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9,243,352 | 1. A spinning nozzle for an air-jet spinning machine that produces a thread from a fiber sliver, comprising: a base body with an internal turbulence chamber; an inlet opening through which the fiber sliver enters the turbulence chamber in a transport direction of the fiber sliver through the air-jet spinning machine; a fiber guide channel disposed between the inlet opening and the turbulence chamber to guide the fiber sliver entering the inlet opening; a thread-forming element disposed at least partially into the turbulence chamber and having an inlet mouth and a take-off channel for the thread in the transport direction; air nozzles directed so as to open into the turbulence chamber in the region of a wall that encompasses the turbulence chamber; and an extension piece formed separate from and releasably attached to the base body in the region of the inlet opening, the fiber guide channel formed at least partially by a channel section of the extension piece. | 41,244 |
9,778,707 | 1. A system for displaying construction documents in electronic format in a high-dust industrial environment, the system comprising: an enclosure including: a monitor panel assembly extending across the width of the interior volume between the side panels to define a back chamber between the monitor panel assembly and the back panel, the monitor panel assembly including at least one perimeter frame having a center aperture and a transparent pane extending across the center aperture for viewing an electronic display therethrough; and a purge air system in fluid communication with the back chamber and operable, when the at least one door panel is in an open configuration, to draw in and filter air from outside the enclosure and establish a positive air pressure within the back chamber, wherein the monitor panel assembly is angularly adjustable between a plurality of angled upright positions to avoid glare on the transparent pane and provide a comfortable view angle while maintaining the positive pressure within the back chamber. | 20,295 |
9,238,966 | 1. A brittleness logging method that comprises: taking measurements of compressional wave velocity as a function of position and orientation from inside a borehole; taking measurements of shear wave velocity as a function of position and orientation from inside said borehole; deriving azimuthal brittleness at least in part from said compressional and shear wave velocities; and displaying azimuthal brittleness as an image log. | 27,013 |
9,478,408 | 1. A method for operating a substrate processing system comprising: a) processing a substrate arranged on a substrate support in a processing chamber, wherein at least one of precursor gas and/or reactive gas is supplied during the processing; b) removing the substrate from the processing chamber; subsequent to step b): c) selectively supplying carrier gas and purge gas to the processing chamber; d) generating RF plasma in the processing chamber during N cycles, where N is an integer greater than one, wherein the N cycles include alternating first and second periods, and wherein the RF plasma is on for the first period and off for the second period during each of the N cycles; and e) supplying the purge gas during at least part of each of the N cycles of the RF plasma such that (i) the purge gas is not supplied during the first period when the RF plasma is on and (ii) the purge gas is supplied during the second period when the RF plasma is off. | 24,320 |
9,801,212 | 1. A user equipment comprising: a receiver configured to receive a signal including a first indicator and one of a plurality of second indicators on Acquisition Indicator Channel (AICH), the first indicator corresponding to a first signature, the plurality of second indicators corresponding to a plurality of second signatures respectively; a processor comprising hardware configured to: a transmitter configured to: | 36,091 |
8,406,167 | 1. A proxy-bridge for coupling UPnP compliant devices with Bluetooth compliant devices, comprising: a first communication stack for communication with UPnP compliant devices, the first communication stack including SSDP support for discovery of available UPnP complaint devices and services; a second communication stack for communication with Bluetooth compliant devices in a piconet, the second communication stack including a Bluetooth SDP client for discovery of available Bluetooth devices and available Bluetooth services, and including a Bluetooth SDP server for communicating with Bluetooth SDP clients in the available Bluetooth devices; a converter for converting the discovered Bluetooth devices and services into associated UPnP device and service information, in dependence on respective profiles of the discovered Bluetooth devices and services and on predefined properties associated with the profiles, and for converting the discovered UPnP compliant devices and services into associated Bluetooth device, service, and/or profile information; a device and service announcer arranged for distributing the associated UPnP device and service information to UPnP devices by advertising at regular intervals, and arranged for distributing the associated Bluetooth device and service information via the Bluetooth SDP server; a UPnP adapter for representing the Bluetooth devices towards the UPnP devices, thereby converting and forwarding messages relating to invocations and service state variables between the UPnP device and the Bluetooth device, based on an output of the converter; and a Bluetooth adapter arranged for representing the UPnP compliant devices towards the Bluetooth compliant devices, thereby converting and forwarding messages relating to invocations from the Bluetooth compliant devices to the UPnP compliant devices, and converting and forwarding messages relating to service state variables from the UPnP compliant devices to the Bluetooth compliant devices using the output of the converter. | 16,127 |
8,776,383 | 1. A reciprocating saw comprising: a housing; a motor disposed in the housing; a blade retaining mechanism that receives a saw blade; a drive mechanism that translates rotational motion of the motor into reciprocating motion of the blade retaining mechanism so that the saw blade reciprocates along an axis; and a clamp assembly comprising: a first shoe coupled to the housing and having a first shoe body including a first material facing surface substantially perpendicular to said axis; a second shoe coupled to the housing and having a second shoe body including a second material facing surface substantially perpendicular to said axis that opposes the first material facing surface defining a clamping distance therebetween; wherein at least one of the first and second shoes is selectively adjustable relative to the housing parallel to said axis such that the clamping distance alters to a maximum clamping distance; wherein one of the first or second shoe bodies has a third material facing surface that is offset away from the cutting surface of said saw blade in a direction perpendicular to said axis by a distance at least as great as said maximum clamping distance; wherein the second shoe body comprises the third material facing surface which has a central section that includes an arcuate section defining a radius and wherein the second shoe body selectively adjusts parallel to said axis relative to the housing; and wherein the maximum clamping distance is at least as large as two times the radius. | 10,116 |
9,263,878 | 1. A circuit protector for protecting a monitoring circuit that monitors a voltage of a power supply unit comprising: a plurality of detection lines for voltage detection that connect between the power supply unit and the monitoring circuit; an overvoltage protection element connected between the detection lines that keeps the voltage applied to the monitoring circuit at a fixed voltage; and a circuit protection element disposed in each detection line that disconnects an electrical link between the monitoring circuit and the power supply unit when a current beyond a predetermined current value flows into the detection line; wherein: the overvoltage protection element is constituted so that conduction between each detection line is maintained in a short circuit state when an excess voltage occurs in the power supply unit; the circuit protection element is constituted so that the electrical link between the power supply unit and the monitoring circuit is intercepted by a short-circuit current that flows between the detection lines via the overvoltage protection element when the excess voltage occurs in the power supply unit; the overvoltage protection element connected between the detection lines short-circuit-faults when the excess voltage is applied thereto; the overvoltage protection element is configured so that between each detection line is maintained in a short circuit state by a short-circuit-fault when the excess voltage occurs in the power supply unit; the circuit protection element is provided with an IC chip and a lead frame; and the lead frame is directly connected to both an anode and a cathode of the IC chip. | 49,796 |
