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8,688,318 | 1. A method for controlling an engine of a vehicle having a direct current (DC) converter, wherein the engine is automatically turned on and off based on driver inputs in accordance with an auto-stop feature, the method comprising: determining a status of the engine; receiving a DC converter voltage from the DC converter; and selectively disabling the auto-stop feature of the engine via a processor based on the status of the engine and the DC converter voltage. | 48,738 |
9,460,258 | 1. A method for performing shaping on a circuit design, the method comprising: receiving a set of power grid (PG) strategies that specifies a structure of a PG that is to be used in the circuit design; creating a set of placement constraints based on the set of PG strategies, wherein the set of placement constraints comprises a placement constraint that requires a physical partition to be aligned with the structure of the PG, and wherein at least one PG wire passes through the physical partition; performing, by computer, shaping on the circuit design using the set of placement constraints; and after performing said shaping on the circuit design, creating the PG in the circuit design based on the set of PG strategies, wherein said creating the PG in the circuit design comprises pushing the at least one PG wire into the physical partition. | 10,951 |
9,041,331 | 1. A motor controlling apparatus comprising: a first target torque value calculator configured to calculate a first target torque value based on accelerator position and motor rotational speed, the first target torque value being a target value of an output torque of a motor; a frequency detector configured to detect a rotational frequency of the motor; a second target torque value calculator configured to calculate a second target torque value based on the rotational frequency detected by the frequency detector; a torque command value calculator configured to mathematically combine the first target torque value and the second target torque value by adding the first target torque value and the second target torque value together to calculate a torque command value; a torque limiter configured to set a sign of the first target torque value and a sign of the torque command value to be equal, to set a positive of an absolute value of the first target torque value as an upper-limit value and to set a negative of the absolute value of the first target torque value as a lower-limit value to limit the torque command value according to the first target torque value, the torque limiter being further configured to limit the second target torque value and to limit the torque command value according to the second target torque value; and a controller configured to control the motor based on the torque command value as limited by the torque limiter. | 29,005 |
8,452,699 | 1. A structured reference credit decision device, comprising: a database configured to store information related to applicants, potential customers, referencers, potential referencers, lenders, and other third parties, where a referencer is a person or organization who provides a reference to a lender regarding an applicant and wherein a referencer is not a credit bureau; a fetch data component coupled with the database, the fetch data component configured to: | 17,747 |
8,511,288 | 1. A method for operating an internal combustion engine with two-stage turbocharging by a low-pressure exhaust gas turbine and a high-pressure exhaust gas turbine, the low-pressure exhaust gas turbine being positioned downstream of the high-pressure exhaust gas turbine in an exhaust system of the internal combustion engine, and the high-pressure exhaust gas turbine being provided with a bypass line including a control valve, with the low pressure exhaust gas turbine having a bypass line with a waste gate, and with a control unit configured to check an operating condition of the internal combustion engine, comprising the following steps: checking either continuously or periodically at certain intervals with the electronic control unit whether the internal combustion engine is operated in a transient or a steady-state operating conditions, controlling the control valve in accordance with at least one steady-state characteristic map in the steady-state case and in accordance with at least one transient characteristic map or a transient function in the transient case, and controlling the waste gate in the transient operating state via a transient characteristic map or via a transient function, wherein both the control valve and the waste gate are controlled by respective controllers. | 35,672 |
9,223,581 | 1. A method for operating a system-on-chip (SoC), the method comprising: loading a table to a memory of a central processing unit (CPU) of the SoC, the table comprising information indicating a default accelerator assigned to an application program; receiving an acceleration request signal generated upon execution of the application program; in response to receipt of the acceleration request signal, comparing a parameter of the CPU during a current usage of the CPU with a threshold value to generate a comparison signal; and performing switching between a software accelerator and a hardware accelerator among a plurality of heterogeneous accelerators based on the comparison signal and the loaded information indicating the default accelerator assigned to the application program, to accelerate a function executed by the application program. | 32,390 |
8,388,248 | 1. A single-use, disposable, hand-held medical liquid applicator system, the applicator system comprising: a substantially rigid, flat, planar applicator grip assembly comprising a first section having a first distal end and a second section having a second distal end, a longitudinal axis, a front side, a back side, a predetermined grip length, a predetermined grip width, a fold axis separating the first section and the second section, the fold axis being perpendicular to the longitudinal axis, and a fold-activated dispensing slit located on the fold axis; a flexible reservoir joined to a back side of the applicator grip assembly, the reservoir comprising a flexible pouch and containing at least 1 milliliter of a flowable medical liquid, and the flexible reservoir in liquid communication with the fold-activated dispensing slit; an applicator head joined to the front side of the applicator grip assembly at the fold axis and in liquid communication with the dispensing slit, the applicator head comprising a porous material adapted to receive the flowable medical liquid and to release the flowable medical liquid to a substrate; a spacer section intermediate the first section and the second section of the applicator grip assembly; a first fold axis between the first section and the spacer section and a second fold axis between the second section and the spacer section, each fold axis being perpendicular to the longitudinal axis, the spacer section having a length much shorter than the first section and the second section; and a first fold-activated dispensing slit located on a first fold axis and a second fold-activated dispensing slit located on a second fold axis; wherein the applicator grip assembly is adapted to fold at each fold axis to define a grip handle and further to rupture both fold-activated dispensing slits thereby defining multiple dispensing opening and apply pressure to the flexible reservoir element in liquid communication with the dispensing slit thereby urging flowable medical liquid through the dispensing opening and into the applicator head. | 47,921 |
8,841,439 | 1. A method of removing essentially all of a contaminant from a mixture comprising the contaminant and a nucleotide sugar comprising a branched PEG structure, the method comprising: contacting the mixture with a first membrane for a length of time sufficient to allow essentially all of the contaminant to pass through the first membrane wherein the mixture has a pH such that the first membrane and the nucleotide sugar comprising a branched PEG structure have a net charge of the same sign and the contaminant has a net charge which is neutral or a sign which is opposite of the sign of the net charge for the first membrane; and the first membrane has a molecular weight cut-off that is less than the molecular weight of the nucleotide sugar comprising a branched PEG structure; and wherein the branched PEG structure has a formula of: wherein m and n are integers independently selected to provide a PEG moiety having a molecular weight of 2 kDa, 5 kDa, 10 kDa, 20 kDa, 30 kDa, or 40 kDa; thereby removing essentially all of the contaminant from the mixture. | 5,812 |
8,557,510 | 1. A composition comprising: i) a colour forming component which is susceptible to changing colour when irradiated; ii) an amine neutralized alkylaromatic sulphonic acid; and iii) a binder, wherein the amine neutralized alkylaromatic sulphonic acid is a polyalkylnaphthalene polysulphonic acid derivative. | 12,496 |
8,548,008 | 1. A wireless communication system comprising: a mobile station comprising a transmitter which transmits a data signal and a pilot signal; and a base station comprising a receiver which demodulates the data signal based on the pilot signal, wherein the transmitter calculates a sequence of the pilot signal in a frequency domain according to a present numerical formula and a Zadoff-Chu sequence, wherein the length of the Zadoff-Chu sequence is a largest prime number among at least one prime number which is less than the length of the pilot signal. | 19,933 |
9,190,628 | 1. An optoelectronic component, comprising: at least one layer of the optoelectronic component; at least one adhesive on the layer of the optoelectronic component; and a cover on the at least one adhesive; wherein the at least one adhesive is cured only in a partial region above at least one of a substrate and the layer; and wherein, after being cured, the partial region at least partly encloses a region in which a liquid adhesive is provided, wherein the liquid adhesive is configured to flow into a defect location. | 10,229 |
9,006,571 | 1. An electrical distribution bus system comprising: at least a first bus bar, the first bus bar including a first elbow portion from which a first pair of straight portions extends, a first portion of said first pair extending at a first elbow angle to the first elbow portion, a second portion of said first pair extending at a second elbow angle to the first elbow portion, and the first and second portions of the first pair being disposed in respective planes disposed at right angles to one another, at least a second bus bar, the second bus bar including a second elbow portion from which a second pair of straight portions extends, a first portion of said second pair extending at a third elbow angle to the second elbow portion, and a second portion of said second pair extending at a fourth elbow angle to the second elbow portion, and the first and second portions of the second pair being disposed in respective planes disposed at right angles to one another, a dielectric insulator having a length and a width, the length extending perpendicularly between said elbow portions, and at least one fastener coupling the dielectric insulator between said bus bars, the dielectric insulator electrically insulating the first and second bus bar from one another. | 3,460 |
9,173,117 | 1. A method implemented by a slave network edge node at an edge of a service provider network, the slave network edge node to provide accessibility to a wide area network for a customer premise equipment (CPE) upon a failure of a master network edge node, wherein the master network edge node is coupled to the CPE over a wireline link and provides accessibility to the wide area network for the CPE before the failure, the method comprising: detecting that the master network edge node has failed; sending a failure update message (BFU) by the slave network edge node to a Packet Data Network Gateway (PDN GW) of a Long-Term Evolution (LTE) network, wherein the PDN GW provides a backup channel for the CPE to reach the wide area network over a mobile tunnel, and wherein before the failure the mobile tunnel has an end point at the master network edge node, and wherein the failure update message notifies the PDN GW that the end point of the mobile tunnel has changed from the master network edge node to the slave network edge node; receiving a failure acknowledgement message (BFA) by the slave network edge node from the PDN GW in response to the failure update message; and routing traffic received by the slave network edge node from the PDN GW over the mobile tunnel to the wide area network. | 514 |
