns covering various portions of the release layer; forming a flexible substrate film covering the UV blocking mask patterns and the release layer; performing a UV lighting process to expose the flexible substrate film and the release layer not covered by the UV blocking mask patterns, to a UV light; and performing a debonding step so that various portions of the flexible substrate film directly above the various portions of the release layer, which were not exposed to the UV light, are separated from the carrier substrate and the release layer. | 5,950 |
9,306,473 | 1. A variable rotor speed wind turbine transmitting electric AC power to a utility grid, the wind turbine comprising: at least one AC generator; a power converter comprising at least three power electronic converter units each configured to perform AC-DC-AC conversion; at least one nominal output value transformer communicatively coupling the at least one AC generator and the power converter, and configured to transform at least one nominal output value of the at least one AC generator to at least one different nominal input value of the at least three power electronic converter units; and at least one utility grid transformer coupled to the power converter, wherein the nominal output value transformer, the utility grid transformer and the power converter transform phases of the at least one AC generator to at least three phases of the utility grid, wherein the nominal output value transformer, the utility grid transformer, and at least one of the power electronic converter units form a power module provided to the wind turbine, and wherein the power module is included in a common housing with one or more additional power modules corresponding to different wind turbines, wherein an organization and location of the power electronic converter units enables redundancy in the wind turbine by N-1 operation. | 46,679 |
8,804,509 | 1. A method comprising: measuring port usage data related to each of a plurality of physical ports associated with a link aggregation group; estimating a bandwidth requirement of a requested media stream; when the requested media stream comprises non-video data: when the requested media stream comprises video data: | 35,297 |
8,577,512 | 1. An energy supply system comprising: an energy supply device for supplying at least one of electric power and heat; and a controller configured to set first maximum operation time which is an upper limit value of operation time of the energy supply device in a first specified period shorter than a guaranteed operation period of the energy supply device such that operation time of the energy supply device does not reach operation time life before the guaranteed operation period lapses, and calculate and set second maximum operation time which is an upper limit value of operation time of the energy supply device in a second specified period shorter than the first specified period based on the set first maximum operation time such that the operation time of the energy supply device within the first specified period does not exceed the first maximum operation time. | 18,428 |
8,546,083 | 1. A method for assaying the amount of bound nucleic acid-binding polypeptide in a sample comprising the steps of: (a) measuring the level of fluorescence in a sample comprising a nucleic acid, a nucleic acid-binding fluorescent reporter, and a nucleic acid-binding polypeptide, wherein the nucleic acid comprises a fluorescent reporter-binding sequence and a binding polypeptide-binding sequence positioned such that binding polypeptide bound to the nucleic acid inhibits binding of the fluorescent reporter to the nucleic acid and modulates the level of fluorescence in the sample, and wherein the binding-polypeptide binding sequence of the nucleic acid is one or more damaged nucleic acid bases, and wherein the fluorescent reporter is fluorescent 4′,6-diamidino-2-phenylindole (DAPI), distamycin A, Hoechst 33258, netropsin, berenil, 2-hydroxystilbamidine, chromomycin A3, or a fluorophore-tethered peptide or oligopeptide, and (b) comparing the level of fluorescence in the sample to a control level of fluorescence, wherein a difference in the level of fluorescence in the sample compared to the control level of fluorescence indicates the amount of bound nucleic acid-binding polypeptide in the sample. | 4,714 |
8,701,372 | 1. A method of assembling a photovoltaic system comprising: supporting a photovoltaic module on a module-support portion of a module rail, the photovoltaic module including a frame having a lower flange; press fitting the module-support portion of the module rail and the lower flange of the photovoltaic module into a press-fit channel of a clip fastener to secure the photovoltaic module on the module-support portion of the module rail. | 12,963 |
8,837,496 | 1. A method, comprising: determining, by a network device, that a first Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM)-enabled device is designated as an Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) querier for a network, wherein the first PIM-enabled device is coupled to the network device via the network; initiating a timer configured to expire after a predetermined period for the first PIM-enabled device; and upon determining, by operation of one or more computer processors on the network device, that the timer has expired and determining that a PIM hello network message has not yet been received from the first PIM-enabled device, determining that the IGMP querier for the network has become unavailable. | 10,629 |
8,556,345 | 1. A chair, comprising: a chair body; at least one connecting member pivotally connected with the chair body; at least one back portion connected with the connecting member to press and pivot the connecting member outward relative to the chair body; and at least one restoring device mounted between the connecting member and the chair body to pull the connecting member toward the chair body; wherein the chair body includes a base; the base of the chair body is provided with at least one receiving chamber to receive the restoring device; the restoring device includes: a threaded adjusting sleeve rotatably mounted in the receiving chamber of the base; a threaded rod screwed into the adjusting sleeve; a pull cord having a first end mounted on the connecting member to move in concert with the connecting member and a second end mounted on the threaded rod to pull the threaded rod and the adjusting sleeve toward the connecting member; and an elastic member mounted on the threaded rod and biased between the base of the chair body and the adjusting sleeve to push the threaded rod and the adjusting sleeve outward relative to the connecting member. | 30,086 |
