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9,823,159 | 1. An apparatus for low cycle fatigue testing on a testing specimen, comprising: a testing platform; a plurality of hydraulic cylinders arranged along a length of the testing platform, the hydraulic cylinders extending and retracting along parallel axes of the plurality of hydraulic cylinders that are displaced from each other; a plurality of clamps positioned along a length of the testing specimen, each clamp being connected to a respective one of the plurality of hydraulic cylinders; a strain gauge attached to an outer surface of the testing specimen; a plurality of control cables and a signal cable; and a control box connected by the plurality of control cables to the plurality of hydraulic cylinders and by the signal cable to the strain gauge, wherein the control box performs the low cycle fatigue testing by analyzing data from the strain gauge. | 15,967 |
9,010,087 | 1. A method for NOx sensor degradation detection in an engine exhaust having a reduction catalyst and a feedgas exhaust NO x sensor upstream of the reduction catalyst, comprising: shutting down an engine to rest; estimating an exhaust reductant level from the sensor following engine shutdown to rest; and indicating degradation of the feedgas exhaust NO | 39,822 |
8,362,462 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a body of a first conduction type; a first electrode region of a second conduction type formed in the body; a second electrode region of the second conduction type formed in the body; a channel that is located between the first and second electrode regions in the body; a barrier region of the first conduction type formed in the channel, wherein the doping level of the barrier region is greater than the doping level of the body; an insulating layer formed on the body, wherein the insulating layer extends over the channel region and at least a portion of the barrier region; and a control electrode region formed on the insulating layer. | 1,290 |
9,201,652 | 1. A method for decompressing instructions, the method comprising: fetching compressed instructions from a memory, wherein each compressed instruction comprises an X-index and a Y-index; fetching for each compressed instruction two lines of X-bit patterns from an X memory using the X-index masked for two line access and two lines of Y-bit patterns from a Y memory using the Y-index masked for two line access, wherein the two lines of patterns are fetched to access to patterns that span across two lines; selecting an X-bit pattern from the fetched two lines of X-bit patterns according to the X-index and selecting a Y-bit pattern from the fetched two lines of Y-bit patterns according to the Y-index; and combining bits of the X-bit pattern with bits of the Y-bit pattern based on a mix mask associated with each compressed instruction into a decompressed instruction, wherein a format length of the decompressed instruction is determined by the associated mix mask and the mix mask, associated with each compressed instruction, is identified from an attribute stored in a translation look aside buffer (TLB) entry at an address of each compressed instruction, wherein the TLB entry is used to translate a virtual address to a physical address. | 46,528 |
8,587,962 | 1. An electrical system comprising: an input interface; an output interface; a first energy conversion module coupled between the input interface and the output interface, the first energy conversion module including one or more switching elements; an inductive element coupled electrically in series between the input interface and the first energy conversion module; and a control module coupled to the first energy conversion module and the inductive element, wherein the control module is configured to: determine an estimated voltage loss for the first energy conversion module based on a current through the inductive element; obtain a measured output voltage at the output interface; add the estimated voltage loss to the measured output voltage to obtain a compensated output voltage; | 29,619 |
9,075,642 | 1. A method for operating a system having a plurality of hypervisors, comprising: running a first hypervisor as a first thread of an underlying operating system, the underlying operating system scheduling access to processing resources; running a second hypervisor that is nested with the first hypervisor, the second hypervisor being hosted by, and running on top of, the first hypervisor, wherein the second hypervisor is run to provide a virtualization environment that is compatible with a guest operating system, wherein the second hypervisor provides for running the guest operating system in the virtualization environment without modifying code of the first hypervisor, and wherein the guest operating system is presented with an appearance of having full access to the processing resources of the underlying operating system while actual access of the guest operating system to the processing resources is controlled by the first hypervisor; loading the guest operating system on top of the second hypervisor; and running at least one other hypervisor as another thread of the underlying operating system, wherein the at least one other hypervisor runs independently of the first hypervisor, wherein the first hypervisor accesses the processing resources of the underlying operating system in connection with resource requirements of the guest operating system and according to scheduling processes for the processing resources performed by the underlying operating system, wherein access to the processing resources by the first hypervisor running as the first thread of the underlying operating system and access to the processing resources by the at least one other hypervisor running as another thread of the underlying operating system and running independently of the first hypervisor are scheduled like any other thread running on the underlying operating system, and wherein physical resource sharing of the processing resources is thereby provided according to the scheduling processes of the underlying operating system, wherein the underlying operating system is an operating system of a storage system. | 13,422 |
9,450,437 | 1. An electronic circuit to increase voltages from at least one energy source with relatively low voltages to an external load, said electronic circuit comprising: a first set of capacitors and a second set of capacitors; a first set of switches associated with said first set of capacitors and a second set of switches associated with said second set of capacitors; and said first and second set of capacitors, said first and second set of switches, the at least one energy source and the external load operatively switching between a first mode and a second mode such that: | 9,551 |
9,335,630 | 1. A pattern-forming method comprising: providing a resist film on a substrate using a radiation-sensitive composition; exposing the resist film; and developing the exposed resist film using a developer solution which comprises no less than 80% by mass of an organic solvent, wherein the radiation-sensitive composition comprises: the non-polymeric compound being represented by formula (2): wherein, in the formula (2), wherein the non-polymeric compound generates an acid upon exposure, and the acid is weaker than an acid generated by the radiation-sensetive acid generator. | 4,967 |
9,185,798 | 1. A device with surface-embedded metallic nanowires, comprising: a first layer; a second layer; and an interlayer disposed between the first layer and the second layer, wherein the interlayer includes: | 1,880 |
9,064,991 | 1. A photovoltaic device comprising: a photocell having a first photoactive layer comprising a bulk silicon wafer, a second photoactive layer on, and in contact with, the first photoactive layer so as to form a heterojunction between the first photoactive layer and the second photoactive layer, and a transparent electrode comprising indium-tin-oxide on, and in direct contact with, a side of the second photoactive layer opposite the first photoactive layer; and a plurality of either n-type doped or p-type doped high-aspect-ratio nanostructures formed on, and in direct contact with, the side of the second photoactive layer opposite the first photoactive layer, and wherein the transparent electrode on the second photoactive layer covers only some of the plurality of high-aspect-ratio nanostructures leaving a remainder of the plurality of high-aspect-ratio nanostructures uncovered and surrounding the transparent electrode. | 9,414 |
9,264,914 | 1. A method for monitoring paging messages in a mobile station with a subscriber identity card camping on a cell, comprising: monitoring a paging channel from the cell at every end of a first time interval subsequent to the last monitored time; detecting whether a same identity information is repeatedly broadcasted in the paging channel at different ends of the first time interval; determining a total number of periodically repeated paging messages containing the same identity information; determining a second time interval by multiplying a time period between two successive repeated paging messages with the total number of periodically repeated paging messages, wherein the time period equals to a multiple of the first time interval; performing a smart monitoring procedure to monitor a paging channel at every end of second time interval subsequent to the last monitored time so as to receive a paging message; and stopping performing the smart monitoring procedure when a specific condition is satisfied, so as to monitor the paging channel at every end of first time interval subsequent to the last monitored time to receive subsequent messages, wherein the second time interval is longer than the first time interval. | 10,528 |
8,659,388 | 1. A method of transmitting a wireless key fob signal comprising: transmitting a first key fob signal at a first transmission field strength, the first key fob signal having a first transmission duration, and the first key fob signal transmitted from a key fob device; transmitting a plurality of successive key fob signals from the key fob device after transmitting the first key fob signal, each of the plurality of successive key fob signals having a second transmission field strength and a second transmission duration, wherein the first transmission field strength is less than the second transmission field strength and the first transmission duration is longer than the second transmission duration; wherein the plurality of successive key fob signals are transmitted at a frequency that defines a transmission interval between the plurality of successive key fob signals, and the first transmission duration is longer than the transmission interval. | 2,865 |
8,649,912 | 1. A method, comprising: selecting a task to be performed at a site powered by an AC power grid, said task comprising (i) data processing on a computer system connected to said AC power grid or (ii) manufacturing an article of manufacture on a manufacturing tool connected to said AC power grid, measuring an AC frequency of said AC power grid to obtain a current AC frequency; said site performing or not performing said task at said site based on said current AC frequency; and wherein said performing or not performing said task includes: | 17,373 |
8,364,857 | 1. A method of operating a computer including a central processing unit (CPU) and an auxiliary processor, comprising: communicating operating state information from the CPU to the auxiliary processor, wherein the auxiliary processor is a processor within a wireless modem coupled to the CPU; configuring the auxiliary processor using the operating state information; shifting control of computer peripherals to the auxiliary processor; placing the CPU into a low power or deactivated state; and maintaining a communication link with a wireless network via the wireless modem while control of computer peripherals is shifted to the auxiliary processor, wherein the CPU and the auxiliary processor are configured to anticipate operating mode transitions. | 45,867 |
