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9,391,316 | 1. A composite cathode active material, comprising: a compound with an olivine crystal structure; and an inorganic material, the inorganic material including a nitride or carbide of at least one element selected from the group of Group 2, Group 13, Group 14, and Group 15 of the periodic table of elements, wherein the inorganic material includes at least one selected from the group of an amorphous boron nitride, a boron nitride with a cubic crystalline structure, a boron nitride with a hexagonal crystalline structure, and a boron nitride with a wurtzite crystalline structure, the inorganic material is included in the composite cathode active material in an amount of about 0.2 wt % to about 1.0 wt %, based on a total weight of the composite cathode active material, and the inorganic material improves the electrical conductivity of the compound of the olivine crystal structure by being dispersed in the composite cathode active material, and wherein the compound with the olivine crystal structure is represented by Formula 2 below: wherein, in Formula 2, 0.6≦x≦1.1, 0≦z≦0.2, and 0≦d≦0.2; M′ includes at least one selected from the group of Fe, Ni, Co, Mg, Ca, Cu, Nd, Sr, Ba, Ti, Zr, Nb, Mo, W, Zn, Al, and Si; and X includes at least one selected from the group of S and F. | 1,484 |
9,153,341 | 1. A semiconductor device comprising: a first circuit, the first circuit comprising a first transistor, a second transistor, a third transistor, and a fourth transistor; and a second circuit, the second circuit comprising a fifth transistor, a sixth transistor, a seventh transistor, and a eighth transistor, wherein one of a source and a drain of the first transistor is connected to a first wire, the other of the source and the drain of the first transistor is connected to a gate electrode of the second transistor and the other of a source and a drain of the third transistor, and a gate electrode of the first transistor is connected to a fifth wire, wherein one of a source and a drain of the second transistor is connected to a third wire and the other of the source and the drain of the second transistor is connected to a sixth wire, wherein one of the source and the drain of the third transistor is connected to a second wire, the other of the source and the drain of the third transistor is connected to the gate electrode of the second transistor, and a gate electrode of the third transistor is connected to a fourth wire, wherein one of a source and a drain of the fourth transistor is connected to the second wire, the other of the source and the drain of the fourth transistor is connected to the sixth wire, and a gate electrode of the fourth transistor is connected to the fourth wire, wherein the first wire is connected to a power source line, wherein the fifth wire is connected to an input terminal, wherein one of a source and a drain of the fifth transistor is connected to the first wire, the other of the source and the drain of the fifth transistor is connected to a gate electrode of the sixth transistor and the other of a source and a drain of the seventh transistor, and a gate electrode of the fifth transistor is connected to the sixth wire, wherein one of a source and a drain of the sixth transistor is connected to the fourth wire and the other of the source and the drain of the sixth transistor is connected to an eighth wire, wherein one of the source and the drain of the seventh transistor is connected to the second wire, the other of the source and the drain of the seventh transistor is connected to the gate electrode of the sixth transistor, and a gate electrode of the seventh transistor is connected to a seventh wire, wherein one of a source and a drain of the eighth transistor is connected to the second wire, the other of the source and the drain of the eighth transistor is connected to the eighth wire, and a gate electrode of the eighth transistor is connected to the seventh wire, wherein a first clock signal is input to the third wire, wherein a second clock signal is input to the fourth wire, and wherein a third clock signal is input to the seventh wire. | 15,687 |
9,231,137 | 1. A photodetector with a reduced dark current, comprising: an absorber layer of a first area and comprising a first semiconductor; a barrier layer of the first area and comprising a second semiconductor disposed on the absorber layer; a contact layer with a second area and comprising a third semiconductor disposed on the barrier layer; and a cap layer comprising the third semiconductor disposed on the barrier layer with an area approximately equal to the first area less the second area, wherein the contact layer is electrically isolated from the cap layer by a dielectric; wherein the barrier layer comprises a first sublayer, a second sublayer, and a third sublayer; wherein the first sublayer substantially comprises Al wherein the second sublayer is disposed on the first sublayer; wherein the third sublayer substantially comprises Al | 34,170 |
8,641,894 | 1. A system for biological treatment of water and wastewater, and filtering wastewater effluent, comprising: (a) a portable, adjustable airlift dosing pump and filtration mechanism for aerating and dosing oxygenated mixed liquors, the airlift dosing pump installed within a raw sewage pretreatment tank, the airlift dosing pump comprising: (b) the airlift dosing pump further comprising a first stage filter housing positioned around a second stage filter housing, the second stage filter housing being an extension of the airlift dosing pump vertical housing, the first and second filter housings positioned in the settling liquid region, the first stage filter housing and the second stage filter housing defining there between a settling chamber, and the second stage filter housing defining a mixing chamber internal thereto; (c) the second stage filter housing positioned inside the first stage filter housing with opposing filter inlets, thereby removing the solids during movement from a first stage filter housing inlet to an opposite side second stage filter housing inlet, and positioned in the settling liquid region; (d) the airlift dosing pump further comprising a micro-adjustable, retractable air supply conduit fluidly connected to the vertical conduit of the airlift dosing pump near a bottom of the vertical conduit, and positioned in the center of the second stage filter housing and responsive to cooperating intermittent cyclic dosing means; (e) a directional pump fluidly connected to the airlift dosing pump's vertical conduit and positioned in a lower section of the airlift dosing pump's vertical conduit, for directing a portion of filter backwash semi-turbulent air bubbles inside the mixing chamber, at least a portion of the semi-turbulent air bubbles lifting and removing solid matter from the second stage filter housing into a lifting chamber thereby increasing oxygen levels in the pump tank's influent, the pump tank's effluent, and the source pool; (f) means for jogging power to the directional pump and reversing the flow through the second stage filter housing; (g) an above ground combination system cover and mini-blower housing means; (h) means for adjusting head pressure above a liquid level in the raw sewage pretreatment tank by multiple dosing of air to the micro-adjustable, retractable air supply conduit; (i) an above ground adjustable liquid surge control means responsible to multiple liquid levels in the raw sewage pretreatment tank including a selected minimum and a selected maximum level; (j) a micro-adjustable side feed air supply conduit fluidly connected to the vertical conduit of the airlift dosing pump; and (k) an above ground adjustable biological dosing feed rate control mechanism configured to control air flow to the micro-adjustable, retractable air supply conduit and cooperating intermittent cyclic dosing means, and thereby supply oxygenated nutrients to the raw sewage pretreatment tank. | 15,881 |
8,518,725 | 1. A method for processing a silicon substrate comprising: providing a combination of a first silicon substrate, a second silicon substrate, and an intermediate layer including a plurality of recessed portions, which is provided between the first silicon substrate and the second silicon substrate; forming a first through hole that goes through the first silicon substrate by executing a first etching of the first silicon substrate on a surface of the first silicon substrate opposite to a bonding surface with the intermediate layer by using a first mask, and exposing a portion of the intermediate layer corresponding to the plurality of recessed portions of the intermediate layer; forming a plurality of openings on the intermediate layer by removing a portion constituting a bottom of the plurality of recessed portions; and forming a second through hole that goes through the second silicon substrate by executing second etching of the second silicon substrate by using the intermediate layer on which the plurality of openings are formed as a mask. | 35,078 |
8,444,725 | 1. A process for converting a carbon-containing moiety to a liquid hydrocarbon fuel, comprising: gasifying with a predetermined energy source at least a portion of the carbon-containing moiety to produce a syngas stream comprising carbon monoxide and hydrogen, wherein the carbon-containing moiety is selected from the group consisting of biomass, coal, pet coke, methane, naphtha, and combinations thereof, at least a portion of the predetermined energy source being from a carbon-free energy source; reacting the syngas stream to form liquid hydrocarbon fuel; wherein the syngas stream is reacted in a hydrocarbon conversion reactor system to form liquid hydrocarbon fuel and carbon dioxide, wherein the liquid hydrocarbon fuel is a material comprising carbon and hydrogen that can exist in a closed container at normal temperature and pressure of 20° C. and 1 atmospheric pressure in a liquid state, and wherein the carbon dioxide from the hydrocarbon conversion reactor system is recycled to the gasifier; dividing a given biomass into a first fraction that can be directly converted by micro organisms to a liquid hydrocarbon and a second fraction that is not readily converted by micro organisms to liquid hydrocarbons; feeding the first fraction to a direct conversion unit containing microorganisms and recovering a liquid hydrocarbon product stream, a CO feeding the second fraction of the biomass to the gasifier, and reacting excess hydrogen with carbon dioxide to decrease the concentration of carbon dioxide. | 48,895 |
8,488,301 | 1. A terminal plate for an ultracapacitor package, the terminal plate being formed from a single sheet of conductive material and comprising: a plurality of bent tabs extending in a common direction substantially orthogonal to a first main surface of the terminal plate, wherein the bent tabs are adapted to be slideably engageable with respective slots formed in an end wall and an end cap of an ultracapacitor housing such that steps defined by positioning notches formed in the bent tabs abut surfaces of the end wall and the end cap so that portions of the bent tabs extend through the notches by at most 0.1 inch. | 18,042 |
8,522,336 | 1. A gateway device that is in electronic connection with at least one client computer, a first domain name system (DNS) server located in a first communication network, and a second DNS server located in a second communication network separated from the first communication network, comprising: a processor; and a storage unit; wherein the first DNS server stores domain names and corresponding internet protocol (IP) addresses of all usable websites within the first communication network, and the second DNS server stores domain names and corresponding IP addresses of predetermined websites, all websites corresponding to the IP addresses stored in the second DNS server ensured to be true; when the processor receives a domain name from the client computer and transmits the domain name to both the first DNS server and the second DNS server, the first DNS server and the second DNS server respectively resolve the domain name into two groups of IP addresses, and the processor compares the two groups of IP addresses with each other to select one of the two groups of IP addresses that is identified as all IP addresses of which are safe, and allows the client computer to access websites within the first communication network via the selected group of IP addresses to prevent the client computer from phishing attacks; and wherein when the first DNS server and the second DNS server respectively resolve the domain name to two different groups of IP addresses, and the IP addresses provided by the second DNS server include IP addresses that are equivalent to all of the IP addresses provided by the first DNS server and at least one IP address that is different to each of the IP addresses provided by the first DNS server, the processor allows the client computer to access websites within the first communication network via the IP addresses provided by the first DNS server. | 34 |