8,947,605 | 1. A method of displaying time multiplexed autostereoscopic images from a plurality of perspective views, each perspective view being an image of a scene from a position spaced along a line, on an autostereoscopic display of the type comprising an image-forming LCD having pixel elements in rows and columns and diagonal lines and a backlight having a plurality of sets of light lines oriented along the diagonal lines of the pixel elements of LCD, the backlight being arranged such that light from the light lines passes through diagonal lines of pixel elements of the LCD to a viewer, the method comprising the steps of: a) disassembling each of the plurality of perspective views into diagonal columns of pixel elements, b) reassembling the pixel elements from the views into a plurality of fields, each field comprising diagonals of pixel elements selected from all of the original perspective views; c) illuminating the sets of light lines of the backlight in a pattern; and d) displaying the plurality of fields on the LCD, such that the diagonals of pixel elements of the plurality of fields are displayed in synchronization with the pattern of illumination of the sets of lines of the backlight. | 7,593 |
9,820,322 | 1. A method by a terminal communicating with a master base station and a secondary base station, the method comprising: identifying that a transmission of a first preamble on a primary cell of the master base station is overlapped with a transmission of a second preamble on a secondary cell of the secondary base station in a time domain, and a sum of transmission powers determined for the transmissions of the first preamble and the second preamble is greater than a maximum allowed transmission power of the terminal; transmitting the first preamble on the primary cell based on the transmission power determined for the transmission of the first preamble; dropping the transmission of the second preamble on the secondary cell; and skipping an increase of a number of transmission of the second preamble, the number of transmission of the second preamble being used to determine the transmission power for the transmission of the second preamble. | 45,555 |
8,869,164 | 1. An apparatus for assigning at least one parallel job to a plurality of virtual containers competing for a total capacity of resources for executing one or more tasks of a larger container comprising the plurality of competing virtual containers, wherein the at least one parallel job comprises a plurality of tasks, the apparatus comprising: a memory; and at least one processor, coupled to the memory, operative to carry out the following steps: determine (i) a current utilization of resources for executing the one or more tasks and (ii) a potential free capacity of resources for executing the one or more tasks for each of the plurality of competing virtual containers, wherein: assign a first task of the plurality of tasks of the at least one parallel job to one of the plurality of competing virtual containers based on (i) a ranking of the potential free capacities, (ii) a relationship between (a) the parallelism of the at least one parallel job and one or more underlying physical cores and (b), the mapping of the plurality of competing virtual containers to the one or more underlying physical cores, and (iii) at least one predefined scheduling policy; and re-determine the potential free capacity of resources for executing, in parallel, one or more tasks of the plurality of tasks of the at least one parallel job for each of the plurality of competing virtual containers, excluding the virtual container to which the first task was assigned, subsequent to said assigning the first task, and repeating said step of assigning for the one or more tasks of the plurality of tasks of the at least one parallel job. | 6,470 |
9,641,769 | 1. An image capture apparatus capable of executing automatic focus detection of an imaging optical system, using a signal obtained from an image sensor, the apparatus comprising: an acquisition unit configured to acquire (1) first image-forming position information obtained by performing, using a plurality of first weights and a plurality of third weights, weighted addition on information regarding a plurality of image-forming positions of the imaging optical system, the information corresponding to different spatial frequencies, and (2) second image-forming position information obtained by performing, using a plurality of second weights and a plurality of fourth weights, weighted addition on the information; a correction unit configured to correct a result of the automatic focus detection based on a result of a comparison between the first image-forming position information and the second image-forming position information; and a control unit configured to control a position of a focusing lens that the imaging optical system has, based on the corrected result of the automatic focus detection, wherein the plurality of first weights correspond to a first evaluated band, which is related to characteristics of a captured image and is predetermined, and the plurality of second weights correspond to a second evaluated band, which is related to characteristics of a signal used for the automatic focus detection, and wherein the plurality of third weights respectively correspond to different spatial frequencies and the plurality of fourth weights respectively correspond to the different spatial frequencies, and the smaller the spatial frequency is, the smaller the respective third weight and the respective fourth weight. | 16,800 |