8,835,137 | 1. A modified photosynthetic microorganism that accumulates a reduced amount of glycogen as compared to the wild type photosynthetic microorganism, wherein said modified photosynthetic microorganism has reduced expression, reduced activity, or mutation of a glucose-1-phosphate adenyltransferase (glgC) gene as compared to the wild type photosynthetic microorganism, wherein said glgC gene comprises one or more mutations or complete or partial gene deletions, wherein said modified photosynthetic microorganism comprises one or more introduced polynucleotides encoding diacylglycerol acyltransferase (DGAT), wherein said modified photosynthetic microorganism accumulates an increased amount of triglycerides, wax esters, or both as compared to a photosynthetic microorganism having the introduced polynucleotide(s) encoding DGAT without reduced expression or mutation of the glgC gene, and wherein said photosynthetic microorganism is a Cyanobacterium. | 33,007 |
8,428,238 | 1. A private branch exchange (PBX) system for an enterprise comprising: a first interface to receive an incoming voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) call from a caller to a called party of the enterprise, the incoming VoIP call being received from an Internet protocol (IP) network, the first interface being further operable to receive an identifier from the caller identifying the called party; a second interface to connect with a telephone device that is shared among multiple users in the enterprise based on the received identifier, wherein each of the multiple users is associated with a unique identifier and the shared telephone device is associated with each of the identifiers of the multiple users, the multiple users including the called party; one or more processors that control a connection between the incoming VoIP call and the telephone device; a memory coupled to the one or more processors that stores authentication information associated with the called party; code executable on the one or more processors, execution of the code causing the one or more processors to obtain information from a person answering the incoming VoIP call at the telephone device, the connection for the incoming VoIP call being established only when the information provided by the person matches the authentication information associated with the called party. | 3,838 |
9,061,934 | 1. An apparatus for bending a glass sheet having a bending area and a non-bending area, comprising: a. a support element; b. an overall heating device; c. a localized heating device that creates a localized heating area in the glass sheet bending area; and d. a constraint device which contacts said glass sheet outside of and adjacent to the bending area, wherein the constraint device is in contact with, or applying force to, the non-bending part of the glass sheet at a point on the same side of the bend as the support element, and is capable of limiting unwanted distortions or deformations to the glass sheet as a result of the bending process. | 22,305 |
8,761,711 | 1. A battery powered device comprising: a non-volatile memory configured to store software essential to the provision of normal functions of the device; a communication subsystem configured to communicate with a network; a first processing section configured to execute the software when the device is in a normal mode, and load the software into a working memory in response to a trigger; a second processing section coupled to a clock for maintaining a time, the second processing section configured to handle background processes when the device is in a low-power mode and initiate the trigger in response to the time of the clock preceding a user-set time by a pre-set advance interval, the pre-set advance interval taking into account a time required to download external content data via the communication subsystem, wherein the first processing section comprises a data processor, and the working memory comprises a volatile memory configured to store the software when it has been loaded and wherein in the low power mode the volatile memory receives insufficient power to store software. | 29,564 |
8,984,485 | 1. A method for analyzing source code, the method comprising: receiving first and second versions of source code; making an Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) for at least the second version; determining, by one or more computer processors, an impacted code parent of the AST for at least the second version based upon differences between code artifacts in the first and second versions of the source code; and generating an indexed table representing the impacted code parent of the AST for at least the second version, wherein the table is indexed based at least on the code artifacts in the first and second versions of the source code, and the table includes a type of each code artifact, pointers to the code artifacts in the AST, and pointers to the location of the code artifacts in the second version of the source code. | 12,101 |
8,984,964 | 1. A torque measurement device comprising: a stator including a space portion formed by a first annular ring and a second annular ring having protrusion pieces; a ring-shaped magnet disposed in the space portion; and a collector assembly including a first collector member and a second collector member to form at least one insertion space in which a magnetic element is configured to be disposed, wherein the insertion space is defined by an end of the first collector member and an end of the second collector member extended toward the space portion, and wherein the first collector member and the second collector member comprise: flux transfer surfaces disposed near the first or second annular ring; opposite surfaces connected to the flux transfer surfaces and bent in facing directions; and insertion surfaces connected to the opposite surfaces and bent toward the space portion between the first annular second annular ring and second annular ring configured to dispose the magnetic element therein. | 45,771 |
8,821,275 | 1. A method of operating a feature game, the method including the steps of: following an initiation of one or more plays of a primary game, initiating play of the feature game at a gaming machine; providing a player of the primary game an opportunity to select at least one virtual participant from a field of virtual participants for the feature game, and receiving a player selection of at least one virtual participant through the gaming machine; during the feature game, producing a competition graphic showing a virtual competition between the field of virtual participants; displaying a replay of a portion of the virtual competition in slow motion; and determining an outcome of the feature game; and wherein displaying the replay of a portion of the virtual competition includes sampling down frames for the replay to produce down sampled frames. | 20,878 |
9,234,256 | 1. A scavenger support obtained by reacting a functionalised organic support comprising pendant groups selected from 1,3-ketoesters or 1,3-ketoamides or mixtures thereof attached to a support with an amine, wherein the scavenger support is adapted to be a scavenger, is insoluble and in a form suitable for filtration, and is in the form of beads having a size in the range from 10 μm to 2000 μm, and the amine is selected from the group consisting of: (i) an optionally substituted hydrazine or salt thereof; and (ii) an amine selected from: | 19,581 |