8,999,771 | 1. A method for forming a thin-film transistor, comprising: forming a via in a planarization layer; depositing a protection layer over the planarization layer; depositing a common electrode layer over the protection layer; depositing a metal layer over the common electrode layer; etching a portion of the common electrode layer and the metal layer to form a remainder of the metal layer; depositing a passivation layer over a portion of the protection layer, a portion of the common electrode and the remainder of the metal layer; etching a portion of the passivation layer and a second portion of the protection layer; and coating the via with a conductive material. | 9,399 |
8,662,251 | 1. Fall protection for personnel servicing an elevated work area comprising in combination: a man lift comprising a chassis having wheels, an enclosed rectangular working platform and a lifting mechanism that lifts the enclosed working platform vertically above the chassis; a bridge pivotally mounted to a working edge of the working platform of the man lift, the bridge pivoting between a substantially vertical stored position and a substantially horizontal operative position, the bridge having a pivotally mounted edge, a remote edge opposite to the pivotally mounted edge and opposed sides; an expandable enclosure anchored to the man lift, the enclosure being movable between a collapsed position and an expanded position, in the collapsed position the enclosure is collapsed parallel to and provides fall protection along the working edge of the man lift and in the expanded position the enclosure provides fall protection for the opposed sides of the bridge in the operative position and provides fall protection by enclosing a portion of the work area beyond the remote edge of the bridge, the bridge in the stored position being adjacent to the expandable enclosure in the collapsed position such that the expandable enclosure is positioned between the working platform and the bridge and such that the bridge prevents the expandable enclosure from moving to the expanded position. | 27,568 |
8,443,147 | 1. A method for performing memory interleaving comprising: performing, in a first level of a two-level interleaving scheme, interleaving across full cache lines of a memory, performing, in a second level of the two-level interleaving scheme, interleaving across sub-cache lines of the memory; using a prime number of groups of banks for the first level of the two-level interleaving scheme; and using a prime number of banks within each of said groups of banks for the second level of the two-level interleaving scheme; wherein said memory interleaving is performed for a system comprising a host processor having a fixed instruction set that defines instructions that the host processor can execute; and a reconfigurable co-processor comprising reconfigurable logic that is reconfigurable to have any one of a plurality of predefined extended instruction sets for extending the fixed instruction set of the host processor for processing instructions of an executable file, each of said plurality of predefined extended instruction sets defining a plurality of instructions that the reconfigurable co-processor can execute, wherein said plurality of instructions comprise extended instructions that are not natively defined by the fixed instruction set of the host processor. | 49,095 |
8,694,721 | 1. A memory system, comprising: a memory buffer which includes an interface arranged to buffer data and/or command bytes being written to or read from a plurality of RAM chips by a first host controller; said memory buffer further comprising at least one additional interface arranged to buffer data and/or command bytes between said first host controller and/or said RAM chips and one or more external devices coupled to said at least one additional interface; wherein said at least one additional interface comprises at least one cross-connect interface; said memory system further comprising: such that data and/or command bytes can be exchanged between said first and second host controllers and/or between the RAM chips coupled to said first and second memory buffers via said cross-connect interfaces. | 36,060 |
9,722,100 | 1. A thick-film paste composition comprising: a) 85 to 99.75% by weight of an electrically conductive metal or derivative thereof, based on total solids in the composition; b) 0.25 to 15% by weight based on solids of a lead-tellurium-lithium-oxide, wherein the lead-tellurium-lithium-oxide comprises: 30-60 wt % PbO, 40-65 wt % TeO2, and 0.1-5 wt % Li2O; and c) an organic medium. | 33,945 |
8,956,254 | 1. A bicycle sprocket assembly comprising: a first sprocket including an outer peripheral portion defining a plurality of first teeth and an inner peripheral portion defining a first opening that is free of any freewheel engaging splines, the inner peripheral portion of the first sprocket having a plurality of first radially protruding portions; a second sprocket including an outer peripheral portion defining a plurality of second teeth and an inner peripheral portion defining a second opening that is free of any freewheel engaging splines, the inner peripheral portion of the second sprocket having a plurality of second radially protruding portions, a total number of the second teeth being larger than a total number of the first teeth; and a sprocket support member including a freewheel engaging portion and a plurality of sprocket mounting portions extending radially outwardly from the freewheel engaging portion, each of the sprocket mounting portions having first sprocket mounting opening and a second sprocket mounting opening, the sprocket support member being a one-piece member dial is non-separable, one of the first radially protruding portions of the first sprocket being fixed to the sprocket support member at one of the first sprocket mounting openings and one of the second radially protruding portions of the second sprocket being fixed to the sprocket support member at one of the second sprocket mounting openings, the first sprocket mounting opening being circumferentially offset from the second sprocket mounting opening with respect to a center rotational axis of the bicycle sprocket assembly, a radially innermost edge of each of the second radially protruding portions being spaced from the center rotational axis of the bicycle sprocket assembly by a radial distance that is smaller than a radial distance of a radially outermost edge of each of the first sprocket mounting openings with respect to the center rotational axis of the bicycle sprocket assembly. | 511 |
8,854,345 | 1. A system, comprising: a receiver, configured to receive a signal comprising a plurality of video streams, wherein each video stream comprises respective video data; a first mux/demux, coupled to the receiver, wherein the first mux/demux is configured to determine which video stream of the plurality of video streams is to be displayed on a first monitor; a display interface coupled to the first mux/demux, wherein the display interface is configured to generate output signals based on the video data of the determined video stream to be displayed on the first monitor and wherein the display interface is configured to couple with the first monitor; a transmitter, coupled to the first mux/demux; and a transmit physical interface, coupled to the transmitter, wherein the first mux/demux is further configured to send at least a remainder of the video streams of the plurality of video streams to the transmitter, wherein the transmitter is configured to send the at least a remainder of the video streams to the transmit physical interface, and wherein the transmit physical interface is configured to transmit the at least a remainder of the video streams as output, wherein the at least a remainder of the video streams are used as inputs to one or more additional monitors coupled to the first monitor, and wherein the transmit physical interface is configured to couple with at least one of the one or more additional monitors. | 3,134 |
9,623,008 | 1. A method of treating a treatment-naive breast cancer tumor in a subject in need, wherein cells in said tumor, based on an evaluation of clinical factors selected from the group consisting of mammogram evaluation, breast MRI evaluation, ultrasound evaluation, age, fractures, bone mineral density screening, Chronic Disease Scores, and co-morbidities, are considered likely to over-express one or more ALT NHEJ factors and to under-express one or more DNA-PK-dependent NHEJ factors comprising co-administering a therapeutically effective amount of PARP1 inhibitor and a DNA ligase IIIα inhibitor to the subject. | 41,094 |
9,487,357 | 1. An apparatus for picking products, the apparatus comprising: a machine-readable medium comprising: a vision module comprising a sensor configured to identify one or more indications of a condition of each product of the at least one product; a processor configured to perform an inspection of each product of the at least one product based on the condition of the product and the set of business rules for selecting the product; and a robotic arm for: | 30,540 |
8,407,278 | 1. A computer-implemented method comprising: storing a registry federation in a set of storage devices, the registry federation comprising registries, each of the registries comprising records; and in response to a request to promote a record of a first registry of the registry federation into a second registry of the registry federation, inserting, by a server coupled to the set of storage devices, a delegation link in the second registry to refer to the record of the first registry without fully replicating the record in the second registry. | 33,550 |
9,337,683 | 1. A method of controlling the state of charge of one or more aqueous nickel-zinc batteries in a battery pack for a system having (i) a separate power source working in conjunction with the battery pack, wherein the separate power source is an internal combustion engine, and (ii) a full charge mode and a float charge mode, the method comprising: (a) determining that a state of charge of the one or more aqueous nickel-zinc batteries in the battery pack is below a defined level associated with the full charge mode; (b) while in the full charge mode, applying charge to the battery pack at a first voltage to charge the one or more aqueous nickel-zinc batteries of the battery pack to a fully charged state, wherein the charge to the fully charged state is provided from the internal combustion engine; and (c) subsequently, while operating the system in the float charge mode, applying charge to the battery pack at a second voltage to maintain the one or more nickel-zinc batteries of the battery pack at a float charged state, wherein the charge to the float charge state is provided from the internal combustion engine, and wherein a magnitude of the second voltage is below a magnitude of the first voltage. | 30,167 |
9,347,928 | 1. A method of controlling the concentration of water treatment composition in an aqueous system, comprising: (a) introducing into said aqueous system, a water treatment composition comprising at least one tagged polymer to provide treated water, wherein the tagged polymer comprises at least one fluorescent monomeric unit derived from a fluorophore having at least one terminal end comprising an olefinic group; (b) extracting a sample of the treated water; (c) measuring a background fluorescence signal of the extracted water; (d) adjusting the pH of the extracted sample to provide a pH adjusted sample having an enhanced fluorescence signal; (e) measuring the enhanced fluorescence signal; (f) determining a concentration of the tagged polymer in the sample using the difference between the fluorescence signals measured in (c) and (e) above; (g) introducing a fresh amount of the water treatment composition into the aqueous system, if the concentration of the tagged polymer determined in (f) is below a selected set point, wherein the water treatment composition controls growth of at least one fouling material in the aqueous system. | 18,397 |
8,749,564 | 1. A graphics subsystem, comprising: a back-end unit; and a first processing entity coupled to the back-end unit and configured to: wherein the back-end unit is configured to transmit the release signal to the first processing entity upon receiving the first barrier command from the first processing entity. | 12,502 |
9,550,061 | 1. A system comprising: a programming device configured to be located external to a patient and communicatively coupled to a cochlear implant system associated with the patient, the cochlear implant system comprising a sound processor configured to located external to the patient, a cochlear implant configured to be implanted within the patient, and an electrode array configured to be located within a cochlea of the patient; a programming interface device communicatively coupled to the programming device and configured to be located external to the patient; and a receiver communicatively coupled directly to the programming interface device by way of a cable that directly connects the receiver to the programming interface device, wherein the receiver is not connected directly to the sound processor; wherein the programming device | 25,511 |
8,789,974 | 1. A lighting device comprising: a heat sink including a bulging shape with a front-end surface, an opening disposed at an opposite side of the front-end surface, and at least one mounting portion provided at the front-end surface of the bulging shape; at least one substrate disposed at the at least one mounting portion of the heat sink; and at least one light source provided at the at least one substrate; a cap including at least one electrical contact electrically connected to the at least one light source and disposed at the opposite side opposite to the front-end surface of the bulging shape of the heat sink, the heat sink including at least one heat-releasing portion that is positioned at the front-end surface of the heat sink to release more heat than the at least one mounting portion. | 22,771 |