9,695,366 | 1. A demulsifier comprising the reaction product of: a) an alkoxylated sorbitan or ester thereof; and b) a dicarboxylic acid, wherein the dicarboxylic acid is selected from the group consisting of malonic acid, glutaric acid, adipic acid, pimelic acid, suberic acid, azelaic acid, sebacic acid, and dimer acid. | 21,715 |
8,668,753 | 1. A process for converting a biomass material to a syngas, which biomass material has an organic fraction and an inorganic fraction, which process is performed in a two-stage fluid bed process unit wherein the first stage is a fluid bed gasification stage and the second stage is a fluid bed combustion stage and wherein the two stages are fluidly connected by way of a first conduit having an inlet end and an outlet end wherein the inlet end is located in said combustion stage and said outlet end is located in said gasification stage and a second conduit having an inlet end located in said gasification stage and an outlet end located in said combustion stage; which process comprising: a) introducing an effective amount of a fluidizing gas through at least one set of a plurality of nozzles located at the bottom section of both the gasification stage and the combustion stage to maintain both beds of both stages in a fluidized form; b) introducing an effective amount of oxygen through one or more plurality of nozzles located at the bottom section of said gasification stage to maintain a predetermined temperature of the fluid bed of the gasification stage below the fusion temperature of at least a portion of the inorganic fraction of the biomass material; c) maintaining said bulk fluid bed gasification stage at a temperature from about 1000° F. to about 1800° F. and under net reducing conditions; d) introducing a biomass material, having an effective average particle size, through the inlet of said first conduit and transporting it to said gasification stage wherein at least about 70 wt. % of the organic fraction of said biomass is converted to a syngas product and a particulate solids product; e) conducting at least a portion of said syngas product to a solid/gas separation zone wherein any particulates greater than a predetermined size that are entrained in the syngas product are separated and returned to said gasification zone and wherein the treated syngas product is collected or sent to downstream processing; f) conducting at least a portion of the fluidizing solids from said gasification stage through said second conduit to a fluidized combustion stage operated at a temperature at least 50° F. greater than said gasification stage to result in the combustion of at least a fraction of the particulate solids product of said gasification stages and heating said fluidizing solids; g) conducting said heated fluidizing solids from said combustion stage through said first conduit to said gasification stage, thus providing a portion of the heat needed for said gasification state; and h) removing any excess solids from the gasification process unit to maintain a predetermined balance of solids. | 25,573 |
8,820,768 | 1. A fifth wheel hitch and a high lock warning system therefor, comprising: a fifth wheel hitch plate having a king pin receptacle, a forward portion, and a forward edge; a plurality of panel attachment members extending from the forward portion of the hitch plate; a panel support arm pivotally attached to and extending forward from each of the panel attachment members; an actuator panel extending across the panel support arms, the panel support arms being biased to support the panel in a substantially horizontal position; at least one warning annunciator; and an electrical switch disposed on the actuator panel, the switch being configured to close and actuate the at least one warning annunciator when the actuator panel is deflected downward by a king pin sliding past the fifth wheel hitch plate in a high lock state. | 189 |
9,804,365 | 1. A camera lens, comprising, lined up in turn from the object side: a first lens with positive refractive power; a second lens with negative refractive power; a third lens with negative refractive power; a fourth lens with positive refractive power; a fifth lens with negative refractive power; wherein the camera lens satisfying the following specific conditions: where, f is the overall focal distance of the camera lens; f f R R R R d | 17,324 |
9,578,595 | 1. A method comprising: receiving a scan instruction indicating that a plurality of channels of a wireless network are to be scanned; and initiating a scanning operation with regard to the plurality of channels in response to receiving the scan instruction, the scanning operation comprising: | 38,691 |
8,689,509 | 1. An expressed joint panelized cladding system comprising: a plurality of battens fastened to a building structure, wherein each of the battens is made of low density fiber cement and has a flat and elongate contour, wherein at least one batten having a structure engaging surface and an integrally formed finish ready panel supporting surface, wherein the structure engaging surface and the integrally formed finish ready panel supporting surface are opposing parallel faces of the batten; and at least one or more fiber cement cladding panel secured directly to the at least one batten wherein the batten is interposed between the building structure and the fiber cement cladding panel such that said fiber cement cladding panel covers a substantial portion of said batten from view leaving a portion of said finish ready panel supporting surface exposed, wherein said exposed finish ready panel supporting surface of the batten forms an external recessed surface of an expressed joint. | 2,012 |
8,471,080 | 1. A method for the removal of harmful inorganic constituents from biomass prior to the thermochemical conversion of the biomass including the following steps: a) Prepyrolyzing the biomass materials at temperatures varying from 200° C.-300° C. for a period of 10 minutes up to 2 hours; b) Leaching the prepyrolyzed biomass material using water with a solid/water mass ratio that varies from 33 gram biomass per liter up to 300 gram biomass per liter, in temperatures varying from 13° C. up to 55° C. for a period of residence time varying from 5 minutes up to 24 hours. | 14,812 |
9,398,551 | 1. A method for adjusting a timing of a wireless communication in a wireless communication system configured for carrier aggregation, comprising: communicating a random access preamble in an uplink from a user equipment (UE) to an eNodeB via a Primary Cell (PCell) associated with a selected component carrier of the carrier aggregation; receiving a Random Access Response (RAR) at the UE from the eNodeB for the PCell, wherein the RAR contains a timing advance adjustment instructing the UE to adjust a timing of a PCell wireless communication; receiving a request at the UE to adjust a timing of a Secondary Cell (SCell) wireless communication associated with a second component carrier of the carrier aggregation; communicating a random access preamble in an uplink from the UE to the eNodeB via the SCell; and receiving an RAR at the UE from the eNodeB for the SCell, wherein the RAR contains a timing advance adjustment instructing the UE to adjust a timing of the SCell wireless communication. | 40,466 |
8,349,105 | 1. A method of fabricating a curved one-piece frame for an aircraft having an integrated shear tie, comprising: defining a curvature of the curved one-piece frame using a polar coordinate reference system; assembling a composite layup, including: placing the composite layup on a tool; drawing the composite layup down onto the tool; and after drawing the composite layup down onto the tool, curing the composite layup. | 17,047 |
8,993,818 | 1. A system for producing gasoline from biomass comprising: a) a feedstock stream comprising at least one member selected from the group consisting of sugars, sugar derivatives, polyols and carbohydrates, b) a hydrotreater configured to convert a first portion of said feedstock stream to paraffins in the presence of hydrogen and a hydrotreating catalyst, c) a catalytic upgrader comprising a zeolite catalyst and configured to receive and convert a second portion of said feedstock stream and said paraffins into a mixture product, d) a separator configured to receive and separate said mixture product into a light gas stream, an aqueous stream and an organic stream, and e) a reformer configured to receive at least one stream selected from the group consisting of said light gas stream, said aqueous stream and a third portion of said feedstock stream, and generate said hydrogen from said at least one stream. | 1,680 |
8,509,240 | 1. A base station comprising: a receiving unit configured to receive data packets from a gateway; an information extracting unit configured to extract a sequence number, a timestamp and byte count information from each of the received data packets; a window counting unit configured to count the received data packets based on the extracted sequence number of each of the received data packets so as to form a window; and a processing unit configured to process the counted received data packets within the window and set an anticipated air interface transmission time for the data packets in the current window based on the extracted timestamp; a sync control packet determining unit configured to analyze the received data packet to determine whether the received data packet is a sync control packet; wherein the sync control packet includes a sequence number which is a sequence number of a next packet to be transmitted; a timestamp; and a total byte count of the packets transmitted in a window terminated prior to the sync control packet. | 4,807 |
9,178,239 | 1. A proton conductor comprising: a coordination polymer that is provided as a crystal structure having defined lattice parameters, the crystal structure having stoichiometrically: | 15,171 |
8,478,748 | 1. A method by a computing system including a processor and a memory for improving a ranking model, the method comprising: obtaining a training set, wherein the training set includes: initializing active sets to include a perfect document set permutation and an imperfect document set permutation for each training query; optimizing a ranking model in accordance with an empirical loss function, wherein the empirical loss function utilizes the active sets; identifying, for each training query, the perfect document set permutation for which the ranking model scores lowest, and the imperfect document set permutation for which the ranking model scores highest; updating, by a processor, the active sets to include at least one identified document set permutation that was not initially present; and using the updated active sets to additionally optimize the ranking model. | 30,702 |
9,121,389 | 1. A system for creating a renewable energy source for a building, the system comprising: a hollow vertical air column configured to be integrated into a building structure in order to take advantage of a natural draft created by a stack effect; one or more input ports; a manifold which has one or more legs in fluid communication with a lower end of said hollow vertical air column and in fluid communication with said one or more input ports; at least one exhaust port located on the roof of a building, said exhaust port configured to be in fluid communication with an opposing end of said hollow vertical air column; and a wind generator configured to be disposed in an air flow path of said hollow vertical air column between said one or more input ports and said at least one exhaust port so as to take advantage of the stack effect to generate electricity forming a renewable with respect to said building. | 13,864 |
