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8,573,181 | 1. A throttle control system comprising: a pressure comparison module that determines an inlet pressure upstream from a throttle body and an outlet pressure downstream from the throttle body; and a throttle plate control module that controls a position of a throttle plate based on the inlet pressure and the outlet pressure during boost applications. | 12,232 |
9,525,084 | 1. An integrated detector/processor circuit for data communication comprising both a photodetector with microstructure-enhanced photoabsorption and an electronic processor formed into a single semiconductor chip, comprising: a photodetector formed on a semiconductor substrate and comprising a photon absorbing region configured to absorb photons from an optical source signal modulated for data communication and provide an output electrical signal corresponding thereto; said photon absorbing region comprising an I-region that is between an N-region and a P-region and comprises a substantially continuous layer interrupted by a plurality of holes extending in said I-region toward said substrate and configured to concurrently receive the same source signal at a plural number of the holes; an electronic processor also formed on said semiconductor substrate and operatively associated with said photon absorbing region to receive therefrom and process said output electrical signal into a processed output, thereby forming a single semiconductor chip that receives the optical source signal and outputs the processed output; wherein said photon absorbing region and said electronic processor have respective thicknesses that are of the same order of magnitude; and a cathode region and an anode region operatively associated with said photon absorbing region and reverse biasing circuitry configured to apply a voltage between said cathode and anode regions such that said cathode region is driven to a more positive voltage than said anode region. | 49,457 |
9,292,932 | 1. Three-dimensional measurement method, comprising the steps of: acquiring, by an arithmetic unit, a stereo image of a work taken by first and second cameras; extracting, by the arithmetic unit, edges from the acquired stereo image; selecting, by the arithmetic unit, edges existing on a same plane of the work from the edges extracted on the stereo image; three-dimensionally restoring, by the arithmetic unit, at least two first edges among the edges existing on the same plane by a stereo method, the first edges residing in a predetermined angle range with reference to a cross angle of 90° made by crossing with an epipolar line; calculating, by the arithmetic unit, a three-dimensional plane including the three-dimensionally restored first edges using the three-dimensionally restored at least two first edges; and three-dimensionally restoring, by the arithmetic unit, a second edge among the edges existing on the same plane as the first edges by projecting the second edge on the three-dimensional plane, the second edge residing beyond a predetermined angle range with reference to a cross angle of 90° made by crossing with an epipolar line. | 9,963 |
8,663,382 | 1. A phosphate mixture for making a high strength cement comprising: monopotassium phosphate; a Group IIA metal oxide in amounts of about 20 to about 100 parts per 100 parts of said monopotassium phosphate; and mono calcium orthophosphate in amounts of from about 3 to about 30 parts per 100 parts of said monopotassium phosphate; wherein the proportions of monopotassium phosphate, Group IIA metal oxide and monocalcium orthophosphate are selected so that the set product has a pH of less than about 9 and the set product has a compressive strength greater than 13.5 megapascals (2000 psi) in 24 hours. | 33,032 |
9,538,882 | 1. A bakeware for preparing food, comprising: a container for receiving ingredients and for separating a resulting food into predetermined portions during a cutting operation, the container having a bottom portion and at least one side wall extending outwardly along a periphery of the bottom portion, the bottom portion and the at least one side wall defining an interior surface of the container, and the at least one side wall terminating at an upper rim, wherein the upper rim has a plurality of bumps formed thereon, the container having at least one handle extending outwardly from the upper rim and having a width greater than a width of the upper rim; and a cover disposed on the upper rim and the handle, wherein the cover is thermally insulating and has a portion indicating indicia formed thereon, the bumps of the upper rim disposed beneath the cover, wherein the cover further has a top portion and a bottom portion that sandwich therebetween both the upper rim and the handle, the top portion abutting a top side of the upper rim and the handle along the width of the upper rim and the width of the handle, and the bottom portion abutting a bottom side of the upper rim and the handle along the width of the upper rim and the width of the handle, the top portion have an edge that is spaced apart from the interior surface of the container, and the bottom portion having an edge that is disposed adjacent to an outer surface of the at least one sidewall, at a same distance relative to the outer surface around an entirety of the container. | 11,120 |
9,257,578 | 1. An electroconductive paste composition comprising: metallic particles; an inorganic reaction system comprising (i) a silver containing matrix forming composition comprising silver-tellurium-zinc oxide, and (ii) a lead containing matrix forming composition; and an organic vehicle. | 19,413 |
8,635,036 | 1. A method comprising: receiving, by a power meter in communication with an external device, a request for a graphical user interface associated with at least one of (i) operation of the power meter or (ii) provision of electrical power to one or more loads; generating, by the power meter based at least in part on the received request, information associated with the graphical user interface; communicating, by the power meter to the external device, the generated information associated with the graphical user interface; and collecting information associated with at least one of (i) the operation of the power meter or (ii) one or more devices connected to the power meter, wherein at least a portion of the collected information is utilized to generate the information associated with the graphical user interface, wherein collecting information comprises collecting at least one of (i) an age of the power meter, (ii) identification information for the power meter, (iii) information associated with one or more environmental conditions, (iv) status information for one or more buttons associated with the power meter, (v) phase loading information associated with the power meter, (vi) status information for one or more load control relays, (vii) information associated with an operation of a utility meter in communication with the power meter, (viii) information associated with an electrical load profile, or (ix) information associated with provision of power to one or more external loads. | 15,310 |
9,587,577 | 1. A fuel injection control device for an internal combustion engine having a direct injector that is operated to inject fuel into a cylinder of the engine in an early stage of an intake stroke, a late stage of the intake stroke, and a compression stroke, of the engine, the late stage being later than the early stage, the fuel injection control device performing fuel injection from the direct injector to reach at least some of a requested fuel injection amount determined based on an engine operating state, the control device comprising: an electronic control unit that is programmed to | 35,085 |
9,285,755 | 1. An image forming apparatus comprising: a housing; a plurality of process units provided inside the housing; and a conveyor configured to convey a transfer medium, wherein a first one of the plurality of process units comprises: wherein a second one of the plurality of process units comprises: | 7,940 |
9,171,974 | 1. A semiconductor device including an insulating layer provided on a first surface of a semiconductor substrate which has a second surface opposed to the first surface, a metal wiring provided within the insulating layer and a support substrate bonded to the insulating layer, the semiconductor device comprising: a poly silicon electrode connected to the metal wiring through a contact; a pad provided on the second surface of the semiconductor substrate and connected to the poly silicon electrode through a metal film deposited in a via-hole to penetrate the semiconductor substrate and extend to the poly silicon electrode; and an insulated gate field effect transistor provided with the semiconductor substrate, wherein the insulated gate field effect transistor has a gate poly silicon electrode which is provided within the insulating layer, wherein a distance between the poly silicon electrode and the first surface of the semiconductor substrate is the same as a distance between the gate poly silicon electrode and the first surface of the semiconductor substrate. | 11,136 |
9,821,668 | 1. An energy storage and management system (ESMS) comprising: a plurality of energy ports, each being coupleable to a charging device or an energy storage device; a plurality of DC electrical conversion devices selectively coupled to the plurality of energy ports; a plurality of switching devices each selectively engaged to control a charging power provided to one or more of the plurality of energy ports; and a controller configured to: | 38,610 |
8,368,618 | 1. An organic light emitting display device, comprising: a scan driver sequentially supplying scan signals to scan lines; a data driver supplying data signals to data lines when the scan signals are supplied; pixels positioned at the intersections of the scan lines and the data lines; and a common circuit unit formed in every horizontal line, receiving power from one or more external power sources required in driving the pixels and transferring the received external power to pixels positioned in the same horizontal lines, wherein respective pixels positioned in an i an organic light emitting diode whose cathode electrode is connected to a second power supply; a first transistor whose first electrode is connected to the common circuit unit and second electrode is connected to an anode electrode of the organic light emitting diode to control the amount of current supplied to the organic light emitting diode; a second transistor connected between the data line and a gate electrode of the first transistor and turned on when a scan signal is supplied to an i a third transistor connected between the first electrode of the first transistor and the gate electrode thereof and turned on when a scan signal is supplied to an i−1 a first capacitor connected between the gate electrode of the first transistor and the anode electrode of the organic light emitting diode; and a second capacitor connected between the anode electrode of the organic light emitting diode and a fixed power supply. | 39,227 |
8,538,382 | 1. A method for network exit of a femto base station, comprising: performing, by the femto base station, a de-registration procedure with an access gateway; de-authenticating the femto base station through a security gateway and an authentication server; before the de-authenticating the femto base station through the security gateway and the authentication server, sending an indication message for disabling an air interface of the femto base station to a management entity, wherein the indication message is used for the management entity to withdraw a radio spectrum resource used by the femto base station after the management entity receives the indication message; and tearing down a tunnel between the femto base station and the security gateway. | 35,831 |
8,470,487 | 1. A direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC) system comprising: a stack generating electricity through a reaction using methanol and oxygen; a separator receiving a gas-liquid mixture discharged from the stack and separating the mixture into a gas and a liquid; a methanol cartridge storing high concentration methanol; a fuel mixer encased in a same housing as the separator and having a separate region divided from the separator, the fuel mixer mixing the high concentration methanol supplied from the methanol cartridge with the liquid supplied from the separator in the separate region, and providing low concentration methanol to be applied to the stack; and a first agitator in the separator and a second agitator in the fuel mixer, the first agitator and the second agitator being operated by a single operating source, the first agitator and the second agitator being installed on a rotation axis of the operating source. | 46,877 |