9,352,740 | 1. A vehicle energy-management device for use in a vehicle that is equipped with a plurality of vehicle apparatuses driven by different energy sources, said device comprising: a travel route calculator that calculates a travel route of said vehicle; a travel route divider that divides said travel route into a plurality of sections; a control plan preparing unit that prepares, for each of said plurality of sections, a control plan to control energy consumption for said plurality of vehicle apparatuses; and a vehicle apparatus controller that controls said plurality of vehicle apparatuses according to said control plan, wherein said travel route divider determines a length of each of said sections such that a resolution is higher for a section closer along the travel route to said vehicle than other sections. | 11,822 |
9,019,476 | 1. A substrate table clamping apparatus, comprising: a substrate table constructed to hold a substrate; a first clamping system configured to clamp the substrate table to a substrate table support structure; and a second clamping system configured to clamp the substrate to the substrate table, wherein the substrate table is provided with at least part of the first clamping system, the at least part configured to apply a clamping force to clamp the substrate table to the substrate table support structure and the at least part comprising an outlet configured to provide a suction to clamp the substrate table to the substrate table support structure. | 39,405 |
9,237,192 | 1. A method for processing data streams, the method comprising: receiving at least two data streams into respective sliding windows of memory; calculating a cost of executing processing logic for processing the at least two data streams, wherein the cost indicates an amount of processing resources that is consumed by the executing; calculating a throttling fraction, wherein the throttling fraction specifies an amount by which to reduce the cost of executing the processing logic; and selecting tuples from said at least two data streams for processing, where said selected tuples represent a subset of all tuples contained within said sliding windows, and where said selecting accounts for said throttling fraction and for a time correlation among the at least two data streams, wherein at least one of: the calculating the cost, the calculating the throttling fraction, or the selecting is performed by a processor. | 24,595 |
9,111,153 | 1. A first wireless device comprising: a wireless communication interface; a processor coupled to said wireless communication interface; and a memory coupled to said processor, said memory to store code which, when executed by said processor, detects at said first wireless device one or more conditions that indicate that communication of data between said first wireless device and a second wireless device over a wireless communication link will not occur within a specified period of time, and responsive to detecting said one or more conditions sends a deactivation alert to said second wireless device over said wireless communication link via said wireless communication interface, said deactivation alert instructing said second wireless device to enter a low-power state. | 18,197 |
9,337,568 | 1. A waterproof connector including a first housing formed with a recess, and a sealing unit to be sandwiched between said first housing and a second housing fit into said recess, to thereby keep waterproofness between said first and second housings, said sealing unit including: an locking ring for causing said sealing unit to engage said recess at a predetermined position; a holder for preventing a terminal having been inserted into said first housing from being released out of said first housing; and a waterproof seal sandwiched between an outer surface of said locking ring and an inner surface of said recess, said locking ring, said holder, and said waterproof seal being integrated with one another. | 41,152 |
8,458,517 | 1. A method, comprising: one or more computer systems implementing a distributed system comprising a plurality of nodes, wherein the nodes coordinate with one another to maintain a shared state of the distributed system via a distributed consensus protocol; the distributed system determining a given one of the plurality of nodes to record a checkpoint of the shared state and in response, the given node recording the checkpoint, said recording the checkpoint comprising: | 31,165 |
9,400,430 | 1. An actinic-ray- or radiation-sensitive resin composition comprising a compound (A) that contains a structure (P) containing at least one phenolic hydroxyl group and a structure (Q) containing at least one phenolic hydroxyl group whose hydrogen atom is replaced by a group (S) with a cyclic structure containing an acid crosslinking group, characterized in that the composition is to be exposed to electron beams or extreme ultraviolet and used to form a negative pattern, and in that the group (S) with a cyclic structure containing an acid crosslinking group is a group with a polycyclic structure or a group with a cyclic structure containing a hydroxymethyl group and/or an alkoxymethyl group. | 26,399 |
8,845,323 | 1. A method of combusting a combustible fluid in a stable flame, comprising: preheating a combustion zone to a temperature of at least 1500 degrees F.; reducing the viscosity of a combustible fluid having a flash point of no less than 250 degrees F. to a reduced viscosity of no more than 40 cP, when the combustible fluid has an initial viscosity of greater than 40 cP; atomizing the combustible fluid into the combustion zone after preheating the combustion zone; concurrently with atomizing the combustible fluid, introducing an oxidant gas into the combustion zone surrounding the atomized combustible fluid, the oxidant gas having an oxygen concentration of no less than 50% on a volume basis and being sufficient to supply at least 90% of a stoichiometric amount of oxygen necessary for combustion of the combustible fluid; and combusting the atomized combustible fluid with the oxidant in a stable flame within the combustion zone; wherein the method is implemented using an apparatus comprising: a burner having at least one atomizing nozzle configured to atomize the combustion fluid into the combustion zone and at least one oxidant gas nozzle surrounding the atomizing nozzle and configured to discharge oxidant gas surrounding the atomized combustion fluid into the combustion zone; and a control unit that controls operation of the burner, the control unit including a temperature sensor that is adapted to measure temperature inside the combustion zone and a combustible fluid valve that is adapted to regulate flow of a combustible fluid to the atomizing nozzle and an oxidant gas valve that is adapted to regulate flow of an oxidant gas to the at least one oxidant gas nozzle; wherein the control unit is operationally configured to (1) prevent the flow of combustible fluid to the atomizing nozzle unless the temperature sensor indicates a temperature in the combustion zone that is no less than a preset minimum temperature and (2) supply the oxidant gas to the at least one oxidant gas nozzle concurrently with combustible fluid flowing to the atomizing nozzle so that the overall oxygen concentration of the oxidant gas is at least 50%. | 26,334 |