8,782,089 | 1. A computer-implemented method for modifying a first storage medium having a plurality of files stored therein, wherein the plurality of files are stored on the first storage medium according to a file system, the method comprising: rendering at least a portion of the plurality of files unavailable for use through data structures on the first storage medium maintained by the file system unless and until a modification operation is performed; obtaining a first set of metadata describing each file of the plurality of files, wherein the first set of metadata includes directory information that identifies locations on the first storage medium at which the plurality of files are stored; and automatically modifying a first subset of the first set of metadata such that the modified directory information metadata corresponds to a first subset of the unavailable files and such that each file contained within the first subset of the unavailable files is made available for use. | 21,342 |
9,586,675 | 1. A secondary actuation mechanism for arresting movement of a control surface, said secondary actuation mechanism comprising: a secondary actuator; a drive link coupled to said secondary actuator; and a secondary connecting rod coupled between said drive link and said control surface, wherein: | 49,291 |
8,916,047 | 1. A method for bioremediation of contaminants, comprising: contacting a contaminant with composite particles of a microbial available nutrient formulation including at least one microbial available nutrient species and at least one fatty acid species; oxygenating water on-site to form oxygenated water including greater than about 4 parts per million dissolved oxygen; and contacting the contaminant with the oxygenated water. | 16,072 |
8,561,355 | 1. A clamp comprising: an upper channel adapted to receive a vertical wall extender, the upper channel further comprising a fixing element that fixes the vertical wall extender to the upper channel, and a screw, wherein the upper channel comprises upper channel sides and an upper channel base surface, wherein the screw is generally flush with the base surface when the clamp is installed; and a lower channel adapted to be mounted to an existing cubicle wall, the existing cubicle wall having a top and sides, the lower channel further comprising a first and second half, the first half containing a nut channel with a nut disposed therein, the second half containing an elongate slot through which the screw can thread into the nut, both the nut channel and elongate slot having a longitudinal axis that is perpendicular to the sides of the existing cubicle wall when the clamp is installed, and wherein the two halves are adapted to be fixed into contact with the sides of the existing cubicle wall when the screw is tightened to the nut; wherein the nut channel is adapted to restrict the nut from spinning during installation and allow the upper channel to be fixed into place at a position along the longitudinal axis of the elongate slot. | 9,958 |
9,428,191 | 1. An information processing apparatus, comprising: a generation section configured to generate, from a state of a mobile vehicle in each position obtained by discretizing a traveling route along which the mobile vehicle travels, a state of the mobile vehicle in a next position for each use state of drive means contained in the mobile vehicle; an optimization section configured to optimize the use state of the drive means in each position based on at least one of states of the mobile vehicle in each position generated by the generation section; and a constraint acquisition section configured to acquire state constraints of the mobile vehicle in each position obtained by discretizing the traveling route along which the mobile vehicle travels; wherein the generation section generates a state of the mobile vehicle in the next position from the state of the mobile vehicle in each position under the constraints. | 9,663 |
9,282,648 | 1. A method of manufacturing a composite electrode comprising the steps of: providing a conducting carrier layer being a first substrate layer with an electrically conducting surface; providing a non-conducting at least radiation curable material; providing a second substrate layer which is transparent at a wavelength of radiation used to cure the radiation curable material and which has a surface relief pattern defining at least one retaining feature corresponding to a desired metal track pattern; forming a line of contact between the conducting carrier layer and at least a part of the surface relief pattern; depositing the curable material onto at least part of the surface relief pattern or the electrically conducting surface along the line of contact; advancing the line of contact and curing the curable material through the second substrate layer; releasing the cured material from the at least part of the surface relief pattern feature so as to leave behind a transferred surface relief pattern on the conducting carrier layer; selectively removing at least part of the transferred surface relief pattern so as to selectively expose the electrically conducting surface of the conducting carrier layer; depositing a first metal layer onto the exposed regions of the electrically conducting surface of the conducting carrier layer; depositing an adhesive layer over the transferred surface relief pattern on the conducting carrier layer after metal deposition; contacting the adhesive layer to a third substrate layer; and removing the conducting carrier layer, wherein the conducting carrier layer has a surface roughness such that adhesion between the conducting carrier layer and the first metal layer is not promoted. | 38,721 |
8,517,126 | 1. An electric vehicle propelled by drive power from an electric motor, which is energized by electric power from an electric storage device, comprising: an electric receiving coil disposed above a vehicle underfloor panel, for supplying electric power to the electric storage device; and a relay for transmitting electric power from an electric transmitting coil disposed underneath a road surface to the electric receiving coil through at least one of an electromagnetic induction wireless coupling and a resonant wireless coupling, wherein: the relay comprises a first coil, a second coil, and a capacitor that jointly constitute a resonant circuit; the first coil and the electric receiving coil jointly constitute a first wireless coupling; the second coil and the electric transmitting coil jointly constitute a second wireless coupling; the first coil is disposed above the vehicle underfloor panel and beneath the electric receiving coil in close proximity thereto, in order to make a coupling strength k of the first wireless coupling greater than a coupling strength k of the second wireless coupling; and the second coil is disposed beneath the vehicle underfloor panel, and an index Q of the second wireless coupling concerning energy retained thereby is greater than an index Q of the first wireless coupling concerning energy retained thereby. | 26,595 |
9,722,114 | 1. A photovoltaic cell module comprising a photovoltaic cell mounting substrate; the substrate comprising: a first groove configured to mount a first photovoltaic cell; and a second groove configured to mount a second photovoltaic cell, the first groove and the second groove being provided in one surface of the substrate, the second groove being placed at a circumferential side of the first groove, in the one surface of the substrate, and the second groove being formed deeper than the first groove, with respect to the one surface of the substrate, wherein the first photovoltaic cell is mounted in the first groove and the second photovoltaic cell is mounted in the second groove, the second photovoltaic cell is positioned deeper than the first photovoltaic cell, with respect to the one surface of the substrate, wherein the substrate has another surface opposite the one surface, wherein the first groove and the second groove each have a highest point and a lowest point, wherein the highest point of the first groove and the highest point of the second groove are an equal distance from the another surface of the substrate, and wherein the second groove has a stepped structure including a first concave portion whose depth is the same as the depth of the first groove and a second concave portion formed at a bottom surface of the first concave portion to be smaller than the first concave portion, the second concave portion being formed deeper than the bottom surface of the first concave portion. | 12,920 |
9,409,216 | 1. A method of reducing the concentration of organic contaminants in a contaminated material, the method comprising: introducing an oligosaccharide to the contaminated material wherein the contaminated material comprises at least one of soil, sediment, rock, water, and groundwater; introducing a persulfate to the contaminated material; at least partially oxidizing the oligosaccharide with the persulfate to form a partially oxidized oligosaccharide; and oxidizing at least a portion of the organic contaminants present in the contaminated material, wherein oxidizing occurs without addition of a transition metal. | 9,295 |
9,092,330 | 1. A system for early data delivery prior to error detection completion in a memory system, the system comprising: a cache subsystem interface in a system domain, the cache subsystem interface comprising a correction pipeline and configured to interface with a cache subsystem; a memory control unit interface in a memory controller nest domain; a buffer control block providing an asynchronous boundary layer between the system domain and the memory controller nest domain; and a controller configured to perform a method comprising: | 43,845 |
8,500,728 | 1. A surgical system, comprising: an introducer device adapted to deliver a plurality of surgical instruments to a site within a patient's body; a first surgical instrument comprising an active electrode probe having a tip and being adapted for connection to an electrosurgical generator for effecting at the tip thereof an electrosurgical procedure within the patient's body, the first surgical instrument adapted to be deployed through the introducer device; a second surgical instrument for performing a non-electrosurgical procedure, the second surgical instrument adapted to be deployed through the introducer device; a conductive shield surrounding the active electrode probe of the first surgical instrument and connected to a reference potential; and a cold instrument monitor connected to the second surgical instrument and to the reference potential, whereby any current which flows from the active electrode probe to the second surgical instrument is conducted to the reference potential, wherein the cold instrument monitor comprises: a sensing tube surrounding at least a portion of the second surgical instrument and; first and second contact monitors connected to the second surgical instrument, the first and second contact monitors electrically coupled to a connection monitor, the connection monitor adapted to determine one or more of the voltage, current, impedance and resistance generated at the first and second contact monitors. | 38,781 |
9,828,974 | 1. An offshore cooling system comprising: a floating vessel comprising a fluid conveyance apparatus comprising a pipe, a pump, and a feedback system, wherein the fluid conveyance apparatus is operable to deploy and retract the pipe and the pump to and from an extraction depth below the ocean surface, wherein the extraction depth is at least 100 meters, wherein the pipe and pump are operatively connected and together operable to extract water from the extraction depth, and wherein the feedback system is operable to measure at least two measurements selected from the group consisting of biomass amount, sunlight amount, nutrient amount, and temperature at the extraction depth; and a receiving device comprising a transfer pipe operable to receive the extracted sea water from the fluid conveyance apparatus and transfer the extracted sea water for use as cooling water in a preexisting offshore operation. | 8,798 |