9,752,118 | 1. A method of producing corneal endothelial cells (CECs), comprising contacting embryonic stem (ES) cells with Noggin and 4-[4-(1,3-benzodioxol-5-yl)-5-(2-pyridinyl)-1H-imidazol-2-yl]benzamide (SB431542) to induce differentiation of the ES cells into neural crest stem cells (NCSCs); and contacting the NCSCs with dickkopf-related protein 2 (DKK2), and platelet-derived growth factor subunit B (PDGFB), to induce differentiation of the NCSCs into CECs that express Na+/K+ ATPase, ZO-1, KLF13, AQP1, Collagen VIII, SLC16A3, CFTR, NBC1, Carbonic anhydrase II (CA2), Anion exchanger 2 (AE2/SCL4A2), Solute Carrier Family 16 A1 (SCL16A1), SCL16A3, Carbonic anhydrase 12 (CA12), Carbonic Anhydrase 4 (CA4), cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) and transcription factor FoxC1. | 19,937 |
8,677,221 | 1. A method comprising: obtaining a first voltage read of a memory cell associated with a solid state memory device, the first voltage read representing a partial voltage level compared to a steady state voltage; detecting an error resulting from the first voltage read; if the error is correctable to a specified precision, if the error is not correctable to the specified precision, obtaining a digital value from the first voltage read; detecting an error in the digital value; if an error is detected, wherein the error is corrected using a code from a group of error correcting codes including: Reed-Solomon code, BCR code, turbo code, Golay binary code, Goppa binary code. | 19,176 |
9,611,157 | 1. A flocculant material comprising a plant-derived flocculant having a colloid equivalent of −1.5 mEq/g to −0.20 mEq/g, whose 2 weight % aqueous solution has a viscosity of at least 6.0×10 −3 Pa·s, wherein the plant-derived flocculant is partially soluble in water and comprises at least one dried, pulverized plant material selected from Begonia , bananas, and Corchorus capsularis. | 27,752 |
9,559,304 | 1. An ink composition comprising: poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) (PEDOT); polystyrene sulfonate (PSS); and a compound (A) having formula: with | 9,019 |
9,364,793 | 1. A method of manufacturing an exhaust gas-purifying catalyst, comprising forming a catalytic layer on a substrate using slurry containing a precious metal, alumina, an oxygen storage material, and a sulfate of an alkaline-earth metal having an average particle diameter falling within a range of 0.01 to 0.70 μm, the average particle diameter being obtained by observation using a scanning electron microscope, wherein the oxygen storage material is a composite oxide containing cerium and zirconium; and the catalytic layer having a correlation coefficient ρ wherein C in the formulae (8) to (10), i is a natural number of 1 to 350, I I I I | 2,126 |
8,806,442 | 1. A system comprising: a local debug proxy on a local side of a network boundary between a debugger comprising a Java Debug Platform Architecture (JDPA) front-end and a debuggee comprising a JDPA back-end; and a remote debug proxy on a remote side of the network boundary between the debugger and the debuggee, the remote debug proxy including a connector coupled with the local debug proxy; wherein the remote debug proxy is configured to perform operations comprising: wherein the local debug proxy is configured to perform operations comprising: | 15,798 |
9,440,707 | 1. A releasable seal for sealing a gap between a bulkhead and a wall of a cargo hold, wherein the seal comprises a non-pliant spine extending along a length of the seal and two lateral webs extending in a widthwise direction from opposing sides of the spine, wherein the webs comprise magnetic parts, wherein the spine is an angled profile having two legs under right angles, and wherein the legs are provided with slits along their longitudinal top edges for clamping a longitudinal edge of a lateral web. | 42,941 |
9,218,124 | 1. An information processing apparatus comprising: a detection unit to detect a position of an object touching a touch-sensitive part as a touched position; a recognition unit to recognize a type of at least one finger touching said touch-sensitive part based on said touched position and on an image of said touch-sensitive part; a search unit to search through a function table defining a correspondence between the touched position of at least one finger and the type thereof on the one hand and a function assigned to the combination of the touched position and the type of the at least one finger on the other hand, said search unit searching said function table for the function corresponding to said touched position detected by said detection unit and to the finger type detected by said recognition unit, a display control unit to display an image of function information representative of the assigned function at a position corresponding to the at least one finger so that the image of function information overlaps the at least one finger; and an execution unit for executing said function detected through the search by said search unit. | 42,168 |
9,266,440 | 1. A robotic charging station for charging a battery of an electric vehicle, the charging station comprising: a base plate; a riser coupled with the base plate and extending substantially transverse to the baseplate; a robotic arm extending from the riser and supporting an end effector, the robotic arm configured to move the end effector in three degrees of motion; a target tracking camera integrated into the end effector and configured to periodically output a captured image; a controller configured to: the end effector includes a base plate configured to attach with the robotic arm, and a retractable guide surrounding the plurality of electrical contacts and configured to transition between an extended state and a collapsed state, the retractable guide configured to align the end effector with the receptacle when in an extended state; the end effector further includes a plurality of support legs extending between the retractable guide and the base plate, the plurality of support legs being pivotable between a first position and a second position, the support legs configured to maintain the retractable guide in the extended state when in the first position, and configured to allow the retractable guide to transition to the collapsed state when pivoted to the second position; wherein the electrical receptacle includes a mechanical guide encircling a plurality of electrical contacts; and wherein contact between the mechanical guide and the plurality of support legs is operative to pivot each of the plurality of support legs from the first position to the second position; the retractable guide includes an inward facing surface adjacent the plurality of electrical contacts; and wherein the retractable guide further includes a chamfer disposed on the inward facing surface and configured to align the end effector with the receptacle disposed on the vehicle; and a compliant mounting adaptor coupled with the base plate of the end effector, the compliant mounting adaptor configured to allow the base plate to move about an axis. | 40,156 |
9,604,916 | 1. A method of treating, inhibiting, or reducing the severity of triple-negative breast cancer in a subject with triple-negative breast cancer, comprising administering to said subject a selective androgen receptor modulator (SARM) compound represented by a structure of formula I: wherein wherein said treating does not include preventing. | 33,662 |
8,916,745 | 1. A method for down-regulating or decreasing carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) and/or water exchange in a guard cell of a plant, a plant cell, a plant leaf, or a plant part comprising: (a) transgenically providing to the guard cell of the plant, plant cell, plant leaf, or plant part a nucleic acid or gene comprising: (b) inserting into the guard cell and expressing, or overexpressing, the nucleic acid or gene of (a), thereby down-regulating or decreasing carbon dioxide (CO | 26,737 |
9,296,305 | 1. A charging apparatus for vehicles which charges a vehicle provided with a charging control circuit via a charging cable, comprising; a charging control device which controls electrical charging to the vehicle by transmitting a charging control signal to the charging control circuit on the vehicle side, a charging control signal transmission restricting device which restricts transmission of the charging control signal, and a resetting device which forcibly resets the charging control signal when said restriction on transmission of the charging control signal is withdrawn. | 26,594 |
9,276,262 | 1. A battery electrode, comprising: an active material layer, wherein the active material layer is formed on a collector surface, and the active material layer comprises an active material and a block copolymer having a vinyl alcohol polymer block wherein said vinyl alcohol polymer block is produced by saponifying a vinyl ester polymer and has a saponification degree of from 75 to 99.95 mol %. | 21,812 |
9,827,930 | 1. A vehicle comprising an internal combustion engine and comprising a vehicle electrical system which comprises a battery, a current distributor, a starter, a generator and electrical loads, wherein the vehicle comprises: a first supply line connecting the current distributor to a starter terminal or to a starter; a second supply line connecting the current distributor to a support point, and wherein the electrical loads and the generator are electrically connected to the support point; a switch located between the support point and the starter terminal; a control unit for controlling the switch, wherein the switch is configured as a break contact; and a control device, wherein | 15,859 |
9,363,054 | 1. A method, comprising: transmitting to a user equipment within a corresponding cell a sounding reference signal (SRS) sub-frame configuration (SFC) indicating a periodicity T | 30,229 |
9,437,718 | 1. A method of forming a semiconductor structure comprising: forming a first seed layer, a second seed layer and an intrinsic base spaced apart from each other, wherein the intrinsic base is located between the first seed layer and the second seed layer and on an insulator layer, wherein a first gap is located between the first seed layer and a first vertical surface of the intrinsic base, and a second gap is located between the second seed layer and a second vertical surface of the intrinsic base, wherein the first seed layer, the second seed layer and the intrinsic base include a semiconductor material and have a doping of a first conductivity type; forming an emitter on the first seed layer, and in the first gap and on the first vertical surface of the intrinsic base by epitaxially growing the emitter from the first seed layer and the first vertical surface of the intrinsic base; and forming a collector on the second seed layer, and in the second gap and on the second vertical surface of the intrinsic base by epitaxially growing the collector from the second seed layer and the second vertical surface of the intrinsic base, wherein the emitter and the collector have a doping of a second conductivity type opposite to the first conductivity type, and wherein a first heterojunction exists between the emitter and the intrinsic base and a second heterojunction exists between the collector and the intrinsic base. | 34,127 |
9,780,623 | 1. A gasification based power generation system that converts carbonaceous material into electrical power, comprising: an open-air hopper; an airlock connected to an outlet of the hopper; a drying module connected to the airlock, the airlock configured to form a substantially fluid impermeable seal with the drying module; a gasifier comprising: a pyrolysis module and a reactor module, the pyrolysis module connected to the drying module and to the reactor module; an engine module configured to generate electrical power, the engine module comprising an engine; and a heat exchange module comprising: | 27,321 |
9,072,464 | 1. A thermal flow sensor device for sensing a flow in a fluid channel based on temperature measurements, the device comprising: an electrically driven thermal element on a front side of the thermal flow sensor device arranged to face the channel, a bond pad coupled electrically through physical contact with a channel facing side of the electrically driven thermal element and configured to facilitate electrical contact with a printed circuit board of the thermal flow sensor device via a surface of the bond pad that faces away from the channel and is accessible for electrical contact with the printed circuit board of the thermal flow sensor device; and a substrate, the substrate being patterned to provide apertures to expose the bond pad and increase sensitivity of the electrically driven thermal element such that a location of the physical contact between the bond pad and the electrically driven thermal element corresponds to a first aperture in the substrate and electrical contact between the bond pad and the printed circuit board is made via a second aperture in the substrate. | 32,745 |
9,232,920 | 1. An MRI apparatus comprising: a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system having a plurality of gradient coils positioned about a bore of a magnet to impress a polarizing magnetic field and an RF transceiver system and an RF switch controlled by a pulse module to transmit RF signals to an RF coil assembly to acquire MR images, the RF coil assembly comprising: | 31,403 |