9,188,471 | 1. A system for detecting two-phase flow comprising: a data analysis system; a pipe with crossflow inside the pipe; a thin rod with a first flat segment and a second flat segment a cantilever tube elastically supported by the thin rod; a first sensor on the first flat segment, in a first direction parallel to the crossflow, connected to the cantilever tube and to the data analysis system; a second sensor on the second flat segment, in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, connected to the cantilever tube and to the data analysis system; wherein the cantilever tube is immersed in the crossflow, and wherein the data analysis system collects information from the sensors, computes values representing fluidelastic-induced forces on the cantilever tube, compares the values to reference values, and determines whether the crossflow is a two-phase flow. | 670 |
8,700,240 | 1. A start control apparatus for an electrically-driven vehicle equipped with an electric motor working as a drive source of the vehicle, a brake working to brake the vehicle in response to a brake request from a vehicle operator, an accelerator which is to be moved in response to an acceleration request from the vehicle operator to accelerate the vehicle, and a motor driver working to drive the electric motor as a function of movement of the accelerator, comprising: a start request receiver that receives a start request from the vehicle operator to start the electric motor; an accelerator limiter which limits an operating range in which the accelerator is to be moved by the vehicle operator to disable the electric motor through the motor driver; a limitation cancelling request receiver that receives a limitation cancelling request from the vehicle operator; and a controller that is responsive to the start request, as received by the start request receiver, to make the electric motor ready to start, the controller being also responsive to the limitation cancelling request, as received by the limitation cancelling request receiver, to cancel limitation of the operating range of the accelerator, as established by the accelerator limiter, to enable the accelerator to be moved in response to the acceleration request from the vehicle operator, wherein the limitation cancelling request receiver, the start request receiver, the brake, and the accelerator are provided to be separate from each other and disposed at different locations which make it impossible for the vehicle operator to operate the limitation cancelling request receiver, the start request receiver, the brake, and the accelerator simultaneously using one hand or one foot, and wherein even when the electric motor is ready to start, the controller is inhibited from canceling the limitation of the operating range of the accelerator unless the limitation cancelling request receiver receives the limitation cancelling request from the vehicle operator. | 12,613 |
9,802,721 | 1. Machine for making and packing capsules ( 2 ) for extraction or infusion products in multi-capsule packs ( 27 ), the capsules ( 2 ) including: a rigid body ( a dose ( a closing lid ( a plurality of operative stations, between which at least a feeding station ( a transport element ( an exit station ( a packing station ( the machine being characterised in that detaching organs ( said exit station ( | 45,802 |
9,770,244 | 1. A system for introducing a surgical instrument through a tissue lumen, the surgical instrument comprising an elongated body, the system comprising: a cone having a proximal end, a distal end, and a collar, wherein said cone is configured for navigating the surgical instrument through a tissue lumen, wherein said cone is configured to be releaseably fixed to the distal end of the elongated body of the surgical instrument, and wherein said cone tapers from the proximal end to the distal end, and wherein said collar defines a cavity, wherein said cavity is configured to receive the distal end of the surgical instrument, and wherein said collar prevents movement of the surgical device. | 2,246 |
8,480,330 | 1. A fixture for attaching a profile rail comprising an undercut longitudinal groove to a component disposed to support the profile rail, the fixture comprising: a main body comprising: a clamping screw means configured to tighten the fixture against the component at the rear surface; and a gripping wedge of essentially triangular cross-section comprising a top side parallel to the flat planar bearing surface, a gripping side vertical to the flat planar bearing surface, and a first opening, the gripping wedge being disposed on the slide ramp and being configured so as to be slidable via the clamping screw means such that the gripping side contacts the profile rail so as to slide the profile rail along the two coplanar partial surfaces of the flat planar bearing surface and clamp the profile rail against the linear hook segment; wherein, the clamping screw means is configured to penetrate the first opening of the gripping wedge and the second opening of slide ramp, at least one of the first opening and the second opening is a longitudinal opening oriented perpendicular to the linear hook segment, and the main body is disposed to be arranged between the profile rail and the component. | 48,935 |