8,972,226 | 1. A method for analyzing growth of a region void of resin in a porous material by using a computer, comprising the steps of: inputting, into the computer, data of a shape of a porous material filled with a resin material, and dividing, in the computer, the shape of the porous material into three-dimensional finite elements on the basis of the inputted shape data; inputting, into the computer, physical properties of the porous material filled with the resin material, and boundary conditions including a pressure that is applied to the porous material with molds; obtaining a resin-density distribution in the porous material divided into the three-dimensional finite elements, by using a computer-implemented fluid analysis using a database obtained by experimentally measuring, in advance: a temporal change in a volume of gas generated from the resin material and porous material during heating, changes in a compressive force and compressive displacement respectively occurring when the porous material impregnated with the resin is compressed, and a change in a flow resistance of the resin; and comprehensively graphing production, growth, and distribution of voids deriving from gas generation, on the basis of an apparent resin-density distribution in each of the obtained three-dimensional finite elements; wherein the computer-implemented fluid analysis includes the following apparent resin density equation concerning a finite element of the porous material: wherein ρ | 17,119 |
9,269,972 | 1. A procedure for detecting the state of a fuel cell stack, the fuel cell stack being formed by stacking electrochemical cells each having an anode and a cathode on respective sides of a polymeric ion-exchange membrane, the fuel cell stack having a fuel gas supply circuit on the anode side of the electrochemical cells and an oxidant gas supply circuit on the cathode side of the electrochemical cells, wherein the procedure comprises, upon each shut-down of the fuel cell stack, measuring an algebraic sum of a pressure in the anode circuit and a pressure in the cathode circuit over time and, if said algebraic sum drops below a threshold, activating a warning signal indicating that the fuel cell stack requires inspection. | 40,672 |
9,201,856 | 1. A method of interacting with an interactive form, the method comprising: receiving at a server a value of a first control of an interactive form, the value representing a portion of a travel-related search query entered at a client device into the interactive form; determining with the server at least one recommended value for a second control of the interactive form different from the first control of the interactive form based on at least one recommendation rule interrelating the first and the second controls; computing the at least one recommendation rule using collaborative historical data in a history database; aggregating at least one data set within the collaborative historical data in the history database if a size of the data set is below a threshold, wherein aggregation of the at least one data set improves a statistical significance of the at least one recommended value; and communicating the at least one recommended value for the second control of the interactive form from the server to the client device. | 33,471 |
8,358,435 | 1. An image processing device comprising: a display-equivalent image formation area, an image formed on the display-equivalent image formation area being displayed on a display device; a printer-equivalent image formation area, an image formed on the printer-equivalent image formation area being printed by a printer; a first print data receiving unit configured to receive first print data containing at least one image formation command; a judging unit configured to judge whether each image formation command included in the first print data is a pixel number dependent command that defines an image to be formed by the number of pixels; a display image formation unit configured to form a display image on the display-equivalent image formation area in accordance with each image formation command included in the first print data; a print image formation unit configured to farm a print image on the printer-equivalent image formation area in accordance with each image formation command included in the first print data; and a transmission unit configured to transmit the print image formed on the printer-equivalent image formation area to the printer as second print data, wherein: (1) the print image formation unit forms the print image on the printer-equivalent image formation area with increasing the number of pixels of the print image in accordance with the resolutions of the display-equivalent image formation area and the printer-equivalent image formation area if the judging unit judges that the image formation command is the pixel number dependent command; and (2) the print image formation unit forms the print image on the printer-equivalent image formation area without modifying the print image if the judging unit judges that the image formation command is not the pixel number dependent command. | 39,854 |
9,719,329 | 1. A tool string for operation within a wellbore that extends from a wellsite surface into a subterranean formation, wherein the tool string is suspended within the wellbore via conveyance means operably coupled with surface equipment disposed at the wellsite surface, and wherein the tool string comprises: a first portion comprising at least one first electrical conductor in electrical communication with the surface equipment; a second portion comprising at least one second electrical conductor in electrical communication with the surface equipment; and a buoyancy apparatus coupled between the first and second portions and introducing buoyancy to the tool string to oppose the weight of the tool string when the tool string is submerged within a wellbore fluid in the wellbore, wherein the buoyancy apparatus comprises: | 29,822 |
9,561,598 | 1. A method of modifying a board edger system having an infeed and an edger downstream of the infeed, the method comprising: installing along the infeed at least one cutting device configured to cut a workpiece transversely into at least two pieces upstream of the edger; providing downstream of the cutting device a workpiece lift system selectively operable to move the pieces asynchronously onto an outfeed upstream of the edger; and operatively coupling the workpiece lift system with a computer system programmed with instructions operable, upon execution, to | 2,504 |
9,550,149 | 1. An exhaust gas purification apparatus for an internal combustion engine comprising: an NOx selective reduction catalyst provided in an exhaust passage of an internal combustion engine to reduce NOx by reducing agent supplied to it; a supplying device that supplies urea to said NOx selective reduction catalyst from the upstream of said NOx selective reduction catalyst; a filter provided in the exhaust passage upstream of said supplying device to trap particulate matter in exhaust gas; a PM sensor that measures the amount of particulate matter in exhaust gas in the downstream of said NOx selective reduction catalyst; and a controller configured to disable a determination as to a failure of said filter using a measurement value of said PM sensor when the amount of particulate matter adhering to said NOx selective reduction catalyst is equal to or larger than a threshold. | 10,013 |
9,061,349 | 1. An investment casting method for forming an alloy gas turbine engine vane segment, wherein the improvement comprises forming a monolithic cast ceramic core comprising: a core airfoil portion comprising an airfoil portion pressure side and an airfoil portion suction side; a first core shell portion disposed at a first end of the core airfoil portion and extending transverse to and beyond both the airfoil portion pressure side and the airfoil portion suction side, wherein the first core shell portion comprises a core shroud backside-shaping surface oriented transverse to the core airfoil portion, facing an opposite end of the core airfoil portion, and comprising a core shell feature, the core shroud backside-shaping surface configured to define at least a portion of a backside surface of a shroud of the vane segment, and wherein the core shell feature defines a peak disposed closer to the opposite end of the core airfoil portion and a recess disposed farther from the opposite end of the core shell portion and between the peak and the core airfoil portion. | 34,482 |