9,725,896 | 1. Framing hardware, wherein a shaft member having an engaging part at a lower part is formed to project from a front edge part of a plate-like fitting main body having a required thickness, and an engaging member having an engaging part at a lower part is mounted to a tip surface of the shaft member, the engaging parts mutually communicating with each other, the engaging part of the engaging member being configured to engage with a ring-shaped engaging groove provided in the vicinity of a tip part of a fixing member, wherein the fitting main body has a gripping part formed of a through-hole at a central part and insertion parts for inserting a pin, which are formed collinearly in the vicinity of an upper edge part and a lower edge part at a rear side of the fitting main body, and wherein a shaft-member insertion part resisting shear stress is provided at a portion different from the insertion parts for inserting a pin, which are formed in the vicinity of the upper edge part and the lower edge part, wherein the shaft member and the pins are non-collinearly disposed. | 31,711 |
9,382,898 | 1. A method for operating a wind turbine comprising a grid side converter, the grid side converter being coupled with an electrical grid, the method comprising: determining, based on an operational mode for the wind turbine selected from a plurality of predetermined operational modes, a first active power reference indicating a requested amount of active power and a first reactive power reference indicating a requested amount of reactive power; determining, based on the first active power reference, a second active power reference indicating an actual amount of active power to be supplied by the grid side converter to the electrical grid; determining, based on the first reactive power reference, a second reactive power reference indicating an actual amount of reactive power to be supplied by the grid side converter to the electrical grid; generating, based on the selected operational mode, first and second parameters, wherein the first parameter indicates a first proportion of positive sequence and negative sequence current components to supply the actual amount of active power, and wherein the second parameter indicates a second proportion of positive sequence and negative sequence current components to supply the actual amount of reactive power; generating a first current reference based on at least the second active power reference, the second reactive power reference, positive sequence and negative sequence voltages determined from a measured grid voltage, and the first and second parameters; and supplying, using the grid side converter, active and reactive power to the electrical grid based on the first current reference. | 18,669 |
8,980,786 | 1. A metal oxide-platinum composite catalyst, comprising: 5 to 95 parts by weight of a metal oxide; and 95 to 5 parts by weight of platinum as the balance to the metal oxide, wherein the platinum has a form of wires constituting a mesh to reticulately cover at least a part of a particle of the metal oxide; and the wires constituting the platinum mesh have an average wire diameter of 5 nm or smaller. | 7,841 |
9,757,290 | 1. A bracket system for coupling any non-motorized wheelchair to a scooter comprising: a base plate having two spaced larger holes and spaced smaller holes; two L-shaped components composed of an upstanding vertical plate and a lower horizontal plate, a vertical aperture extending through each lower plate, two upstanding rearward plates attached to an associated lower plate, pairs of axially aligned, elevationally spaced horizontal apertures extending through an associated vertical plate and rearward plate; two spaces formed between the rearward plates and the vertical plates constituting a left and right channel; lock pins extending through associated pairs of horizontal apertures of the upper and rearward plates; a U-bolt having a central section and upstanding threaded ends extending upwardly through the larger holes in the base plate; and a nut threadedly coupled to each threaded end. | 39,540 |
8,603,423 | 1. A three-way catalyst comprising an extruded solid body comprising: 10-95% by weight of at least one binder/matrix component; 5-90% by weight of an aluminosilicate zeolite having a silica-to-alumina ratio of 10 to 150; and 0-80% by weight optionally stabilised ceria, which catalyst comprising at least one precious metal and optionally at least one non-precious metal, wherein: | 1,094 |
9,739,153 | 1. A rotor, comprising: a vertical rotation axis, at least two rotor blades arranged on the rotation axis, wherein at least one rotor blade comprises at least one opening with an openable closure element, wherein at least one rotor blade comprises a curved first portion, wherein the first portion comprises a concave side and a convex side, and wherein a curved second portion is arranged on an end of the first portion of the rotor blade facing away from the rotation axis, wherein the second portion has a concave side and a convex side, and wherein the two portions are arranged in such a manner that, in the radial direction, the convex side of the first portion is followed by the concave side of the second portion, and wherein the first portion comprises the at least one opening with the openable closure element. | 4,352 |
8,933,966 | 1. An image processing device, comprising: circuitry configured to wherein the erasing target object is an object recorded by the imaging device in the imaging of the real space at a time of the imaging of the real space, and wherein the circuitry is further configured to | 42,544 |
8,712,669 | 1. A method of operating an engine cylinder including a direct fuel injector, comprising, during an engine cold start, direct injecting at least some fuel in a compression stroke of the engine and at least some fuel in an intake stroke of the engine; and decreasing a ratio of intake stroke fuel to compression stroke fuel as an alcohol content of the injected fuel increases; and transitioning to a single fuel injection. | 22,328 |
9,306,134 | 1. An encapsulating composition for a light emitting device, comprising: a transparent resin; a plurality of light scattering particles distributed throughout said transparent resin and having an average particle size ranging from 190 nm to 450 nm; and a plurality of phosphor particles distributed throughout said transparent resin, wherein said light scattering particles are in an amount ranging from 0.063 to 0.15 part by weight based on 100 parts by weight of said transparent resin. | 31,828 |
8,979,194 | 1. A system of passenger seats of an aircraft cabin, each passenger seat comprising: a seat body; at least one load consuming device; and an energy harvesting system for providing electrical energy, the energy harvesting system comprising an energy harvesting device provided to the seat body, wherein: an aircraft electrical net connects a number of passenger seat electrical nets for a predetermined number of passenger seats such that each passenger seat electrical net connects a respective energy harvesting system for the predetermined number of passenger seats; load wiring connects the aircraft electrical net to each of the at least one load consuming devices for the predetermined number of passenger seats; and each energy harvesting device for the predetermined number of passenger seats is adapted for capturing ambient energy from the seat body and each energy harvesting system is configured to transfer electrical energy from each energy harvesting device to both (1) at least one of the number of passenger seat electrical nets and (2) the aircraft electrical net. | 8,173 |
8,665,414 | 1. A method for constructing a thermotropically-actuated, thermochromic liquid crystal filter comprising providing a first polarizer film and a second polarizer film each having inner surfaces facing the other; orienting the second polarizer film to provide an offset polarity with respect to the first polarizer film; providing a first alignment structure adjacent the inner surface of the first polarizer film and a second alignment structure adjacent the inner surface of the second polarizer film; placing a plurality of spacers between the first polarizer film and the second polarizer film; and filling a space created by the spacers between the first polarizer film and the second polarizer film with a thermotropically-actuated liquid crystal that has insignificant effect on incident light in an isotropic state and acts as a depolarizer in a twisted nematic state to rotate a polarity of light from that of the first polarizer to that of the second polarizer. | 40,675 |
8,419,759 | 1. An ultrasonic surgical instrument, comprising: a handle housing; an outer sheath assembly protruding from said handle housing, said outer sheath assembly having at least one comb-like distal end portion having at least two spaced tooth members protruding therefrom; at least one ultrasonic transducer movably supported by said housing; an ultrasonic blade protruding from said at least one ultrasonic transducer and being movable therewith, said ultrasonic blade having a distal end for movement adjacent to said at least one distal end portion of said outer sheath assembly; and a drive system interacting with said at least one ultrasonic transducer for selectively applying an actuation motion thereto to cause said at least one ultrasonic transducer to move within said handle housing. | 3,219 |
9,331,811 | 1. An optical communications network comprising: an optical line termination; a first optical multiplexer/demultiplexer comprising a first plurality (N) of input ports and a first plurality (N) of output ports; a plurality of wavelength division multiplexed passive optical network distribution networks, each coupled to a respective one of the plurality of output ports; a plurality of optical network units; a plurality of feeder fibers, each coupled between the optical line termination and a respective one of the plurality of input ports; and a plurality of interconnection fibers each coupled between a respective pair of the plurality of optical network units, wherein each wavelength division multiplexed passive optical network distribution network comprises one of: a wavelength routed wavelength division multiplexed passive optical network distribution network comprising a second optical multiplexer/demultiplexer comprising an input port and a second plurality (N′) of output ports; a broadcast and select passive optical network distribution network comprising an optical splitter comprising an input port and a plurality (N″) of output ports; and a hybrid wavelength division multiplexed/time division multiplexed passive optical network distribution network comprising a second optical multiplexer/demultiplexer comprising an input port and a second plurality (N′) of output ports each coupled to a respective optical splitter comprising an input port and a plurality of output ports, wherein a first network unit and a second network unit of said plurality of optical network units are paired to protect one another dependent on an identity of the second optical multiplexer/demultiplexer, an identity of the output port of the second optical multiplexer/demultiplexer, to which the first and second network units are respectively coupled, an identity of a free spectral range of the first optical multiplexer/demultiplexer used by each output port, the number of working feeder fiber (L) and an identity of the backup feeder fiber of each of the first and second network units. | 26,030 |
8,789,369 | 1. A supercharging apparatus for a vehicle, comprising: a turbocharger that includes a turbine impeller, which is rotatable by exhaust gas discharged from an internal combustion engine of the vehicle; and an electric heater that is placed in an exhaust passage, which extends from an exhaust outlet of the internal combustion engine to the turbine impeller, wherein the electric heater generates a heat when the electric heater is energized, wherein: the turbocharger includes a turbine housing, through which the exhaust gas is swirled along the exhaust passage, and the swirled exhaust gas is discharged from the turbine housing to the turbine impeller; the electric heater is placed in the turbine housing along the exhaust passage; the turbine housing includes: the electric heater is placed only in the first exhaust scroll along the exhaust passage. | 5,056 |
9,024,178 | 1. A method for generating an electric power using a solar cell element, the method comprising: (a) preparing the solar cell element comprising: wherein the transparent substrate body, the Li the n-side electrode is electrically connected to the n-type semiconductor layer; the p-side electrode is electrically connected to the p-type semiconductor layer; x represents a value of not less than 0.001 and not more than 0.05; the Li the ZnO layer has a arithmetical mean roughness of not less than 20 nanometers and not less than 760 nanometers; the ZnO layer is composed of a plurality of ZnO columnar crystal grains grown on the surface of the Li each ZnO columnar crystal grain has a longitudinal direction along a normal line direction of the transparent substrate body; each ZnO columnar crystal grain has a width which increases from the Li the width of each ZnO columnar crystal grain appears by cutting each ZnO columnar crystal grain along the normal line direction of the transparent substrate body; and each ZnO columnar crystal grain has a R2/R1 ratio of not less than 1.1 and not more than 1.6; where R1 represents the width of one end of the ZnO columnar crystal grain, the one end being in contact with the surface of the Li R2 represents the width of the other end of the ZnO columnar crystal grain; and (b) irradiating the photoelectric conversion layer with light through the transparent substrate body, the Li | 4,838 |