8,816,043 | 1. A difluoro benzotriazolyl solar cell material, represented by formula (I), wherein R | 48,847 |
8,718,555 | 1. A method for using one or more bearer channels for one or more wireless nodes, comprising: initiating communication among a plurality of wireless nodes, the plurality of wireless nodes comprising a node and one or more neighbor nodes; establishing an adaptive channel operable to communicate a plurality of messages through an ad hoc network between the node and the one or more neighbor nodes; independently selecting one or more bearer channels in each wireless node; notifying the one or more neighbor nodes of the one or more selected bearer channels using the adaptive channel; and communicating between the node and the one or more neighbor nodes over the one or more selected bearer channels, wherein when the node has data to send to a one-hop neighbor of the one or more neighbor nodes, a one of the bearer channels of the one-hop neighbor is selected for a handshake and data exchange with the one-hop neighbor. | 3,629 |
9,463,979 | 1. A device for manufacturing recycled carbon fibers using carbon fiber reinforced plastic containing carbon fibers and a matrix component as a source material, comprising: a dry distillation-carbonization furnace that dry distils the carbon fiber reinforced plastic and converts a portion of the matrix component into fixed carbon to attach the fixed carbon to the surfaces of the carbon fibers, and is provided with a box-shaped main body, a dry distillation-carbonization chamber which is arranged in the inside of the main body and accommodates the carbon fiber reinforced plastic, a combustion chamber which is arranged in the lower part of the dry distillation-carbonization chamber and equipped with a burner, and a heating chamber formed in the space between the main body and the dry distillation-carbonization chamber; and a continuous furnace that continuously heats the carbon fibers attached with the fixed carbon and removes a portion of the fixed carbon, and is provided with a mesh transportation part which transports the carbon fibers attached with the fixed carbon and an elongated tunnel-shaped heat treatment space, wherein a steam generator is provided to the dry distillation-carbonization furnace and steam at 100° C. or higher and 700° C. or lower is supplied to the dry distillation-carbonization chamber. | 28,033 |
8,631,910 | 1. A device for collecting a trailing cable of an elevator, in particular a construction elevator, having a cable pot which has an opening at its upper edge, through which the trailing cable can be placed in the cable pot or can be pulled out of it, characterized in that the trailing cable is a ribbon cable with a narrow face and a broad face and the narrow face of the ribbon cable runs approximately parallel to the longitudinal axis of the cable pot, therein, and in that the cable pot has an elongated cross section with a lateral width perpendicular to said longitudinal axis of said cable pot, and said cable pot is arranged and designed such that said broad face of said ribbon cable is approximately equal in length to said lateral width of said cable pot, and upon gravity-fed insertion from above through an opening corresponding to said cross-section of the cable pot the trailing cable forms overlapping winding loops in the cable pot. | 42,338 |
8,574,758 | 1. A method for producing a porous electrode substrate, comprising: (1) dispersing short carbon fibers (A), and short carbon fiber precursors (b), to obtain a precursor sheet; and (2) treating the precursor sheet in a carbonization treatment at a temperature of 1000° C. or higher, wherein the short carbon fiber precursors (b) are in the form of sea-island composite fibers, capable of fibrillation by beating, and comprise two or more different polymers. | 19,603 |
9,711,196 | 1. A computing device apparatus providing non-volatile logic based computing, the apparatus comprising: a plurality of non-volatile logic element array domains wherein at least one of the non-volatile logic element array domains comprises two or more non-volatile logic element arrays; a plurality of volatile storage elements; at least one non-volatile logic controller configured to control the plurality of non-volatile logic element array domains to store a machine state represented by the plurality of volatile storage elements and to read out a stored machine state from the plurality of non-volatile logic element array domains to the plurality of volatile storage elements; wherein the at least one non-volatile logic controller is further configured to read configuration bits that direct which of the plurality of non-volatile logic element array domains are enabled first in response to the computing device apparatus's entering a wakeup or backup mode; wherein the at least one non-volatile logic controller is further configured to read configuration bits that direct an order in which the first enabled of the plurality of non-volatile logic element array domains are restored or backed up in response to the computing device apparatus's entering a wakeup or backup mode; | 19,744 |
9,813,026 | 1. An amplifier arrangement, comprising: a first differential stage comprising at least two transistors having a first threshold voltage, at least a second differential stage comprising at least two transistors having a second threshold voltage different from the first threshold voltage, at least one of the transistors of the first and second differential stage, respectively, has a control input commonly coupled to an input of the amplifier arrangement, at least one transistor of the first differential stage and one transistor of the second differential stage are arranged in a common current path, which is coupled to an output of the amplifier arrangement, and the input of the amplifier arrangement comprising a differential input with two terminals, a first of which being coupled to the control input of at least one transistor of the first differential stage and to the control input of at least one transistor of the second differential stage, and a second of the differential input terminals being coupled to the control input of at least another transistor of the first differential stage and to the control input of at least another transistor of the second differential stage. | 37,995 |
9,018,397 | 1. A compound of the formula I wherein R 1 and R 2 are independently of each other an aliphatic, cycloaliphatic, cycloaliphatic-aliphatic, aromatic, aromatic-aliphatic, heteroaromatic or heteroaromatic-aliphatic group having up to 49 carbon atoms, a and d independently of each other are 0, 1, 2 or 3, Ar wherein R p represents 0, 1, or 2, R b, c, e, and f independently of each other represent 1, 2 or 3, Ar wherein R 6 , R 7 , R 8 , R 9 , R 12 , R 13 , R 15 , R 16 , R 17 , R 18 , R 19 , R 20 and R 21 are independently of each other hydrogen, C 1 -C 25 alkyl, C 1 -C 15 alkoxy, C 6 -C 24 aryl, C 7 -C 25 aralkyl, or heteroaryl, or R 6 and R 7 together represent alkylene or alkenylene which may be both bonded via oxygen and/or sulfur to the thienyl residue and which may both have up to 25 carbon atoms, R R a) an aliphatic hydrocarbon group having up to 18 carbon atoms, b) C c) C wherein R 22 to R 26 and R 41 to R 57 represent independently of each other hydrogen, an aliphatic hydrocarbon group having up to 25 carbon atoms, alkoxy or alkenyloxy having up to 18 carbon atoms, halogen, a cycloaliphatic, cycloaliphatic-aliphatic, aromatic, aromatic-aliphatic, heteroaromatic or heteroaromatic-aliphatic group having up to 25 carbon atoms, or a group of the formula (III) wherein R 3 represents an aliphatic hydrocarbon group having up to 12 carbon atoms, or two groups R 22 to R 26 and R 29 to R 57 which are in the neighborhood of each other, together represent alkylene or alkenylene having up to 8 carbon atoms, thereby forming a ring, and R 27 and R 28 are independently of each other hydrogen, C 1 -C 25 alkyl, C 1 -C 15 alkoxy, C 6 -C 24 aryl, C 7 -C 25 aralkyl, heteroaryl, or a group of the formula (III) shown above, wherein R 3 represents an aliphatic hydrocarbon group having up to 12 carbon atoms, or R 27 and R 28 together or R 27 and R 58 together represent alkylene or alkenylene which may be both bonded via oxygen and/or sulfur to the thienyl residue and which may both have up to 25 carbon atoms. | 40,326 |
9,537,798 | 1. A computer-implemented method for providing Ethernet link aggregation for logically independent entities that share a plurality of physical ports, the method comprising: receiving a frame at a first logical port that receives frames targeted to at least a second logical port, wherein the second logical port is associated with a client operating system (OS) and wherein the first and second logical ports are assigned to a physical port of a network adapter, and wherein the frame is a unicast frame; determining whether the second logical port received the frame, wherein determining whether the second logical port received the frame comprises determining a live operational state of the second logical port, wherein the second logical port received the frame if, based on the live operational state, the second logical port is active; and upon determining that the second logical port did not receive the frame, forwarding the frame to the client OS via a sideband interface associated with the client OS. | 17,371 |
8,613,146 | 1. A hacksaw comprising: a handle including a first recess; a frame including a first end and a second end, the first end coupled to the handle and the second end extending away from the handle, the second end of the frame defining a second recess; a saw blade including a first end, a second end, a first side, and a second side, the first end of the saw blade received within the first recess of the handle and the second end of the saw blade extending away from the handle, wherein a portion of the saw blade is removeably coupled to the second end of the frame; and a blade retention mechanism coupled to the second end of the frame, the blade retention mechanism comprising, a fastener coupled to the second end of the frame for coupling the blade retention mechanism to the frame, a resilient member seated on the fastener, a retaining member seated on the fastener adjacent the second recess of the frame, and a lever coupled to the fastener and movable between a first position to couple the saw blade to the frame and a second position to release the saw blade from the frame, wherein the portion of the saw blade removably coupled to the second end of the frame is positioned within the second recess of the frame and between the frame and the retaining member such that the first side of the saw blade engages the frame and the second side of the saw blade engages the retaining member, wherein when the lever is moved to the first position the lever tightens the blade retention mechanism in order to compress the resilient member and clamp the saw blade between the frame and the retaining member, and when the lever is rotated to the second position the lever loosens the blade retention mechanism in order to reduce compression on the retaining member, and wherein when the lever is in the second position, the blade retention mechanism is adjustable to change a distance between the frame and the retaining member. | 43,322 |
9,370,857 | 1. A pipe wrench or water pump wrench, comprising: a clamp having a first shaft-like grip part, a first jaw having a first gripping surface being disposed at one end of the clamp; a handle having a second shaft-like grip part, a second jaw having a second gripping surface being disposed at one end of the handle, the second gripping surface being formed so as to be complementary to the first gripping surface a first gripping recess being formed between the first and second gripping surface; an adjusting mechanism having a toothed slot disposed in the clamp, the toothed slot being curved such that a concave side of the slot faces the first gripping recess; a pivot pin connecting the clamp and the handle in a pivotable manner with respect to one another, the pivot pin being displaceable via the adjusting mechanism, wherein a toothed latching engages, in a first position, with the toothed slot and is displaceable, in a second position, along the toothed slot. | 43,324 |