9,304,237 | 1. An optical filter configured to provide a wavelength-tunable pass-band to incident s-polarized electromagnetic radiation, the optical filter comprising: a first stack of layers; and a second stack of layers; wherein the first stack of layers comprises a plurality of quarter-wave layers and at least two half-wave cavity layers; wherein an optical thickness value of each quarter-wave layer in the first stack of layers is approximately an odd-integer multiple of one-fourth of a first wavelength value; wherein an optical thickness value of each half-wave cavity layer in the first stack of layers is approximately an integer multiple of one-half of the first wavelength value; wherein the first stack of layers is configured to provide a cut-on edge for s-polarized radiation incident on the first stack of layers at a second wavelength value, the second wavelength value being a function of angle-of-incidence for a set of non-normal angle-of-incidence values; wherein the first stack of layers is configured to provide a cut-off edge for s-polarized radiation incident on the first stack of layers at a third wavelength value, the third wavelength value being a function of angle-of-incidence for the set of non-normal angle-of-incidence values; wherein the third wavelength value is greater than the second wavelength value at the set of non-normal angle-of-incidence values; wherein the second stack of layers is configured to provide a cut-off edge for s-polarized radiation incident on the second stack of layers at a fourth wavelength value, the fourth wavelength value being a function of angle-of-incidence for the set of non-normal angle-of-incidence values; wherein the fourth wavelength value lies substantially between the second wavelength value and the third wavelength value at the set of non-normal angle-of-incidence values; wherein a pass-band determined by the second wavelength value and the fourth wavelength value has a set of associated full-width half-maximum values as a function of angle-of-incidence for the set of non-normal angle-of-incidence values, the set of associated full-width half-maximum values substantially defining at least one of: a FWHM curve as a function of angle-of-incidence and a FWHM line as a function of angle-of-incidence; and wherein the at least one of a FWHM curve and a FWHM line define a first derivative with respect to angle-of-incidence values at at least one angle-of-incidence value of the set of non-normal angle-of-incidence values that is at least one of: | 10,903 |
8,757,984 | 1. In a hub of a wind turbine having one or more hydraulic systems comprising hydraulic actuators to control the pitch of blades attached to said hub, and one or more hydraulic accumulators to provide hydraulic power in the event of a failure of one of said one or more hydraulic systems, each said accumulator further comprising a pressurized bladder, a method of minimizing hydraulic fluid flow within said one or more hydraulic accumulators comprising the steps of: obtaining a hydraulic accumulator comprising a substantially cylindrical canister and a pressurized bladder, said pressurized bladder being longitudinally situated within said canister and being attached to one end of said canister; orienting said hub to have an axis of rotation that is substantially horizontal; mounting said accumulator within said hub such that the longitudinal axis of said accumulator is substantially parallel with the axis of rotation of said hub; and causing said hub to rotate. | 31,316 |
9,500,273 | 1. An in-wheel motor drive device, comprising: a motor portion having a cylindrical motor casing, a motor rear cover that covers an opening located on one side in an axial direction of said motor casing, a plurality of cooling fins that are formed on at least one of an outer peripheral surface of said motor casing and an outer surface of said motor rear cover, and a motor rotation shaft that is provided in said motor casing to output rotation to the other side in said axial direction of said motor casing; a speed reduction portion which has a cylindrical speed-reduction-portion casing having its one side in said axial direction connected to the other side in said axial direction of said motor casing, an input shaft provided in said speed-reduction-portion casing and coupled to said motor rotation shaft, and an output shaft, and which reduces a speed of rotation of said input shaft to transmit said rotation having the reduced speed to said output shaft; a wheel hub that is rotatably supported in an opening located on the other side of said speed-reduction-portion casing, and is fixed and coupled to said output shaft; a lubricant oil passage, which includes a lubricant pump, a discharge oil passage, a motor-casing oil passage, and a motor-rear-cover oil passage, the motor-rear-cover oil passage provided in said motor rear cover; a motor-casing ridge formed on said outer peripheral surface of said motor casing, extending radially outwardly from said outer peripheral surface, and having a thickness, said motor-casing ridge further extending in said axial direction of said motor casing, a motor-casing oil passage provided in said thickness of said motor casing ridge, and cooling fins formed in a region of said outer peripheral surface of said motor casing where said motor-casing oil passage is provided, the cooling fins extending from said motor casing ridge and extending in a circumferential direction of said motor casing, one end of the motor casing oil passage is connected to the discharge oil passage extending from a discharge port of the lubricant pump, the other end of the motor-casing oil passage is connected to the motor-rear-cover oil passage, the lubricant oil circulating through the lubricant pump, the discharge oil passage, the motor-casing oil passage, the motor-rear-cover oil passage, and the speed reduction portion sequentially, so as to cool the speed reduction portion. | 21,424 |
9,677,459 | 1. A system, comprising: an engine, comprising: wherein the outlet passage comprises a first outlet passage that directly intersects with a curved portion of the second combustion chamber, wherein the first outlet passage is angled greater than or equal to 155 degrees relative to the curved portion of the second combustion chamber, wherein the first outlet passage is nonparallel with the central axis, wherein the body has a second dome-shaped portion protruding from the first dome-shaped portion of the head into the first combustion chamber, wherein the first dome-shaped portion has a first curvature that is symmetrical about the central axis, and the second dome-shaped portion has a second curvature that is symmetrical about the central axis. | 39,467 |
9,401,527 | 1. An electrolyte-positive electrode structure used in a lithium ion secondary battery, the electrolyte-positive electrode structure comprising: a positive electrode comprising a positive electrode active material layer formed on a current collector, and a solid electrolyte containing inorganic particles having lithium ion conductivity, said particles being made of a composite metal oxide which is represented by the chemical formula Li an organic polymer, and a polymer gel, in which the organic polymer binds the inorganic particles and can be impregnated with the polymer gel, and the polymer gel holds an electrolyte solution having lithium ion conductivity and is impregnated into the organic polymer, wherein the positive electrode active material layer is integrated with the solid electrolyte using the organic polymer as a medium. | 9,018 |
9,802,997 | 1. A peptide consisting of the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID No. 11; or in the form of a pharmaceutically acceptable salt. | 46,535 |
9,583,598 | 1. A structure comprising: a fin on a substrate, the fin comprising a first epitaxial portion; isolation regions in the substrate and on opposing sides of the fin, at least the first epitaxial portion of the fin protruding from between the isolation regions; a dielectric region directly underlying the first epitaxial portion, a material of the dielectric region being different from a material of the isolation regions, upper surfaces of the isolation regions being above an upper surface of the dielectric region; and a gate structure along sidewalls and over an upper surface of the fin, the gate structure defining a channel region in the first epitaxial portion. | 43,596 |
8,804,680 | 1. A portable electronic device, comprising: a managed radio transceiver for establishing wireless communications; a motion sensor, the motion sensor outputting signals responsive to motion of the electronic device; a control circuit operatively connected to the managed radio transceiver and the motion sensor, and controls operation of the managed radio transceiver, including: wherein the control circuit is further configured to send a network access request to a network access management system, receive an identification of a network having a coverage area in which the electronic device is located from the network access management system, and activate the managed radio transceiver for establishing the wireless communications with the identified network; and wherein the identified network is not previously known to the electronic device. | 11,138 |
8,780,592 | 1. A grid-interactive inverter configured to receive direct current and to provide alternating current to a utility grid, comprising: input terminals configured to receive a direct current; output terminals configured to provide an alternating output current to the utility grid; a controller; an output current sensor; a DC-AC inverter stage comprising a plurality of switches controlled by control signals generated by the controller; wherein the controller is configured to generate control signals that cause the switches in the DC-AC inverter stage to switch a direct current in a bidirectional manner across the output terminals to provide an initial alternating output current to the utility grid; wherein the controller is configured to measure the initial alternating output current provided to the utility grid using the output current sensor; wherein the controller is configured to perform frequency decomposition of the initial alternating output current to determine a magnitude for each of a plurality of unwanted frequency components corresponding to harmonics of a fundamental frequency that contribute to harmonic distortion in the initial alternating output current; and wherein the controller is configured to generate control signals that cause the switches in the DC-AC inverter stage to switch current in a bidirectional manner across the output terminals to provide a resulting alternating output current to the utility grid in a way that the magnitude determined for each of the plurality of unwanted frequency components is subtracted from the resulting alternating output current. | 39,574 |
9,778,706 | 1. A method of displaying a user interface on a touch-sensitive display of a portable electronic device when the portable electronic device is in a deformable covering apparatus, the method comprising: detecting, in a locked state of the electronic device wherein the touch-sensitive display in said locked state is unilluminated and active, a gesture implemented by contact of at least one finger on a portion of the unilluminated touch-sensitive display; determining, from the contact, and prior to illuminating said unilluminated display, a number of touch contact positions and displacement of the touch contact positions relative to an edge of the display; using the determined number of touch contact positions and displacement of the touch contact positions on the unilluminated display, to define a closed shape encompassing a starting position and end position of the determined touch contact positions on the touch-sensitive display; scaling the user interface according to the defined closed shape; and displaying the scaled user interface by illuminating the unilluminated display only in the defined closed shape, the user interface presenting information other than an unlock user interface screen, and the information being determined at least in part by a type of the gesture detected. | 13,396 |