9,463,908 | 1. A food pouch container comprising: a body having an interior cavity, wherein the body has a base, sidewalls extending upwardly from the base and a top panel; the interior cavity being sized and shaped to enclose at least a flexible portion of a food pouch; a door; a hole, said hole extending through the top panel and being sized and shaped to closely surround a neck of a mouthpiece of the food pouch; at least one side pinch; and a surface dividing the interior cavity of the body into an upper cavity and a lower cavity. | 42,515 |
8,904,769 | 1. A method, comprising: operating an internal combustion engine system including an engine with a plurality of pistons housed in respective ones of a plurality of cylinders, an intake system for delivering air to the plurality of pistons through respective ones of a plurality of intake valves, an exhaust system for receiving exhaust emission from the plurality of cylinders through respective ones of a plurality of exhaust valves, and an aftertreatment system to treat exhaust emission from the engine; determining a temperature of a selective catalytic reduction (SCR) catalyst of the aftertreatment system is below a temperature threshold associated with an effective temperature range for operation of the SCR catalyst to reduce NO opening one or more of the exhaust valves during an intake stroke of a corresponding one of the plurality of pistons to internally recirculate exhaust gas in the respective cylinder when the temperature of the SCR catalyst is less than the temperature threshold to at least one of lower engine NO terminating opening of the exhaust valves during the intake stroke of the plurality of pistons when NO | 38,938 |
9,461,871 | 1. A client suitability test method for a substation automation system, with respect to IEC 61850 communication service between virtual Intelligent Electronic Devices (IEDs) corresponding to a plurality of IEDs and a client, the method comprising: generating a suitability test procedure model for testing suitability of the client using one or more test models that are selected from among a plurality of test models; invoking the suitability test procedure model, and then conducting a test for the suitability of the client in accordance with content of the suitability test procedure model; capturing and analyzing a communication request from the client and a communication packet of a communication response from a selected virtual IED during the conducting of the test for the suitability of the client; checking whether the IEC 61850 communication service is the communication service requested by the client; and comparing the communication response of the virtual IED with settings of the test models, and then judging the test for the suitability of the client based on test judgment conditions of the test procedure model, wherein generating the suitability test procedure model comprises: inputting and editing content of the selected test models; automatically arranging the selected test models, and modifying relative locations of the test models or deleting test models that are unnecessary for the corresponding suitability test procedure; and connecting the arranged test models with lines, wherein connecting the arranged test models with the lines comprises setting a number of repetitions of the test procedure model and setting a repetitive section between the test models, wherein the selected test models include an introduction test model including a guidance on an operation of the client and the virtual IED through the test or a description during the test in text form, wherein conducting a test for the suitability of the client in accordance with the content of the suitability test procedure model comprises displaying the guidance or the description to a tester. | 954 |
9,168,817 | 1. A folding type sunroof deflector structure positioned in a ceiling section of a vehicle and coupled in a widthwise direction of the vehicle to a front of an opening section which is selectively opened and closed by a sunroof glass, and stored in a front frame, comprising: a deflector gate formed penetrating the front frame in the widthwise direction of the vehicle between a rainwater drainage section formed in the front frame and a ceiling weather strip; a first deflector which is stored inside the front frame to be moved up and down through the deflector gate and projectable outside of the opening section; a second deflector, an upper part of which is rotatably connected to a hinge joint located at a bottom of the first deflector and which is projectable outside of the opening section according to a movement of the first deflector; and a pair of deflector arms having: | 32,084 |
9,673,018 | 1. A charged particle beam writing apparatus comprising: an emission source configured to emit a charged particle beam; a limiting aperture member placed at a downstream side of the emission source with respect to an optical axis direction, in which a first opening is formed, and arranged such that its height position can be selectively adjusted, according to condition, to be one of an n-th height position (n being an integer greater than or equal to 1) based on an n-th condition depending on at least one of a height position of the emission source and an emission current value, and an (n+m)th height position (m being an integer greater than or equal to 1), being different from the n-th height position, based on an (n+m)th condition depending on at least one of the height position of the emission source and the emission current value; an electron lens arranged at the downstream side of the limiting aperture member with respect to the optical axis direction, and configured to refract the charged particle beam having passed through the first opening; and a shaping aperture member arranged at the downstream side of the electron lens with respect to the optical axis direction, in which a second opening is formed, and configured to be irradiated with the charged particle beam having been refracted by a region including a whole of the second opening, and to shape the charged particle beam by letting a part of the charged particle beam pass through the second opening, wherein a pattern is written on a target object by using at least a part of the charged particle beam having been shaped. | 38,565 |
9,608,342 | 1. A plug adapted to hold a wire and to be received within a socket, said plug comprising a plug body and a passage extending axially within the plug body for receiving the wire, wherein: the passage extends along a central longitudinal axis of the plug body completely through the plug body including substantially centrally through an end wall of the plug body; the plug body comprises an inside face and an outside face; the plug further comprises gripping formations extending inwardly from the inside face for gripping opposing sides of the wire when located within the passage, wherein each said gripping formation comprises one or more gripping teeth that: grip or bite into an exterior insulating coat or sheath of the wire; extend along the inside face of the plug body; and are pointed in a direction that prevents or minimises the risk of the wire being pulled out of the passage in an axial direction; and the plug body is configurable in a first wire-receiving configuration so that the wire can be placed within the passage and a second clamping configuration so that the plug body can clamp to and retain the wire within the passage such that conducting strands of the wire extend along the central longitudinal axis of the plug body, wherein the plug body comprises two plug body portions that are hinged together at said end wall of the plug body and are moveable together into the second clamping configuration, and wherein the two plug body portions resemble a sleeve or tube split into longitudinal halves and are hinged at an end of the sleeve or tube. | 18,489 |
8,353,155 | 1. A catalyst system comprising: a first catalytic composition comprising; a homogeneous solid mixture containing at least one catalytic metal and at least one metal inorganic support; wherein the pores of the solid mixture have an average diameter in a range of about 1 nanometer to about 15 nanometers; and at least one promoting metal; and a second catalytic composition comprising; (i) a zeolite, or (ii) a first catalytic material disposed on a first substrate, the first catalytic material comprising an element selected from the group consisting of tungsten, titanium, and vanadium. | 10,329 |
9,247,632 | 1. A manufacturing method of a cover structure, the manufacturing method comprising: disposing a metal substrate on a carrier having a surface, and the metal substrate comprising a plurality of openings that expose a portion of the surface of the carrier, wherein the metal substrate comprises a first metal layer formed thereon which is disposed conformally with the metal substrate, and the first metal layer covers the portion of the surface of the carrier exposed by the openings; laminating an insulating layer and a second metal layer located on the insulating layer on the metal substrate, wherein the insulating layer is located between the first metal layer and the second metal layer, and covers the first metal layer and fills the openings; and removing the metal substrate and the carrier to expose the first metal layer and define a plurality of cavity regions and a plurality of connecting regions connected with the cavity regions, wherein positions of the cavity regions correspond to positions of the metal substrate, and positions of the connecting regions correspond to the positions of the openings. | 3,977 |
9,661,482 | 1. A mobile communication method, comprising the steps of: causing a radio base station to determine a plurality of target mobile stations whose transmission of a random access (RA) preamble is to be restricted by shifting from a Discontinuous Reception (DRX) state in a Radio Resource Control (RRC) CONNECTION state to an RRC IDLE state; causing the radio base station to transmit a context release request signal regarding a predetermined mobile station to a mobility management node, the context release request signal containing identification information of the plurality of target mobile stations; causing the mobility management node to release an access bearer of the predetermined mobile station in response to the context release request signal, and transmit a context release command signal regarding the predetermined mobile station to the radio base station; and causing the radio base station to transmit a connection release signal to the plurality of target mobile stations, wherein the plurality of target mobile stations in the DRX state in the RRC CONNECTION state transmits the RA preamble in an RA procedure to perform transmission processing and transmission of the RA preamble by the plurality of target mobile stations in the DRX state in the RRC CONNECTION state is not restricted by Access Class Barring (ACB), and wherein the transmission of the RA preamble by the plurality of target mobile stations in the RRC IDLE state is restricted by ACB. | 33,473 |
9,790,784 | 1. A current sensor configured to detect a signal current in a drilling system component of a drilling system, the signal current including encoded data, the drilling system configured to form a borehole in an earthen formation, the current sensor comprising: a magnetic body at least partially composed of a magnetic material, the magnetic body including a first portion that defines a gap and a second portion attached to the first portion such that the second portion spans the gap; at least one field coil positioned on the first portion of the magnetic body, the at least one field coil configured to detect a first magnetic field that passes within the magnetic body, the first magnetic field being induced by the signal current carried by the drill system component when the current sensor is positioned in proximity to the drilling system component carrying the signal current; and at least one drive coil positioned on the second portion of the magnetic body, the at least one drive coil configured to generate a second magnetic field, wherein when the current sensor is positioned in proximity to the signal current and the at least one drive coil generates the second magnetic field, the current sensor is adapted such that 1) the second magnetic field causes the second portion of the magnetic body to alternate into and out of magnetic saturation so as to modulate the first magnetic field that passes within the magnetic body, and 2) modulation of the first magnetic field induces a modulated signal in the at least one field coil. | 35,246 |