9,758,526 | 1. A compound represented by Formula (I) below or a salt thereof: wherein the group: is a group represented by Formula A3: wherein in Formula A3, B is a group represented by: wherein R wherein R wherein R | 45,336 |
9,153,793 | 1. An organic light-emitting display apparatus, comprising: a substrate; a first electrode disposed on the substrate; an intermediate layer disposed on the first electrode and including an organic emission layer; a second electrode disposed on the intermediate layer; and a reflective unit disposed near the intermediate layer for reflecting visible light emitted from the intermediate layer. | 15,590 |
8,898,262 | 1. A method for configuring a network path of a network for transferring an individual data flow end-to-end from a source device to a destination device, said path comprising at least one network device susceptible of network congestion and arranged for storing at least a part of said individual data flow, the method comprising the step of: determining at least one possible network path for transferring said individual data flow end-to-end from said source device to said destination device, said individual data flow having been previously classified according to a footprint measure of said individual data flow, said footprint measure being indicative of a possible difference between the total amount of incoming data and the total amount of outgoing data in said at least one network device over a time interval having a duration of one or more time units, whereby said time unit is so chosen that individual data units of the individual data flow are distinguishable at byte level by said at least one network device; and configuring said at least one network path according to said footprint measure. | 47,868 |
9,046,352 | 1. An electrode position detection device configured to detect a relative positional relationship among a first electrode, a second electrode, and a separator when a packaged electrode and the second electrode are alternately stacked, the packaged electrode having the first electrode disposed inside the separator formed in a bag shape, the second electrode having a polarity different from that of the first electrode, the device comprising: a projector configured to project light that penetrates and is reflected by the separator and is reflected by the first and second electrodes; a light receiver configured to receive light projected from the projector and reflected by the first electrode included in the packaged electrode in the uppermost layer when the packaged electrode is positioned in the uppermost layer, and to receive light projected from the projector and reflected by the second electrode in the uppermost layer and light projected from the projector and reflected by the separator included in the packaged electrode stacked below the second electrode in the uppermost layer when the second electrode is positioned in the uppermost layer; and a detector configured to detect the relative positional relationship among the first electrode, the second electrode and the separator, by specifying the position of the first electrode based on the result of the light reception by the light receiver when the packaged electrode is positioned in the uppermost layer, and by specifying the positions of the second electrode and the separator included in the packaged electrode stacked below the second electrode based on the result of the light reception by the light receiver when the second electrode is positioned in the uppermost layer. | 21,713 |
9,533,671 | 1. A vehicle control apparatus comprising: an internal combustion engine, an electric motor connected to a plurality of vehicle wheels, a clutch that switches a transmission state between: (i) a disengaging state, where the internal combustion engine and the electric motor are disconnected from each other, and (ii) an engaging state, where the internal combustion engine and the electric motor are connected with each other, wherein: the internal combustion engine is started by the electric motor with the clutch being switched to the engaging state; the electric motor has a compensation torque and the clutch has a clutch torque, the compensation torque being constantly smaller than the clutch torque when the internal combustion engine is started by the electric motor; and the compensation torque is a torque value equal to an amount of load on the electric motor that is estimated to increase by the start of the engine, which is estimated prior to engaging the clutch. | 1,209 |
9,750,500 | 1. A surgical clip applier, comprising: a housing; at least one handle pivotably connected to the housing; a channel assembly extending distally from the housing; a clip carrier disposed within said channel assembly and defining a channel therein; a plurality of clips slidably disposed within said channel of said clip carrier; a jaw assembly including a pair of jaws extending from an end of said channel assembly, opposite said housing, said jaw assembly adapted to accommodate a clip therein and being operable to effect formation of a clip in response to movement of said at least one handle; a clip pusher bar slidably supported within at least one of said housing and said channel assembly, said clip pusher bar defining a channel therein; and a shuttle bar slidably supported in the channel of the clip pusher bar, the shuttle bar including a shuttle box defining a slot configured to receive a distal most clip of the plurality of clips from the clip carrier, the shuttle box configured for transporting the distal most clip to the jaw assembly. | 31,356 |
9,150,893 | 1. An isolated polypeptide with homoserine O-succinyltransferase activity, which shows a reduced sensitivity to feedback inhibition by L-methionine as compared with a wild-type homoserine O-succinyltransferase polypeptide having the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 35, and which comprises a mutation at one or more amino acid positions corresponding to amino acids 24, 29, 79, 114, 140, 163, 222, 275, 290, 291, 295, 297, 304 and 305 of SEQ ID No: 35. | 2,679 |
9,701,190 | 1. A method for controlling a motorized human-powered vehicle, the method comprising: receiving, from a wireless device associated with a user of the vehicle, a user selection of one of a plurality of operational modes for controlling performance of the vehicle; in response to receiving the user selection, setting, using a control unit of the vehicle, a set of operational parameters for a motor control algorithm, wherein the set of operational parameters includes at least one gain for the motor control algorithm; and controlling, using the control unit, a motor of the motorized human-powered vehicle based in part on the motor control algorithm in response to a physical user input that propels the vehicle. | 33,638 |
9,369,033 | 1. A switched mode power supply for supplying power from a power source to one or more output voltage rails, comprising: a switching unit configured to receive a source voltage from the power source and to output a switched voltage, the switching unit comprising: a first switch configured to switch the source voltage to the switched voltage, and configured to be driven by the source voltage; and a second switch connected in parallel with the first switch, the second switch configured to switch the source voltage to the switched voltage, and configured to be driven by an output voltage of one of the output voltage rails. | 8,776 |
9,103,686 | 1. A method for guiding a mobile transportation means of a set of transportation means, to a selected reconditioning station of a set of reconditioning stations which transportation means have each associated a powering battery of a set of batteries, in a geographically distributed arrangement of the transportation means and the reconditioning stations, comprising the steps of: determining a position of the battery; determining a condition of the battery; forecasting a consumption characteristic of the transportation means; evaluating an achievable range of mobility for the transportation means according to its consumption characteristic and the condition of its powering battery; assigning the selected reconditioning station, out of the set of reconditioning stations, to the transportation means for charge or substitute of the powering battery, which is located within the range of mobility of the transportation means along a path to a desired target; guiding the transportation means to the selected reconditioning station, wherein: | 5,332 |