8,950,340 | 1. A ballast hopper car discharge door control system, comprising: a control box, comprising an electrical pneumatic control system and a receiving device of the ballast hopper car discharge door control system, said electrical pneumatic control system is an electrical control device and a pneumatic control device of the ballast hopper car discharge door control system and comprises an electrical element, a pneumatic element, a control circuit and a control air passage; and said receiving device is capable of receiving various control signals so as to control working states of said electrical pneumatic control system; a hydraulic system, connected to said control box, said hydraulic system is an air-liquid conversion device; a manual control device, connected to the electrical pneumatic control system in said control box, said manual control device is operated to control opening or closing of ballast hopper car discharge doors; a remote control device, configured to transmit control signal to the receiving device, comprising a housing, a control button, an integrated control circuit and a storage battery, said control button is operated to control opening or closing of the ballast hopper car discharge doors; a storage battery, configured to provide the electrical pneumatic control system in said control box with continuous power supply and the remote control device with charging power supply; characterized in that, the ballast hopper car discharge door control system further comprises: a pressure switch, arranged between the control box and the storage battery, connected to an outlet of an air source, said pressure switch is operated by pressure of the air source to control connecting and disconnecting between the storage battery and the control box, and a car charger for remote control device, with one end connected to the storage battery and the other end connected to the remote control device, and said storage battery charges the remote control device through the car charger for remote control device. | 35,535 |
8,831,473 | 1. A photosensitive unit comprising: a frame; a plurality of photosensitive drums which are held by the frame to be in parallel with each other and arranged in a predetermined direction, and on which electrostatic latent images are to be formed, respectively; a plurality of chargers which are provided so as to oppose the photosensitive drums, respectively, and configured to charge the photosensitive drums, respectively; a plurality of cleaning members which are provided to oppose the photosensitive drums, respectively, and configured to clean the photosensitive drums, respectively; and a plurality of cartridges which are detachably mounted in the frame, each of the cartridges including: wherein the frame includes: wherein each of the first and second side parts of the frame includes a plurality of guide grooves, each of which extends from the opening toward a downstream side in a mounting direction, along which the cartridge is mounted in the frame, each of the guide grooves being configured to guide the developing roller of the cartridge to be mounted, toward the corresponding photosensitive drum, wherein each of the guide grooves includes at least: wherein each of the beam members includes: wherein each of the cartridges includes a pivot shaft configured such that: | 30,279 |
9,196,030 | 1. A system for determining a property of a blur in an image, the system comprising: one or more receivers for receiving the image of an object-of-interest of a body, the image comprising the blur, and for receiving a further image of the object-of-interest that is a sharper image than the image with the blur, a determining subsystem for determining a value of a characteristic of the blur in the image on individual lines of a plurality of lines intersecting with the object-of-interest at different angles and extending in different directions, wherein the determining subsystem analyzes the image with the blur and the further image along the respective lines for determining the value of the characteristic of the blur in the image; and an obtaining subsystem for obtaining a direction in which the value of the characteristic of the blur is maximal, based on the determined values on the individual lines of the plurality of lines, which lines extend in different directions. | 39,878 |
9,790,943 | 1. A scroll-type fluid machine comprising: a casing; a fixed scroll having a flange surface attached to the casing, and a wrap portion provided on a surface of an end plate; an orbiting scroll having a wrap portion provided on a surface of an end plate, and provided in an opposed relationship with the fixed scroll, and orbiting with respect to the casing; a back surface plate provided at a back surface of the end plate of the orbiting scroll, a drive shaft connected through a crank portion to the orbiting scroll and performing rotation-drive; a cooling fan supplying cooling air into an interior of the casing; a plurality of compression chambers which are defined between the wrap potion of the fixed scroll and the wrap portion of the orbiting scroll; and a conductive brush causing the orbiting scroll and the casing to be conducted by causing the back surface plate and the casing to be conducted. | 5,154 |
9,728,191 | 1. A method of evaluating whether a first speaker in a conversation is a user whose identity has been asserted by analyzing audio of the conversation, wherein the conversation involves a second speaker whose identity is known, and wherein at least a portion of the audio of the conversation has been decomposed into a first segment and a second segment, each of the first segment and the second segment being composed substantially of audio of a single speaker speaking in the conversation, the method comprising: comparing the first segment to a first voiceprint of the user to determine a first likelihood that the first segment corresponds to the user; comparing the first segment to a second voiceprint of the second speaker to determine a second likelihood that the first segment corresponds to the second speaker; comparing the second segment to the first voiceprint of the user to determine a third likelihood that the second segment corresponds to the user; comparing the second segment to the second voiceprint of the second speaker to determine a fourth likelihood that the second segment corresponds to the second speaker; and determining whether the first speaker is the user based, at least in part, on the first, second, third and fourth likelihoods. | 2,823 |
8,778,518 | 1. A battery pack comprising: a bare cell sealed by a cap plate; a circuit board having an upper surface disposed on the cap plate; a cover having a lower surface wherein the cover is coupled to the cap plate; and a size control unit formed between the lower surface of the cover and the circuit board so that the size control unit contacts the upper surface of the circuit board, wherein the size control unit comprises a protrusion protruding from the cover and contacting the circuit board. | 45,677 |
9,448,748 | 1. A printing device comprising: a print mechanism configured to print; a host interface configured to connect to a host device; a device interface configured to connect to a device having a different print mechanism than the print mechanism; an information acquirer configured to acquire device information including a type of different print mechanism from the device when the device is connected to the device interface; a storage configured to store the device information; and a controller configured to output the device information stored in the storage to the host device when the host device is connected to the host interface; wherein when the host device connects to the host interface after the device was connected to the device interface and acquired the device information, the controller outputs the device information to the host device. | 38,323 |
9,444,001 | 1. A position sensitive detector comprising: a substrate; an absorber layer on the substrate; a barrier layer on the absorber layer, wherein the barrier layer comprises a first barrier layer on the absorber layer and a second barrier layer on the first barrier layer; a contact layer on the barrier layer; and a first contact and a second contact on the contact layer, wherein the first contact is not in contact with the second contact; wherein the contact layer is a continuous layer between the first contact and the second contact; wherein the barrier layer has a conduction band barrier that prevents a flow of majority carrier electrons from the absorber layer to the contact layer; wherein the first barrier layer and the second barrier layer have valence bands that are not a barrier to minority carrier holes and allow minority carrier holes generated by an incident light to flow to the contact layer; wherein the position sensitive detector is sensitive to a lateral position between the first contact and the second contact of the incident light on the contact layer. | 39,838 |
8,859,324 | 1. A method of manufacturing a solar cell device, comprising: providing a substrate having a first dielectric layer disposed on a front side of the substrate and a second dielectric layer disposed on a back side of the substrate, wherein the first dielectric layer comprises a silicon containing material selected from silicon oxide, silicon nitride or amorphous silicon; selectively disposing a first metal paste in a first pattern on at least a portion of the first dielectric layer; selectively disposing a second metal paste in a second pattern on a surface of the second dielectric layer, wherein the second dielectric layer is disposed between the portions of the second metal paste and the back side of the substrate and the second dielectric layer comprises aluminum oxide; and simultaneously heating the first and the second metal pastes disposed on the first and the second dielectric layers to form a first group of contacts in the first dielectric layer and a second group of contacts in the second dielectric layer, wherein at least a portion of the second metal paste forms a plurality of contact regions that each extend through the second dielectric layer from the surface of the second dielectric layer to the back side of the substrate. | 3,523 |
8,648,249 | 1. A geo-cooled solar photovoltaic power conversion apparatus comprising: a photovoltaic power converter including one or more heat producing components; a power converter heat exchanger; a sub-grade heat exchanger thermally coupled to the earth; a liquid coolant reservoir including a tank, a first reservoir heat exchanger interior to the tank, and a second reservoir heat exchanger interior to the tank, wherein the first reservoir heat exchanger and the second reservoir heat exchanger are thermally coupled to each other via a liquid interior to the tank; a first coolant loop including a first liquid coolant and operably connecting the power converter heat exchanger, the first reservoir heat exchanger, and a first coolant pump, wherein the first coolant pump is operable to circulate the first liquid coolant through the power converter heat exchanger and through the first reservoir heat exchanger; and, a second coolant loop including a second liquid coolant and operably connecting the sub-grade heat exchanger, the second reservoir heat exchanger, and a second coolant pump, wherein the second coolant pump is operable to circulate the second liquid coolant through the second reservoir heat exchanger and through the sub-grade heat exchanger. | 21,331 |