8,445,997 | 1. A device, comprising: a first packaged integrated circuit device having a first die positioned in a first cavity formed in a first surface of the first packaged integrated circuit device, wherein the first die is recessed from the first surface and at least partially covered with a first mold material disposed within the first cavity; a second packaged integrated circuit device positioned above the first packaged integrated circuit device, the second packaged integrated circuit device having a second die positioned in a second cavity formed in a second surface of the second packaged integrated circuit device, wherein the second die is recessed from the second surface of the second packaged integrated circuit device and at least partially covered with a second mold material disposed within the second cavity, and wherein the second surface is opposite a third surface of the second packaged integrated circuit device and the third surface is adjacent the first surface of the first packaged integrated circuit device; and a plurality of extensions of a leadframe attached to corresponding contacts on the first surface of the first packaged integrated circuit device and corresponding contacts on the third surface of the second packaged integrated circuit device. | 48,245 |
9,365,666 | 1. A polymerization catalyst composition containing: a rare earth element compound (component (A)) represented by the following general formula (i): (provided that M is at least one selected from the group consisting of lanthanide, scandium, and yttrium; and NQ 1 , NQ 2 , and NQ 3 are of amide group and may be either the same or different from one another and have M-N binding); at least one (component (B)) selected from an ionic compound and a halogen compound; a compound (component (C)) represented by the following general formula (X): (provided that Y is metal selected from the group consisting of Group 1, Group 2, Group 12, and Group 13 of the periodic table; R 1 and R 2 are of a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms or a hydrogen atom; R 3 is of the hydrocarbon group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms; R 1 , R 2 , and R 3 may be the same or different from one another; when Y is metal selected from Group 1 of the periodic table, a is 1 and b and c are 0; when Y is metal selected from Group 2 or Group 12 of the periodic table, a and b are 1 and c is 0; and when Y is metal selected from Group 13 of the periodic table, a, b, and c are all 1); and a coumpound serving as an anionic ligand (component (D)) being an anionic tridentate ligand precursor. | 49,757 |
9,040,687 | 1. Porphyrin derivatives of the general formula 1, wherein, R wherein, R wherein, R wherein, R wherein, R wherein, R | 12,263 |
9,428,734 | 1. A method for growing cells that are not in suspension, comprising: a) providing flexible tubing containing culture medium, and a surface on which living cells can grow in said tubing, the surface being at least one of (i) the inner surface of the tubing, the diameter of the tubing being small so that the living cells may adhere in a natural manner or (ii) a continuous fiber inserted inside the tubing, and a system of gates achieved by clamps, each of the gates being capable of open and closed positions, the gates being positioned so as to be able to divide the tubing into: i) an upstream region containing unused culture medium and a portion of the surface which is unused on which the living cells can grow; ii) a downstream region containing spent culture medium; and iii) a growth chamber region for growing said cells on the surface, the growth chamber region being disposed between the upstream and downstream regions; and b) closing selected ones of the gates on the tubing to define the growth chamber region of the tubing between the upstream and downstream regions of the tubing, and introducing viable cells into the growth chamber region; c) cyclically closing and opening selected ones of the gates to redefine the growth chamber region of the tubing so that a first portion of the previously defined growth chamber region becomes a portion of the downstream region of the tubing, and a portion of the previously defined upstream region of the tubing becomes a portion of the growth chamber region of the tubing and provides the surface for further growth of the living cells; and d) repeating step c) until a desired amount of said living cells have grown; wherein the growth chamber region is subjected to a pre-determined growth condition, and the repetition of step c) selects for those of the living cells that demonstrate an improved rate of reproduction responsive to said growth condition; wherein the tubing including the medium, the surface and culture inside the tubing move through a simultaneous movement of the system of gates to cyclically redefine the growth chamber region of the tubing; and wherein the living cells are cells that do not grow in suspension. | 12,323 |
9,091,423 | 1. A LED street lamp base comprising: a power source box ( the lamp holder ( the frame ( | 38,760 |
8,482,948 | 1. An interleave control power supply device comprising a master converter with a switching element, and a slave converter with a switching element, the switching elements of the master converter and the slave converter being operated with a predetermined phase difference, wherein the master converter has a master-side control circuit for controlling the switching element of the master converter; the master-side control circuit generates a master signal for controlling an on/off state of the switching element of the master converter, and controls the switching element at an on/off timing of the master signal; the slave converter has a slave-side control circuit for controlling the switching element of the slave converter; and the slave-side control circuit includes any one of: (a) an on phase controller which receives the on timing of the master signal, generates an on timing signal of the slave signal with a predetermined phase difference from the master signal based on the on timing of the master signal and outputs the on timing signal of the slave signal as a timing signal for turning on the switching element of the slave converter, and a slave-side on period generator which generates an on period of the switching element of the slave converter; (b) the on phase controller, and an off phase controller which receives the off timing of the master signal, generates an off timing signal of the slave signal with a predetermined phase difference from the master signal based on the off timing of the master signal and outputs the off timing signal as a timing signal for turning off the switching element of the slave converter; and (c) the off phase controller, and a slave-side off period generator which generates an off period of the switching element of the slave converter, wherein the master-side control circuit includes: a master-side on period generator which generates an on period of the switching element of the master converter by multiplying a difference between an error signal output from an error amplifier and a reference voltage by a constant coefficient or generates an on period with a fixed width; and a master-side off period generator which generates an off period of the switching element of the master converter by applying an arithmetic operation of off period=input voltage×on period/(output voltage−input voltage) based on an input voltage, an output voltage and the on period generated by the master-side on period generator, and outputs a timing signal for turning on the switching element of the master converter based on the off period or by detecting a current flowing in an inductor of the master converter and detecting a time that the current flowing in the inductor of the master converter becomes zero, and wherein the slave-side control circuit includes: the slave-side on period generator which generates an on period of the switching element of the slave converter by multiplying a difference between the error signal output from the error amplifier and a reference voltage by a constant coefficient, or generates an on period with a fixed width; and the slave-side off period generator which generates an off period of the switching element of the slave converter; (i) the slave-side off period generator generates the off period of the switching element of the slave converter by an arithmetic operation of input voltage×on period/(output voltage−input voltage) based on the input voltage, the output voltage and the on period generated by the master-side on period generator or the slave-side on period generator, and outputs a timing signal for turning on the switching element of the slave converter based on the off period; or (ii) the slave-side off period generator detects a current flowing in an inductor of the slave converter to detect the time that the current flowing in the inductor of the slave converter becomes zero, and outputs a timing signal for turning on the switching element of the slave converter. | 7,640 |
9,670,797 | 1. A vane structure for a gas turbine engine comprising: an airfoil section which defines an aperture, said aperture circular in cross-section; a baffle movably mounted within said aperture, said baffle circular in cross-section and configured to rotate about an axis; a first cooling cavity in communication with said aperture; a second cooling cavity in communication with said aperture; and a third cooling cavity in communication with said aperture, wherein said first cooling cavity defines film cooling cavities, wherein said second cooling cavity defines convective cooling and rotor purge feed cavities, and wherein said third cooling cavity defines convective cooling cavities. | 13,271 |
8,915,908 | 1. A cryogenic probe for ablating tissue comprising: a handle; an elongated probe metal tube extending from the handle having a proximal portion and a distal portion, the distal portion defining an end effector, the probe tube being closed at its distal end and having an interior surface and a smooth exterior surface; a semi-rigid insulative outer sleeve extending from a distal portion of the handle and overlying the proximal portion of the probe tube; a flexible support member supporting the interior surface of the distal portion of the probe tube; and a plurality of cryogenic fluid supply passageways disposed on the interior of the probe tube, each supply passageway having an outlet orifice, the outlet orifices being staggered along the length of the distal portion of the probe tube; an insulated jacket operatively coupled to the elongated probe metal tube and extending from a proximal portion of the handle, the insulated jacket is repositionably mounted to the handle and configured to reposition the elongated probe metal tube when the insulated jacket is repositioned; wherein the elongated probe metal tube is axially movable relative to the sleeve and the handle between a retracted position in which the end effector is inside the sleeve and an extended position in which the end effector is outside the sleeve. | 35,537 |
9,438,313 | 1. A near field communication (NFC) antenna matching network system connected to an NFC transceiver, the NFC antenna network matching system comprising: a matching circuit connected to first and second antenna terminals and to the NFC transceiver, the matching circuit being configured to match impedances of the NFC antenna network matching system and the NFC transceiver; and a plurality of NFC antennas connected in parallel with the first and second antenna terminals, wherein each of the NFC antennas includes, | 14,433 |
8,925,102 | 1. A method of encrypting a derivative work using encryption keys respectively generated from respective digital sources used to create the derivative work, comprising: obtaining machine-readable input that identifies each of the digital sources used to create the derivative work; extracting source data from each of the digital sources identified by the machine-readable input, the source data being a native, uncompressed digital encoding of the respective digital sources; selecting a portion of the source data extracted from each of the identified digital sources; locating a data sequence in the respective selected portions of the source data that is unique within a predetermined range of the respective selected portions of the source data to serve as a marker in each of the respective selected portions of the source data, the marker providing a reference point for selecting source data to be extracted from a corresponding digital source when the encrypted derivative work is to be decrypted; storing, for each of the respective digital sources, the marker and a location stamp for the marker in an encrypted derivative work header; computing, for each of the respective digital sources, at least one offset from a predetermined point in the marker to a predetermined point in the selected portion of the source data; storing, for each of the respective digital sources, the at least one offset in the encrypted derivative work header; generating the respective encryption keys from the respective selected portions of the source data; and encrypting the derivative work by sequentially applying the respective encryption keys to the entire derivative work. | 39,769 |