9,835,490 | 1. A photoreceiver comprising: a. a photodiode arranged to emit an electrical pulse as a result of interaction with a photon and emitting a dark pulse absent interaction with a photon; b. a decision circuit to designate a pulse emitted by said photodiode as a photon induced pulse if a measured parameter of said electrical pulse exceeds a threshold value of said measured parameter, said threshold comprising a value of said measured parameter selected to maximize a difference between a pulse height distribution of plural photon induced pulses emitted by said photodiode and a pulse height distribution of plural dark pulses emitted by said photodiode; and c. a timing unit to provide a temporal reference of said photon induced pulses emitted by said photodiode. | 8,832 |
9,033,859 | 1. A method for determining a radiotherapy treatment plan for an irradiation of an object to be irradiated, wherein a number of irradiation regions are determined in the object to be irradiated, and wherein the object to be irradiated is irradiated with a number of beams from different directions, the method comprising: providing a processor configured for determination of dose conditions and determination of irradiation parameters for the number of beams as a function of a number of total dose conditions and a number of single beam dose conditions; determining, by the processor, the number of total dose conditions, wherein at least one of the number of total dose conditions is assigned to a respective one of the number of irradiation regions, and wherein each total dose condition defines a condition for a total radiation dose for the respective irradiation region; determining, by the processor, the number of single beam dose conditions, wherein one of the number of single beam dose conditions is assigned to a respective one of the number of beams and an irradiation region of the number of irradiation regions, the one single beam dose condition comprising a maximum allowed dose level for the respective one of the beams, and wherein the single beam dose condition assigned to the respective beam defines a condition for a beam dose as a function of the respective beam for the irradiation region; and determining, by the processor, irradiation parameters for the number of beams as a function of the number of total dose conditions and of the number of single beam dose conditions. | 722 |
8,851,853 | 1. A rotor disk assembly for a gas turbine engine comprising: a rotor hub defined about an axis of rotation, said rotor hub includes a blade mount section with an axially foremost radial flange having a multiple of first circumferentially-spaced apertures and an axial aftmost radial flange with a multiple of second circumferentially-spaced apertures, each of said first circumferentially-spaced apertures being paired, with respect to receiving a common pin, with a circumferentially offset one of said second circumferentially-spaced apertures. | 40,515 |
8,754,188 | 1. An electronic, optical or optoelectronic device comprising a polymeric semiconductor component, the polymeric semiconductor component comprising a polymer having formula (I): wherein: R Ar π is an optionally substituted polycyclic aryl or heteroaryl group; m p is 0 or 1; x and y are real numbers representing mole fractions, wherein 0<x≦1, 0≦y<1, and the sum of x and y is about 1; and the polymer has a degree of polymerization in the range of 5 to 10,000. | 46,626 |
9,135,174 | 1. A coherent attached processor proxy (CAPP), comprising: transport logic having a first interface configured to support communication with a system fabric of a primary coherent system and a second interface configured to support communication with an attached processor (AP) that is external to the primary coherent system and that includes a cache memory that holds copies of memory blocks belonging to a coherent address space of the primary coherent system; operation handling logic including: wherein the operation handling logic, responsive to receiving, from the AP, a memory access request and an expected coherence state of a target address of the memory access request with respect to the cache memory of the AP, determines whether the CAPP is servicing a conflicting request snooped on the system fabric that conflicts with the memory access request, wherein the operation handling logic, responsive to determining that the CAPP is servicing a conflicting request, allocates a master machine in a Parked state to service the memory access request, wherein the master machine, responsive to completion of service of the conflicting request, transitions out of the Parked state and issues on the system fabric a memory access request corresponding to that received from the AP; and wherein the one or more snoop machines, based on the master machine being in the Parked state, are inhibited from servicing a further conflicting request snooped on the system fabric that conflicts with the target address. | 41,230 |
9,773,135 | 1. A method for managing data, comprising: associating, using a processor, a plurality of machines with a plurality of tag IDs, wherein each of the tag IDs is associated with a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag, and wherein a first one of the plurality of machines is associated with a first tag ID of the plurality of tag IDs; determining an operating envelope for the first one of the plurality of machines; storing the operating envelope in association with the first tag ID; receiving data identifying the plurality of machines and associating the plurality of machines with the plurality of RFID tags, wherein: measuring operating data representing an operating condition of the first one of the plurality of machines using a sensor, a probe, or a combination thereof of a mobile data collector; transmitting the operating data and identification data associated with the first tag ID from the mobile data collector to a host computing device over a network; analyzing the operating data of the first one of the plurality of machines using the host computing device, wherein the analyzing of the operating data comprises determining whether the operating data indicates that the first one of the plurality of machines is operating within the operating envelope; during the analyzing, determining that the operating data indicates that the first one of the plurality of machines is operating outside of the operating envelope; generating a result of the analysis using the host computing device; transmitting the result to the mobile data collector over the network for review by a user; and performing a corrective action on the first one of the plurality of machines resulting from the analyzing and the transmitting of the result to the mobile data collector. | 34,256 |
8,967,295 | 1. A data acquisition module comprising: a base configured for disposition within a bore of drill bit shank, the base comprising a body, a flange of a diameter protruding radially from proximate a lower end of the body and bearing a peripheral sealing ring, another flange of a greater diameter protruding radially from proximate an upper end of the body and bearing another peripheral sealing ring; an extension protruding upwardly from the other flange, of substantially the greater diameter of the other flange, bearing no peripheral sealing ring thereon and having electrical contacts on a peripheral exterior surface thereof; a longitudinal bore extending through the base and the extension; an electronics module carried by the base above the flange and operably coupled to the electrical contacts of the extension; and an elongated communication element extending from the electronics module radially outwardly of the peripheral sealing ring and to a location below the flange. | 22,494 |
8,393,826 | 1. An apparatus for transferring a linear load through a high-speed rotating member, the apparatus comprising: a linear actuator including an actuator cylinder and a cylinder rod contained and axially translatable within the actuator cylinder; a mounting adapter fixed against axial and rotary movement, the mounting adapter having the actuator cylinder affixed rigidly thereto; an elongate guide sleeve also fixed to the mounting adapter, the guide sleeve comprising an axially extending linear slot substantially along its length, the guide sleeve adapted to accommodate passage of one end of the cylinder rod therethrough; an axially translatable thrust bearing affixed to an end of the cylinder rod, the bearing including a housing, the housing containing an outer race fixed against rotation; a key shaft affixed to an inner race of the bearing for rotation and axial movement therewith; and a guide pin extending radially through the slot and affixed to the housing, wherein the guide pin is adapted to move transversely along the linear slot and interacts with the slot to prevent rotation of both the housing and the cylinder rod as the cylinder rod is extended and retracted within the actuator cylinder. | 15,649 |
9,384,889 | 1. A vacuum induction melting and strip casting equipment for rare earth permanent magnetic alloy, comprising a vacuum induction melting and strip casting chamber, a material receiving heat preservation treatment chamber, a cooling chamber and an intra-chamber isolation valve; wherein the intra-chamber isolation valve is located between the material receiving heat preservation treatment chamber and the cooling chamber, the vacuum induction melting and strip casting chamber is located above the material receiving heat preservation treatment chamber, an outlet of a material guiding tube of the vacuum induction melting and strip casting chamber is corresponding to the material receiving heat preservation treatment chamber; wherein a tundish, a quenching copper roller and the material guiding tube are located within the strip casting chamber, the tundish is located between a material guiding mouth of a crucible and the quenching copper roller and is connected to a three-dimensional adjustment mechanism for adjusting a gap between a nozzle of the tundish and the quenching copper roller, the quenching copper roller is located below the tundish within the strip casting chamber, the material guiding tube is located below the quenching copper roller, a material receiving box is located at a lower portion of the material guiding tube, and the material guiding tube is aligned to the material receiving box; wherein a water-cooled tube circles around an outer wall of the material guiding tube, and a crushing roller is located within the material guiding tube. | 42,336 |
9,543,570 | 1. A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery comprising: a positive electrode comprising a positive electrode current collector having a first surface and a first positive electrode active material layer provided on a part of the first surface; a negative electrode comprising a negative electrode current collector having a second surface opposed to the first surface and a first negative electrode active material layer provided on a part of the second surface; and a nonaqueous electrolyte, wherein the negative electrode current collector comprises a second coated portion on which the first negative electrode active material layer is provided and a second noncoated portion which is adjacent to the second coated portion in a direction parallel to the second surface, in which the first negative electrode active material layer is not present; the second noncoated portion is adjacent to at least an edge of the negative electrode current collector and extends along the at least an edge; a length from a boundary between the second coated portion and the second noncoated portion to the at least an edge of the negative electrode current collector is within a range of 5 mm to 20 mm; a density of the first negative electrode active material layer is within a range of 2.1 g/cc to 2.4 g/cc; and a ratio W wherein the battery is obtained by a process comprising tension processing on the negative electrode. | 5,095 |