9,683,489 | 1. An engine anti-ice system, comprising: one or more heat sources configured to selectively heat one or more components on or within a gas turbine engine; one or more sensor data sources configured to supply data representative of one or more parameters related to ice crystal accretion; and a controller coupled to receive the data from the one or more sensors and configured, in response to the data, to (i) determine if one or more criteria are met, and (ii) when the one or more criteria are met, at least inhibit at least selected ones of the one or more heat sources from supplying heat to at least selected ones of the one or more components on or within the gas turbine engine, wherein the one or more criteria comprise ice crystal presence in the air has been detected. | 42,947 |
8,733,933 | 1. An ophthalmologic apparatus comprising: an irradiation unit configured to irradiate a subject's eye with a measuring beam emitted by a scanning unit that performs scanning; a first acquisition unit configured to acquire a first image of the subject's eye based on the returned measuring beam from the subject's eye when the scanning unit performs scanning in a first sub scanning direction; a second acquisition unit configured to acquire a second image of the subject's eye based on the returned measuring beam that travels from the subject's eye, continuously from acquisition of the first image, while the scanning unit performs scanning in a second sub scanning direction, which is opposite to the first sub scanning direction; and a calculation unit configured to calculate blood flow velocity of the subject's eye based on a blood cell position in the first image and a blood cell position in the second image as well as based on the sub scanning direction of the scanning unit. | 43,059 |
9,788,858 | 1. A method for puncturing a fossa ovalis of a heart, the method comprising: inserting a catheter into a right atrium of the heart; advancing a distal portion of the catheter toward an interatrial septum of the heart; deploying a first set of one or more flexible longitudinal members from the distal portion of the catheter; probing tissue near the fossa ovalis, by moving at least one of the flexible longitudinal members of the first set along a surface of the interatrial septum; identifying a puncture site for puncturing the fossa ovalis, in response to the at least one of the one or more flexible longitudinal members of the first set probing and contacting the tissue of the fossa ovalis; thereafter, deploying a second set of one or more flexible longitudinal members from the distal portion of the catheter, such that at least one of the one or more flexible longitudinal members of the second set contacts the fossa ovalis, the second set not comprising any of the one or more flexible longitudinal members of the first set; and thereafter, using a puncturing element, puncturing the fossa ovalis at the puncture site. | 49,517 |
8,658,008 | 1. A high-pressure hydrogen producing apparatus for electrolyzing water supplied to an anode side to generate oxygen on the anode side and hydrogen with a pressure higher than a pressure of the oxygen on a cathode side, comprising: a first cell device having a plurality of first unit cells stacked in a gravitational direction; a second cell device coupled to a lower end of the first cell device in the gravitational direction and having a plurality of second unit cells stacked in the gravitational direction; the first cell device serving as a water electrolysis cell to electrolyze the water, the first cell device including an electrolyte membrane, an anode electrode catalyst layer and an anode current collector provided on a first surface of the electrolyte membrane, and a cathode electrode catalyst layer and a cathode current collector provided on a second surface of the electrolyte membrane, the second surface being provided on an opposite side of the electrolyte membrane to the first surface in the first cell device; and the second cell device serving as a water permeation cell to cause moisture on the cathode side to permeate toward the anode side, the second cell device including an electrolyte membrane, an anode current collector provided on a first surface of the electrolyte membrane of the second cell device, and a cathode current collector provided on a second surface of the electrolyte membrane of the second cell device, the second surface being provided on an opposite side of the electrolyte membrane to the first surface in the second cell device. | 32,326 |
8,726,456 | 1. An apparatus for cleaning a chandelier, comprising: a cleaning head adapted to be held by a single hand; said cleaning head having a bifurcated construction that includes a first section and a second section; said first and second sections being joined to one another at a common base and being transversely spaced apart from one another along respective lengths thereof; said transverse spacing defining a cleaning chamber between said first and second sections; said cleaning chamber having an open top, an open bottom, and an open end so that at least one chandelier crystal may be positioned within said cleaning chamber; at least one water-spraying nozzle formed in said cleaning head; said at least one water-spraying nozzle being in fluid communication with a remote source of water under pressure; said cleaning chamber being in fluid communication with a remote source of negative pressure so that a vacuum is created in said cleaning chamber; said at least one crystal disposed within said cleaning chamber being impacted by water under pressure emitted from said at least one water-spraying nozzle; said vacuum pulling ambient air, water, dust and dirt removed from said at least one crystal to said source of negative pressure; said ambient air providing a drying effect to said at least one crystal; a double-chambered container having a dirty water and vacuum chamber and a water chamber that is not under vacuum; a vacuum pump in fluid communication with said dirty water and vacuum chamber; said water chamber having water disposed therein; a hot air blower in fluid communication with said water chamber; a water heating element submerged within said water in said water chamber and being operative to heat said water disposed in said water chamber; a pump for pumping water from said water chamber to said at least one water-spraying nozzle. | 27,931 |
9,424,630 | 1. A method for detecting and removing a false contour, comprising: receiving an input video; wherein the calculating the simplicity of the pixel comprises: | 1,830 |
8,702,685 | 1. An implantable drug delivery system for the treatment of erectile dysfunction, comprising: a passively pressurized drug infusion pump containing a therapeutic, one or more catheters, one or more microfluidic valves, a microcontroller, and one or more patient input mechanisms, wherein one of the one or more patient input mechanisms comprises an implantable neural interface, wherein the one or more microfluidic valves are under operative control of the microcontroller, wherein the microcontroller opens the one or more microfluidic valves to dispense a discrete dosage of the therapeutic in response to a signal from the one or more patient input mechanisms, wherein the implantable neural interface is in electrical communication with nerves associated with a subject's penis, and wherein the microcontroller is programmed to interpret signals registered by the implantable neural interface, the signal interpretation further comprising requiring that the signals registered by the implantable neural interface exceed a selected threshold stimulus frequency for a defined duration within a predetermined time window prior to release of the therapeutic. | 34,398 |
9,150,687 | 1. An electronic device comprising at least one organic semiconductor with less than 20 ppm of each of fluorine, chlorine, bromine, and iodine, with the proviso that this restriction applies to fluorine only when fluorine is not a constituent part of the chemical structure of the organic semiconductor, and having an energy gap between conduction and valence bands between 1.0 eV and 3.5 eV, wherein said electronic device is selected from the group consisting of organic or polymeric light-emitting diodes and light-emitting electrochemical cells. | 13,881 |
8,658,256 | 1. A method, comprising: applying an electric charge to a coating material to create an electrically charged coating material, wherein the coating material includes carbon nanotubes and a carrier; and depositing the electrically charged coating material to a substrate to create a coated substrate, wherein during the depositing, the substrate is insulated from ground. | 6,719 |
8,798,581 | 1. A method for a terminal binding subscriber identification module (SIM) cards, comprising: during an initialization of a SIM card, the terminal sending a terminal profile command to the SIM card to inform the SIM card the relevant SIM Tool Kit (STK) items that are supported by the terminal; after the STK of the SIM card is informed of the terminal supporting a proactive command, the STK of the SIM card issuing a proactive command to the terminal; and the terminal, after receiving the proactive command, judging whether operator information of the SIM card is provided by the STK of the SIM card; when the operator information of the SIM card is not provided by the STK of the SIM card, the terminal determining that the SIM card is not the one bound with the terminal, and not allowing the user to use the terminal with the SIM card, when the operator information of the SIM card is provided by the STK of the SIM card, the terminal judging whether the operator information of the SIM card provided by the STK of the SIM card is consistent with the operator information of the SIM card supported by the terminal and stored in the terminal; | 26,360 |
8,877,758 | 1. A medicament comprising an EP4 receptor antagonist and a PDE4 inhibitor of formula 1 wherein: X is SO or SO R R wherein R R R wherein NR R | 41,242 |
9,428,084 | 1. A seat frame for a vehicle seat comprising: a side frame which is disposed at each end of a seat back frame of a seat back of the vehicle seat in a width direction of the vehicle seat; a reclining mechanism which comprises a rotation shaft extending in the width direction and pivots the seat back with respect to a seat cushion of the vehicle seat by the rotation of the rotation shaft; and an actuator which is driven to rotate the rotation shaft, wherein: the reclining mechanism is attached to a side wall of the side frame while the rotation shaft penetrates the side wall of the side frame, the actuator is fixed to an attachment bracket bonded to an inner surface of the side wall in the width direction while engaging with a portion of the rotation shaft penetrating the side wall of the side frame, the attachment bracket comprises: one end of the upper portion and one end of the lower portion in a front to back direction of the vehicle seat are connected to each other, and an other end of the upper portion and an other end of the lower portion in the front to back direction are separated from each other. | 5,790 |
9,334,818 | 1. A method of controlling engine combustion, the method comprising: determining a target exhaust valve timing based on a first combination of engine speed and load; determining an amount of trapped residual in an engine cylinder after an exhaust valve is closed during a first combustion cycle; determining, based at least in part on the amount of trapped residual, an amount of gas that will be drawn into the engine cylinder when an intake valve is opened during a second combustion cycle; and adjusting the target exhaust valve timing during the second combustion cycle to adjust the amount of gas that will be drawn into the engine cylinder when the intake valve is opened during a third combustion cycle. | 44,562 |