9,048,375 | 1. A method for producing pyrite thin films, comprising the steps of creating a solution of molecular species comprising iron-bearing and sulfur-bearing molecules; depositing a thin film of the solution onto a substrate; and annealing the thin film to convert the molecular species to crystalline iron pyrite, wherein the step of annealing is conducted in an environment containing a sulfur based gas; wherein the step of creating a solution comprises the steps of adding sulfur and iron powders in a predetermined ratio to one part ethanolamine in 6.5 parts dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO), and stirring the sulfur, iron powders, and DMSO as a solution for 24 hours at room temperature. | 17,542 |
9,408,257 | 1. A silicone band heater cable assembly comprising: a heater cable assembly comprising a resistance wire encased in a silicone insulator, the heater cable assembly having a first cable end and a second cable end; a pair of lead wires, a splice connection between one end of each lead wire and a bare end of the resistance wire extending from each of the first and second cable ends of the heater cable assembly; a zip tie, divided into a first zip tie segment comprising a head end with a slot and first tape section and a second zip tie segment comprising a second tape section, each of the first and second tape sections having an opening sized to allow the lead wire to pass therethrough, the first tape section attached to at least one splice connection to create a first attached portion and the second tape section attached to at least the other splice connection to create a second attached portion; wherein the second tape section of the second zip tie segment can pass through the slot in the head end of the first zip tie segment to form a connected heater cable for clamping to a structure for heating. | 10,257 |
9,207,009 | 1. A refrigerated appliance comprising: a cabinet having top, bottom, left, right and back walls and a substantially open front; a lower portion of the cabinet including a freezer compartment; an upper portion of the cabinet over the freezer compartment including a fresh food compartment defined by a liner having top, bottom, left side, right side, front, and back walls, and a front opening in the front wall; an ice making compartment in an upper corner of the upper portion of the cabinet outside of but along the liner and including a front opening; a sleeve having a closed back end, an open front end corresponding with the front opening of the ice making compartment, perimeter dimensions that substantially conformingly fit into the ice making compartment, and an internal space; a removable ice making assembly disposed within the internal space of the sleeve, the removable ice making assembly comprising an ice maker, an ice bin, and an ice making compartment insulating front opening cover, the ice bin having a longitudinal axis between front and back ends with the cover on the front end; insulating material installed between at least a portion of the liner proximate to the ice making compartment and the sleeve; and a fresh food compartment door providing access to both the fresh food compartment and the ice making compartment. | 28,027 |
9,044,069 | 1. A cleat member for an article of footwear, the cleat member comprising: a fastening portion, the fastening portion configured to be associated with a fastener receiving portion disposed on a raised base on a sole of the article of footwear; an indentation disposed along an underside of the cleat member, the indentation configured to correspond to the angled face of the raised base, the indentation including: (1) a generally flat portion, and (2) a sloped portion; the flat portion extending outwards from the fastening portion of the cleat member towards a lip extending around an outer periphery of the cleat member, and the sloped portion extending from the flat portion to the lip of the cleat member, the sloped portion being disposed at an angle relative to the flat portion; the sloped portion of the indentation including a plurality of recessed portions disposed within the indentation, the plurality of recessed portions configured to associate with a plurality of protruding portions disposed on the angled face of the raised base; and wherein the plurality of protruding portions are configured to fit within the plurality of recessed portions. | 27,827 |
8,399,723 | 1. A process for the purification of a hydrofluoroolefin compound containing 3 to 8 carbon atoms, from a mixture of hydrofluoroolefin, hydrofluorocarbon, and hydrogen fluoride, said process comprising: a) subjecting said mixture to a first distillation step to form a first distillate composition comprising an azeotrope or near-azeotrope composition containing hydrofluoroolefin and hydrogen fluoride and a first bottoms composition comprising hydrofluorocarbon; b) subjecting said first distillate to a second distillation step from which a composition enriched in either (i) hydrogen fluoride or (ii) hydrofluoroolefin is removed as a second distillate composition with a second bottoms composition being enriched in the other of said components (i) or (ii); and c) subjecting said second distillate composition to a third distillation step conducted at a different pressure than the second distillation step in which the component enriched in the second bottoms composition in (b) is removed as a third distillate composition with the third bottoms composition of the third distillation step enriched in the same component that was enriched in the second distillate composition, wherein the hydrofluoroolefin and hydrofluorocarbon are CF 3 CF 2 CH 2 F and CF 3 CF═CHF; CF 3 CHFCH 2 F and CF 3 CF═CH 2 ; CHF 2 CF 2 CH 2 F and CHF 2 CF═CHF; CHF 2 CHFCHF 2 and CHF 2 CF═CHF; CH 2 FCF 2 CH 2 F and CH 2 FCF═CHF; CH 3 CF 2 CHF 2 and CHF 2 CF═CH 2 ; CHF 2 CHFCH 2 F and CHF 2 CF═CH 2 ; CF 3 CHFCH 3 and CF 3 CH═CH 2 ; CF 3 CH 2 CH 2 F and CF 3 CH═CH 2 ; CHF 2 CH 2 CHF 2 and CHF 2 CH═CHF; CH 2 FCF 2 CF 2 CF 3 and CHF═CFCF 2 CF 3 ; CF 3 CHFCF 2 CHF 2 and CF 3 CF═CFCHF 2 ; CF 3 CH 2 CF 2 CF 3 and CF 3 CH═CFCF 3 ; CF 3 CHFCHFCF 3 and CF 3 CH═CFCF 3 ; CH 3 CF 2 CF 2 CF 3 and CH 2 ═CFCF 2 CF 3 ; CF 3 CHFCF 2 CH 2 F and CF 3 CF═CFCH 2 F; CH 2 FCF 2 CF 2 CHF 2 and CHF═CFCF 2 CHF 2 ; CHF 2 CH 2 CF 2 CF 3 and CHF 2 CH═CFCF 3 ; CHF 2 CF 2 CH 2 CF 3 and CHF 2 CF═CHCF 3 ; CHF 2 CHFCHFCF 3 and CHF 2 CF═CHCF 3 , CHF 2 CH═CFCF 3 , or mixtures thereof; CHF 2 CHFCF 2 CHF 2 and CHF 2 CF═CFCHF 2 ; CF 3 CH 2 CHFCF 3 and CF 3 CH═CHCF 3 ; CHF 2 CH(CF 3 ) 2 and CHF═C(CF 3 ) 2 ; CH 2 FCF(CF 3 ) 2 and CHF═C(CF 3 ) 2 ; CF 3 CF 2 CH 2 CF 2 CF 3 and CF 3 CF 2 CH═CFCF 3 ; CF 3 CH 2 CF 2 CF 2 CF 3 and CF 3 CH═CFCF 2 CF 3 ; CF 3 CH 2 CHFCF 2 CF 3 and CF 3 CH═CHCF 2 CF 3 ; CF 3 CHFCH 2 CF 2 CF 3 and CF 3 CH═CHCF 2 CF 3 ; CH 3 CF 2 CF 2 CF 2 CHF 2 and CH 2 ═CFCF 2 CF 2 CHF 2 ; CF 3 CH 2 CF 2 CH 2 CF 3 and CF 3 CH═CFCH 2 CF 3 ; CF 3 CF 2 CHFCHFCF 2 CF 3 and CF 3 CF 2 CH═CFCF 2 CF 3 ; CH 2 FCHFCF 2 CF 2 CF 2 CF 3 and CH 2 ═CFCF 2 CF 2 CF 2 CF 3 ; CF 3 CH 2 CHFCF 2 CF 2 CF 3 and CF 3 CH═CHCF 2 CF 2 CF 3 ; CF 3 CHFCH 2 CF 2 CF 2 CF 3 and CF 3 CH═CHCF 2 CF 2 CF 3 ; CF 3 CH 2 CF 2 CF 2 CH 2 CF 3 and CF 3 CH═CFCF 2 CH 2 CF 3 ; CF 3 CF 2 CH 2 CH 2 CF 2 CF 3 and CF 3 CF═CHCH 2 CF 2 CF 3 ; CF 3 CHFCHFCF 2 CF 2 C 2 F 5 and CF 3 CF═CHCF 2 CF 2 C 2 F 5 , CF 3 CH═CFCF 2 CF 2 C 2 F 5 , or mixtures thereof; C 2 F 5 CHFCHFCF 2 CF 2 C 2 F 5 and C 2 F 5 CF═CHCF 2 CF 2 C 2 F 5 , C 2 F 5 CH═CFCF 2 CF 2 C 2 F 5 , or mixtures thereof; C 2 F 5 CF 2 CHFCHFCF 2 C 2 F 5 and C 2 F 5 CF 2 CF═CHCF 2 C 2 F 5 ; cyclo-CF 2 CF 2 CF 2 CH 2 — and cyclo-CF 2 CF 2 CF═CH—; cyclo-CF 2 CF 2 CHFCHF— and cyclo-CF 2 CF 2 CF═CH—; cyclo-CF 2 CF 2 CH 2 CH 2 — and cyclo-CF 2 CH 2 CH═CF—; cyclo-CF 2 CF 2 CF 2 CHFCHF— and cyclo-CF 2 CF 2 CF 2 CF═CH—; cyclo-CF 2 CF 2 CF 2 CF 2 CHFCHF— and cyclo-CF 2 CF 2 CF 2 CF 2 CF═CH—; CF 3 CF 2 CH 2 CH 3 and CF 3 CF═CHCH 3 ; CF 3 CH 2 CF 2 CH 3 and CF 3 CH═CFCH 3 ; CH 2 FCH 2 CHFCF 3 and CH 2 FCH═CHCF 3 ; CH 2 FCHFCH 2 CF 3 and CH 2 FCH═CHCF 3 ; CH 3 CF(CF 3 ) 2 and CH 2 ═C(CF 3 ) 2 ; CH 2 FCH(CF 3 ) 2 and CH 2 ═C(CF 3 ) 2 ; CHF 2 CF(CHF 