9,449,322 | 1. A computer-implemented method, comprising: generating, by a processor of a machine, a user interface for presentation on a user device, the user interface including perceptible user interface elements allowing a user to view title information; receiving a title of an item being listed; determining, by a processor of the machine, a concept, the concept including two or more terms in the title of the item being listed; accessing, from a networked database, a plurality of co-occurring terms stored in a co-occurring terms table, each co-occurring term in the co-occurring terms table including a first set of words and a second word, the first set of words and the second word corresponding to terms that have occurred together in stored search queries and to terms that have occurred together in stored item information corresponding to title information of items previously listed for sale on an online marketplace; generating, by a processor of the machine, a matching of the concept with one or more co-occurring terms of the plurality of co-occurring terms, the matching being based on the concept matching the first set of words of the one or more co-occurring terms; selecting, by a processor of the machine, at least one co-occurring term from the plurality of co-occurring terms based on the matching and based on a desirability score associated with the at least one co-occurring term; transmitting instructions to cause display, on the user interface, of the at least one co-occurring term and the associated desirability score; generating, using one or more processors, a suggestion of a modification to the title of the item being listed, the modification modifying the title by adding to the concept or removing from the concept a second word of the selected at least one co-occurring term, the suggestion of the modification including presenting the concept in conjunction with the second word of the selected at least one co-occurring term; and transmitting instructions to cause display, on the user interface, of the suggestion of the modification. | 28,458 |
9,376,638 | 1. A process for the hydroconversion of a hydrocarbonaceous feedstock comprising the steps of: (a) contacting the hydrocarbonaceous feedstock at a first elevated temperature and a first pressure in a first hydrocracking section in the presence of hydrogen with a first hydrocracking catalyst to obtain a first hydrocarbon effluent stream; (b) separating at least part of the first hydrocarbon effluent within a first separating section into a first gaseous stream, a first light liquid stream of hydrocarbons boiling at or less than 350° C. and a first heavy liquid stream of hydrocarbons boiling above 350° C.; (c) separating the first light liquid stream and the first heavy liquid stream within a fractionating section having a bottom part operated at a temperature in the range of from 300-400° C. and a pressure in the range of from 0.05-10 bar and an upper part operated at a temperature in the range of from 0-100° C. and a pressure in the range of from 0.01-10 bar to yield a number of fractions of hydrocarbons including a heavy fraction of hydrocarbons that have a boiling point above 350° C.; (d) splitting at least part of the heavy fraction of hydrocarbons into at least two parts including a major stream and a minor stream, wherein the minor stream has a weight that is less than 5% wt, based on the weight of the hydrocarbonaceous feedstock; (e) contacting the major stream at a second elevated temperature and second pressure in a second hydrocracking section in the presence of hydrogen with a second hydrocracking catalyst to obtain a second hydrocarbon effluent stream; (f) separating at least part of the second hydrocarbon effluent stream within a second separating section into a second gaseous stream, a second light liquid stream and a second heavy liquid stream; (g) separating the second light liquid stream and the second heavy liquid stream within the fractionating section. | 14,375 |
9,750,131 | 1. A transparent conductive laminate, comprising: a transparent substrate; two or more transparent conductive patterns provided on the transparent substrate; and a conductive line having higher electrical conductivity than the transparent conductive patterns, wherein the conductive line and the transparent conductive patterns are provided on a same surface of the transparent substrate, and the conductive line is provided between at least two adjacent transparent conductive patterns to contact at least a part of the transparent conductive patterns; and a transparent conductive layer provided on an upper surface of the transparent conductive patterns and the conductive line, wherein at least two transparent conductive patterns are separated from each other, and electrically connected to each other by the conductive line. | 33,045 |
9,041,815 | 1. A camera performance evaluation system, comprising: an image conditioner unit arranged to receive a target image and condition the target image to create a conditioned target image, wherein the conditioned target image includes a plurality of regions of interest (ROI) each of which comprises a plurality of pixels located in proximity to and associated with each other, wherein a total number of pixels corresponding to the plurality ROIs is less than a total number of pixels that form the target image; a color non-uniformity evaluation module in communication with the image conditioner unit arranged to receive at least a portion of the conditioned target image and quantitatively measure camera color non-uniformity by determining a maximum color difference between any two of the plurality of ROIs for all possible pairs of the ROIs and identifying the maximum color difference as a color non-uniformity metric of the camera; a color shift evaluation module in communication with the image conditioner unit arranged to receive at least a portion of the conditioned target image and quantitatively measure camera color shift by calculating a color coefficient for each of the plurality of ROIs, finding a maximum color coefficient as the largest calculated color coefficient calculated for one of all the ROIs, and identifying the maximum color coefficient as a color shift metric of the camera; and an output interface in communication with the color non-uniformity evaluation module and the color shift evaluation module, the output interface arranged to output a report indicating the color shift metric and the color non-uniformity metric of the camera. | 44,558 |
8,865,960 | 1. A method for starting up a chloroaluminate ionic liquid catalyzed alkylation system, the method comprising: a) purging air and free water from at least a portion of the system; b) introducing at least one reactant into the at least a portion of the system; c) via at least one feed dryer unit, re-circulating the at least one reactant through the at least a portion of the system until the at least one reactant exiting the at least a portion of the system has a water content at or below a threshold value of 10 ppm; and d) after step c), introducing a chloroaluminate ionic liquid catalyst into a reactor of the system. | 10,965 |
9,285,432 | 1. A method for controlling a vehicle battery, comprising the steps of: (a) determining a present state of the vehicle battery, wherein the vehicle battery is at least partially used for vehicle propulsion; (b) evaluating the present state of the vehicle battery to determine if the vehicle battery has experienced a reduction in battery performance that indicates the vehicle battery is at or near an end of its operational life; and (c) if the vehicle battery has experienced a reduction in battery performance that indicates the vehicle battery is at or near an end of its operational life, then adjusting a state-of-charge (SOC) operating range by establishing an upper soft boundary in response to the indication that the vehicle battery is at or near an end of its operational life so that the battery performance is improved to an acceptable level where the need to immediately replace the vehicle battery is avoided and the operational life of the vehicle battery is extended, wherein the adjusted SOC operating range includes an upper hard boundary that partially defines a hard window and the upper soft boundary that is less than the upper hard boundary and partially defines a soft window, when the SOC of the vehicle battery is less than the upper soft boundary both regenerative braking charging and opportunity charging are permitted, when the SOC of the vehicle battery is greater than the upper soft boundary but less than the upper hard boundary only regenerative braking charging is permitted, and when the SOC of the vehicle battery is greater than the upper hard boundary no charging is permitted. | 19,481 |
9,091,196 | 1. A honeycomb body, comprising: a housing having a longitudinal axis and an inside diameter; a honeycomb structure disposed in said housing and having a cross section across said longitudinal axis with radial zones and at least one at least partially structured metallic layer having two terminal ends, both of said terminal ends bearing against said inside diameter of said housing; said at least one at least partially structured metallic layer having inner contact points and defining a multiplicity of channels; at least 1% and at most 20% of said inner contact points in said cross section in at least one of said radial zones forming a respective connecting point fixing said honeycomb structure, said connecting points having a density, as viewed along said at least one at least partially structured metallic layer, being higher in one of said radial zones than in at least one other of said radial zones; and said channels having different channel cross sections in at least two of said radial zones. | 46,239 |
8,439,493 | 1. A wide format printer comprising: an ink supply; a feed line coupled to the ink supply; a return line coupled to the ink supply; a plurality of printheads collectively spanning a paper path more than 432 mm wide, each of the printheads having an inlet coupled to the feed line and an outlet coupled to the return line; a single bypass line coupling the feed and return lines; a valve in the bypass line; and a controller configured to selectively open or close the valve in the bypass line to control fluid communication between the feed and return lines, wherein the controller is configured to open the valve in the bypass line during a printing operation. | 25,221 |
9,849,138 | 1. A method of treating a fibrosis, comprising administering to a subject in need thereof a therapeutically effective amount of a compound of the formula: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof; wherein R wherein R wherein R wherein R wherein R wherein R —OH, fluoroalkyl, —SO 2 R 28 , —SO 2 N(R 7′ ) 2 , —OR 7′ , —N(R 7′ ) 2 , —CON(R 7′ ) 2 , —NHCOR 7′ , —NHSO 2 R 7′ , alkyl, mono-substituted alkyl, di-substituted alkyl, tri-substituted alkyl; wherein R 7′ is selected from the group consisting of halogen, H, alkyl, mono-substituted alkyl, di-substituted alkyl, tri-substituted alkyl, aryl, mono-substituted aryl, di-substituted aryl, tri-substituted aryl, cycloaliphatic, mono-substituted cycloaliphatic, di-substituted cycloaliphatic, and tri-substituted cycloaliphatic; wherein R wherein R wherein no more than three of R 25 , R 26 , R 27 , and R 28 can be hydrogen; wherein the stereochemical configuration at a stereocenter in the compound is R, S, or a mixture thereof; wherein each substituted alkyl, substituted cycloaliphatic, or substituted aryl independently has at least one of the hydrogen atoms replaced by a halogen, an amino, a hydroxy, a nitro, a lower aliphatic, an aryl, or a cycloaliphatic; and wherein the fibrosis is located in one or more of the subject's hands, intestines, joints, lungs, liver, heart, and skin. | 46,427 |
9,520,099 | 1. A converter comprising: a feedback part configured to output a feedback signal based on a driving voltage; a pulse width modulation (PWM) controller configured to output a PWM control signal based on the feedback signal and a first compensation signal, the first compensation signal determined according to an occurrence of a predetermined pattern of an input image data; and a PWM generator configured to control the driving voltage based on the PWM control signal. | 27,684 |
8,838,508 | 1. A computer implemented method of generating a kernel function comprising: by a computer: inputting a training data set and a set of pre-specified base similarity functions; combining the input base similarity functions by: outputting an indication of the generated kernel function so generated, wherein said kernel function is generated from the K-instance training set by: determining a binary scoring rule H from the K-training set; determining a new kernel function K* from H as follows: | 25,913 |
8,917,383 | 1. A wind turbine comprising a number of blades including at least a first wind turbine blade extending substantially radially from a hub on a main shaft having a substantially horizontal centre axis, the blades together with the hub constituting a rotor with a rotor plane, and which can be put into rotation by wind, and each blade having an innermost part having a root section of the blade and an outermost part having a tip section of the blade, wherein the wind turbine has an optical measurement system comprising a laser as a light source, an optical transmitter part, an optical receiver part, and a signal processor, wherein the light source is optically coupled to the optical transmitter part, the optical transmitter part comprises an emission point and is adapted for emitting light in a probing direction from said emission point, the optical receiver part comprises a receiving point and a detector, wherein the optical receiver part is adapted for receiving a reflected part of light from a probing region along the probing direction at the receiving point and directing said reflected part of light to the detector so as to generate a signal from the detector based on the received, reflected light, and the signal processor is adapted to determine at least a first velocity component of the inflow from the signal generated by the optical receiver part, wherein the emission point of the optical transmitter part is located in the first blade at a first radial distance from the centre axis, and the receiving point of the optical transmitter part is located in the first blade at a second radial distance from the centre axis, wherein the optical measurement system is adapted to emit at least a first probing beam and a second probing beam, the first and second probing beams being arranged to emit light in separate divergent directions to probe wind velocities in at least two different probing volumes. | 40,517 |