9,729,956 | 1. An electronic device, comprising: a housing; at least one first sound output unit, disposed at the electronic device; a connecting module, disposed on the housing, the connecting module comprising: a second sound output unit, detachably assembled to the connecting module, the second sound output unit at least comprises a plug, wherein the plug is detachably assembled to the slot and is adapted to rotate, such that the sensing component determines whether the plug is sensed to make the electronic device switch between a first sound output mode and a second sound output mode, an audio provided by the electronic device is output by the at least one first sound output unit in the first sound output mode, the audio provided by the electronic device is output by the second sound output unit in the second sound output mode. | 14,206 |
9,504,105 | 1. A switched mode power supply comprising: controller circuitry configured to output a bias signal to control switching of switching circuitry and to output the bias signal to turn off the switching circuitry upon expiration of a time period based, at least in part, on the bias signal; and turn-off circuitry configured to: | 46,970 |
8,843,100 | 1. An apparatus comprising: measurement feedback circuitry to receive a boundary metric from a user equipment (UE), wherein the boundary metric is based on UE measurements of a reference signal received power (RSRP) value in one or more channel state information-reference signals (CSI-RSs) and indicates a proximity of the UE to a boundary of a coordinated multipoint (CoMP) cluster; and CoMP control circuitry to determine a CoMP configuration for the UE based on the boundary metric. | 48,590 |
9,829,885 | 1. A method of managing personal storage for a shared autonomous vehicle, the method comprising: receiving, by one or more computing devices, a storage request and a user destination request from a user device, the storage request including identification information for at least one of a user and an associated storage compartment, and the user destination request including a user destination and a user pick up location, the user destination and the user pick up location having different locations; responsive to receiving the storage request, determining one or more storage parameters, the one or more storage parameters including a storage depot, the storage depot being located at a different location than that of the user destination and the user pick up location; determining one or more storage instructions based on the determined one or more storage parameters, the storage instructions including instructions to move the associated storage compartment from a storage space to the shared autonomous vehicle; causing the shared autonomous vehicle to be autonomously moved to the storage depot based on the one or more storage parameters; causing the associated storage compartment to be moved from the storage space to the shared autonomous vehicle based on the storage instructions; and causing the shared autonomous vehicle to be autonomously moved to the user destination. | 32,554 |
9,030,174 | 1. A control system for reducing current imbalance in a power converter of a doubly fed induction generator system, the power converter coupled to a rotor of a doubly fed induction generator, the power converter comprising a plurality of bridge circuits coupled in parallel, the control system comprising: a plurality of current sensors, each of the plurality of current sensors coupled to one of the plurality of bridge circuits and capable of providing a signal indicative of the alternating current bridge current of one of the plurality of bridge circuits; an error generation circuit coupled to the plurality of current sensors, the error generation circuit operable to process signals indicative of bridge current received from the current sensors to generate a feedback signal indicative of the difference in bridge current between the plurality of bridge circuits coupled in parallel; and a control circuit coupled to the error generation circuit, the control circuit configured to generate control commands for driving each of the plurality of bridge circuits based at least in part on the feedback signal; wherein the feedback signal is indicative of the difference in magnitude and phase in bridge current of the plurality of bridge circuits. | 10,768 |
9,701,969 | 1. A filamentous fungal host cell expression system, comprising: a. a fungal host cell containing in its chromosomal DNA a disruption in one or more components of non-homologous recombination (NHR) pathway, a first selectable marker that lacks a first selectable function, and a second selectable marker that is operative to confer a second selectable function, wherein said first selectable marker and said second selectable marker are different markers; and b. a nucleic acid molecule containing: (1) a sequence that, when introduced into said fungal host cell, confers said first selectable function to said first selectable marker, (2) a sequence operable to express one or more genes of interest, and (3) sequences upstream (5′) of b (1) and b (2) and sequences downstream (3′) of b (1) and b (2), wherein the upstream sequences have substantial homologies to sequences upstream (5′) of the first selectable marker and said second selectable marker in the host cell chromosomal DNA and wherein the downstream sequences have substantial homologies to sequences downstream (3′) of the first selectable marker and second selectable marker in the host cell chromosomal DNA: wherein said homologous sequences cause a homologous recombination event that results in a functional first selectable marker in the host cell chromosomal DNA, removal of said second selectable marker from the host cell chromosomal DNA, and expression of said gene of interest. | 45,540 |
9,504,968 | 1. A foam water saving aerator to be attached to a water tap for generating bubble foam water and flowing the generated bubble foam water, comprising: a surrounding water flow curtain forming portion including a gap for flushing water flow, and forming a three-dimensional surrounding water flow curtain in which an accelerated water flow flushes downstream from the gap; an air cavity that provides an intermediate water-flow route as a place for forming the surrounding water flow curtain, which sustains an air-filled condition when a water flow of the surrounding water flow curtain flushes therein; a diffuser object provided at a point that receives an impact of the water flow of the surrounding water flow curtain in the air cavity, the diffuser object changing a direction of the water flow of the surrounding water flow curtain to another direction for expanding a shielded space, wherein expanding the shielded space reduces air pressure and closes a bottom of the shielded space with the diffused water flow of the surrounding water flow curtain to form the airtightness of the shielded space; and a ventilation pass that supplies outside air to an inside of the expanding shielded space, wherein the outside air is supplied to the expanding shielded space via an air ventilation hole; wherein the foamed water is generated by supplying the outside air through the air ventilation hole by reducing the air pressure at the expansion position of the shielded space by changing the water flow of the surrounding water flow curtain. | 3,856 |