9,048,475 | 1. An apparatus to detect a fuel cell system short circuit event, the apparatus comprising: a first sensor electrically coupled to a power output of a fuel cell and configured to sense a first current; a second sensor electrically coupled to the power output of the fuel cell and configured to sense a second current; a third sensor electrically coupled to the power output of the fuel cell and configured to sense a voltage; and a controller electrically coupled to the first sensor, the second sensor, and the third sensor and configured to measure the first current, the second current, and the voltage and execute an algorithm in a computer readable medium to indicate a short circuit event when at least one of the first current crosses a first threshold value, the second current crosses a second threshold value, or the voltage crosses a third threshold value. | 45,072 |
8,797,007 | 1. A DC-DC converter comprising: a smoothing capacitor connected between a first output terminal connected to a first end of a load and a second output terminal connected to a second end of the load, the smoothing capacitor smoothing an output voltage; a choke coil having a first end connected to a first end of a battery; and a semiconductor integrated circuit having a switch terminal connected to a second end of the choke coil, a first potential terminal connected to the first output terminal, and a second potential terminal connected to the second output terminal and a second end of the battery, the semiconductor integrated circuit comprising: a first MOS transistor of a first conductivity type, the first MOS transistor having a first end connected to the first potential terminal, a second end connected to the switch terminal, and a gate fed with a first control signal; a second MOS transistor of a second conductivity type, the second MOS transistor having a first end connected to the switch terminal and a second end connected to the second potential terminal; a third MOS transistor of the first conductivity type, the third MOS transistor having a first end connected to the first potential terminal and a second end connected to a gate of the second MOS transistor; a fourth MOS transistor of the second conductivity type, the fourth MOS transistor having a first end connected to the second end of the third MOS transistor and a second end connected to the second potential terminal; a fifth MOS transistor of the second conductivity type, the fifth MOS transistor having a first end connected to a gate of the fourth MOS transistor and a second end connected to the second potential terminal; a first inverter that is fed with a second control signal and has an output connected to the gate of the third MOS transistor; a second inverter that is fed with the second control signal and has an output connected to the gate of the fourth MOS transistor; a switching control circuit that controls operations of the first MOS transistor and the second MOS transistor by means of the first control signal and the second control signal; and a gate control circuit that is connected between the switch terminal and the second potential terminal to control an operation of the fifth MOS transistor. | 5,791 |
8,904,638 | 1. A method of manufacturing a heat exchanger for a bathing shower, comprising the steps of: (a) preparing an upper metal plate and a lower metal plate by a stamp-shaping process, said upper and lower plates having equal areas; (b) stamping rows of indentations through a top surface of the upper metal plate towards a bottom surface of the upper metal plate and stamping a water intake and a water outtake in the lower metal plate; (c) after stacking the bottom surface of the upper metal plate flush against the lower metal plate, placing the upper metal plate and lower metal plate on a spot welder and spot welding bottoms of the indentations to the lower metal plate, and using a cathode roller of the spot welder to bend the spot welded upper metal plate and lower metal plate into a cambered plate assembly; (d) sealing edges of the welded upper metal plate and lower metal plate; and (e) respectively welding a pipe fitting to each water intake and water outtake on the lower metal plate. | 22,410 |
9,609,429 | 1. A microphone comprising: a sound inlet; a first microphone structure comprising a first membrane and a first backplate in a path of the sound inlet; a second microphone structure comprising a second membrane stacked with respect to the first microphone structure, with an enclosed space between the first and second membranes, wherein the first and second microphone structures are back to back, such that movement of one of the first membrane towards the first backplate is accompanied by movement of the second membrane away from the first backplate; and a signal processor configured to combine microphone signals of the first and second microphone structures to generate a microphone output; wherein the signal processor is configured to combine the microphone signals of the first and second microphone structures to detect at least one of: | 30,090 |
9,835,137 | 1. A method of operating a wind turbine comprising a turbine rotor with at least two blades, each blade of the at least two blades having a variable pitch angle, the method comprising: determining, using one or more sensors of the wind turbine that are communicatively coupled with one or more computer processors of the wind turbine, mechanical loads on the at least two blades: frequency modulating a signal that is based on the asymmetric load moment to produce a frequency-modulated signal: and notch filtering the frequency-modulated signal to identify the high order harmonics; and determining, using the high order harmonics, an individual pitch control signal for each blade of the at least two blades for varying a pitch angle of each blade to compensate for the asymmetric load moment; and controlling, using a pitch controller, the pitch angle of each blade based on the corresponding individual pitch control signal. | 13,162 |
8,629,310 | 1. A method of converting biomass oxygenates into hydrocarbon fuels comprising: a) providing a biomass derived oxygenate feed; b) hydrogenating the oxygenate feed with hydrogen and a hydrogenation catalyst to produce a hydrogenated product; c) condensing the hydrogenated product with a condensation catalyst to produce a condensed or oligomerized product; d) polishing the condensed or oligomerized product with a hydroprocessing catalyst (HPC) to produce hydrocarbon range fuel products; and e) isolating one or more hydrocarbon range fuel products; further including the step of separating alcohol from the hydrogenated product prior to condensing the hydrogenated product with the condensation catalyst. | 20,242 |
8,908,584 | 1. A method of power management by a mobile station that supports multi-carrier operation using a primary carrier and at least one secondary carrier, the method comprising: receiving a message processed via the primary carrier, from a base station, to obtain sleep mode parameters that comprise information related to a sleep window and a listening window; applying the sleep mode parameters to the primary carrier or the at least one secondary carrier to initiate a sleep mode operation; performing an uplink data transmission during the listening window via active carriers of the primary carrier and the at least one secondary carrier using bandwidth allocated from a bandwidth request; and receiving, through the primary carrier, from the base station, an indication to terminate a downlink data transmission over an active secondary carrier, when the downlink data transmission is completed. | 44,640 |
9,630,939 | 1. A derivative of homoserine lactone represented by formula I, a racemate or optical isomer, a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, a solvate or a hydrate thereof, wherein R is C1-12 linear or branched alkyl, or phenyl, said alkyl or phenyl is optionally mono-substituted or multi-substituted by a substituent selected from the group consisting of: (a) phenyl, (b) substituted or unsubstituted C1-5 linear or branched alkyl, (c) halogen, (d) cyano, (e) trifluoromethyl, (f) hydroxyl, (g) nitro, and (h) substituted or unsubstituted C1-5 alkoxyl. | 27,330 |
9,125,558 | 1. A method for automating physiologic alerts with precedence order, comprising: receiving, at a mobile patient monitor interface, a first input expression indicative of a first parameter source for a first plurality of patient parameters from a first medical device from a user; receiving, at the mobile patient monitor interface, a second input expression indicative of a second parameter source for a second plurality of patient parameters from a second medical device from a user, the first plurality of patient parameters and the second plurality of patient parameters being a single type of physiologic parameter; modifying, at the mobile patient monitor interface, a precedence order of the first parameter source and the second parameter source; and evaluating, at the mobile patient monitor interface, a complex expression of: wherein: | 47,186 |
9,746,213 | 1. An air cooled chiller comprising: a refrigerant loop having a compressor fluidly connected to a condenser, the condenser fluidly connected to an evaporator, and the evaporator fluidly connected to the compressor; a refrigerant pump and isolation valve in the refrigerant loop and fluidly connected in parallel between the condenser and the evaporator; and a receiver between the pump and the evaporator and fluidly connected with an output of the refrigerant pump. | 30,332 |
9,834,912 | 1. A method for manufacturing a main body of a faucet provided with a hot water inlet and a cold water inlet disposed at both sides of the main body, respectively, a water discharge portion in which hot water and cold water are mixed, a valve disposed at an upper portion of the main body for stopping a flow of water, and a lever for adjusting the valve, the method comprising: preparing a base body in which the valve is installed, a first assembly in which the hot water inlet is formed, a second assembly in which the cold water inlet is formed, and a third assembly in which the water discharge port is formed by separate brass injection molding processes; performing a subsequent double injection molding process inside the base body and the first to third assemblies, respectively, to form a base, a first, a second and a third internal molding assemblies of a polyamide-based resin composition, the base, first, second and third internal molding assemblies having fluid passages, respectively, and connection portions, respectively, such that the base, first, second and third internal molding assemblies are in contact with the base body and the first to third assemblies respectively; combining the base body with the first to third assemblies together to form the main body of the faucet; and plating an external surface of the resultant body with nickel-chrome to reinforce bonding force at combined portions of the body or to conceal the combined portions. | 3,403 |
8,785,616 | 1. A recombinant DNA construct comprising: a nucleic acid molecule complementary to a nucleotide sequence encoding all or part of a polypeptide having at least 93% sequence identity to SEQ ID NO: 13; and a heterologous promoter operably linked to said nucleic acid molecule; wherein, upon transformation into a plant, the presence of said nucleic acid molecule causes reduction of endogenous COP1 mRNA level. | 33,630 |
8,811,929 | 1. A method for managing power of a battery-powered handheld audio device comprises: receiving, at the battery-powered handheld audio device, an indicia of signal quality for a received continuous-time radio signal; comparing the indicia of signal quality to a signal quality threshold; upon a favorable comparison, enacting a first analog signal conditioning setting for conditioning a signal corresponding to the continuous time radio signal; and upon an unfavorable comparison, enacting a second analog signal conditioning setting for conditioning the signal corresponding to the continuous time radio signal; wherein: the first analog signal conditioning setting includes a first analog filter setting; and the second analog signal conditioning setting includes a second analog filter setting, wherein the first analog filter setting causes a corresponding analog filter to consume less power than the second analog filter setting. | 14,155 |