8,825,095 | 1. A method for mapping a reference signal, the method comprising: mapping a reference signal to at least one first resource of a plurality of resources in a resource block, the plurality of resources in the resource block having different time-frequencies; and selecting at least one second resource, on which no signal is transmitted in a cell, from the plurality of resources, wherein, to a terminal in the cell, the mapped reference signal is transmitted on the at least one first resource while no signal is transmitted on the selected at least one second resource. | 1,839 |
8,937,447 | 1. A method for controlling a boost converter to produce an output voltage from an input voltage responsive to a current command signal, comprising the steps of: processing an input current command via a plurality of limiting functions to determine whether to limit the input current command; and limiting the input current command to provide the current command signal to the boost converter when it is determined to limit the input current command. | 14,976 |
9,245,829 | 1. A substrate structure comprising: a substrate; a groove portion formed in said substrate for surrounding an area to which a solder paste is applied, said solder paste for mounting a semiconductor device, wherein the groove portion is formed along an outer edge of the mounted semiconductor device when said semiconductor device is placed on the substrate and a portion of the groove portion is formed inside the outer edge of the semiconductor device when said semiconductor device is placed on the substrate, said groove portion being configured to retain molten solder to prevent the molten solder from spreading to an area outside a mounting area of the semiconductor device when the solder paste melts. | 15,566 |
9,399,991 | 1. A method of controlling a linear compressor ( 100 ), the linear compressor ( 100 ) having a resonance frequency and comprising a piston ( 1 ) driven by a linear motor ( 10 ), the linear motor ( 10 ) being fed by a controlled voltage (V M ), the controlled voltage (V M ) controlling a displacement range of the piston ( 1 ), the controlled voltage (V M ) having a voltage feed frequency (f VP ) of the linear motor ( 10 ) and generating a capacity of the linear compressor ( 100 ), wherein the method comprises the following steps of: measuring the feed frequency (f based on the comparison between the voltage feed frequency f increase the capacity of the linear compressor ( decrease the capacity of the linear compressor ( the increasing and the decreasing of the capacity of the linear compressor ( | 4,771 |
8,564,448 | 1. A portable computer system, comprising: a battery for providing a supply signal; a power switch electrically connected to the battery for receiving the supply signal; and a computer unit, comprising: wherein, the power switch is turned on for providing the supply signal to power the computer unit in response to a first operation event; and wherein, the power switch is turned off in response to a second operation event, so that the battery and the computer unit substantially float, and the computer unit is put in a power cut-off situation. | 41,910 |
9,145,863 | 1. A method comprising: determining that a control system of a first propulsion-generating vehicle in a vehicle system is switched from operating in an onboard control mode to a remote control mode, the vehicle system including the first propulsion-generating vehicle and at least one second propulsion-generating vehicle, wherein one or more of tractive effort or braking effort generated by the first propulsion-generating vehicle are remotely controlled from an off-board source located off-board the vehicle system during a first time period that the control system is in the remote control mode and the one or more of tractive effort or braking effort generated by the first propulsion-generating vehicle are controlled from onboard the first propulsion-generating vehicle during a different, second time period that the control system is in the onboard control mode; deactivating an automatic engine start-stop (AESS) device responsive to determining that the control system is switched from operating in the onboard control mode to the remote control mode, the AESS device configured to automatically turn off an engine of the first propulsion-generating vehicle responsive to operation of the engine being below one or more designated thresholds for at least a designated period of time, wherein the AESS device is prevented from automatically turning the engine off while the AESS device is deactivated; and subsequent to deactivating the AESS device responsive to the control system switching to the remote control mode, re-activating the AESS device despite the control system remaining in the remote control mode responsive to one or more of the first propulsion-generating vehicle entering a first designated area or the first propulsion-generating vehicle leaving a second designated area. | 11,007 |
8,953,088 | 1. A camera module, comprising: a circuit substrate having a top side and a bottom side; a lens assembly including a housing and a lens, wherein the housing is attached to the top side of the circuit substrate; a glass substrate having a top side, a bottom side, and circuitry, wherein the bottom side of the glass substrate is attached to the top side of the circuit substrate with a plurality of SMT bumps; one or more passive components attached to the glass substrate and being electronically coupled to the circuitry of the glass substrate; and an image sensor having a top side and a bottom side, wherein the top side of the image sensor is attached to the bottom side of the glass substrate and is electronically coupled to the circuitry of the glass substrate; and wherein the circuitry of the glass substrate provides a connection between the image sensor and the one or more passive components apart from the circuit substrate; and the SMT bumps provide both a mechanical attachment and an electrical attachment between the glass substrate and the circuit substrate. | 46,076 |
9,826,890 | 1. An endoscope, comprising: a lens unit containing a lens in a lens tube, the lens including an optical axis; an image capturing element including an image capturing surface which is covered with an element cover glass, the optical axis of the lens being coincident with a center of the image capturing surface; an adhesive resin fixing an image capturing element side of the lens in the lens unit to the element cover glass and fixing an image capturing element side of the lens tube to the element cover glass, the adhesive resin being a light transmitting material; a separation portion between the lens unit and the element cover glass; and a mold resin covering the image capturing element and at least a part of the lens unit, the mold resin being a light blocking material. | 2,821 |
9,836,032 | 1. A power control device, comprising: a storage device configured to store power; a carbon emission strength information acquisition device configured to acquire a first information of a carbon emission strength of power; a control device configured to control the storage device to at least one of store the power or supply the power based on a change of the first information of the carbon emission strength of power, wherein a scale of total carbon emission strength is calculated based on a ratio between a total energy amount and a carbon cost for generation of the total energy amount; and a display device configured to present the scale of total carbon emission strength. | 25,878 |
9,393,366 | 1. A method for automatically suggesting a pharmacy workflow that prioritizes infusion-pump-related orders, the method comprising: storing a plurality of orders in association with a plurality of identifiers, which identify a plurality of infusion pumps; receiving from each infusion pump of the plurality of infusion pumps a respective set of infusion-pump data, wherein each respective set of infusion- pump data includes: a total amount of fluid to be administered, a rate at which fluid is being administered, and an amount of fluid that has been administered; based on the respective set of infusion-pump data, calculating for each infusion pump a respective amount of remaining fluid to be administered and a respective amount of time to administer the respective amount of remaining fluid; sorting a first order and a second order, which are included in the plurality of orders, in order from highest priority to lowest priority based on a combination of two or more factors, wherein sorting includes: determining the first order includes a higher priority than the second order by comparing a first respective amount of time for the first order to be administered to a second respective amount of time for the second order to be administered to determine that the first respective amount of time is shorter than the second respective amount of time, and deprioritizing the first order to include a lower priority than the second order when it is determined that inventory is available for a first infusion drug of the first order and that inventory is not available for a second infusion drug of the second order; and displaying the orders from highest priority to lowest priority in a graphical user interface by presenting the second order having a higher priority than the first order based on the inventory for the second infusion drug not being available. | 18,980 |
8,419,443 | 1. An electric connection box, comprising: a box main body having a plurality of mount sections, in which electric components are mounted, wherein one of the plurality of mount sections holds a fusible link, wherein a top surface of the one of the plurality of mount sections, which holds the fusible link, is arranged at a higher position than a top surface of the mount section adjacent to the one of the plurality of mount sections, wherein the fusible link is held at a side wall of said one of the plurality of mount sections, and wherein the mount section adjacent to said one of the plurality of mount sections is arranged near the side wall, which the fusible link is held at. | 21,984 |
9,136,708 | 1. A method for simultaneous distribution of AC and DC power, the method comprising: receiving a source AC power signal and chopping the source AC power signal resulting in a chopped AC power signal; receiving a separate source DC power signal and chopping the source DC power signal resulting in a chopped DC power signal; combining the chopped AC power signal and the chopped DC power signal resulting in a combined AC and DC power signal; distributing the combined AC and DC power signal over a single power signal carrying medium; and separating the combined AC and DC power signal into a first signal comprising the chopped DC power signal and a second signal comprising the chopped AC power signal. | 17,938 |
9,072,231 | 1. A plant of corn variety CV251849, wherein a sample of seed of corn variety CV251849 has been deposited under ATCC Accession No. PTA-12958. | 47,392 |
8,648,699 | 1. An item tracking system, comprising: a plurality of signal emitting elements directly or indirectly attached to a portion of each of a plurality of items having different shapes or sizes, wherein at least a portion of each of the plurality of signal emitting elements extends from an associated item of the plurality of items; and a container, comprising: | 3,382 |
8,713,782 | 1. A method of reinforcing a lateral in an irrigation system, at an end of the lateral to which a head is attached, the method comprising: a. placing a crimp ring around the lateral, the crimp ring being large enough to encircle a bulge in the lateral created by insertion of a barbed neck on the head into the end of the lateral; b. positioning the crimp ring over the bulge; and c. using a crimp tool comprising a head having first and second jaws, each of the first and second jaws having a recess, the recesses cooperating to form a crimp die when the first and second jaws close together, to sheath the bulge by compressing the crimp ring in the crimp die into a longitudinally convex shape that substantially conforms to the bulge's shape. | 11,182 |
8,571,678 | 1. A method of adapting communications between an implantable medical device and an external instrument, comprising: transferring communication signals using a first initial modulation parameter setting over a telemetry link between the implantable medical device and the external instrument; listening during a period of time when no communication signals are being transferred between the external device and the implantable medical device to obtain a signal strength reference; analyzing a quality metric of the communication signals that have been transferred, the analyzing comprising comparing the signal strength reference to a signal strength of the communication signals to obtain a signal-to-noise ratio for the telemetry link; selecting a second modulation parameter setting as a replacement for the first initial modulation parameter setting in response to the analysis, wherein selecting the second modulation parameter setting comprises performing a look-up of a link quality in a stored table that associates link quality to at least one modulation parameter setting; and transferring communication signals using the second modulation parameter setting over the telemetry link between the implantable medical device and the external instrument. | 43,882 |