8,463,859 | 1. An electronic mail (email) system comprising: an email server configured to store email messages; a mobile wireless communications device configured to store email messages and an email synchronization indicator for a mailbox; and an email synchronization server configured to: | 6,473 |
8,820,052 | 1. A liquid reductant injection system comprising: a storage tank housing a reductant solution; a reductant return conduit extending into the storage tank, the reductant return conduit including an outlet positioned in the storage tank; and a thermosyphon comprising an evaporator coupled to an exhaust conduit and in fluidic communication with a condenser coupled to the reductant return conduit inside the storage tank, the condenser positioned vertically above the evaporator. | 1,849 |
8,932,781 | 1. A structure, comprising: a Ni-YSZ composite anode and a thin film selected from the group consisting of: a BaO thin film and a K | 27,975 |
8,726,382 | 1. A method for tracking attacking nodes through a computer network, said method comprising: extracting, from a database, a single instance of each unique packet header associated with a plurality of IP-to-IP (internet protocol) packets, the IP-to-IP packets having been transmitted across individual nodes of the computer network over a predefined period of time; determining, from the extracted packet headers, which nodes have attempted to establish an internet protocol connection with more than a predetermined number of other nodes on the computer network over a defined time period; identifying such nodes as potential attacking nodes with which other nodes on the network can establish a connection; determining, from the extracted packet headers, which of the other nodes responded with a Transfer Control Protocol Synchronize/Acknowledge (TCP SYN/ACK) packet, the presence of a TCP SYN/ACK packet indicating that a responding node is willing to establish a connection and therefore is potentially compromised; disqualifying a portion of the potential attacking nodes and a portion of the potentially compromised nodes based on at least one of: presenting the remaining identified potential attacking nodes and potentially compromised nodes to a user. | 23,664 |
9,246,429 | 1. A method of controlling torque ripple in a switched reluctance motor, the method comprising: splitting each phase winding of a switched reluctance motor (SRM) into an AC winding and a DC winding; exciting the AC winding of each phase winding with symmetrically displaced sinusoidal currents; exciting the DC winding of all phase windings with a varying DC current based on spatially varying magnetic properties of the SRM; and calculating the spatially varying magnetic properties of the SRM, wherein the spatially varying magnetic properties of the SRM are represented as wherein δ is angular degrees (position), k 3 and k 6 are constants, and γ is a phase angle. | 31,473 |
8,741,425 | 1. An all ceramics solid oxide cell, the solid oxide cell comprising a multilayer structure comprising an anode layer comprising catalyst material, a cathode layer comprising catalyst material, and an electrolyte layer sandwiched between the anode layer and the cathode layer, wherein: the electrolyte layer comprises doped zirconia and has a thickness of from 40 to 300 μm, the anode layer and the cathode layer both comprise doped ceria or both comprise doped zirconia; and the multilayer structure comprising the anode layer, the electrolyte layer and the cathode layer is a structure wherein the anode layer and the cathode layer are porous and identical in a doped ceria composition or doped zirconia composition and in a thickness, thereby forming a symmetrical structure, wherein a surface of the anode layer or a surface of the cathode layer, or both, is further impregnated with a barrier material comprising doped ceria. | 35,081 |
9,209,721 | 1. A method for real time power control over a plurality of motor controllers by at least one processor on a computer system, the method comprising: determining a first power load demand from a first plurality of active motors, wherein the first plurality of active motors is a subset of a plurality of motors; selecting a first combination of motor controllers of the plurality of motor controllers necessary to provide sufficient power to meet the first power load demand based at least in part on a maximum power output of the plurality of motor controllers; assigning a first set of system-wide priorities based at least in part on the maximum power output and the first power load demand; configuring a power switching network such that the first plurality of active motors are electrically connected to the first combination of motor controllers in accordance with the first set of system-wide priorities; receiving from a first control unit a power request for a first motor, wherein the power request is associated with a first priority level; determining a first priority designation for the first priority level in relation to the first set of system-wide priorities; assigning a second set of system-wide priorities based at least in part on the first priority designation and the first set of system-wide priorities; determining a second power load demand from a second plurality of active motors, wherein the second plurality of active motors comprises the first plurality of active motors and the first motor; selecting a second combination of motor controllers of the plurality of motor controllers necessary to provide sufficient power to meet the second power load demand; and configuring the power switching network such that the second plurality of active motors are electrically connected to the second combination of motor controllers in accordance with the second set of system-wide priorities. | 8,459 |