8,910,618 | 1. A reflux structure for blow-by gas that returns blow-by gas generated in an engine to a clean side of an air cleaner to reflux the blow-by gas to the engine, said reflux structure for blow-by gas comprising: a pipe that has a flow path introducing the blow-by gas from the engine to the clean side of the air cleaner; and an air funnel that is mounted on the clean side of the air cleaner and introduces intake air from a dirty side into the engine, wherein said pipe has a discharge port formed to discharge the blow-by gas to a side closer to a bottom than to an umbrella part of the air funnel around the air funnel, wherein the discharge port is located directly under the umbrella part, and wherein the blow-by gas, after being diffused inside the umbrella part, flows around and expands from the inside to an outside of the umbrella part, and is drawn into an intake flow in the vicinity of a suction port and then refluxed into the engine. | 20,872 |
8,372,736 | 1. A method of fabricating an integrated circuit, comprising: providing a semiconductor wafer including a fin; introducing a noise-reducing dopant into a sidewall of the fin; providing a gate insulator over the sidewall; and distributing at least a portion of the noise reducing dopant from the fin into the gate insulator. | 19,926 |
8,626,973 | 1. A method, comprising: in a computer system comprising a plurality of devices on an Inter-Integrated Circuit (“I2C”) serial bus, requesting communication from a first device to a second device over the serial bus, wherein one or both of the first and second devices lack standard I2C multi-master functionality; isolating the serial bus between the first device and the second device in response to the requested communication; performing the requested communication over the serial bus between the first device and the second device; and de-isolating the serial bus in response to completing the requested communication. | 7,230 |
9,153,717 | 1. A method for forming a backside illuminated photo-sensitive device, the method comprising: forming a gradated sacrificial buffer layer onto a sacrificial substrate; forming a uniform layer onto the gradated sacrificial buffer layer; forming a second gradated buffer layer onto the uniform layer; forming a silicon layer onto the second gradated buffer layer; forming a light-sensing region within the uniform layer and the second gradated buffer layers; disposing a device layer onto the silicon layer; and removing the gradated sacrificial buffer layer and the sacrificial substrate. | 14,823 |
9,587,785 | 1. A lock comprising a locking mechanism mounted on a lock housing, the locking mechanism comprising: a rotary latch having a base unit and a frictional face; a pawl for latching the rotary latch and having a frictional face that is engageable with the frictional face of the rotary latch for frictional contact therebetween; a lubricant reservoir that is spaced from the frictional face of the rotary latch by the base unit of the rotary latch; and a feed means that includes a channel or extensive surface that extends along the base unit of the rotary latch for feeding lubricant from the lubricant reservoir and across the base unit of the rotary latch to the frictional face of the rotary latch. | 41,767 |
8,526,405 | 1. A method of providing mobile content over a network, the method comprising the steps of: receiving a request for content at a first domain name system (DNS) server; determining whether a device type of a device, from which the request originates, is a mobile device type or a fixed device type; and, when the device, from which the request originates, is a mobile device; | 34,246 |
9,173,270 | 1. A low-temperature LED lighting and power supply device, comprising: an LED lighting module having: a power supply control module electrically connected to the LED lighting module and having: a steady voltage filtering unit electrically connected to the current-limiting unit, and filtering energy of the power surge from the surge suppression unit to protect the LED lighting; wherein the voltage-dividing-limiting unit is an exponential voltage-dividing-limiting unit, and limits an input load current in a range of 10 mA±10% when the AC input voltage ranges from 60 V to 900 V. | 10,668 |
9,677,537 | 1. A wind blade comprising: a primary blade body having an aerodynamic contour and defining a length extending from a blade root region outwards to a blade tip region, defining a leading edge and a trailing edge, and further defining a pressure side and a suction side joining along the trailing edge; and a secondary blade body comprising an acoustic shield spaced apart from at least a portion of the trailing edge on at least one of the pressure side and the suction side of the primary blade body to allow air to flow between the primary blade body and the secondary blade body and to create a shielding effect for noise generated from the primary blade body without affecting boundary layer properties of air flowing over the aerodynamic contour of the primary blade body, wherein the secondary blade body comprises a thin shell structure disposed on the trailing edge, wherein the thin shell structure is situated in a span-wise direction with one end attached towards the blade tip region and loops back into the wind blade such that another end is attached towards the blade root region. | 33,437 |
8,758,824 | 1. A respirable dry powder comprising respirable dry particles that comprise on a dry basis about 20% (w/w) leucine, about 75% (w/w) calcium lactate, and about 5% (w/w) sodium chloride; or about 37.5% (w/w) leucine, about 58.6% (w/w) calcium lactate, and about 3.9% (w/w) sodium chloride. | 23,103 |
8,814,087 | 1. An interface system for use in an aircraft galley, comprising: a first connection element which is connectable via a first appliance connection device to an internal electrical system, an internal freshwater supply system, and an internal wastewater disposal system of a first galley appliance, and which is connectable via a second appliance connection device to an internal electrical system, an internal freshwater supply system, and an internal wastewater disposal system of a second galley appliance, and which is connectable via an aircraft galley connection device to a complementary aircraft galley connection device of a second connection element of the interface system, wherein the second connection element is fastenable in a compartment of the aircraft galley, in order to connect the first connection element to an electrical system, a freshwater supply system, and a wastewater disposal system of the aircraft galley, wherein the first connection element further comprises a distributor system which connects the aircraft galley connection device of the first connection element to the first and the second appliance connection devices of the first connection element. | 13,720 |
9,847,722 | 1. A voltage regulator having an input terminal and an output terminal, the voltage regulator comprising: a high-side transistor between the input terminal and an intermediate terminal, the high-side transistor connected to a high-side driver circuit; a low-side transistor between the intermediate terminal and ground, the low side transistor connected to a low-side driver circuit that includes a capacitor and an inverter; and a controller connected to the high-side and low-side driver circuits to alternately couple the intermediate terminal to the input terminal and ground, wherein the inverter includes a positive voltage terminal configured to be connected to a first direct current (DC) voltage source, and a negative voltage reference terminal configured to be connected to a second, different DC voltage source having a higher electrical potential than ground, such that the negative voltage reference terminal is at a higher electrical potential than ground. | 43,124 |
8,632,898 | 1. A battery system comprising: a plurality of electrically connected lithium batteries, wherein each lithium battery includes a first positive terminal and a second positive terminal extending from a first end thereof and a first negative terminal and a second negative terminal extending from a second end thereof, wherein the first positive terminal and the second positive terminal of each lithium battery are separated by a first distance and the first negative terminal and the second negative terminal of each lithium battery are separated by a second distance, the first distance differing from the second distance to assure correct orientation of each lithium battery. | 38,569 |
8,680,769 | 1. A light-emitting-diode (LED) protection circuit, comprising: a light-emitting-diode module; two fuse elements, connected respectively to said LED module, when current flowing through is greater than a current protection value, said two fuse elements are in an open circuit state, to cut off an over current and prevent it from flowing to said LED module; and a discharge protection element, connected to said LED module and said two fuse elements, said discharge protection element providing a current bypass route for said LED module; wherein said two fuse elements are a first fuse element and a second fuse element respectively, two ends of said first fuse element are connected respectively to a positive end of a DC power supply and a positive end of said LED module, two ends of said second fuse element are connected respectively to a negative end of said DC power supply and a negative end of said LED module, and two ends of said discharge protection demerit are connected respectively to said positive end and said negative end of said DC power supply. | 44,335 |
9,014,836 | 1. A method for manufacturing a structure, the method comprising: supporting a first part for the structure on a plurality of mobile fixtures configured to control an orientation of the first part; moving the first part for the structure using the plurality of mobile fixtures to a number of stations for performing a number of operations for manufacturing the structure using the first part in which the plurality of mobile fixtures is configured to move in a coordinated manner and substantially maintain a desired orientation for the first part for a next station of the number of stations while moving the first part to the next station in the number of stations; and performing the number of operations for manufacturing the structure at the number of stations while the plurality of mobile fixtures supports the first part; wherein each mobile fixture comprises a motorized base, wherein the motorized base comprises a movement system, and wherein the movement system comprises magnetic tracks configured to move; wherein the magnetic tracks are configured to attract a steel plate on a surface of a floor of a manufacturing environment to manufacture the structure; changing the orientation of the first part at the next station in the number of stations using at least one of the plurality of mobile fixtures; wherein the step of changing the orientation of the first part at the next station in the number of stations using the at least one of the plurality of mobile fixtures comprises: rotating the first part about at least one of an x-axis, a y-axis, and a z-axis using the at least one of the plurality of mobile fixtures to change the orientation of the first part; and coordinating the movement and height adjustment of the fixtures to maintain the first part in a preselected orientation during a manufacturing step and while moving the first part from one position to another along the floor to prevent changes to an orientation of the structure beyond a desired amount that would bring one or more features of the structure out of tolerance and that would affect one or more of performance and maintenance of the structure. | 33,042 |