9,393,638 | 1. A coil line for the cutting of ductwork in an automated fashion, the coil line comprising: a frame; drive rolls mounted to said frame and configured to unroll a material from a coil and to move unrolled material in two opposing directions; and a cutting assembly mounted to said frame, the cutting assembly including; | 6,565 |
9,074,061 | 1. A foaming composition for making a foamed ethylene vinyl acetate copolymer article or articles incorporating recycled ethylene vinyl acetate foam, the composition consisting essentially of: ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA) copolymer having 15-60 mole percent vinyl acetate; scrap, at least partially crosslinked ethylene-vinyl acetate foam product; peroxide crosslinking agent; blowing agent for the vinyl acetate copolymer; a compatibilizer comprising a hydrocarbon resin or a hydrogenated petroleum resin, and optionally, a member selected from the group consisting of foam auxiliaries, foaming inhibitors, fillers, pigments, fire retardants, lubricants, activators, and combinations thereof. | 14,227 |
8,709,220 | 1. A water electrolysis apparatus for producing hydrogen through electrolysis of water, the apparatus comprising: an electrolyte membrane; first and second current collectors disposed respectively on opposite sides of the electrolyte membrane; first and second separators stacked respectively on the current collectors; a first flow field defined by stacking the first current collector and the first separator; and a second flow field defined by stacking the second current collector and the second separator, wherein at least the first separator or the second separator has a seal groove annularly extending around the first current collector or the second current collector, a seal member being disposed in the seal groove, and a pressure-releasing chamber is disposed outwardly of the seal groove, is capable of communicating with the seal groove, and communicates with an outside through a depressurizing channel, wherein the electrolyte membrane extends through the pressure-releasing chamber, and the pressure-releasing chamber has a recess, the recess either facing the depressurizing channel across the electrolyte membrane or is formed in the electrolyte membrane. | 23,766 |
9,542,236 | 1. A method comprising: receiving, by a computer system, an instruction to advance a designated next ticket value; incrementing, by the computer system, the designated next ticket value in response to receiving the instruction; inserting, by the computer system, a ticket into a waiters list of tickets stored in a memory of the computer system to preserve a sorted order of a plurality of tickets in the waiters list using a value of the ticket provided by a waiter associated with the ticket, wherein the ticket in the waiters list corresponds to a thread; searching, by the computer system, a part of the waiters list in the memory identifying the ticket as having the designated next ticket value, without searching the entire waiters list by identifying a threshold ticket value which is the greatest ticket value in the waiters list that is less than or equal to the designated next ticket value, wherein the searching starts at a waiters list head element; removing, by the computer system, the ticket from the waiters list using a single atomic operation by one of setting the waiters list head element to refer to a next element in the waiters list after a threshold element having the threshold ticket value, and setting the waiters list head element to refer to another ticket in the waiters list; and causing, by the computer system, a thread associated with the ticket to proceed. | 23,288 |
8,416,173 | 1. A method for an LCD that is organized as rows, and columns, wherein the column of the LCD are associated with column drivers, and wherein data for the LCD is organized according to lines within a frame, the method comprising: selecting a first set of line addresses for a first subframe, wherein the first subframe includes at least two lines that are non-adjacent one another, wherein each of the lines in the first subframe are non-adjacent to each other, and wherein the first subframe includes half of the frame; selecting a second set of line addresses for a second subframe, wherein the second subframe includes each of the lines present in the first frame and absent from the first subframe; selecting a first scan sequence order for the first subframe such that the scan sequence order is modified relative to the order that the lines are stored in a memory; selecting a second scan sequence order for the second subframe; setting the column driver polarities according to a first set of polarities during an initial time interval while the first subframe is processed; setting the column driver polarities according to a second set of polarities during a next time interval while the first subframe is processed, wherein the polarities associated with the first subframe are selected such that each pixel that is associated with the first subframe has an average drive voltage of zero over time; and setting the column driver polarities according to a third set of polarities during the initial time interval while the second subframe is processed; setting the column driver polarities according to a fourth set of polarities during the next time interval while the second subframe is processed, wherein the polarities associated with the second subframe are selected such that each pixel that is associated with the second subframe has an average drive voltage of zero over time; and processing each line in the first subframe prior to processing each line in the second subframe, wherein each particular line is processed by: coupling data that is associated with the particular line to the column drivers according to the scan sequence order; enabling the column drivers for the particular line; and enabling the particular line with a row select signal. | 37,011 |
9,214,639 | 1. A light absorbing or emitting device comprising: a substrate with a porous or fibrous surface; an electrode consisting of a conductive polymer coating directly on the porous or fibrous surface of the substrate, wherein the polymer coating is conformal to the porous or fibrous surface of the substrate and the thickness of the conductive polymer coating does not vary more than 10%; a counter electrode; and an energy converting region between the electrode and counter electrode capable of converting energy between photoenergy and electric energy. | 35,677 |
9,299,207 | 1. A banknote dispenser, comprising: a housing, comprising an upper cover and a base case, one end of the upper cover being movably connected to one end of the base case via a rotating shaft, and a space for accommodating other components and banknotes being formed in the case that the upper cover is closed on the base case, and the housing being provided with a banknote outlet for discharging the banknotes; a banknote separating mechanism located near the banknote outlet, and comprising a banknote picking wheel assembly configured to be placed on a surface of the banknotes, a banknote separating wheel assembly and a reverse wheel which are configured to be placed at an end of the banknotes and to separate a stack of banknotes individually, and a banknote separating base plate configured to install required components, wherein the banknote picking wheel assembly comprises a banknote picking wheel having a rubber surface, a banknote picking wheel shaft configured to rotate the banknote picking wheel, and a first one-way bearing configured to assemble the banknote picking wheel and the banknote picking wheel shaft, and the banknote separating wheel assembly comprises a banknote separating rubber wheel in an interference fit with the reverse wheel, a banknote separating wheel shaft configured to rotate the banknote separating rubber wheel, and a second one-way bearing configured to assemble the banknote separating rubber wheel and the banknote separating wheel shaft; a banknote pressing mechanism, comprising a banknote pressing board placed in the base case and configured to stack up the stack of banknotes, a guide shaft of the banknote pressing board, and a banknote pressing spring configured to enable the banknote pressing board to always press against the banknote picking wheel assembly of the banknote separating mechanism; and | 19,720 |
8,534,062 | 1. A monitoring system for distributed utilities, the monitoring system comprising: a. an electric generation device driven by a Stirling cycle engine, wherein the generation device converts an available resource to a desired utility; b. an input sensor for measuring input to the generation device; c. an output sensor for measuring consumption of output from the generation device by at least one end user; and d. a controller for concatenating measured input and consumption of output on the basis of the input and output sensors. | 18,059 |
9,496,641 | 1. An electrical wire protective cover to be assembled to a connector to cover an electrical wire pulled out of the connector, the electrical wire protective cover comprising: a cover body having a wire receiving channel with an opening along a wire extending direction of the electrical wire and opening toward a direction orthogonal to the wire extending direction and an axis of the electrical wire, the electrical wire insertable through the opening of the wire receiving channel into the wire receiving channel and accommodated therein; and a temporary wire retaining piece protruding from the cover body in a direction narrowing the opening of the wire receiving channel such that, in an undeformed state, the temporary wire retaining piece narrows the opening of the wire receiving channel to a dimension smaller than a width of the electrical wire, the temporary wire retaining piece being deformable between a first position and a second position, the first position where a bending deformation of the temporary wire retaining piece into an inside of the wire receiving channel allows the electrical wire to be inserted into the wire receiving channel, the second position where the temporary wire retaining piece narrows the opening of the wire receiving channel to the dimension smaller than the width of the electrical wire to prevent a movement of the electrical wire received in the wire receiving channel to an outside of the wire receiving channel in the direction orthogonal to the wire extending direction. | 49,503 |
8,771,887 | 1. A method for controlling a reforming reaction with a fuel cell apparatus, comprising: measuring a temperature of a reforming portion in the fuel cell apparatus at the starting time of the fuel cell apparatus; measuring a temperature of a vaporizing portion in the fuel cell apparatus at the starting time of the fuel cell apparatus; performing a first reforming reaction, at the starting time of the fuel cell apparatus, in which partial oxidation reforming, autothermal reforming and steam reforming are performed in that order as the reforming reaction when the temperature of the reforming portion is lower than T1, where T1 represents a temperature at which the steam reforming can be performed; performing a second reforming reaction, at the starting time of the fuel cell apparatus, in which autothermal reforming and steam reforming are performed in that order, without partial oxidation reforming, as the reforming reaction when the temperature of the reforming portion is not lower than T1 and the temperature of the vaporizing portion is lower than T2, where T2 represents a temperature at which a predetermined amount of steam can be generated by the steam reforming; and performing a third reforming reaction, at the starting time of the fuel cell apparatus, in which steam reforming is performed, without partial oxidation reforming and autothermal reforming, as the reforming reaction when the temperature of the reforming portion is not lower than T1 and the temperature of the vaporizing portion is not lower than T2. | 15,280 |