9,403,118 | 1. A nitrogen-enriched gas manufacturing method for separating a nitrogen-enriched gas from a raw material air containing nitrogen gas using a plurality of adsorption tanks packed with an adsorbent the method comprising: a pressurization and adsorption step of pressurizing an inside of a first adsorption tank by introducing the raw material air, which has been compressed by a compressor, into the first adsorption tank, and preferentially adsorbing unwanted components within the raw material air to an adsorbent inside the first adsorption tank, thus obtaining a gas containing concentrated nitrogen, a depressurization and equalization step of introducing a gas remaining inside the first adsorption tank into a second adsorption tank, a depressurization and regeneration step of introducing the raw material air which has been compressed by the compressor into the second adsorption tank, lowering a pressure inside the first adsorption tank by opening the first adsorption tank to an open atmosphere, and desorbing the unwanted components from the adsorbent inside the first adsorption tank, thereby regenerating the adsorbent inside the first adsorption tank, and a pressurization and equalization step of introducing a gas remaining inside the second adsorption tank into the first adsorption tank, wherein in the pressurization and equalization step, the raw material air which has been compressed by the compressor is stored in a compressed raw material air tank provided on a branch from a line between the compressor and the first adsorption tank, and in the pressurization and adsorption step, the raw material air stored in the compressed raw material air tank is directly supplied to a line between the first adsorption tank and the compressor, and introduced into the first adsorption tank and used as a portion of a gas that pressurizes the inside of the first adsorption tank. | 17,517 |
8,983,695 | 1. A method for controlling an electric vehicle comprising: calculating via a first controller a first torque value for controlling a motor on the basis of first data stored in a first memory; calculating via a second controller a second torque value for controlling the motor on the basis of second data stored in a second memory having a memory address different from that of the first memory; determining via the first controller and the second controller abnormality in torque calculation by comparing the first torque value with the second torque value; receiving via a motor controller the first torque value and the second torque value from the first controller and the second controller; controlling the motor via the motor controller based on one of the first torque value and the second torque value for driving the electric vehicle, wherein the first data and the second data are same values for torque calculation. | 43,795 |
8,590,567 | 1. A valve block assembly comprising: a fluidics stack assembly comprising: a membrane; and a pressure cup plate comprising a pressure cup, wherein the pressure cup comprises: wherein the fluidics stack assembly, the membrane and the surface of the pressure cup plate are aligned and mounted to form a sealing surface between the I/O plate and the fluidics plate, between the fluidics plate and the seal plate, between the seal plate and the membrane, and between the membrane and the surface of the pressure cup plate; and further wherein, when aligned, the inlet port hole aligns with the inlet channel, the inlet hole aligns with the first hole, the outlet port hole aligns with the outlet hole, and the second hole aligns with the first channel, and the first portion of the surface of the pressure cup plate surrounds the first hole and the second hole to support fluid communication between the inlet port hole and the outlet port hole under control of pressure changes within the first pressure port. | 38,893 |
8,698,367 | 1. A machine, comprising: a rotor comprising a plurality of rare earth permanent magnets retained on said rotor via a cylindrical sleeve that is retained via a band comprising a stacked plurality of non-magnetic washer laminations, each of said non-magnetic washer laminations being electrically insulated from an adjacent non-magnetic washer lamination of the plurality of non-magnetic washer laminations; and an opposing pair of end caps configured to axially retain said stacked plurality of non-magnetic washer laminations on said rotor, at least one of said opposing pair of end caps defining a threaded hole configured to receive a correspondingly threaded fastener. | 17,261 |
8,900,755 | 1. A rechargeable lithium battery or supercapacitor comprising a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a porous separator disposed between the two electrodes, and a lithium-containing electrolyte in physical contact with the two electrodes, wherein the positive electrode comprises a disordered carbon material as a cathode active material having a functional group that reversibly reacts with a lithium atom or ion during charge and discharge cycles of said battery or supercapacitor and wherein said disordered carbon material is selected from a soft carbon, hard carbon, polymeric carbon or carbonized resin, meso-phase carbon, coke, carbonized pitch, carbon black, activated carbon, or partially graphitized carbon and said functional group is selected from —COOH, ═O, —OH, —NH 2 , an oxygen-containing group attached to a carbon atom, —OR, or —COOR, where R is a hydrocarbon radical. | 44,384 |
8,811,561 | 1. A control rod mechanism for use in a nuclear reactor, the control rod mechanism comprising: a control rod configured for insertion in a reactor core to absorb neutrons; a lifting rod configured to support the weight of the control rod; a hollow lead screw through which the lifting rod passes; a drive mechanism including (i) a rotating nut engaged with the lead screw and (ii) a motor engaged with the nut to rotate the nut, the drive mechanism configured to operate by rotating the nut engaged with the lead screw to linearly translate the lead screw; and a latch mounted to the lead screw and configured to latch with the lifting rod wherein the latch and the latched lifting rod and the control rod translate together with the lead screw, the latch mounted to the lead screw further configured to open responsive to a loss or removal of electrical power to unlatch the lifting rod wherein the unlatched lifting rod and the control rod fall under the influence of gravity to scram the control rod when the latch is released; wherein the latch does not include the rotating nut of the drive mechanism. | 11,252 |
9,035,399 | 1. A semiconductor device comprising: a substrate; a gate stack on the substrate, the gate stack comprising a dielectric layer; a first polysilicon layer formed over the dielectric layer, a first nitride layer formed over the first polysilicon layer, the first nitride layer including a horizontal plane defined by a top surface of the first nitride layer; a spacer along a sidewall of the gate stack; an active region within the substrate adjacent to the spacer; a second nitride layer on the active region, the second nitride layer including a horizontal plane defined by a top surface of the second nitride layer, wherein the horizontal plane of the second nitride layer is substantially aligned with the horizontal plane of the first nitride layer. | 26,923 |
9,334,509 | 1. A method for producing (1S,2S)-1-alkoxycarbonyl-2-vinylcyclopropanecarboxylic acid, which comprises contacting dialkyl 2-vinylcyclopropane-1,1-dicarboxylate with a hydrolase protein to produce (1S,2S)-1-alkoxycarbonyl-2-vinylcyclopropanecarboxylic acid, wherein the hydrolase protein is capable of catalyzing the following reaction at higher selectivity than the protein consisting of the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 1: comprises an amino acid sequence shown in any one of SEQ ID NOs: 2 to 5. | 3,683 |
9,376,955 | 1. A compression ignition combustion method for an internal combustion engine, the method including the steps of: a. providing an initial fuel charge to a combustion chamber sufficiently prior to Top Dead Center (TDC) that the initial fuel charge is at least substantially homogeneously dispersed within the combustion chamber by a time halfway through a compression stroke; b. providing a subsequent fuel charge to the combustion chamber at 40 or more degrees prior to Top Dead Center (TDC): c. compressing the fuel charges until ignition occurs before the subsequent fuel charge can homogeneously disperse within the combustion chamber. | 19,048 |
9,567,516 | 1. A process for synthesizing a manganese doped phosphor, the process comprising: dry milling particles of a phosphor precursor of formula I; and contacting the dry milled particles with a fluorine-containing oxidizing agent in gaseous form at an elevated temperature, the fluorine-containing oxidizing agent comprising F wherein, A is Li, Na, K, Rb, Cs, or a combination thereof; M is Si, Ge, Sn, Ti, Zr, Al, Ga, In, Sc, Hf, Y, La, Nb, Ta, Bi, Gd, or a combination thereof; x is 1, 2, or 3 and is equal to the absolute value of the charge of the [MF y is 5, 6 or 7. | 538 |
9,173,127 | 1. A method of communicating from a first transceiver in a wireless multicarrier system comprising the steps of: selecting at least one of a particular number of carriers and a particular symbol rate at which symbols are transmitted from the first transceiver from among a predetermined plurality of carriers and a predetermined plurality of symbol rates; transmitting from the first transceiver a group of symbols using the at least one of particular number of carriers and the particular symbol rate; further selecting at least one of a second particular number of carriers and a second particular symbol rate at which symbols are transmitted from the first transceiver based upon at least one of a legacy number of carriers that are less than the predetermined plurality of carriers and legacy symbol rates that are less than the predetermined plurality of symbol rates; and transmitting from the first transceiver the another group of symbols using the at least one of second particular number of carriers and the second particular symbol rate during the subsequent period of time. | 14,638 |
8,953,496 | 1. A method comprising: executing a route tracing program, at a first network element, the route tracing program transmitting a sequence of packets with different time-to-live values along a forward route that spans from the first network element to a second network element, wherein the route tracing program specifies the second network element as the destination of the sequence of packets, wherein a reverse route spans from the second network element to the first network element, and wherein the sequence of packets are configured to trigger control messages to be transmitted to the first network element; in response to executing the route tracing program, calculating performance measurements based on the control messages corresponding to the different time-to-live values, and wherein a first portion of the control messages has been transmitted to the first network element via the forward route and a second portion of the control messages has been transmitted to the first network element via the reverse route; determining an expected monotonic characteristic that is exhibited by the performance measurements in relation to the different time-to-live values; and identifying the forward route and the reverse route as being asymmetric with each other when a performance measurement that corresponds to an individual time-to-live value indicates a deviation, over a predetermined deviation threshold, from the expected monotonic characteristic. | 33,426 |