9,299,092 | 1. A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving from an advertiser computer and by a local area network (LAN) interface, at an advertisement delivery server computer, a digital data specification of a compound advertisement comprising a plurality of ad units; wherein the digital data specification of the compound advertisement specifies: wherein the digital data specification of the compound advertisement associates a first app event type with the first ad unit and not with the second ad unit; transferring the digital data specification into a memory of the advertisement delivery server computer; using the advertisement delivery server computer, determining that a monetization event has occurred in a publisher application; using the advertisement delivery server computer, determining that the second bid value associated with the first ad unit is less than at least one second bid value of a plurality of second bid values associated with the plurality of ad units; based on the determination that the second bid value associated with the first ad unit is less than at least one second bid value of a plurality of second bid values associated with the plurality of ad units, the advertisement delivery server computer selecting from the memory an applicable payment price for the first ad unit based in part on the first bid value associated with the first ad unit; using the advertisement delivery server computer, selecting from the memory, for display at a particular user mobile computing device separate from the advertisement delivery server computer, the first ad unit of the compound advertisement, wherein the selecting is based at least in part on: transmitting as Internet Protocol (IP) packets by the LAN interface an electronic digital message from the advertisement delivery server computer to the particular user mobile computing device, wherein the message is configured to cause display of the first ad unit at the particular user mobile computing device. | 25,620 |
8,746,212 | 1. A method for operating an internal combustion engine having a mass-flow line, via which a mass flow is supplied to the internal combustion engine, the method comprising: predefining a setpoint value for a characteristic quantity of mass flow to the internal combustion engine, wherein the setpoint value of the characteristic quantity of the mass flow is formed starting from a difference of the mass flow flowing into the mass flow line and the mass flow discharged from the mass flow line, according to a predefined time characteristic, wherein the predefined time characteristic is selected as time characteristic according to a proportional time element having a predefined time constant, and wherein the proportional time element is of the first order. | 18,526 |
8,736,137 | 1. A wound field electrical rotating machine comprising: a rotor mounted for rotation about an axis and including at least one electrical coil having a coil axis with a component perpendicular to the axis, the electrical coil comprising a conductor having first and second conductor ends; an electrical rectifier unit attached to the rotor to rotate therewith and electrically communicating with the first and second conductor ends; at least one first capacitor plate attached to rotate with the rotor and electrically communicating with the electrical rectifier unit; at least one second capacitor plate mounted to a frame so as not to rotate with the rotor and positioned for capacitive coupling with the first capacitor plate; wherein the first and second capacitor plates are positioned to transfer power to the electrical coil at a range of angular positions of the rotor about the axis. | 26,316 |
8,986,444 | 1. A cement clinker, comprising: about 35-41 weight percent C about 10-15 weight percent C about 14-16 weight percent C about 20-26 weight percent C about 4-6 weight percent CŚ; and about 0.7-0.85 weight percent CaF fired at a temperature of about 1250-1300° C. | 5,029 |
8,353,942 | 1. A catheter for the treatment of reperfusion injury by locally cooling blood in an internal blood-conveyance pathway and permitting an interventional tool to pass through the internal blood-conveyance pathway while blood is flowing to perform interventional treatment, the cooling catheter comprising: a flexible shaped catheter shaft configured to be inserted into a blood vessel of a patient, having a proximal end and a distal end, said catheter shaft having an inner core defining an inner blood conveyance lumen, a first coolant lumen having an arcuate cross-section in thermal contact along an axial length of a first peripheral wall region of said inner blood conveyance lumen, and a second coolant lumen having an arcuate cross-section in thermal contact along said axial length of a second peripheral wall region of said inner blood conveyance lumen; wherein said first and second coolant lumen are in thermal contact with each other across a septum wall extending the length of the catheter shaft; and wherein said first and second coolant lumen are in fluid contact adjacent to said distal end of said catheter shaft through an interconnecting slot in said septum wall, whereby coolant flow delivered to said first coolant lumen is discharged from said second coolant lumen. | 43,465 |
9,074,034 | 1. A pH-responsive layered composition comprising at least two spin-assisted layer-by-layer spun copolymer layers, wherein the spun layers have a plurality of cross-linkable side-groups attached thereto, and wherein the spun layered composition when hydrated swells when protonated and has a reduced volume when deprotonated, wherein the at least two spun copolymer layers are comprised of a polyvinylpyridine copolymer and are cross-linked. | 17,289 |
9,362,405 | 1. A method of forming a FinFET device with a channel region, the method comprising: forming a fin in a semiconductor substrate; forming an initial epi semiconductor cladding material around an exposed portion of said fin for an entire axial length of said fin; forming a sacrificial gate structure around a portion of said fin and said initial epi semiconductor cladding material; forming a sidewall spacer adjacent opposite sides of said sacrificial gate structure; removing said sacrificial gate structure so as to thereby define a replacement gate cavity that is laterally defined by said sidewall spacers, wherein formation of said replacement gate cavity exposes a portion of said initial epi semiconductor cladding material; performing an etching process through said replacement gate cavity to remove at least said exposed portion of said initial epi semiconductor cladding material and thereby expose a surface of said fin within said replacement gate cavity; forming at least one replacement epi semiconductor cladding material around said exposed surface of said fin; and forming a replacement gate structure within said replacement gate cavity around said at least one replacement epi semiconductor cladding material. | 12,331 |
8,469,119 | 1. A method for accessing a coal seam from the surface, comprising: drilling a substantially vertical well bore from the surface to the coal seam; drilling an articulated well bore from the surface to the coal seam, the articulated well bore horizontally offset from the substantially vertical well bore at the surface and intersecting the substantially vertical well bore at a junction proximate to the coal seam; drilling through the articulated well bore into the coal seam a horizontal well bore pattern; and drilling the well bore pattern underbalanced. | 30,942 |
9,380,561 | 1. A method for implementing paging for Circuit Switched (CS) service, comprising: Mobile Switching Center (MSC)/Visitor Location Register (VLR) storing only one Gs association recording a first Packet Switched (PS) domain network element of a first radio access network in a scenario that Idle-mode Signaling Reduction (ISR) function has been introduced in the PS domain; when performing the paging for CS service to a terminating User Equipment (UE), the MSC/VLR sending a CS domain paging request message to the first PS domain network element recorded in the only one Gs association stored in the MSC/VLR; and when ISR is active, after receiving the CS domain paging request message, the first PS domain network element initiating one paging procedure for the terminating UE to be performed in the first radio access network, and the first PS domain network element sending a CS domain paging message to a second PS domain network element to initiate another paging procedure for the terminating UE to be performed in a second radio access network; or when the first PS domain network element determines that the UE is in idle mode in the first radio access network, the first PS domain network element initiating one paging procedure for the terminating UE to be performed in the first radio access network, and the first PS domain network element sending a CS domain paging message to a second PS domain network element to initiate another paging procedure for the terminating UE to be performed in a second radio access network; wherein when the first PS domain network element is a Mobility Management Entity (MME), the first radio access network is Evolved Universal Mobile Telecommunication System Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN), the second PS domain network element is a Serving General packet radio service Support Node (SGSN), the second radio access network is Global System for Mobile communication (GSM) Enhanced Data Rate for GSM Evolution Radio Access Network (GERAN)/Universal Mobile Telecommunication System Terrestrial Radio Access Network (UTRAN), the step of the first PS domain network element sending the CS domain paging message to the second PS domain network element comprises: the MME sending the CS domain paging message to the SGSN according to SGSN information obtained during ISR activation in Tracking Area Update (TAU) procedure to inform the SGSN of paging the UE in the GERAN/UTRAN; or when the first PS domain network element is a SGSN, the first radio access network is GERAN/UTRAN, the second PS domain network element is a MME, the second radio access network is E-UTRAN, the step of the first PS domain network element sending the CS domain paging message to the second PS domain network element comprises: the SGSN sending the CS domain paging message to the MME according to MME information obtained during ISR activation in Routing Area Update (RAU) procedure to inform the MME of paging the UE in the E-UTRAN. | 49,720 |
9,506,403 | 1. A fastener for connecting two pipe adapters within a casing, the fastener comprising a fastener body having a central bore with a first engagement portion for engagement with a first pipe adapter and a second engagement portion for engagement with a second pipe adapter; and an outer wall at least partly surrounding and spaced from said fastener body, wherein: | 30,640 |
9,837,918 | 1. A converter circuit comprising: an inverter configured to receive an input voltage, and convert the input voltage into a primary-side alternating-current (AC) voltage, the inverter comprising: a first switch unit having a plurality of switches; a second switch unit having a plurality of switches; and a controller, wherein when the converter circuit works in a first inversion mode, the controller is configured to control the plurality of switches of the first switch unit and the second switch unit to cooperatively switch on and switch off periodically according to an output voltage of the converter circuit, and when the converter circuit works in a second inversion mode, the controller is configured to control the first switch unit to operate independently and the plurality of switches of the first switch unit switch on and switch off periodically; wherein the converter circuit has different voltage gains in the first inversion mode and in the second inversion mode, wherein after the controller receives a signal associated with an output state of the converter circuit being changed: | 48,021 |
8,771,601 | 1. An apparatus for converting an organic material into hydrocarbons comprising: a pre-conversion system and a product recovery system, said pre-conversion system comprising: | 45,057 |