2 ) 2 and CF 2 ═C(CHF 2 ) 2 ; CHF 2 CH(CHF 2 ) 2 and CHF═C(CHF 2 ) 2 ; CH 3 CF(CHF 2 ) 2 and CH 2 ═C(CHF 2 ) 2 ; CH 2 FCH(CH 2 F)CF 3 and CH 2 ═C(CH 2 F)CF 3 ; CH 2 FCH(CHF 2 ) 2 and CH 2 ═C(CHF 2 ) 2 ; CH 3 CF 2 CF 2 CF 2 CF 3 and CH 2 ═CFCF 2 CF 2 CF 3 ; CHF 2 CF 2 CF 2 CHFCH 3 and CHF 2 CF 2 CF═CFCH 3 ; CF 3 CF 2 CF 2 CH 2 CH 3 and CF 3 CF 2 CF═CHCH 3 ; (CF 3 ) 2 CFCH 2 CF 3 and (CF 3 ) 2 C═CHCF 3 ; (CF 3 ) 2 CHCHFCF 3 and (CF 3 ) 2 C═CHCF 3 ; (CF 3 ) 2 CFCHFCHF 2 and (CF 3 ) 2 C═CFCHF 2 ; CF 3 CF 2 CH 2 CHFCF 2 CF 3 and CF 3 CF 2 CH═CHCF 2 CF 3 ; CH 3 CH 2 CF 2 CF 2 CF 2 CF 3 and CH 3 CH═CFCF 2 CF 2 CF 3 ; CF 3 CF 2 CF 2 CH 2 CHFCH 3 and CF 3 CF 2 CF 2 CH═CHCH 3 ; (CF 3 ) 2 CFCF 2 CH 2 CH 3 and (CF 3 ) 2 CFCF═CHCH 3 ; (CF 3 ) 2 CFCH 2 CH 2 CH 3 and (CF 3 ) 2 C═CHCH 2 CH 3 ; (CF 3 ) 2 CHCHFCF 2 CF 3 and (CF 3 ) 2 C═CHCF 2 CF 3 ; (CF 3 ) 2 CFCHFCHFCF 3 and (CF 3 ) 2 C═CFCHFCF 3 , (CF 3 ) 2 CFCF═CHCF 3 , (CF 3 ) 2 CFCH═CFCF 3 , or mixtures thereof; (CF 3 ) 2 CHCH 2 CF 2 CF 3 and (CF 3 ) 2 CHCH═CFCF 3 ; (CF 3 ) 2 CFCH(CH 3 ) 2 and (CF 3 ) 2 C═C(CH 3 ) 2 ; (CH 3 ) 2 CHCF 2 CF 2 CF 3 and (CH 3 ) 2 C═CFCF 2 CF 3 ; C 2 F 5 CHFCH 2 CF 2 C 2 F 5 and C 2 F 5 CH═CHCF 2 C 2 F 5 ; C 2 F 5 CH 2 CHFCF 2 C 2 F 5 and C 2 F 5 CH═CHCF 2 C 2 F 5 ; CF 3 CHFCH 2 CF 2 CF 2 C 2 F 5 and CF 3 CH═CHCF 2 CF 2 C 2 F 5 ; CF 3 CH 2 CHFCF 2 CF 2 C 2 F 5 and CF 3 CH═CHCF 2 CF 2 C 2 F 5 ; CF 3 CF 2 CF 2 CF 2 CF 2 CH 2 CH 3 and CF 3 CF 2 CF 2 CF 2 CF═CHCH 3 ; CF 3 CF 2 CF 2 CF 2 CH 2 CH 2 CH 3 and CF 3 CF 2 CF 2 CF═CHCH 2 CH 3 ; or (CH 3 ) 2 CHCF 2 CF 2 CF 2 CF 3 and (CH 3 ) 2 C═CFCF 2 CF 2 CF 3 . | 10,203 |
9,182,384 | 1. An analyzing device having a microchannel structure comprising: a rotation axis; a separating cavity having first, second and third sidewalls, the first and third sidewalls being each formed in a generally straight line shape, the second sidewall being formed along an outermost periphery of the separating cavity and connecting the first and third sidewalls, and configured to separate a sample liquid into a solution component and a solid component by using a centrifugal force; a measurement channel configured to receive and retain the solution component; a first connecting channel provided between the measurement channel and the separating cavity to transfer the solution component from the separating cavity, the first sidewall of the separating cavity being located closer to the first connecting channel than the third sidewall of the separating cavity; and a first capillary cavity defined within the separating cavity and connected to the first and second sidewalls of the separating cavity and not the third sidewall of the separating cavity, the capillary cavity extending along the first sidewall of the separating cavity, the first capillary cavity having a first end communicating with the first connecting channel and a second end directly connected to the second sidewall of the separating cavity, the first end of the first capillary cavity being located closer to the rotation axis than the second end of the first capillary cavity, a clearance of the first capillary cavity being smaller than a depth of the separating cavity. | 32,663 |
9,429,023 | 1. A method for manufacturing a metallic superalloy gas turbine engine component using additive manufacturing techniques, the method comprising the steps of: providing a 3D design model for the gas turbine engine component, the 3D design model comprising an airfoil portion and a base portion, wherein the base portion comprises an attachment surface to which the airfoil portion is attached; adding at least two crack resistant features to the 3D design model of the component to produce an enhanced design model, wherein the at least two crack resistant features are selected from two or more of the group consisting of: manufacturing the gas turbine engine component using an additive manufacturing technique in accordance with the enhanced design model to form a manufactured gas turbine engine component, wherein the at least two crack resistant features are provided to reduce or eliminate the incidence of cracking in the manufactured gas turbine engine component. | 1,623 |
8,670,553 | 1. A method for real-time monitoring and reporting of agent status, the method comprising: collecting, by a web application server of a real-time monitoring system, events and data for an agent from a scheduling system; collecting, by a server of the real-time monitoring system, events and data for the agent from at least one phone router wherein the at least one phone router comprises a phone skill name that the agent is currently taking calls for and comprises a state of the agent's phone at that time, the state of the agent's phone comprising active or inactive on the at least one phone router, the phone skill name comprising a skill name the agent is currently working; collecting, by the web application server of the real-time monitoring system, time keeping events and data from a time keeping system, the time keeping data comprising clocked-in time, clocked-out time, lunch time and break time, the time keeping events comprising whether the agent is out on break, on lunch or sick; normalizing the events, data, the time keeping data and generating normalized data and at least one user interface comprising the normalized data, by a server side process of the real-time monitoring system; wherein the at least one user interface is one of a staff application user interface and a desktop application user interface; providing the normalized data to a message broker of the real-time monitoring system; presenting, by the message broker, at least one view of the at least one user interface to one of the staff application user interface and the desktop application user interface; wherein the at least one view comprises: at least one level of display, wherein the at least one level of display includes a display of details across a plurality of sites, a display of details for a particular site, a display of details for a particular skill, and a display of details for a particular agent; wherein the display of details for the particular site comprises details of at least one agent in the particular site, wherein the details comprises an adherence percentage, a reason for not being in adherence, a working skill of the at least one agent, a scheduled skill of the at least one agent, a time clock state of the at least one agent, real-time statistics for the particular site, the real-time statistics comprise a number of total agents, a number of agents scheduled, a number of agents clocked-in, a number of working agents, a number of agents who are inactive on a switch, a number of agents who are working but not scheduled, a number of agents who are working a wrong skill, a percentage of agents in adherence, and a number of agents out of adherence; wherein the display of details for the particular skill of the at least one agent comprises details of the at least one agent for the particular skill, and wherein the details comprise an adherence state, a reason for being out of adherence, an adherence percentage, a working skill, a scheduled skill, and a clocked in state; wherein the reason for being out of adherence comprises a number of agents inactive on the switch, working but not scheduled, working and schedule mismatch, working the wrong skill, clocked in but not working and not scheduled, on break but working, at lunch but working and clocked out but scheduled; and refreshing the at least one view with updated events and data wherein refreshing comprises periodically fetching the events and data from the phone router, including a change to at least one of the phone skill name that the agent is currently taking calls for and a change to the phone state of the agent; wherein refreshing the at least one view with the updated events and data further comprises: fetching the time keeping data from the time keeping system twelve times an hour; and fetching the events and data from the scheduling system and the at least one phone router four times an hour. | 1,898 |