9,550,729 | 1. A process for production of acrylonitrile comprising contacting propylene, ammonia and oxygen in a vapor phase in the presence of a metal oxide catalyst, the metal oxide catalyst having a formula: wherein A is at least one element selected from the group consisting of sodium, potassium, rubidium and cesium; D is at least one element selected from the group consisting of nickel, cobalt, manganese, zinc, magnesium, calcium, strontium, cadmium and barium; E is at least one element selected from the group consisting of chromium, tungsten, boron, aluminum, gallium, indium, phosphorus, arsenic, antimony, vanadium and tellurium; F is at least one element selected from the group consisting of a rare earth element, titanium, zirconium, hafnium, niobium, tantalum, aluminum, gallium, indium, thallium, silicon, germanium, and lead; G is at least one element selected from the group consisting of silver, gold, ruthenium, rhodium, palladium, osmium, iridium, platinum and mercury; a is from 0.05 to 7; b is from 0.1 to 7; c is from 0.01 to 5; d is from 0.1 to 12; e is from 0 to 5; f is from 0 to 5; g is from 0 to 0.2; h is from 0.01 to 5; and x is a number of oxygen atoms required to satisfy valence requirements of other component elements, wherein the catalytic composition includes at least about 15% m-phase plus t-phase by weight and has a weight ratio of m-phase to m-phase plus t-phase of 0.45 or greater, where amounts of m-phase and t-phase are determined using x-ray diffraction and a modified Rietveld analysis model, wherein the catalytic composition is effective for providing an acrylonitrile yield (% AN) of 81 or greater and an acrylonitrile yield (% AN) plus acetonitrile yield (% ACN) plus hydrogen cyanide (% HCN) of 88 or more. | 13,084 |
8,428,774 | 1. A product display apparatus comprising: a product supply module comprising a support frame and defining a storage area; a door assembly coupled to the support frame and structured to provide bulk access to the storage area in an open position and to prevent bulk access to the storage area in a closed position; a return area defined between the door assembly and the support frame proximate a first side of the door assembly; a retrieval area defined between the door assembly and the support frame proximate a second side of the door assembly; a modular display portion coupled to the door assembly, wherein the modular display portion extends at least partially into the retrieval area to define a single unit retrieval opening having a single unit retrieval opening profile; a retrieval detector positioned proximate the single unit retrieval opening and configured to generate a retrieval output in response to a product being withdrawn from the single unit retrieval opening; and a processor disposed in communication with the retrieval detector and configured to receive the retrieval output, wherein the processor is configured to determine a frequency associated with receipt of the retrieval output, and wherein the processor is further configured to generate an alert upon the frequency exceeding a predetermined value. | 27,646 |
9,235,152 | 1. A toner, comprising toner mother particles which contain a binder resin, a colorant, and a wax, wherein the wax is selected from the group consisting of stearic acid stearyl, stearic acid behenyl, heneicosanoic acid behenyl, dipentaerythritol hexamyristate, myristic acid behenyl, and combinations thereof; wherein a difference between a density of the wax in a solid state at 24° C. and a density of the wax in a liquid state at 120° C. is not less than 0.11 g/cm the density of the wax in the liquid state at 120° C. is not more than 0.835 g/cm a heat quantity of the wax per unit mass which is obtained from an endothermic peak area at a low temperature side measured by a differential scanning calorimetry is not less than 190 mJ/mg, and an anion equivalent of the toner mother particles is not more than 1×10 | 28,595 |
8,532,520 | 1. An image forming apparatus comprising: an endless belt circularly moving to convey a recording medium placed thereon in a conveying direction; a plurality of photosensitive bodies juxtaposed in the conveying direction with confronting the endless belt; a plurality of process units supplying developer to the plurality of photosensitive bodies to form a developer image thereon, respectively; a first collecting member contacting the endless belt to collect the developer on the endless belt; a second collecting member capable of collecting from the first collecting member the developer collected on the first collecting member; a control unit applying a bias between the first collecting member and the second collecting member to inhibit the developer collected on the first collecting member from being transferred to the second collecting member when the first collecting member rubs the endless belt with the toner collected on the first collecting member. | 4,248 |
8,846,422 | 1. A method for manufacturing an LED (light emitting diode) package structure, comprising: providing a substrate with a first electrode, a second electrode and a connecting layer formed on the substrate, the first electrode, the second electrode and the connecting layer being separated and electrically insulating from each other; forming a photoresist coating covering the substrate, the first electrode, the second electrode and the connecting layer; removing a portion of the photoresist coating to define a groove corresponding to the connecting layer; forming a metal layer in the groove to join the connecting layer; removing a remaining portion of the photoresist coating to form a concave surrounded by the metal layer; forming a reflective layer on an inside surface of the concave to join the metal layer, the reflective layer and the metal layer cooperatively forming a reflective cup; and mounting an LED chip in the reflective cup and electrically connecting the LED chip to the first and second electrodes. | 32,581 |