8,434,472 | 1. An apparatus for the collection and conversion of light energy comprising: a sandwich core structure having a thickness; a collector element; a concentrator including one or more reflector elements and positioned at an exterior surface of the core; at least a first rotation axle rotatably journaled into a bearing or bushing device; and a load bearing joint incorporated into the rotation axle, the first rotation axle and bearing joint supporting the core structure for rotation; and wherein, the core structure is a non-honeycomb structure made of cells pointing in the same direction and has first and second outer layers that sandwich an interior single core, wherein where: 0.01<ρ*<0.2 and: t is the thickness of the sandwich core structure, p* is the measure of the relative density and h is the height of the core. | 17,341 |
9,791,125 | 1. A lens for an illumination device, the lens comprising: a bottom wall, a top wall, and a circumferential wall, the circumferential wall connecting the bottom wall and the top wall, | 6,936 |
9,651,083 | 1. A fastener ring for fastening to a rod on a support, said fastener ring comprising: a body through which an axial orifice having a main axis passes that serves to receive said rod, and flexible tabs extending radially from the body towards the main axis of said axial orifice and serving to co-operate with said rod to hold it stationary axially relative to said fastener ring, wherein a set of said flexible tabs are star-shaped, each comprising a tongue secured to said body, and extended by a head made up of a rounded radial tip and of two radially rounded side cheeks remote from said body, the width of said tongue being less than the maximum width of said head as measured between furthest apart edges of its side cheeks. | 1,661 |
8,346,482 | 1. A systems-biology platform-based integrated biosensor and simulation system comprising: at least one implantable biosensor for sensing a biological target to generate a signal; and a simulator comprising a systems-biology platform for using the signal and a model of the target to generate a therapeutic or diagnostic output; wherein said sensor is reconfigurable by said simulator, whereby the simulator automatically integrates the target biosensing with in-vivo modeling to simulate the biological target as a whole organism using the systems-biology platform that comprises computational modeling hardware and software analysis genomics, proteomics, computational chemistry, pharmacogenomics, computational biology, computational biophysics, computational cell behavior, pharmacokinetics, metabolomics, and transcriptomics automated tools, such reconfiguration thereby reconfiguring a biocatalytic chip, a logic device, a tissue scaffold, a therapeutic reservoir, a probe arranger, or a DNA microarray. | 10,003 |
9,011,857 | 1. A method for treating cancer in a subject the method comprising the administration of an antibody that binds to Epithelial Membrane Protein 2 (EMP2) wherein the antibody is an isolated antibody that competes for binding to the extracellular loop of human Epithelial Membrane Protein 2 (EMP2) (SEQ ID NO: 42) with an EMP2 inhibitor, wherein the antibody comprises a heavy chain variable region and a light chain variable region, wherein the heavy chain variable region comprises three heavy chain complementary determining regions (HCDRs) and wherein the light chain variable region comprises three light chain variable regions (LCDRs), wherein: the sequence of HCDR1 is SEQ ID NO: 15, the sequence of HCDR2 is SEQ ID NO: 17, the sequence of HCDR3 is SEQ ID NO: 41, the sequence of LCDR1 is SEQ ID NO: 20, the sequence of LCDR2 is SEQ ID NO: 23, and the sequence of LCDR3 is SEQ ID NO: 40. | 37,462 |
8,523,065 | 1. A method for re-use of media for authorizing beverage dispensation, comprising: reading beverage information from a re-usable medium, removably associated with a container into which beverage is dispensed, at a reader associated with a beverage dispenser; and (a) when the information authorizes dispensing a beverage: (b) when the information does not authorize dispensing a beverage: | 44,843 |
9,203,241 | 1. A method for controlling the stability of an electric supply grid, comprising: locating a supply grid by a first device via a geographical location of the first device, wherein the first device is embodied to exchange electrical energy with the supply grid, determining, by the first device, first parameters for an energy exchange with the supply grid, determining, by a separate second device associated with the supply grid, second parameters for an energy exchange with the supply grid, and exchanging electrical energy between the first device and the supply grid based upon the first and second parameters such that an electrical stability of the supply grid is ensured, wherein the first and/or second parameters are selected from the group consisting of an intended power exchange with the first and/or second device, a frequency in the supply grid, an output available in the supply grid, an expected change of the power output and the frequency in the supply grid in the case of the energy exchange, and a combination thereof. | 46,370 |
8,381,701 | 1. A bio-diesel fuel engine system that uses a liquid state biomass source material of a fat-containing animal or vegetable oil as a liquid fuel base, comprising: a device that produces a biomass fuel by adding a surfactant to the liquid fuel base and atomizes the liquid fuel base to a particulate diameter of less than 10 μm with an atomizer, and a biomass fuel supply system supplying the biomass fuel to a fuel injector which sprays the biomass fuel into engine cylinders to power a diesel engine, wherein the atomizer comprises a plurality of nozzles for accelerating the liquid fuel base entering the atomizer; a plurality of freely rotatable rotors disposed in an axial alignment opposing each nozzle; a mixing chamber; and a magnetizing unit, the nozzles and rotors being alternately arranged along a fuel flow path; each rotor having a rotor face disposed at a right angle in the flow path and providing a surface against which the liquid fuel base collides; diagonal slits formed though each rotor at a perimeter of the rotor face, wherein the slits shear and break up the flow of liquid fuel base while concurrently generating an axially revolving fuel flow pattern when the rotor rotates; the nozzles being disposed in a direction of fuel flow with an upstream nozzle having a diameter smaller than that of a downstream nozzle; the rotors being disposed in the direction of fuel flow with an upstream rotor having a diameter smaller than that of a downstream rotor; the diagonal slits being disposed in the direction of fuel flow with an upstream slit having a size smaller than that of a downstream slit; the mixing chamber comprising a curved concave surface in a form of cupped wall and being disposed on a downstream side of the nozzles and rotors and creating a structure that agitates and mixes the flowing fuel within the mixing chamber as a result of collision of the flowing fuel with the cupped wall, and the magnetizing unit being aligned with a direction, of fuel flow as a jacked-like structure extending along and encompassing the nozzles, rotors and mixing chamber for magnetizing the liquid fuel base; wherein the liquid state biomass source material is generated without employing a methyl-ester reforming process. | 14,681 |
9,538,881 | 1. A kitchen appliance, comprising: a housing having a base and a side wall extending therefrom, the side wall having an exterior surface and an opposing interior surface, at least portions of the interior surface of the side wall and base defining a cavity within the housing, the housing having a housing rim at a first, free edge of the side wall defining an opening to the cavity; a heating element disposed within the housing proximate the cavity to heat the cavity; a container having a generally hollow interior and a container rim defining an opening for accessing the interior thereof, the interior being capable of retaining contents therein, the container being sized and shaped to fit within the cavity of the housing, first and second projections extending radially outwardly from the container rim beyond the housing and being positioned generally diametrically opposed on the container rim; a lid sized and shaped to at least partially cover the opening of the container when placed on the container, the lid having an exterior surface, an opposing interior surface facing the interior of the container when the lid is placed on the container, and a lid knob extending outwardly or upwardly from the exterior surface of the lid and including an upper gripping handle; and an elongated latching member having a middle portion that extends at least over the width of the lid and the width of the container, the middle portion including an opening generally centrally located with respect to the exterior surface of the lid, a portion of the lid knob extending through the opening into engagement with the lid such that the latching member is rotatably mounted on the lid, and opposing first and second generally L-shaped end portions that extend from opposite ends of the middle portion downwardly and radially inwardly, the latching member being rotatable to an engaged position about a vertical axis defined from the lib knob to a bottom of the appliance wherein the generally L-shaped end portions extend around and beneath the first and second projections into engagement with an underside thereof, respectively, to releasably interlock the lid to the container, the latching member being rotatable to a disengaged position about the vertical axis wherein the first and second generally L-shaped end portions are spaced from the first and second projections to permit removal of the lid from the container. | 17,144 |
9,777,102 | 1. A method of preparing a modified novolak phenolic resin having a weight average molecular weight of 2,000 to 30,000, comprising the steps of mixing (A) a novolak phenolic resin obtained from condensation of a phenol containing at least 50% by weight of p-cresol and an aldehyde, or (B) a mixture of (b-1) at least 50% by weight of a p-cresol novolak resin obtained from condensation of p-cresol and an aldehyde and (b-2) the balance of another novolak phenolic resin obtained from condensation of a phenol other than p-cresol and an aldehyde with a crosslinker in an organic solvent, simultaneously or subsequently adding an acidic catalyst selected from the group consisting of benzenesulfonic acid, p-toluenesulfonic acid, xylenesulfonic acid, p-phenolsulfonic acid, methanesulfonic acid, and ethanesulfonic acid thereto, effecting reaction at a temperature of 10 to 80° C., and deactivating or removing the acidic catalyst to quench the reaction, wherein the crosslinker is at least one member selected from the group consisting of an amino condensate modified with formalin or formalin-alcohol, a phenol compound having on average at least two methylol or alkoxymethylol groups in a molecule, and an epoxy compound having on average at least two epoxy groups in a molecule, and wherein the step of deactivating or removing the acidic catalyst is performed by repeating several times the steps of adding deionized water to the reaction solution, stirring, stationary holding for layer separation, and removing the water layer out of the system. | 10,787 |