9,288,932 | 1. A cooling system comprising: a coolant loop; a ground-based heat sink controllably coupled to the coolant loop, the ground-based heat sink comprising: a heat rejection unit controllably coupled to the coolant loop, the heat rejection unit configured to reject heat from coolant passing therethrough to air passing across the heat rejection unit; a controller coupled to control flow of coolant within the coolant loop through the ground-based heat sink and through the heat rejection unit based, at least in part, on at least one monitored variable; wherein the ground-based heat sink and the heat rejection unit are controllably coupled to the coolant loop in series, the ground-based heat sink being coupled to the coolant loop upstream of the heat rejection unit and the coolant passes through the ground-based heat sink before passing through the heat rejection unit, and the controller is configured to automatically control flow of coolant within the coolant loop through the ground-based heat sink based, at least in part, on the at least one monitored variable, and to automatically control flow of coolant within the coolant loop through the heat rejection unit based, at least in part, on the at least one monitored variable; a first bypass line and a first diverter valve coupled to the coolant loop between the ground-based heat sink and the heat rejection unit, the controller automatically controlling the first diverter valve to control an amount of coolant to pass through the heat rejection unit based, at least in part, on the at least one monitored variable, the controller allowing the coolant to pass through or preventing the coolant from passing through the heat rejection unit by control of the first diverter valve; and a second bypass line and a second diverter valve coupled to the coolant loop upstream of the ground-based heat sink, the controller automatically controlling the second diverter valve to control an amount of coolant to pass through the ground-based heat sink based, at least in part, on the at least one monitored variable, the controller allowing the coolant to pass through the ground-based heat sink or preventing the coolant from passing through both the ground-based heat sink and the heat rejection unit by control of the second diverter valve. | 21,239 |
9,452,841 | 1. An aircraft comprising: a turbine engine provided with a bypass duct, which surrounds an engine core, the bypass duct outputting a bypass exhaust flow when the turbine engine is in operation; a bleed off-take arrangement for bleeding off compressed hot air from the turbine engine; a wing comprising a bleed air duct for conveying compressed hot air that has been bled off from the turbine engine towards a fuselage; and a pylon by means of which the turbine engine is suspended from the wing, the pylon comprising an opening with a covering structure projecting into the bypass exhaust flow and leaving a slit facing away from the bypass exhaust flow, the pylon and the wing being arranged so that an airflow path extends from openings in the wing to the slit left by the covering structure, wherein the air flow path provides airflow over at least a portion of the bleed air duct in the wing. | 47,636 |
8,854,797 | 1. A power source circuit shut off apparatus for shutting off a circuit of a battery assembly in which plural battery cells connected in series are arranged in parallel, comprising: a housing; a pair of bus bars that is arranged in the housing and is connected to the adjacent battery cells respectively; a switch section that is adapted to conduct electrical connection or disconnection between the pair of bus bars; and a retaining member which is formed on the housing and is configured to be retained to a resin frame part of a side surface of the battery cell, wherein the retaining member has a claw part which is projected from the housing and is locked in a locking hole formed in the resin frame part of the side surface of the battery cell. | 11,154 |
9,785,835 | 1. An adaptive method for aiding a user in classifying objects from field of view images using eye fixation, the method comprising: obtaining a sequence of fixation tracking images from an eye tracking video of one or both of an observer's eyes and a sequence of field of view images from a view tracking video of what is in view of the observer, wherein the sequence of fixation tracking images are synchronized in time with the sequence of field of view images; determining by an object recognition processing apparatus when in the sequence of fixation tracking images an eye of the observer fixates on a location in one or more images of the sequence of field of view images; correlating by the object recognition processing apparatus the determined eye fixation to a location in the one or more images of the sequence of field of view images; extracting image data surrounding the fixated location from the one or more images of the sequence of field of view images; presenting an operator of the object recognition processing apparatus with the extracted image data; specifying a label for an object within the presented image data to classify the object by i) the operator assigning a label to the object based upon the presented image data, ii) auto-accepting a label from labelled image data in a classification database for the object representing the closest match to the presented image data, or iii) showing the operator a ranked set of a plurality of labels from labelled image data in the classification database associated with the closest matches to the presented image data, wherein the operator selects one of the plurality of labels as the label for the object; adding to the classification database a record of the presented image data comprising the specified label; and repeating the above determining, correlating, extracting, presenting, specifying and adding steps on a further unidentified object from the extracted image data, so as to build the classification database from the classified object and the further classified objects. | 21,721 |
8,463,866 | 1. A server comprising: a Solid-State Drive (SSD) to store data; a memory mapper to map at least a portion of a storage space of the SSD into a memory space of the server; and a network adapter to receive a Small Computer System Interface (SCSI) read command incoming from a client device, to map one or more parameters of the SCSI read command into an area of the memory space of the server from which data is requested to be read by the client device, said area corresponding to a storage area of the SSD, and to issue a Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) write command to copy data directly to the client device from said area of the memory space corresponding to the SSD. | 35,062 |
9,244,028 | 1. An electron excitation x-ray fluorescence (EXRF) device, comprising: a chamber; a vacuum pump coupled to the chamber to maintain the chamber at a desired fluid pressure; a first surface and a second surface in at least partial contact with one another within the chamber, at least one of the first surface and the second surface being drivable so as to vary portions of area of at least one of the first surface or the second surface in contact with the other of the first surface or the second surface, thereby creating a negative charge; a sample holder within the chamber, the sample holder positioned in the chamber so as to have an at least partially clear line of sight to an area of the first surface as areas of the first surface exit contact with the second surface; an electron source in the volume between the first surface and the sample holder; and an x-ray detector positioned so as to have an at least partially clear line of sight to x-rays coming from the sample holder region. | 16,536 |