9,520,772 | 1. A multi-level voltage regulator system comprising: (a) input voltage detector (IVD); (b) voltage source reference (VSR); (c) regulation feedback comparator (RFC); and (d) intermediate bus DC-DC converter (IBC); wherein said RFC comprises a positive input node, a negative input node, and a comparison output node; said IBC comprises a voltage bus input port (VBIP), voltage bus output port (VBOP), and voltage adjust input port (VAIP); said RFC positive input node is electrically coupled to said VSR; said RFC negative input node is electrically coupled to said VBOP; said RFC comparison output node is electrically coupled to said VAIP; said IVD is configured to monitor said VBIP and generate a stepped reference voltage (SRV) to the voltage detected at said VBIP; said SRV modulates the comparison behavior of said RFC by adjusting the voltage at said positive input node or the voltage at said negative input node; and said IBC is configured to modulate the voltage at said VBOP in response to the voltage at said VAIP. | 445 |
8,356,402 | 1. A connector compression tool comprising: a handle, pivotally moveable from a second position to a first position; and a body, wherein the body includes a first body portion moveable with respect to a second body portion such that the first and second body portions may operatively compress together when the handle is maneuvered to a first position, wherein the first body portion includes a first wall, the first wall having a single top and a plurality of adjoining openings extending from the top and having different widths to accommodate connectors having different diameters, wherein each opening of the plurality of adjoining openings also extends through the entire thickness of the first wall, wherein a center of a first opening of the plurality of openings is located farther from the top of the first wall than a center of a second opening of the plurality of openings. | 45,200 |
8,984,882 | 1. A solar power installation comprising: a tower; a field of mirrors; and a solar receiver comprising: | 24,984 |
9,255,524 | 1. A turbomachine system, comprising: a first variable outer air seal including at least one channel and being configured to selectively communicate a flow of fluid in response to movement of a second variable outer air seal relative to the first variable outer air seal, wherein the at least one channel has an inlet, and the second variable outer air seal moves relative to the inlet between positions that permit flow through the inlet and positions that limit flow through the inlet to selectively communicate flow. | 28,587 |
8,842,261 | 1. A laser range finder configured for scanning a plurality of points of a scanned area to detect an intrusion into the area, the laser range finder comprising: an Emitter/Receiver configured to emit laser pulses towards each point out of the plurality of points and to receive therefrom reflected laser pulses, a processor coupled to the Emitter/Receiver and configured to derive an initial distance separating the laser range finder away from each point, the initial distance having an initial measurement error, and at least one amplitude comparator which is coupled to the Emitter/Receiver and to the processor, and which is configured to derive a corrected distance to each point, the corrected distance having a corrected measurement error smaller than the initial measurement error, and wherein the scanned area is divided into a plurality of annuli, and the at least one amplitude comparator is associated with a corresponding one of the plurality of annuli and is configured to compare an amplitude of a reflected laser pulse to at least one respectively corresponding amplitude level, and the processor is configured to selectively apply at least one respectively corresponding time correction term to the reflected laser pulse. | 11,023 |
9,109,214 | 1. A transformed host cell comprising at least four different heterologous polynucleotides encoding at least four different Talaromvces enzymes selected from the group consisting of cellulases, hemicellulases and pectinases, wherein said transformed host cell is a filamentous fungus and is capable of secreting said at least four different Talaromyces enzymes. | 48,667 |
9,588,494 | 1. A holding and indexing device for integration in a setting device of a timepiece, wherein the device comprises: a bushing fixedly attached to a case of said timepiece, a shaft mounted within the bushing so as to be both axially displaceable and rotatable, a transmission element attached to an end of the shaft directed into an interior of the timepiece, and the transmission element allows a drive of a timepiece part located in the interior of the timepiece, and at least one resilient element exerting a preload force acting in the axial direction of the shaft, an indexing ring mounted on said shaft in an axially sliding manner and having an indexing toothing, wherein said transmission element comprises, on a side face thereof directed towards the indexing ring, a side toothing engaged with said indexing toothing due to an effect of the preload force of the resilient element, and wherein, in at least one direction of rotation of the shaft, an application of a force of a predefined magnitude onto the indexing ring causes a disengagement between the indexing toothing and the side toothing and thus allows a position indexing of said timepiece part. | 31,637 |
9,687,911 | 1. A method for manufacturing a three-dimensional shaped object by repetition of a powder-layer forming and a solidified-layer forming, the repetition comprising the steps of: (i) forming a solidified layer by irradiating a predetermined portion of a powder layer with a light beam, thereby allowing a sintering of the powder in the predetermined portion or a melting and subsequent solidification thereof; and (ii) forming another solidified layer by newly forming a powder layer on the resulting solidified layer, followed by the irradiation of a predetermined portion of the powder layer with the light beam, wherein a discrimination on the light-beam irradiation is made whether a scan path of the light-beam corresponds to an irradiation path with an unirradiated portion on both adjacent sides thereof, or another irradiation path with an irradiated portion at an adjacent region thereto, and wherein a light-beam irradiation energy for the irradiation path with the unirradiated portion on the both adjacent sides thereof is lower than that for the another irradiation path with the irradiated portion at the adjacent region thereto. | 37,196 |
8,474,279 | 1. A refrigerator comprising: a fresh food compartment; a freezer compartment; one or more power consuming devices including a refrigeration system for cooling the fresh food compartment and the freezer compartment, the refrigeration system including a compressor; and a controller operatively connected to the one or more power consuming devices, the controller being configured to receive and process a signal indicative of a current state of an associated energy supplying utility, the controller operating the refrigerator in one of plurality of operating modes, including at least a normal operating mode and an energy saving mode, in response to the received signal, the controller being configured to at least one of selectively schedule, delay, adjust and deactivate at least one of the one or more power consuming devices to reduce power consumption of the refrigerator in the energy savings mode, wherein the refrigeration system being configured to cool the freezer compartment to a targeted setpoint temperature of the freezer compartment, and the controller is further configured to increase the targeted setpoint temperature of the freezer compartment to precipitate less compressor on time in the energy savings mode. | 17,051 |
9,499,401 | 1. A hydrogen gas generator comprising: a cartridge, the cartridge comprising: a fluid injection system configured to controllably provide the liquid reactant through at least one end cap and into the one or more fluid distribution networks. | 35,021 |
9,465,261 | 1. A display device in the form of a multi-layer film body, wherein the display device has, in a first area, a first electrode, a second electrode, a third electrode and a display layer with a display material, wherein the display layer is arranged between the first electrode and the second electrode, and the third electrode is arranged on the side of the display layer facing away from the first electrode, wherein the first electrode is not galvanically connected to an electric potential and, when viewed perpendicular to the plane spanned by the display layer, the first electrode at least partially overlaps both the second electrode and the third electrode, and, when viewed in a direction perpendicular to the plane spanned by the display layer, the second electrode has a shape of a motif arranged in a motif area and, when viewed in a direction perpendicular to the plane spanned by the display layer, the third electrode has a shape corresponding to the shape of the motif in a background area, with the result that, when there is a voltage polarity applied to the second and third electrodes, the display material of the display layer in the motif area shows a first optical property and the display material of the display layer in the background area shows a second optical property contrasting the first optical property, whereby a representation of the motif is visually displayed by the display layer, and upon a change in polarity of the voltage applied to the second and third electrodes, the display material of the display layer in the motif area shows the second optical property and the display material of the display layer in the background area shows the first optical property, whereby an inverted representation of the motif results, in which the color of the motif area and the color of the background area are swapped with each other. | 31,057 |
8,810,078 | 1. An analog current output circuit in which an output transistor and a load are connected in series between a power supply and a ground and that controls a passing current of the output transistor such that an analog output current to the load coincides with an output command current, wherein a voltage of the power supply is a first power supply voltage or a second power supply voltage lower than the first power supply voltage switched by a power supply voltage switching circuit, the power supply voltage switching circuit is configured to, according to a comparison result of a comparator that compares an internal control voltage and a load end voltage, select the first power supply voltage when the internal control voltage is smaller than the load end voltage and select the second power supply voltage when the internal control voltage is larger than the load end voltage, and the internal control voltage is generated by an internal control voltage generating circuit such that the internal control voltage is 0 volt from an analog output current 0 to a predetermined analog output current value and indicates a rightward-rising voltage track proportional to an electric current from the predetermined analog output current value to a maximum of the analog output current and crosses, at the maximum of the analog output current, a load end current generated when a resistance of the connected load is resistance near the center of a specification range. | 37,148 |
9,456,358 | 1. A method for wireless communication, comprising: monitoring, by a user equipment (UE), a control channel of an active cell, wherein the UE is configured to receive signaling from the active cell via the control channel to indicate a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) configuration for at least one other UE in the active cell; receiving first signaling indicating a plurality of CSI-RS configurations configured for the UE, wherein the plurality of CSI-RS configurations comprise at least two sets of CSI-RS configurations, each set of the at least two sets of CSI-RS configurations including one or more respective CSI-RS configurations; receiving, via the control channel, second signaling indicating at least one active set of CSI-RS configurations for the UE, the at least one active set of CSI-RS configurations including a subset of the plurality of CSI-RS configurations configured for the UE; and performing, by the UE, an optimized de-rate matching process for one or more first subframes based in part on the at least one active set of CSI-RS configurations indicated by the second signaling and on the CSI-RS configurations for the at least one other UE. | 7,860 |