8,996,890 | 1. A method for enabling power conservation within a virtual environment comprising: determining power consumption of a plurality of virtual machines within the virtual environment, the determining comprising using server power profile data and real time power consumption data to determine power consumption to each of the plurality of virtual machines; assigning some or all of the plurality of virtual machines to a particular physical host based upon the power consumption of each of the plurality of virtual machines, the assigning virtual machines to the group of physical hosts minimizing net power consumption of the virtual environment, the assigning comprising making power consumption aware virtual machine assignment decisions based upon using server power profile data and real time power consumption data; and wherein the plurality of virtual machines are executing within a server system; the server system further includes a plurality of controllable power supplies, the plurality of controllable power supplies comprising respective Power Management Bus (PMBus) enabled power supplies, the PMBus enabled power supplies enabling power metric information to be read from the PMBus enabled power supplies via a power management bus; and, each of the plurality of controllable power supplies are controlled when assigning the virtual machines to enable power conservation when making placement and relocation decisions within a virtual environment. | 20,543 |
8,884,550 | 1. A method of controlling a switching power converter for supplying power to one or more light emitting diodes (“LEDs”), the switching power converter having an on time phase when the power switch is closed and an off time phase when the power switch is open, the method comprising: turning a power switch on to provide current through an inductor and the power switch; measuring voltseconds of the LEDs at a cycle time; at an end of the cycle time, comparing the measured voltseconds to a reference signal, wherein the reference signal is proportional to a set average LED voltage, and generating a signed discrete logical signal based on a difference between the measured voltseconds and the reference signal; generating a control signal using the signed discrete logical signal to regulate a peak current through the power switch by keeping the cycle time voltseconds substantially constant; and turning the power switch off. | 36,391 |
9,450,136 | 1. A method of manufacturing a thin-film cell, the method comprising: providing a substrate; depositing an absorber layer onto the substrate; and depositing a buffer layer onto the absorber layer, wherein the absorber layer and the buffer layer are made from non-toxic materials; wherein the depositing the absorber layer and the buffer layer is performed using an electrochemical atomic layer deposition process carried out under illumination so as excite electrons from a valence band to a conduction band, wherein the electrons at an edge of the conduction band at a solid/liquid interface are energetically higher than that of a redox potential of S wherein the step of depositing the absorber layer onto the substrate is carried out by depositing a thin-film of Cu | 8,789 |
9,284,189 | 1. A system for reducing the free oxygen content of a nitrogen stream, the system comprising: a reformer vessel having a hydrocarbon inlet and configured to generate a hydrogens containing gas; a conversion vessel operatively connected to the reformer vessel, the conversion vessel having at least one gas inlet, a product gas outlet, and a conversion catalyst disposed within the conversion vessel, the at least one gas inlet configured to receive at least one of the hydrogen-containing gas and free-oxygen containing gaseous nitrogen, the conversion vessel configured to allow contact between the hydrogen-containing gas and the conversion catalyst and generate oxygen-depleted nitrogen; a source of water containing dissolved oxygen; and a contacting unit operatively connected to the conversion vessel and the source of water containing dissolved oxygen, the contacting unit configured to allow contact between the water containing dissolved oxygen and the oxygen-depleted nitrogen to generate a free oxygen-containing stream and a de-oxygenated water stream. | 46,157 |
9,225,004 | 1. A method for producing an electrode plate, the method using a rod and a liquid pan and including driving the rod to rotate while bringing the rod into partial contact with coating material filled between the rod and the liquid pan to hold the coating material on a surface of the rod, and bringing a strip-shaped base sheet into contact with the coating material held on the rod while conveying the base sheet in a longitudinal direction, to apply the coating material to a coated section of the base sheet by leaving an uncoated section in a width direction, wherein the method uses the rod including: a plurality of recesses formed on the surface and spaced from each other along a longitudinal direction of the rod; a water repellent section in which water-repellent material that repels the coating material is coated on an entire circumference of a part of the rod in an axial direction overlapping at least one of the recesses; and a non-water-repellent section including an uncoated section of at least one the recesses and arranged adjacent to the water repellent section and not coated with the water-repellent material, and the non-water repellent section is placed to face the coated section, and the coating material is water soluble and contains binder. | 23,327 |
8,976,557 | 1. A reactive energy compensator that can be electrically connected to an alternating electrical network including M phase(s), M being an integer greater than or equal to 1, the compensator comprising: M connecting terminals for connecting to the alternating network, N banks of capacitor(s) capable of providing reactive energy, N being an integer greater than or equal to 2, N two-way voltage inverters, connected to each other in parallel and each connected to a unique capacitor bank, each inverter being able to convert a direct current into an alternating current including M phase(s) in one direction and the alternating current into direct current in the other direction, each inverter including first and second input terminals and M output terminal(s), the input terminals being connected to the corresponding capacitor bank, each output terminal corresponding to a phase of the alternating current and being connected to a corresponding connection terminal, a device for balancing the voltage of the N capacitor banks, characterized in that the balancing device includes first electrical connecting means for connecting to the first input terminals through passive electrical components. | 28,472 |
9,453,035 | 1. A compound of formula: where n=1 to 5; R | 4,598 |
8,792,479 | 1. A method of routing a call over a voice and data network (VDN) to a destination device, the method comprising: receiving a call from a calling device at a telecommunications gateway (TCG); in response to receiving the call, prompting the calling device for a VDN designator, wherein determining whether the user account is authorized to route calls via the TCG to the VDN is performed when the VDN designator is received; and wherein the call is routed via a switch to a second destination device when the VDN designator is not received; receiving authentication data via the call; determining whether a user account associated with the authentication data is authorized to route calls via the TCG to a VDN; when the user account is authorized to route calls via the TCG to the VDN, converting call data received at the TCG via the call into a format compatible with the VDN; and sending the converted call data via the VDN to destination device. | 2,185 |
9,505,398 | 1. A vehicle control apparatus for controlling a hybrid vehicle that includes an engine, a motor generator rotating at a predetermined rotation ratio with a rotation of the engine when connected to the engine, an electricity storage part receiving and sending an electric power to and from the motor generator, an inverter positioned between the electricity storage part and the motor generator, and a transmission transmitting a drive power from the engine and the motor generator to a drive wheel, the vehicle control apparatus comprising: an engine efficiency calculator calculating an engine efficiency based on ideal fuel consumption information and an engine power, which is a drive power output from the engine; an MG-INV efficiency calculator calculating an MG-INV efficiency, which is a combined efficiency of the motor generator and the inverter based on an MG power, which is a drive power being output from the motor generator; and an electric power efficiency calculator calculating a fuel consumption decrease or a fuel consumption increase for travel modes based on the engine efficiency and the MG-INV efficiency. | 13,733 |
8,860,367 | 1. A wireless electrical charging apparatus, comprising: a power-supply unit configured to generate power to be transferred to a power receiving apparatus; a power transferring device configured to transfer the power generated by the power-supply unit to the power receiving apparatus; a power relaying device configured to relay the power transferred by the power transferring device to the power receiving apparatus; a power-relaying-device moving mechanism section configured to move the power relaying device; an impedance matching detector configured to detect an impedance matching state from a transferred-power signal generated in the wireless electrical charging apparatus; and a power-transfer control section configured to control the power-relaying-device moving mechanism section to adjust a position of the power relaying device so as to expose the power relaying device to the power transferring device in order to provide the impedance matching state in accordance with a result of detection carried out by the impedance matching detector, wherein, | 43,592 |
9,402,068 | 1. A lens system for 3D video taking which has two lens devices and in which a baseline length of the two lens devices is changeable, comprising: a central processing unit (CPU) in communication with a memory having recorded therein programming code that, upon execution by the CPU, causes the CPU to operate as: wherein, while images taken by the camera devices to which the two lens devices are attached are being recorded during a recording operation of the lens system, the baseline length calculation unit re-calculates the baseline length using both the degree of three-dimensionality input by the user just before a start of the recording operation and the shooting conditions as the shooting conditions change during the recording of the images during the recording operation, where the degree of three-dimensionality input by the user just before the start of the recording operation is used by the baseline length calculation unit irrespective of whether a new degree of three-dimensionality is input by the user via the three-dimensionality manipulation unit during the recording operation. | 31,243 |
9,383,402 | 1. A partial discharge sensor detecting a partial discharge that occurs in high power equipment provided with: a first conductor tube having a first flange formed on an end portion thereof; a second conductor tube having a second flange formed on an end portion thereof; an insulating spacer that is sandwiched between the first and the second flanges, and holds a high-voltage cable inside the first and the second conductor tubes; a plurality of connection bolts that connect the first and the second flanges with each other, the partial discharge sensor comprising: a metal casing disposed on an outer side of the first and the second flanges, having a longitudinal direction in a circumferential direction of the first and the second flanges and also a width direction in a thickness direction of the insulating spacer, and having one surface opened on the side of the first and the second flanges; and a bowtie antenna disposed inside the metal casing, and disposed in a direction orthogonal to the circumferential direction of the first and the second flanges, and having an overlapping portion with the first and the second flanges, and a strip metal plate that covers a circumference of the insulating spacer other than an opening of the metal casing, wherein the bowtie antenna includes a first triangular conductor disposed to have a base facing one side of the metal casing in the longitudinal direction and a second triangular conductor disposed to have a base facing the other side of the metal casing in the longitudinal direction. | 31,504 |