8,653,501 | 1. A light emitting device, comprising: a light emitting layer having a potential confinement structure, comprising: a well region comprising a group IV semiconductor material; and a barrier region being adjacent to the well region and comprising a group IV semiconductor material which is different from the group IV semiconductor material in the well region, wherein: a continuous region from the well region over an interface between the well region and the barrier region to a part of the barrier region is constituted by fine crystals; and a region in the barrier region, which is other than the continuous region, is constituted by amorphous or polycrystalline material. | 3,408 |
9,213,321 | 1. A rotating element control system, comprising: a rotating element rotatably disposed on a main body; a first sensor configured to measure a rotational speed of the main body; a driver configured to drive the rotating element; a second sensor configured to measure a rotational speed of the rotating element; a torque compensator configured to calculate a difference between the rotational speed of the main body sensed by the first sensor and a target speed for driving the rotating element, generating a first compensation signal when the difference between the rotational speed of the main body and the target speed exists within a first range, and generating a second compensation signal when the difference between the rotational speed of the main body and the target speed exists within a second range; and a stabilization controller configured to control the driver based on the first and second compensation signals and a difference between the target speed and the rotational speed of the rotating element sensed by the second sensor. | 26,730 |
9,347,784 | 1. A vehicle information providing device comprising: a history information accumulation unit that sequentially acquires at least one of driving location information, power consumption information and charging location information from vehicle-mounted devices installed on a plurality of vehicles that each have an electric motor as a drive source and accumulates this as driving history information; a private location detection unit that detects a private location determined to pertain to privacy along a route that each of the vehicle drives by referencing the driving history information that is accumulated by the history information accumulation unit; a planned route acquisition unit that acquires a planned route from a departure point to a destination point; a presentation route determination unit that determines a presentation route that is identical or similar to the planned route that is acquired by the planned route acquisition unit by referencing the driving history information that is accumulated by the history information accumulation unit; a privacy determination unit that determines whether or not a presentation route determined by the presentation route determination unit includes one or more private locations; a presentation information determination unit that determines at least one of the power that is consumed when driving along the presentation route determined by the presentation route determination unit and charging hubs that will be traversed when driving along the presentation route determined by the presentation route determination unit; and a presentation information provision unit that provides information regarding the presentation route, the determination results of the presentation route determination unit, and the determination results of the presentation information determination unit; wherein when the presentation route is determined to include at least one of the private locations, the presentation information provision unit provides information regarding the presentation route in a form such that routes in a vicinity of the private location cannot be identified. | 5,571 |
8,428,730 | 1. A method of implanting an intravascular electrode, comprising: percutaneously introducing an electrode system into a vasculature, the electrode system comprising an expandable anchor and at least one electrode on the anchor, the anchor having a radially compressed position and a radially expanded position; with the anchor in the compressed position, intravascularly advancing the electrode system to a first site in a target blood vessel; at the first site, expanding a first portion of the anchor to the expanded position while maintaining a second portion of the anchor in the compressed position, wherein expanding the first portion moves the electrode into contact with a wall of the target blood vessel; activating the electrode at the first site and measuring a change in physiological parameter indicative of stimulation of a nervous system target; intravascularly advancing the electrode system from the first site to a second site in the blood vessel; activating the electrode at the second site and measuring a change in physiological parameter indicative of stimulation of a nervous system target; selecting the first site or the second site as a chronic implantation site for the electrode; and with the electrode system at the chronic implantation site, expanding the second portion of the anchor to the expanded position to chronically retain the electrode at the chronic implantation site. | 32,352 |
9,846,398 | 1. An image forming apparatus which forms an image on a medium on the basis of an input image signal, comprising: an image carrier configured to carry a developed toner image transferred to the medium on a photoreceptor layer that is on the outer peripheral surface; a contact member arranged so as to be in contact with the surface of the photoreceptor layer; a trace pattern generating unit configured to generate a trace pattern indicating specific information on the image forming apparatus; a composition unit configured to add the trace pattern to the image signal; and an acquiring unit configured to acquire information on the thickness of the photoreceptor layer of the image carrier, wherein the trace pattern is used for arranging a plurality of image areas that are areas to which toner is adhered at respective positions corresponding to the specific information when the image corresponding to the trace pattern is formed on the medium, and the trace pattern generating unit is configured to generate the trace pattern with the image area whose size is reduced in accordance with reduction of the thickness of the photoreceptor layer. | 27,896 |
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