8,400,143 | 1. A signal processing circuit for a rotation detector that includes a first magnetic sensor and a second magnetic sensor, the first magnetic sensor and the second magnetic sensor arranged opposite a rotating object having gear teeth, the first magnetic sensor and the second magnetic sensor respectively outputting a first sensor signal and a second sensor signal in accordance with movement of top lands and bottom lands of the gear teeth when the rotor rotates in a normal direction or a reverse direction, each of the first sensor signal and the second sensor signal having a rectangular waveform, the signal processing circuit comprising: a rotational direction determining portion configured to determine whether a rotational direction of the rotating object is the normal direction or the reverse direction based on a phase relationship between the first sensor signal and the second sensor signal; an effective edge determining portion configured to determine whether a change in the first sensor signal is caused by an effective edge, the effective edge determining portion determining that the change in the first sensor signal is caused by the effective edge when the change is caused by one of front edges of the top lands while the rotating object is rotating in one of the normal direction and the reverse direction or when the change is caused by one of rear edges of the top lands while the rotating object is rotating in the other one of the normal direction and the reverse direction; a normal-rotation pulse request holding portion configured to hold an output request signal of a normal-rotation pulse when the rotational direction determining portion determines that the rotational direction is the normal direction and the effective edge determining portion determines that the change in the first sensor signal is caused by the effective edge, the normal-rotation pulse indicating that the rotating object is rotating in the normal direction; a reverse-rotation pulse request holding portion configured to hold an output request signal of a reverse-rotation pulse when the rotational direction determining portion determines that the rotational direction is the reverse direction and the effective edge determining portion determines that the change in the first sensor signal is caused by the effective edge, the reverse-rotation pulse indicating that the rotating object is rotating in the reverse direction; an output request signal outputting portion configured so that when one of the normal-rotation pulse request holding portion and the reverse-rotation pulse request holding portion holds the output request signal, the output request signal outputting portion permits an output of the output request signal held by the one of the normal-rotation pulse request holding portion and the reverse-rotation pulse request holding portion, and when the other one of the normal-rotation pulse request holding portion and the reverse-rotation pulse request holding portion holds the output request signal in a state where the one of the normal-rotation pulse request holding portion and the reverse-rotation pulse request holding portion holds the output request signal, the output request signal outputting portion waits an output of the output request signal held by the other one of the normal-rotation pulse request holding portion and the reverse-rotation pulse request holding portion until the output request signal held by the one of the normal-rotation pulse request holding portion and the reverse-rotation pulse request holding portion is reset; a pulse outputting portion configured to output one of the normal-rotation pulse and the reverse-rotation pulse based on the output request signal output from the output request signal outputting portion; a first resetting portion configured so that after the pulse outputting portion ends an output of the one of the normal-rotation pulse and the reverse-rotation pulse, the first resetting portion resets the output request signal of the one of the normal-rotation pulse and the reverse-rotation pulse held by the one of the normal-rotation pulse request holding portion and the reverse-rotation pulse request holding portion; and a second resetting portion configured so that when the other one of the normal-rotation pulse request holding portion and the reverse-rotation pulse request holding portion holds the output request signal and then a condition for holding the output request signal that is already held by the one of the normal-rotation pulse request holding portion and the reverse-rotation pulse request holding portion is satisfied in a state where the one of the normal-rotation pulse request holding portion and the reverse-rotation pulse request holding portion holds the output request signal, the second resetting portion resets the output request signal held by the other one of the normal-rotation pulse request holding portion and the reverse-rotation pulse request holding portion. | 996 |
9,018,519 | 1. A method of manufacturing a solar cell comprising: providing a growth substrate composed of GaAs; depositing on said growth substrate a sequence of layers of semiconductor material forming a solar cell; providing a glass surrogate substrate having a thickness of about 40 mils; bonding an adhesive polyimide layer to the glass surrogate substrate at a curing temperature above 350 degrees C.; permanently bonding the surface of the adhesive polyimide layer of the glass surrogate substrate to the surface of the sequence of layers of semiconductor material at a temperature of about 300 degrees C. with a thermocompressive technique using a press for directing pressure and heat to form a solar cell; removing the growth substrate after the surrogate substrate has been attached by grinding, etching, or epitaxial lift-off; forming grid electrodes on the surface of the layers of semiconductor material to form a top surface of the solar cell; and attaching a cover glass to the top surface of the solar cell, wherein said step of depositing a sequence of layers of semiconductor material includes: forming a first solar subcell on said substrate composed of an GaInP, GaAs, GaInAs, GaAsSb, or GaInAsN emitter region and an GaAs, GaInAs, GaAsSb, or GaInAsN base region and having a first band gap; forming a second solar subcell over said first subcell composed of an InGaP emitter layer and a GaAs or GaInAs base layer and having a second band gap smaller than said first band gap; forming a grading interlayer over said second subcell that is compositionally graded to lattice match the second subcell on one side and a third subcell on the other side, and is composed of (In forming a third solar subcell composed of an InGaAs base and emitter layer, or a InGaAs base layer and a InGaP emitter layer and having a fourth band gap smaller than said second band gap such that said third subcell is lattice mismatched with respect to said second subcell. | 20,163 |
9,480,732 | 1. A method of preventing climacturia in a patient in need thereof, the method comprising administering a therapeutically effective amount of a botulinum toxin to the bladder of a patient. | 815 |
9,182,774 | 1. A method for operating an accelerator pedal unit for motor vehicles, wherein a change in position of a pedal plate, which is brought about by a corresponding activation force, with respect to the starting position of said pedal plate counter to a restoring force (F res ) of a pedal restoring spring brings about an increase in the driving force of the drive motor of the motor vehicle, and when the activation force diminishes the restoring force of the pedal restoring spring moves the pedal plate back in the direction of its starting position, wherein an electromechanical actuator which can be actuated externally is arranged in such a way that an additional restoring force (F add ) acting on the pedal plate can be set, wherein a calibration process is carried out, with the result that a linear relationship is implemented between the setpoint current request (I setp ) to the electromechanical actuator and the additional restoring force (F add ) over the entire pedal stroke (S). | 3,734 |
9,771,775 | 1. A christmas tree for a hydrocarbon wellbore, said wellbore comprising a production tubing extending from a well head in the direction of a downhole end of the wellbore and a tree arranged onto the well head; wherein the tree is provided with a valve; wherein said valve comprises: a valve housing; a tubular valve member having an axially extending tube wall; an operating mechanism for operating the tubular valve member; wherein the valve housing has a lower end and is provided with a passage extending from a lower passage opening to an upper passage opening, the lower passage opening being provided in the lower end of the housing and opening in downward direction; wherein the valve housing comprises a radial bore providing a side port in the passage; wherein the radial bore has one end debouching into the passage and the other end facing away from the passage for connection to a further flow channel; wherein the tube wall is provided with one or more radial inlet apertures through said tube wall; wherein the tube wall is provided with a radial outlet aperture through said tube wall between the one or more radial inlet apertures and an upper end of the tubular valve member; wherein a lower end part of the tubular valve member is defined as a part of the tubular valve member extending from the lower end of the tubular valve member to the one or more radial inlet apertures; wherein said lower end part is closed; wherein the tubular valve member extends in the passage and is axially movable, by the operating mechanism, with respect to the valve housing between a flow position and a blocking position; wherein, in the blocking position, the tubular valve member is retracted in the valve housing such that the one or more radial inlet apertures lie inside the valve housing and fluid flow between the lower passage opening and upper passage opening is prevented by the closed lower end part of the tubular valve member; and wherein, in the flow position, the tubular valve member projects from the lower end of the valve housing in an extent such that the one or more radial inlet apertures lie outside the valve housing to allow fluid flow from outside the tubular valve member via the one or more radial inlet apertures through the tubular valve member, the radial outlet aperture and the radial bore, to the further flow channel; and wherein the upper passage opening of said passage is flow connected to a flow wing port of the tree; and wherein the passage and accompanying valve member define a production flow safety valve. | 16,560 |
8,507,672 | 1. A compound of formula I: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein: X is O; Y is O or NR A is aryl; R R each R each R each R each R n is 0-8; and m is 0-4. | 17,349 |
9,526,773 | 1. A fusion protein which comprises the amino acid sequences selected from: (a) SEQ ID NO:1 (ESAT6), SEQ ID NO: 2 (Rv3614c), SEQ ID NO: 3 (Rv3615c), SEQ ID NO: 4 (Rv3865), SEQ ID NO: 5 (Rv3849) and SEQ ID NO: 6 (Rv3872); (b) SEQ ID NO: 2 (Rv3614c), SEQ ID NO: 3 (Rv3615c), SEQ ID NO: 4 (Rv3865), SEQ ID NO: 5 (Rv3849) and SEQ ID NO: 6 (Rv3872); (c) SEQ ID NO: 2 (Rv3614c), SEQ ID NO: 3 (Rv3615c), SEQ ID NO: 4 (Rv3865), SEQ ID NO: 5 (Rv3849), SEQ ID NO: 6 (Rv3872) and SEQ ID NO: 7 (Rv3616c); (d) SEQ ID NO: 2 (Rv3614c), SEQ ID NO: 3 (Rv3615c), SEQ ID NO: 4 (Rv3865), SEQ ID NO: 5 (Rv3849), SEQ ID NO: 6 (Rv3872), SEQ ID NO: 7 (Rv3616c) and SEQ ID NO: 8 (Rv3881c); (e) SEQ ID NO: 2 (Rv3614c), SEQ ID NO: 3 (Rv3615c), SEQ ID NO: 4 (Rv3865), SEQ ID NO: 5 (Rv3849), SEQ ID NO: 6 (Rv3872) and SEQ ID NO: 8 (Rv3881c); and (f) an amino acid sequence having at least 95% sequence identity to any one of (a)-(e) over the full sequences recited in any one of (a)-(e) and at the same time being immunogenic. | 46,873 |
9,840,115 | 1. A tyre for a vehicle wheel, comprising: a tread band; wherein the tread band comprises a tread-band pattern, wherein the tread-band pattern comprises at least two circumferential portions, wherein at least one of the circumferential portions comprises a first geometric module, wherein the first geometric module comprises: wherein the at least two circumferential portions are disposed in an axial side-by-side relationship; wherein the first geometric module is repeated along a circumferential extension direction of the tyre, wherein the elongated ridge is bounded by two oblique grooves oriented to be oblique to the circumferential extension direction, wherein the elongated ridge is divided into a plurality of intermediate blocks with respect to an axial extension direction of the tread band, wherein the intermediate blocks are bounded by a plurality of cuts substantially transverse to the elongated ridge; wherein the end block defines an axially external end of the elongated ridge, substantially in axial alignment with one of said at least two shoulder blocks; wherein the auxiliary block is disposed circumferentially close to the end block, substantially in axial alignment with another of said at least two shoulder blocks and wherein the auxiliary block is separated from two intermediate blocks of the elongated ridge by one of the oblique grooves such that the auxiliary block is axially between the two intermediate blocks and the another of said at least two shoulder blocks; wherein the at least two shoulder blocks are associated with the elongated ridge, wherein the at least two shoulder blocks are circumferentially aligned along a side edge of the tread band, and wherein the at least two shoulder blocks are bounded by substantially transverse grooves oriented substantially transversely to the circumferential extension direction. | 9,921 |