9,471,342 | 1. A method for register mapping in a virtual system that implements a hypervisor and at least two operating systems that are operable while executing at least two hardware threads, the method comprising: preparing a register pool that includes a plurality of registers for mapping; preparing a mapping table that has a register identifier (ID) and information related to each of a plurality of parameters that express an operational state of the virtual system for each of the registers; acquiring, at the time a register access request is issued by a hardware thread, the register ID for an access target and information related to each of the plurality of parameters that express the operational state during operation; and setting one of the registers, for which the acquired register ID and information related to each of the plurality of parameters match the register ID and information for each of the plurality of parameters within the mapping table, as a mapped register to be accessed per the register access request, wherein the plurality of parameters that express the operational state within the mapping table include an operation ID that expresses whether the hypervisor is operating or an operating system (OS) is operating, an ID for each OS, and an ID for each hardware thread. | 21,739 |
8,481,848 | 1. A photovoltaic device comprising: a substrate; and a photovoltaic layer comprising a crystalline silicon layer formed on the substrate, wherein the crystalline silicon layer has a crystalline silicon i-layer, and the crystalline silicon i-layer has a substrate in-plane distribution represented by an average value for a Raman peak ratio, which represents | 30,329 |
9,784,803 | 1. A magnetic resonance scanner comprising: an antenna system; an adjustment device configured to set a natural frequency of a natural mechanical oscillation mode of the antenna system to a desired frequency; a suspension system to establish a mechanical coupling between the antenna system and a support structure; wherein the suspension system has a setting mechanism configured to reversibly set a coupling parameter value of the mechanical coupling between the antenna system and the support structure, a location of the antenna system relative to the support structure, or both the coupling parameter value and the location. | 24,422 |
8,815,467 | 1. A membrane electrode assembly comprising at least two electrochemically active electrodes separated by at least one polymer electrolyte membrane, the aforementioned polymer electrolyte membrane having fibrous reinforcing elements which at least partly penetrate the polymer electrolyte membrane, wherein at least some of the fibrous reinforcing elements have functional groups which have a covalent chemical bond between the fibers and the polymer of the polymer electrolyte membrane. | 3,774 |
9,114,363 | 1. A system comprising: a three-way catalyst that receives exhaust gases from an engine and converts the exhaust gases to first converted exhaust gases; an ammonia slip catalyst that receives the first converted exhaust gases and converts the first converted exhaust gases to second converted exhaust gases; a hydrocarbon oxidation catalyst that receives the second converted exhaust gases and converts the second converted exhaust gases to third converted exhaust gases wherein the hydrocarbon oxidation catalyst comprises a precious metal loading comprising palladium and platinum, and a ratio of the palladium to the platinum is greater than one; and a mid-bed air injection system that injects air into the first converted exhaust gases upstream of the ammonia slip catalyst and injects air into the second converted exhaust gases upstream of the hydrocarbon oxidation catalyst. | 26,034 |
9,101,878 | 1. A catalytic converter apparatus for use in an exhaust system of an internal combustion engine, the apparatus comprising: a catalytic converter housing including a single gas inlet and a single gas outlet; a substrate element arranged in the housing, the substrate element carrying catalytic material and having a plurality of zones, each of the zones defining a generally separate flow passage, the flow passages, at one end of the substrate, merging together interiorly of the housing to connect to the inlet and, at the other end of the substrate, merging together interiorly of the housing to connect to the outlet; and at least one wall at least partially separating the zones from one another, the at least one wall being adapted to inhibit heat flow between the zones and being generally impervious to gas flow between the zones, wherein the substrate is a unitary substrate, each of the zones is a honeycomb substrate, the zones, in use, cause the exhaust stream to separate into a plurality of individual streams and the honeycomb substrate wall thickness is a constant applicable to all zones. | 42,656 |
9,752,909 | 1. A thermal type air flow meter for being placed in an intake passage of an internal combustion engine, the thermal type of air flow meter comprising: a molded resin component that includes a secondary passage into which part of air passing through the intake passage can flow; a flow rate detecting element placed in the secondary passage; and a circuit board that is electrically connected to the flow rate detecting element, receives an input of an amount of heat radiation from the flow rate detecting element, and outputs a signal according to an air flow rate, wherein the resin component includes: a board fixing part to which the circuit board is fixed; a secondary passage constituting part that is integrally formed with the board fixing part; and a reinforcing structure including a plurality of ribs that are formed integrally with the resin component and are provided on an outer surface of the board fixing part so as to protrude from the outer surface, the outer surface being arranged on a side opposite to a surface of the board fixing part to which the circuit board is fixed, wherein the ribs are provided on the outer surface in a grid pattern. | 24,395 |
9,291,114 | 1. A generator, comprising: an enclosure; an internal combustion engine provided within the enclosure; an alternator provided within the enclosure and driven by the internal combustion engine; a fuel supply line for providing fuel to the internal combustion engine; a valve for selectively closing the fuel supply line, the valve biased to a normally closed position, wherein the valve is provided outside of the enclosure; a controller configured to provide a signal to maintain the valve in an open position; and a temperature responsive device configured to interrupt the signal from the controller to the valve upon exposure to a threshold temperature, thereby resulting in the closing of the valve. | 41,815 |
9,505,301 | 1. An engine device comprising: a first case for removing particulate matter in exhaust gas of an engine, a second case for removing nitrogen oxide in the exhaust gas of the engine, and a cooling fan for providing cooling air to said engine, the first case and the second case being disposed on an upper surface side of the engine, a machine body frame configured to mount the engine and supporting a cooling fan shroud covering the cooling fan, wherein the first case and the second case are disposed at a position higher than an air flow path of the cooling fan, and the second case is disposed at a position higher than the first case, the second case is supported by the machine body frame, and is disposed at a position higher than an upper surface of the cooling fan shroud, and also above the cooling fan, and the first case is supported by a case bracket disposed to stand on a cylinder head of the engine. | 24,427 |
8,476,549 | 1. A method of bonding dissimilar metallic materials, comprising: overlapping a first material and a second material, the first material made from a different metal than the second material with a seal material interposed between the first material and the second material, forming an oxide film on the second material between the second material and the seal material; interposing a third metallic material different from both the first material and the second material between the first material and the seal material; pressing the first material and the second material with the interposed seal material and third metallic material together to discharge the seal material from a bonding interface to a periphery, contacting the oxide film with the third metallic material after the seal material is discharged, the oxide film being broken at the bonding interface during pressing to allow contact between the third metallic material and the second material; eutectically fusing the third metallic material with the second material at the bonding interface while pressing to produce a eutectic fused body; discharging the eutectic fused body from the bonding interface to the periphery with further pressing; and bonding the first material directly to the second material after the eutectic fused body has been discharged. | 16,248 |
9,345,632 | 1. A method of forming a sheet metal casket shell, the casket shell having two side walls, two end walls, and a bottom wall, the method comprising the steps of: providing a rectangular sheet of sheet metal having two side edges, two end edges and four corners, stamping the sheet of sheet metal to form the side walls, end walls, and bottom wall of the casket shell in such dimensions as to create a sufficient volume in which to receive and contain a body of a deceased, notching the corners of the sheet of sheet metal, forming flange side walls and top walls in the side edges and end edges of the sheet of sheet metal, rotating the side edges and end edges of the sheet of sheet metal about 90 degrees inwardly to form flange miter corners and to position the flange side walls generally vertically and the flange top walls generally horizontally, welding the flange miter corners, and grinding the flange miter corner welds. | 10,360 |
8,628,713 | 1. An inorganic board, comprising, in a solid content ratio, 30 to 70 mass % of hydraulic material, 5 to 15 mass % of reinforcing fiber, and 1 to 30 mass % of wollastonite having a wet volume (after being allowed to stand for 30 minutes) of 15 to 45 ml. | 28,819 |
9,408,112 | 1. A method for operating a UE device, the method comprising: within a user equipment device (UE) comprising a first radio, wherein the first radio is configurable to operate according to a first radio access technology (RAT) and a second RAT: | 16,913 |
8,732,326 | 1. A method performed by a server to stream data to a client, comprising: while streaming data to the client: | 37,226 |
8,357,826 | 1. A method for producing ethanol and 2-propanol from methanol, said method comprising: (a) converting methanol, in the presence of a methanol-to-olefins catalyst, into a stream including ethylene and propylene; (b) feeding said stream from step (a) and water to a first hydration zone under suitable conditions for hydration of propylene to 2-propanol; and (c) feeding at least a portion of the output of said first hydration zone, and optionally additional water, to a second hydration zone under suitable conditions for hydration of ethylene to ethanol. | 46,589 |
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