9,300,841 | 1. Non-transitory computer-readable medium or media with instructions thereon, that when executed by one or more processors, perform steps for processing an array of pixels in a point cloud texture image gathered by scanning of a surface of an object or a portion thereof with a light source, comprising: (a) receiving a 3-D spatial laser scanner generated point cloud texture image; (b) storing distance and RGB values in a first memory location; (c) determining an error bar width; (d) beginning a distance value adjusting loop by, for each pixel in the processed point cloud data set, calculating the difference between the distance value in the pixel of the point cloud data set being processed and each of the neighboring pixels or the most suitable neighboring pixel distance value; (e) determining, on a pixel-by-pixel basis, whether the computed absolute differences are within the range defined by the error bar width; (f) if the difference is not within the error bar width ignore neighboring pixel distance value but if the differences are within the error bar width, storing the distance value in the pixel being processed by the average value of the suitable neighboring pixels distance values in a second memory location; (g) determining whether loop exit criteria or a maximum allowed loop count have been met and if available loop exit criteria have not been met beginning the loop again, and if loop exit criteria have been met, terminating the loop; (h) sending output processed point cloud data in a second memory location to a file or computer-readable media or medium or other device. | 29,312 |
9,782,375 | 1. A method of suppressing cyclooxygenase activity or reducing platelet aggregation of a mammal in need thereof, the method comprising: providing to a mammal in need of suppressed cyclooxygenase activity or reduced platelet aggregation 10 mg to 5000 mg daily of a trans-resveratrol and arginine conjugate for a period of at least two weeks; wherein the trans-resveratrol and arginine conjugate suppresses cyclooxygenase activity or reduces platelet aggregation of the mammal through a decrease in maximum aggregation within about one hour of providing trans-resveratrol and arginine conjugate to the mammal. | 4,045 |
8,914,638 | 1. An electronic watermark generating apparatus comprising: one or more circuits operable to: generate appliance characterizing information that characterizes an electronic appliance, using physical data acquired by a sensor that measures characteristics of the electronic appliance; generate, in relation to the appliance characterizing information, electronic watermark information that is used to detect whether the appliance characterizing information has been tampered with or not; analyze the appliance characterizing information, and determine an embedded position for embedding the electronic watermark information in the appliance characterizing information, wherein the embedded position is determined using difference data generated based on different values of the appliance characterizing information; and embed the generated electronic watermark information at the embedded position on the appliance characterizing information, wherein the electronic watermark information is embedded as different bit parts in the appliance characterizing information, and a bit size of each of the bit parts is less than a bit size of the appliance characterizing information. | 39,505 |
8,676,319 | 1. An implantable medical device comprising: an operative component and a housing surrounding the operative component; a resiliently deformable fixation member for supporting the housing, the fixation member comprising: a ring shaped annulus circumscribing the housing; a plurality of elongated struts having a proximal end affixed to the housing and a distal end affixed to the annulus; and wherein the resiliently deformable fixation member is comprised of a hydrogel; and wherein the struts are curved in shape between the proximal and distal ends; and wherein the struts are spaced in pairs with each strut curving away from the other of its pair between their proximal and distal ends in a circumferential direction. | 46,026 |
8,787,815 | 1. A sheet conveying apparatus, comprising: a first conveying portion which conveys a sheet; a second conveying portion, disposed downstream of the first conveying portion in a sheet conveying direction, having a nip portion that nips and conveys a sheet; a third conveying portion, disposed downstream of the second conveying portion, which nips and conveys a sheet; a shutter portion against which a leading edge of the sheet being conveyed abuts downstream of the first conveying portion and upstream of the nip portion of the second conveying portion, an urging portion configured to urge the shutter portion to a position at which the shutter portion abuts against the leading edge of sheet being conveyed, wherein the shutter portion is pressed and moved by the sheet being conveyed, against an urging force of the urging portion; and an actuation portion which moves the shutter portion that has been pressed and moved by the sheet being conveyed to a retracted position at which the shutter portion is retracted from a sheet conveying path and holds the shutter portion at the retracted position until the leading edge of the sheet being conveyed by the second conveying portion is nipped by the third conveying portion. | 12,088 |
8,457,632 | 1. A method for managing a femto zone in a wireless communication network, the method comprising: receiving a registration request message from a first femto base station among femto base stations in the femto zone that share a backhaul link; registering the first femto base station and determining the first femto base station as a master base station or a candidate base station in accordance with the registration request message; and transmitting a registration acknowledgement message to the first femto base station in response to the registration request message, wherein the registration acknowledgement message includes the maximum allowable backhaul link capacity of the femto zone and master base station information when the first femto base station is determined as the master base station, and includes the master base station information and candidate base station information when the first femto base station is determined as the candidate base station. | 47,379 |
8,443,784 | 1. An internal combustion engine comprising: a piston disposed in a cylinder; a crankcase in fluid communication with the cylinder; a valve configured to control flow of air into the cylinder; an actuator coupled to the valve to control a position of the valve; and a controller in communication with the actuator, wherein the controller is configured to close the valve when an uncontrolled condition for the internal engine is determined, the uncontrolled condition comprising a runaway condition caused by fluid flow between the crankcase and the cylinder and combustion due to the fluid flow into the cylinder. | 9,290 |
8,511,643 | 1. A diaphragm having an outer diameter Φ of 10 to 35 mm and comprising a dome portion in a dome shape and a flange portion formed continuously at a peripheral edge of the dome portion via a boundary portion, wherein the boundary portion has a radius of curvature R of 0.6 mm or more on a convex side of the dome portion, and wherein the diaphragm is formed of a cobalt-based superalloy having a composition range of 30 to 45% of cobalt, 10 to 20% of nickel, 5 to 20% of chromium, 3 to 5% of tungsten, 3 to 9% of molybdenum, and 1 to 40% of iron in terms of mass ratio. | 45,518 |
8,934,052 | 1. A camera module, comprising, in a stacked arrangement: a body comprising a molding material; a device layer carried by the molding and comprising a dielectric material layer partially covering the image sensor and covering the SMD; a conductive material layer carried within the dielectric material layer and coupling an upper surface of the SMD to an upper surface of the image sensor at a lower surface of the dielectric material layer; an IR glass assembly carried by the dielectric material layer; and a lens assembly carried by the IR glass assembly. | 39,340 |
9,670,289 | 1. A method of producing a body of oxidized cellulose comprising the steps of: irradiating a body of cellulose so as to form an irradiated body of cellulose, forming a suspension of irradiated cellulose fibers from the irradiated body of cellulose, reacting the irradiated cellulose fibers with an oxidizing agent so as to form oxidized cellulose fibers, and crosslinking the oxidized cellulose fibers to form the body of oxidized cellulose. | 37,598 |
8,670,473 | 1. An optical power monitoring circuit, comprising: an automatic power control (APC) loop, comprising (i) a laser diode connected to a current sense circuit, and (ii) a feedback loop; and a microcontroller unit (MCU) configured to (i) monitor a bias current via the current sense circuit, (ii) decrease a target power of the APC loop when the bias current exceeds an alarm threshold, and (iii) increase the target power of the APC loop when the bias current is lower than a warning threshold. | 18,121 |
8,537,573 | 1. A system for regulating a power converter, the system comprising: a signal processing component configured to receive a voltage, to process information associated with the voltage, to determine a signal based on at least information associated with the voltage, and to send the signal to a switch for a power converter; wherein the signal processing component is further configured to: wherein the signal processing component is further configured to: wherein the signal processing component is further configured to: | 17,104 |
9,028,249 | 1. A method for recovering CO 2 gas generated in a cement-manufacturing facility, the method comprising: feeding a non-calcined cement material, which has been extracted from a first preheater, to a mixing calciner; heating a heat medium, having a particle diameter larger than that of the cement material, to a calcination temperature or higher in a medium-heating furnace; feeding the heat medium to the mixing calciner; calcining the non-calcined cement material with the heat medium in the mixing calciner; separating a cement material which has been calcined from the heat medium; feeding the cement material which has been calcined to a cement kiln; returning the heat medium to the medium heating furnace and circulating the heat medium between the medium-heating furnace and the mixing calciner; and recovering CO wherein the cement-manufacturing facility preheats the non-calcined cement material in the first preheater, then feeds the preheated cement material to the mixing calciner and then to the cement kiln having an atmosphere in an inner part held at high temperature, and then burns the fed cement material, wherein the heat medium is a cement clinker obtained by burning the cement material in the cement kiln, quicklime of the formula CaO, silica stone of the formula SiO | 22,980 |
9,105,638 | 1. A method comprising: depositing a first dielectric material on a substrate; depositing a second dielectric material on the first dielectric; forming a fuse area in the first and second dielectric material; and forming a non-fuse area on the substrate at a same level as the fuse area wherein the non-fuse area has a non-fuse line and a non-fuse via; wherein: the first dielectric material has a lower dielectric constant than the second dielectric material; the fuse area has a fuse via and a fuse line; the non-fuse area has a non-fuse via and a non-fuse line; the fuse via is partially embedded in the first dielectric material; the fuse line is embedded in the second dielectric material; the non-fuse line is embedded in a non-fuse line dielectric material having a dielectric constant equal to or greater than the first dielectric material and equal to or less than a non-fuse via dielectric; and the method further comprises curing the first dielectric material to activate porogens of the first dielectric material and increase porosity of the first dielectric material. | 45,120 |
8,614,520 | 1. A wave energy converting device comprising: at least one buoyant float having a wave impacting, forward face, wherein the face is oriented to receive wave fronts from a wave front receiving end, and wherein the length of the face is greater than the length of the float front-to-back depth measured independent of any float attachments, extensions or appendages; a buoyancy adjustable stabilized frame movably secured to the at least one float, wherein the frame has portions configured to receive and release seawater, wherein the seawater when received in the frame functions as ballast for the frame, and wherein the frame is configured to be at least partially submerged; a device anchor attached to the frame at at least one point, directly or with a mooring line, wherein the device anchor is selected from the group consisting of the sea bed, ballast, drag planes, drag plates, seabed affixed anchor lines, off-shore towers, off-shore platforms, seawalls, breakwaters, shorelines and combinations thereof; at least one mechanical linkage movably securing and defining the orientation and relative multi-axis motion of the at least one float to the frame, wherein the linkage is selected from the group consisting of roller tracks, slides, linear or hydrostatic bearings, lever arms and combinations thereof; and, a power take-off apparatus secured at least to the frame and configured to be driven by at least one force generated by the relative motion of the at least one float to the frame. | 27,890 |
9,158,383 | 1. A pressure sensitive key comprising: a sensor substrate having one or more conductors; a flexible contact layer spaced apart from the sensor substrate and configured to flex to contact the sensor substrate to initiate an input; and a force concentrator layer disposed proximal to the flexible contact layer on a side opposite the sensor substrate, the force concentrator layer having a pad disposed thereon that is configured to cause: | 24,160 |