9,087,806 | 1. A heating circuit for at least a first battery and a second battery, wherein the heating circuit comprises: a first charging/discharging circuit, which is connected to the first battery, and comprises a first damping component, a first current storage component, a first switch unit, and a first charge storage component, all of which are connected in a first loop with each other; and a second charging/discharging circuit, which is connected to the second battery, and comprises a second damping component, a second current storage component, a second switch unit, and the first charge storage component, all of which are connected in a second loop with each other, wherein the first switch unit comprises a first one-way branch configured to transfer energy from the first battery to the first charging/discharging circuit and a second one-way branch configured to transfer energy from the first charging/discharging circuit to the first battery and/or wherein the second switch unit comprises a third one-way branch configured to transfer energy from the second battery to the second charging/discharging circuit and a fourth one-way branch configured to transfer energy from the second charging/discharging unit to the second battery; and wherein the first switch unit comprises a first two-way switch and a second two-way switch, which are connected in series opposite to each other to form the first one-way branch and the second one-way branch and/or wherein the second switch unit comprises a third two-way switch and a fourth two-way switch, which are connected in series opposite to each other to form the third one-way branch and the fourth one-way branch. | 35,750 |
8,971,802 | 1. A system for use in a near field communications (NFC) reader for detecting the presence of an NFC tag, the NFC reader having an antenna tuned to a resonant frequency, the system comprising: a first signal generator for generating a carrier signal whose frequency varies about the resonant frequency; a second signal generator for generating a modulating signal for modulating the carrier signal; a modulator for modulating the carrier signal with the modulating signal; a driver for driving the antenna with the modulated signal; and a detection system for detecting harmonics of the modulating signal in a signal present in the antenna as a result of the modulated signal; wherein the detection system is configured to generate an output when a third or higher order harmonic is detected. | 38,067 |
8,448,852 | 1. A method comprising: reading data at a point of service (POS) terminal in a transit system, wherein: the data: addressing a communication including the identifier of the account to a remote system from the POS terminal that is not in communication with the issuer; receiving, in response to the communication with the remote system, information as to whether the access is valid based upon the identifier of the account; and permitting, when the received information includes a validation of the access based upon the identifier of the account, the rider access to the facility of the transit system. | 25,305 |
9,279,598 | 1. A method of forming an energy exchange assembly, the method comprising: forming a plurality of creases and a plurality of slits in a membrane sheet according to a predefined pattern; positioning a first spacer on top of a first forming area of the membrane sheet; folding the membrane sheet over a top of the first spacer so that a second forming area is positioned over the top of the first spacer; sealing a first portion of the first forming area to a first outer lateral wall of the first spacer; and positioning a second spacer on top of the second forming area, wherein the positioning the second spacer operation stacks the second spacer over the first spacer. | 46,308 |
8,355,858 | 1. A method for controlling engine operation for an engine having an exhaust, a turbocharger, and direction injection, the engine further having a cylinder, the method comprising: performing at least a first and a second injection during a cylinder cycle with at least some spark reserve, the first injection generating a lean combustion and the second injection injected after the first such that it at least partially exits the cylinder into the exhaust upstream of a turbine of the turbocharger, where said at least first and second injections are performed responsive to turbocharger speed to maintain turbine speed above a threshold value; and in response to at least one of an idle speed error and an external load being applied to the engine, first advancing spark angle, and then increasing at least the first injection, to maintain idle speed. | 8,399 |
8,999,927 | 1. A fusion protein comprising a glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor opposite strand (GDNFOS) peptide and a heterologous protein, wherein the GDNFOS peptide comprises an amino acid sequence at least 90% identical to SEQ ID NO: 4 or at least 90% identical to residues 29-105 of SEQ ID NO: 4. | 15,896 |
9,176,671 | 1. An apparatus, comprising: NAND flash memory; random access memory; a first circuit for receiving and processing DDR signals such that the DDR signals result in SATA signals, the first circuit capable of being communicatively coupled to a first memory bus including a standard bus associated with a DDR protocol including at least one of a DDR protocol, a DDR2 protocol, a DDR3 protocol, or a DDR4 protocol; and a second circuit for receiving and processing the SATA signals such that the SATA signals result in NAND flash signals, the second circuit communicatively coupled to the first circuit via a second memory bus associated with a SATA protocol, the second circuit further communicatively coupled to the NAND flash memory via a third memory bus associated with a NAND flash protocol; wherein the apparatus is configured for: receiving, at the first circuit and via the first memory bus including the standard bus, a special command resulting from an execution of a first thread, the special command being one of a plurality of commands that are required to be received from a processing unit or a system component utilizing the DDR protocol for a random access data read from the NAND flash memory via the random access memory, the special command resulting in fetching of data; providing a status; and after the status, receiving, at the first circuit, a read command being another one of the plurality of commands that are required to be received from the processing unit or the system component utilizing the DDR protocol for completing the random access data read from the NAND flash memory via the random access memory; wherein the apparatus is further configured such that at least a portion of the data is caused to be fetched between the execution of the first thread and a second thread. | 17,494 |
9,818,997 | 1. An alkaline storage battery comprising: a bottomed container case opened at one upper end; a winding-type electrode group; a sealing plate sealing the upper end open with a gasket; a positive electrode lead electrically connecting a positive electrode plate of the winding-type electrode group to the sealing plate; a cap member comprising a flange portion, the cap member being a positive electrode terminal, the flange portion being attached on an outer surface of the sealing plate; a valve chamber surrounded by the sealing plate and the cap member; and a rubber valve body comprising a rubber composition, the rubber composition consisting of ethylene propylene rubber, 20 to 40% by mass of a resin, 1 to 9% by mass of zinc oxide, and 10% by mass or less of carbon black with respect to a total amount of the rubber composition, wherein the melting point of the resin is in a range of 100 to 165° C., the rubber valve body is in a compressed state in the valve chamber, and the rubber valve body is provided so as to close the upper end open of the bottomed container case. | 18,298 |
9,491,340 | 1. A micro-electro-mechanical system based device for adjusting aperture, comprising: an opaque deformable aperture ring; multiple groups of conductive deformable crossbeams and conductive structs, where in each group, each conductive deformable crossbeam corresponds to an adjacent conductive struct, the conductive deformable crossbeams and the conductive structs are arranged around the deformable aperture ring, each conductive deformable crossbeam and each conductive struct are spaced from each other, the conductive deformable crossbeams are suspended in the air, and inner edges of the conductive deformable crossbeams are fixedly connected with an external edge of the deformable aperture ring; and one or more fixed parts, where external edges of the conductive deformable crossbeams are fixedly connected with the fixed parts, and the conductive structs are fixedly connected with the fixed parts and remain stationary, where electrostatic force between the conductive deformable crossbeam and the conductive struct in each group enables the conductive deformable crossbeam to move relatively to the conductive struct, so that the deformable aperture ring is stretched and rotates clockwise or anticlockwise, and further an area of an inner bore of the deformable aperture ring is changed. | 6,523 |
9,023,631 | 1. An isolated mutated serum paraoxonase (PON1) enzyme polypeptide comprising an amino acid sequence having at least 95% sequence identity to SEQ ID NO: 56, said mutated PON1 enzyme being soluble and catalytically active when expressed in E. coli bacteria and having a phosphotriester hydrolytic activity and phosphotriesterase substrate specificity, wherein said phosphotriesterase substrate specificity, expressed as k cat /K M ratio for paraoxon hydrolysis, is greater than the k cat /K M ratio for paraoxon hydrolysis of wild type human PON1, when assayed under the same assay conditions. | 33,699 |
9,040,452 | 1. A method of producing a carbon catalyst, comprising: a carbonization step of carbonizing raw materials containing an organic compound as a carbon source, a metal, and an electrically conductive carbon material to produce a carbonized material; a metal impregnation step of impregnating the carbonized material with a metal; and a heat treatment step of subjecting the carbonized material impregnated with the metal to a heat treatment. | 9,246 |
8,696,938 | 1. A process for producing a nano graphene platelet (NGP) material, said process comprising: (i) subjecting a graphitic material to a supercritical fluid at a first temperature and a first pressure for a first period of time in a pressure vessel, wherein said supercritical fluid contains no coating agent solubilized therein and no intercalating agent or oxidizing agent is used in the process, and said graphitic material comprises no previously intercalated graphite and said graphitic material is selected from the group consisting of natural graphite, artificial graphite, graphite oxide, graphite fluoride, graphite fiber, carbon fiber, carbon nano-fiber, carbon nano-tube, soft carbon, hard carbon, and combinations thereof; and then (ii) rapidly depressurizing said fluid at a fluid release rate sufficient for effecting exfoliation of said graphitic material to obtain said NGP material. | 34,580 |
9,744,186 | 1. A composition comprising: a compound, or pharmaceutically acceptable salt, solvate, or polymorph thereof, having a structure of formula (I): wherein: R R R at least one of R R R R R or R and each R an additional therapeutic compound. | 16,149 |
9,222,347 | 1. A hydraulic fracturing system for introducing fracturing fluid into a wellbore, wherein the hydraulic fracturing system comprises: a manifold, comprising: a plurality of primary pumps, wherein each of the primary pumps is fluidically coupled to one of the fluid inlets, and wherein the primary pumps are configured to deliver a fluid stream to the fluid outlet; and a pulse-inducing system configured to deliver pulses of fluid to the fluid stream upstream of the wellbore, wherein the pulse-inducing system comprises: | 11,452 |
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