9,460,386 | 1. A system, comprising: a memory having computer readable computer instructions; and a processor for executing the computer readable instructions, the computer readable instructions including: creating a multi-layered neural network from domain knowledge; training the multi-layered neural network with labeled data and unlabeled data; inputting at least one of an existing passage justification component and raw input data for a question and passage to the trained multi-layered neural network; extracting, via the trained multi-layered neural network and from results of inputting the at least one existing passage justification component and raw input data for a question and passage, concepts determined to have passage justification; creating, via machine learning, a passage justification model from the extracted concepts and from passage justification; and scoring, via the passage justification model, the extracted concepts. | 48,889 |
8,498,097 | 1. A composition, comprising: a nanoporous material and an ionic liquid, the ionic liquid comprising a plurality of ions, the nanoporous material being characterized as comprising a plurality of nanopores having an average characteristic cross-sectional dimension in the range of from about 0.1 nm to about 3 nm, and the difference between the average characteristic cross-sectional dimension of the nanopores and the average cross-sectional dimension of the plurality of ions being in the range of less than about 0.05 nm. | 48,164 |
9,657,400 | 1. A method for forming an electrolyzer comprising: disposing a heat-generating element adjacent to a surface of an electrolyzer cell component comprising an electrode assembly, wherein the heat-generating element directly abuts a plurality of inlet apertures and outlet apertures of the electrode assembly; positioning the surface of the electrolyzer cell component in contact with a surface of an adjoining electrolyzer cell component comprising a diaphragm assembly such that the heat-generating element is disposed adjacent to a diaphragm of the diaphragm assembly; heating the heat-generating element to soften the surface of the electrolyzer cell component and form a fused interface between the electrode assembly and the diaphragm assembly about the diaphragm; heating the heat-generating element to form a fused interface between the electrode assembly and the diaphragm assembly directly about the inlet apertures to form inlet channels; and heating the heat-generating element to form a fused interface between the electrode assembly and the diaphragm assembly directly about the outlet apertures to form outlet channels, wherein the heat-generating element is heated by current applied to at least one alignment bar of a plurality of alignment bars inserted through fluid passages of the electrolyzer cell component. | 28,832 |
9,115,193 | 1. A recombinant nucleic acid comprising: (i) a nucleotide sequence operably linked to a heterologous promoter, wherein said nucleotide sequence encodes at least 16 contiguous amino acids of SEQ ID NO: 97; or (ii) a nucleotide sequence operably linked to a heterologous promoter, wherein said nucleotide sequence encodes at least 35 contiguous amino acids of SEQ ID NO: 95. | 49,953 |
9,409,600 | 1. A lane assist system for a motor vehicle, said lane assist system configured for activation and deactivation and mechatronically connected to a superimposed steering system of the motor vehicle for enabling a steering intervention on an axle by the superimposed steering system, said lane assist system configured to reduce a translation ratio of the superimposed steering system, when activated, by a factor between 5 and 15. | 22,479 |
8,352,109 | 1. A vehicle control device for controlling a vehicle drive apparatus, which includes an input member drive-coupled to a driving force source, an output member drive-coupled to a wheel, and a transmission having a plurality of engagement elements and a plurality of shift speeds in a switchable manner, shifting a rotation speed of the input member with speed ratios of the shift speeds and transmitting the shifted speed to the output member, wherein the vehicle control device controls switching of shift speeds, which is performed at least via a torque phase in the transmission, by controlling engagement and release of the plurality of engagement elements, the vehicle control device comprising: a release control mechanism for feedback controlling supplied oil pressure to a release side element which is an engagement element on a side to be released so that a differential rotation speed becomes substantially constant, the differential rotation speed being a difference of rotation speed between an actual rotation speed of the input member and a predetermined target rotation speed; an engagement control mechanism for increasing supplied oil pressure to an engagement side element as an engagement element on a side to be engaged in a state that the differential rotation speed is substantially constant; and a phase determining mechanism for determining that the torque phase has started when a condition that a phenomenon accompanying a change of the differential rotation speed due to increase of the supplied oil pressure to the engagement side element is detected is met. | 20,876 |
8,346,571 | 1. A method for facilitating the delivery of prescription products or services, the method comprising the steps of: providing a processing unit programmed with a rules engine to carry out the steps of the method; providing a database for storage and retrieval of information by the processing unit; providing a plurality of input/output devices for communication; communicating, from a customer to the processing unit, unfilled prescription information and customer information, wherein the unfilled prescription was provided by a prescriber; communicating, from the processing unit to the customer, cost information for both the unfilled prescription and for any similar products, the cost information including a price, availability of any discount coupons, a co-pay for any third-party payer benefits, and a final cost to the customer; the customer comparing the cost information; the customer selecting a prescription, the select prescription comprising the unfilled prescription or a select similar product; communicating, from the customer to the processing unit, the select prescription comprising the prescriber modifying the unfilled prescription as needed to conform to the select prescription; communicating the modified unfilled prescription information from the processing unit to a plurality of pre-qualified prescription fulfillment providers; conducting a reverse auction in which the pre-qualified prescription fulfillment providers communicate to the processing unit interactive and iterative bids to fill the modified unfilled prescription, each fulfillment provider receiving real-time feedback communications from the processing unit regarding the status and placement of their bids in comparison to other fulfillment providers, each fulfillment provider having the option of communicating to the processing unit amended bids that include at least one of new, lower prices and ancillary services in competition with the bids of other fulfillment providers to entice the customer to select their bid; providing a results communication from the processing unit to the customer, the results communication including details of the final bid of each responding prescription fulfillment provider that made at least one bid to fill the modified unfilled prescription; and, allowing the customer to select a winning bid by sending an instruction communication to the processing unit, the communications between the customer and the processing unit and the communications between the processing unit and the fulfillment providers being accomplished using input/output devices at each of the customer, processing unit and fulfillment providers. | 41,920 |
9,217,138 | 1. A mutant rumen bacterium, said mutant rumen bacterium lacking (i) a lactate dehydrogenase gene (ldhA), (ii) a phosphotransacetylase gene (pta), and (iii) an acetate kinase gene (ackA), said mutant rumen bacterium comprising non-disrupted pyruvate formate-lyase gene (pfl), and said mutant rumen bacterium having the property of producing succinic acid in anaerobic conditions, wherein said rumen bacterium is selected from the group consisting of genus wherein the amount of any other organic acid produced by the mutant rumen bacterium as a byproduct in the production of succinic acid by the mutant rumen bacterium is less than 1 wt % based on the weight of succinic acid that is produced. | 11,745 |
9,269,520 | 1. An electron gun comprising: a cathode heated by a heating power supply and operative to emit thermal electrons from a tip of the cathode; a Wehnelt electrode having a central axis along which a first opening is formed, the tip of the cathode being inserted in the first opening, the Wehnelt electrode being operative to control a thermal electron emissive region by application of a bias voltage to the Wehnelt electrode and to focus the thermal electrons; a control electrode having a central axis along which a second opening is formed, the control electrode being operative to cause the thermal electrons emitted from the tip of the cathode to pass into the second opening by application of a control voltage to the control electrode; an anode having a central axis along which a third opening is formed, the anode being operative to accelerate the thermal electrons emitted from the cathode by application of an accelerating voltage to the anode such that the thermal electrons passed through the second opening pass into the third opening and impinge as an electron beam on a powdered sample; and a controller for settings the bias voltage and the control voltage based on combination conditions of the bias voltage and the control voltage to maintain the brightness of the electron beam constant when a beam current produced by the electron beam impinging on the powdered sample is varied. | 38,223 |
8,372,419 | 1. Method of coating of a device with a substance comprising the steps of: (a) providing a container having a receptacle for receiving the device to be coated, wherein the receptacle of the container is coaxially located within a container housing, the container and the receptacle being configured so that the device is coatable with the coating substance directly in the container, wherein an inner surface of the receptacle is coated with a layer of an inert, repelling material configured to increase a quantitative deposition of the coating substance on the device; (b) providing a solution of the coating substance within the receptacle; (c) inserting the device into the solution of the coating substance within the receptacle of the container, where the order of steps (b) and (c) can be reversed; and (d) starting isothermal drying of the device while the device remains within the solution held within the receptacle of the container, thereby removing volatile components from the solution of the coating substance. | 5,754 |
8,727,218 | 1. A checkout system, comprising: a bi-optical workstation operated by a clerk, the workstation having a first workstation window located in a generally horizontal plane, and a second workstation window located in a generally upright plane that intersects the generally horizontal plane, both of the workstation windows facing and being accessible to the clerk for enabling the clerk to pass products to be checked out in a transaction through the workstation to a bagging area, the workstation having a data capture arrangement for capturing through at least one of the workstation windows target data of targets associated with the products to be checked out by the clerk; an accessory reader operated by a customer, the accessory reader having an accessory window facing the bagging area and being accessible to the customer for enabling the customer to interact with the accessory reader, the accessory reader having a data capture assembly for capturing additional target data of additional targets associated with items related to the transaction; and a rear cover having a first opening to allow light from the additional targets entering the accessory reader and having a second opening covered by a side cover, wherein the first opening and the second opening are located on opposite side-walls of the rear cover and are substantially identical in size. | 11,406 |
9,031,199 | 1. An X-ray computed tomography apparatus comprising a gantry unit including an X-ray tube configured to generate X-rays and an X-ray detector configured to detect X-rays transmitted through an object, a bed unit on which the object is placed, and a console configured to control the gantry unit and the bed unit for X-ray computed tomography, and to reconstruct an image based on projection data acquired by the X-ray computed tomography, the apparatus comprising: a storage unit configured to store examination schedule data of the X-ray computed tomography; a power supply unit configured to selectively operate between an active mode of supplying power to at least one of the gantry unit, the bed unit, and the console, and a standby mode of stopping supplying power to at least one of the bed unit and the gantry unit and supplying, to the console, a non-zero power smaller than power supplied in the active mode; and a power supply control unit configured to control switching from the active mode to the standby mode based on the examination schedule data. | 40,426 |
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