8,930,755 | 1. A distribution apparatus including at least one processor communicatively-coupled to a memory for distributing content data items via multicast, comprising: a receiving unit configured to receive reception status information regarding a reception status of the content data items in a receiving apparatus that receives the content data items distributed via multicast; a generating unit configured to generate, in a case where first reception status information is received from a first reception apparatus that receives the content data items via multicast and second reception status information is received from a second reception apparatus that receives the content data items via multicast and an amount of unsuccessfully received data corresponding to the second reception status information is larger than an amount of unsuccessfully received data corresponding to the first reception status information, first recovery data used by the first receiving apparatus in recovering a content data item that is not successfully received among the content data items on the basis of the first reception status information received from the first receiving apparatus and generate second recovery data having an amount of recoverable data larger than that of the first recovery data and used by the second receiving apparatus in recovering a content data item that is not successfully received among the content data items on the basis of the second reception status information; and a distributing unit configured to distribute the generated first and second recovery data together with the content data items via multicast. | 42,252 |
8,779,755 | 1. A test apparatus for a power supply unit, the test apparatus comprising: (1) a body configured to define a space to receive a light emitting diode (LED) and to provide a test environment to test a supply state of power applied to the LED; and (2) a tester mounted in the body to face the LED and configured to detect a flicker of the LED occurring when power supply is abnormal, wherein the tester comprises (3) a sensor configured to detect the flicker of light generated from the LED, and (4) an adjustment unit configured to support the sensor and adjust a distance between the sensor and the LED, | 8,116 |
8,812,267 | 1. A contamination level determination system for hydraulic oil, said system being adapted to sense, by a light-blocking sensor, foreign matter in hydraulic oil flowing through a hydraulic circuit of a hydraulic working machine and to determine a contamination level of the hydraulic oil by using results of the sensing, comprising: a filter arranged in a line of the hydraulic circuit to remove, from the hydraulic oil, foreign matter that may cause an operation failure of the hydraulic working machine, a first light-blocking sensor for sensing passage of foreign matter on an upstream side of the filter, a second light-blocking sensor for sensing passage of foreign matter on a downstream side of the filter, a first frequency determination means for determining a frequency of sensing of foreign matter on the upstream side of the filter by the first light-blocking sensor, a second frequency determination means for determining a frequency of sensing of foreign matter on the downstream side of the filter by the second light-blocking sensor, and a contamination level determination means for correcting an effect of miss-sensing on the first light-blocking sensor by comparing a result of determination of the first frequency determination means with a result of determination of the second frequency determination means, a contamination progress speed estimation means for comparing contamination levels at different time points to estimate a progress speed of contamination, a maintenance time estimation means for estimating a maintenance time for the hydraulic oil on a basis of the progress speed estimated by the contamination progress speed estimation means, and an estimated maintenance time notification means for notifying a result of estimation of the maintenance time by the maintenance time estimation means. | 13,220 |
9,284,453 | 1. A method of preparing a conductive polymer, comprising: dissolving a substituted or unsubstituted aniline monomer, substituted or unsubstituted pyrrole monomer, or substituted or unsubstituted thiophene monomer in an organic solvent, thus obtaining a monomer solution; adding water to the monomer solution in an amount ranging from more than 0 parts by weight to 2.08 parts by weight based on 100 parts by weight of the organic solvent; adding a dopant and an oxidizer to the monomer solution in a random sequence so that respective reactions occur, thus obtaining a reaction mixture; and filtering the reaction mixture, thus obtaining a conductive polymer solution, where the conductive polymer has a weight-average molecular weight of 5,000 or less when provided in a base type and has a solubility of 3 wt % or more in any organic solvent selected from the group consisting of methylethylketone, N-methylpyrrolidinone (NMP), and dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO). | 10,181 |
8,958,918 | 1. A building optimization system comprising: a binary controller to receive user input for communicating one or more control signals to a mechanical device in a zone of a building; and an A/B lighting switch connected with the binary controller for controlling at least a first lighting bank and a second lighting bank of a zone, the A/B lighting switch having | 27,929 |
9,831,838 | 1. An extended carrier low noise amplifier, comprising: an input carrier aggregation stage having a first input transistor coupled to an input terminal and a first output transistor coupled between the first input transistor and a first carrier aggregation load, and additional cascaded carrier aggregation extension stages coupled to the input carrier aggregation stage, wherein each of the additional cascaded carrier aggregation extension stages includes a first additional output transistor coupled between the first input transistor and an additional carrier aggregation load; an additional input transistor coupled to the input terminal; and a second additional output transistor coupled between the additional input transistor and the additional carrier aggregation load. | 13,672 |
8,529,844 | 1. An apparatus for producing trichlorosilane which decomposes polymer containing high boiling point chlorosilanes generated in a polycrystalline silicon producing process, in a trichlorosilane producing or in a converting process, thereby producing trichlorosilane, the apparatus comprising: a decomposing furnace reacting a hydrogen chloride with the polymer at high temperatures for producing trichlorosilane; a heating unit heating the inside of the decomposing furnace; a raw material supplying tube for guiding the polymer and the hydrogen chloride to the inner bottom portion of the decomposing furnace along the longitudinal direction of the decomposing furnace and supplying to the decomposing furnace through a lower end opening of the raw material supplying tube; a reaction chamber provided between the outer peripheral surface of the raw material supplying tube and the inner peripheral surface of the decomposing furnace; a gas discharge tube for discharging reaction gas from the top of the reaction chamber; and a fin which guides the polymer and the hydrogen chloride supplied from the lower end opening of the raw material supplying tube to be agitated and rise upward and is formed integrally with the outer peripheral surface of the raw material supplying tube that faces a furnace main body of the decomposing furnace, wherein the heating unit includes a heater that surrounds an outer peripheral surface of the furnace main body, and the fin is constituted of plural elements arranged in a longitudinal direction of the raw material supplying tube, where the plural elements are constituted of twisted rectangular plate members that are alternately twisted in a reverse direction. | 32,228 |
8,459,943 | 1. An integrally bladed rotor for being utilized in a gas turbine engine comprising: an airfoil extending radially outwardly from a platform, and an undercut between said airfoil and said platform at a downstream edge of said airfoil; said rotor is to be part of a compressor section in a gas turbine engine with a downstream rotor stage to transmit a force to said integrally bladed rotor; said undercut is at an end that will be downstream when said rotor section is mounted, and extends back into a body of a rim of said integrally bladed rotor; a forward contacting surface of said rim extends in a direction that will be downstream when said rotor section is mounted in a gas turbine engine beyond the platform and the undercut to provide a contact surface for receiving a transmitted force from a tie shaft; and wherein said integrally bladed rotor has a central axis, and said undercut is radially intermediate said platform and said forward contacting surface. | 2,172 |
9,252,661 | 1. A method, comprising: comparing a summation voltage comprising a sum of an error voltage received from a power stage and a reference voltage with an estimated voltage within a controller to generate a comparator output signal; generating a gate drive signal from the comparator output signal, the estimated voltage generated within the controller and based on the gate drive signal; conveying the gate drive signal from the controller to at least one gate driver of the power stage coupled to an output of the controller; and filtering the gate drive signal within the controller to generate the estimated voltage, the filtering the gate drive signal comprising filtering the gate drive signal with a low-pass filter to generate the estimated voltage, wherein the estimated voltage is substantially the same as a voltage output from the power stage. | 27,910 |
9,681,376 | 1. A method for sending signaling, comprising: when a power consumption preference of a user equipment is changed to lower power consumption, determining, by the user equipment, whether a first timer used for restricting sending of a lower power consumption preference indication expires, and when it is determined that the first timer expires, sending, by the user equipment, a lower power consumption preference indication to a base station; and when a power consumption preference of the user equipment is changed to a higher power consumption, sending a higher power consumption preference indication to the base station. | 20,221 |
8,649,204 | 1. A nonvolatile memory device, comprising: an array of resistive memory cells electrically coupled to a plurality of bit lines; a write driver configured to drive a selected one of the plurality of bit lines with a reset current pulse responsive to a first external voltage input through a first terminal of the memory device during a memory cell reset operation and further configured to drive the selected one of the plurality of bit lines in sequence with a first set current pulse responsive to the first external voltage and a second set current pulse responsive to a second external voltage input through a second terminal of the memory device during a memory cell set operation, said write driver comprising a reset current generator responsive to the first external voltage and a set current generator responsive to the first and second external voltages; and a pulse generator having first switch connected in series between the first terminal and a first input of the reset current generator, a second switch connected in series between the first terminal and a first input of the set current generator and a third switch connected in series between the second terminal and the first input of the set current generator. | 32,060 |
9,318,651 | 1. An optoelectronic semiconductor chip having a layer stack comprising: a first semiconductor layer sequence comprising a first semiconductor region of a first conductivity type, a second semiconductor region of a second conductivity type and a first active zone being arranged between the first semiconductor region and the second semiconductor region, the first active zone being configured to generate a first electromagnetic radiation; and a second semiconductor layer sequence comprising the second semiconductor region of the second conductivity type, a third semiconductor region of the first conductivity type and a second active zone being arranged between the second semiconductor region and the third semiconductor region, the second active zone being configured to generate a second electromagnetic radiation, wherein the second semiconductor region is contacted through two first openings which are spaced apart from one another and extend from a surface of the first semiconductor region remote from the first active zone as far as into the second semiconductor region, wherein a first electrical contact layer is arranged in the two first openings for forming two first through vias, and wherein the first electrical contact layer covers the first semiconductor region so that the two first through vias are electrically connected to each other by the first electrical contact layer covering the first semiconductor region. | 24,232 |
8,598,428 | 1. A seed of hybrid maize variety X00B150, wherein representative seed is produced by crossing a first plant of variety PHWRW with a second plant of variety PH1DN1, and wherein representative seed of said varieties PHWRW and PH1DN1 have been deposited under ATCC Accession Number PTA-11439 and PTA-13519, respectively. | 46,857 |
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