8,685,249 | 1. An operation control method of a multi-stage seawater desalination apparatus that uses a multi-stage seawater desalination apparatus, during a sterilization operation of the high-pressure reverse osmosis device of the multi-stage seawater desalination apparatus, the multi-stage seawater desalination apparatus comprising: a high-pressure pump that is mounted on a raw water line through which raw water is supplied, and increases pressure of the raw water to a predetermined high pressure; a high-pressure reverse osmosis device that includes a high-pressure reverse osmosis membrane for concentrating a salt content in high-pressure feed water whose pressure is increased by the high-pressure pump; a first drain valve that is mounted on a permeated water line through which permeated water that has passed through the high-pressure reverse osmosis device is supplied downstream, and temporarily drains the permeated water of an initial start-up; a low-pressure pump that is mounted on the permeated water line provided downstream of the first drain valve, and reduces pressure of the permeated water to a predetermined low pressure; a low-pressure reverse osmosis device that includes a low-pressure reverse osmosis membrane for concentrating a salt content in low-pressure feed water whose pressure is reduced by the low-pressure pump; and a second drain valve that is mounted on a discharge line on a concentrated water side of the low-pressure reverse osmosis device, and temporarily discharges the low-pressure feed water of the initial start-up supplied to the low-pressure reverse osmosis device; wherein the high-pressure reverse osmosis device is a membrane with chlorine-resistance; the operation control method comprising: a step of supplying raw water to which chlorine (Cl) is added is supplied to the high-pressure reverse osmosis device without feeding a reducing agent from a first reducing agent supplying unit; a step of temporarily draining low-pressure feed water including a reducing agent through the second drain valve, after the reducing agent is added to permeated water with chlorine that has passed through the high-pressure reverse osmosis membrane of the high-pressure reverse osmosis device from a second reducing agent supplying unit; a step of switching operation to a normal operation, by adding a reducing agent from the first reducing agent supplying unit to the raw water, and stopping addition of the reducing agent from the second reducing agent supplying unit, after a predetermined sterilization operation is finished; and a step of producing product water, by switching operation to a rated seawater desalination operation, while closing the second drain valve. | 32,244 |
9,435,568 | 1. A device for fixing objects, such as solar panels, to a roof, the device comprising: a) at least one base element including b) a mounting rail connected to the base element, the mounting rail comprising an elongated rail member having a first space defining a first channel adapted to receive the tongue, a second space defining a second channel adapted to receive the coupling finger, a third space defining a groove adapted to receive the locking element, wherein the groove is provided with an opening in a direction transverse to the roof to secure a locking element in the groove in a direction transverse to the roof and, a fourth space adapted to receive a portion of the object, wherein the device is adapted to connect by means of a second coupling to the tile batten on a roof such that the plurality of teeth are configured to grip one edge or side of a tile batten. | 12,431 |
9,322,554 | 1. A combustor for a turbine engine comprising: a first liner defined about a liner axis with a first row of first combustion air holes circumferentially distributed about said liner axis, at least some of said first combustion air holes coaxially aligned with a corresponding fuel injector zero pitch line axis projecting from a centerline of a respective fuel injector of a plurality of fuel injectors; a second liner defined about said liner axis with a second row of second combustion air holes circumferentially distributed about said liner axis, each of said second combustion air holes coaxially misaligned relative to each of said fuel injector zero pitch line axes; and wherein said first row of first combustion air holes is a plurality of three hole sets in a four hole repeating pattern that includes a major air hole, a first minor air hole that is smaller than said major air hole and an intermediate air hole that is smaller than said major air hole and lamer than said first minor air hole. | 45,844 |
9,397,262 | 1. An optoelectronic semiconductor chip comprising: a substrate; a cladding lever arranged directly on the substrate, the cladding layer has a planar top face facing away from the substrate; a growth layer which contains at least one first nitride compound semiconductor material and which is directly applied on the cladding layer; an active zone, which contains at least one second nitride compound semiconductor material and is arranged directly on the growth layer; a top layer, which is arranged on the active zone and which is made of a transparent conductive oxide and which has a planar top side facing away from the active zone; and at least one further semiconductor layer which is arranged between the top layer and the active zone, wherein the growth layer has a first side facing the active zone and has a second side opposite of the first side, the first and the second side completely extend over the growth layer in a lateral direction, a plurality of structural elements is arranged on the first side of the growth layer, the structural elements having the form of protrusions or indentations in the first side of the growth layer and cover only a part of the first side and the structural elements are distributed at irregular intervals over the first side, and the second side of the growth layer is planar and runs in parallel with parts of the first side which are not covered with the structural elements. | 42,335 |
8,781,332 | 1. An optical transceiver module adapted to a link device, the optical transceiver module comprising: a connection unit to be coupled with the link device and having an indicating element for generating an indicating signal when the connection unit is coupled with the link device; a driving unit, coupled with the connection unit, for receiving the indicating signal and outputting a control signal according to the indicating signal; an optical transmitting unit, coupled with the driving unit, for receiving the control signal, which drives the optical transmitting unit to output a first optical signal; and an optical receiving unit, coupled with the driving unit, for transmitting a received second optical signal to the driving unit. | 12,046 |
9,132,868 | 1. A spoiler device for a vehicle, comprising: a plurality of link mechanisms configured to support a spoiler via a plurality of rotatable link members in a deployed state where the spoiler protrudes from a surface of the vehicle; a driving shaft configured to connect each of the link members provided to be spaced apart from each other in a vehicle width direction, the driving shaft configured to change the deployed state and a retracted state of the spoiler by rotating each of the link members about an axis of the driving shaft; and a connection mechanism connecting an input shaft to which a driving torque of a power source is inputted and the driving shaft to transmit the torque therebetween: wherein the connection mechanism includes: a nut member being mounted to a screw portion formed on the input shaft, the nut member thereby moving in an axial direction in response to a rotation of the input shaft; and a connection member including a connection portion moving in a circumferential direction about the axis of the driving shaft in response to a movement of the nut member in the axial direction, the connection member integrally rotating with the driving shaft. | 35,550 |
9,577,820 | 1. An elastic gear First-in-First-out (FIFO) buffer, comprising: an input that is configured to receive write data from a first device operating with a first local clock domain; a plurality of memory cells that receive and temporarily store the write data received from the input; an output that is configured to provide write data from the plurality of memory cells to a second device operating with a second local clock domain that is different from the first local clock domain; a frequency monitor that controls and monitors a difference between the first local clock domain and the second local clock domain and, based on the difference, determines whether to instruct a pointer movement controller to adjust one or both of a write pointer and a read pointer for the plurality of memory cells, thereby allowing the elastic gear FIFO buffer to balance data flowing from the input to the output; and an elastic reset module that initializes a virtual depth for the plurality of memory cells, wherein the elastic reset module comprises a read reset control and a write reset control, wherein the read reset control include a domain synchronization module and a delay module with a configurable delay. | 24,965 |
8,692,256 | 1. A display unit comprising, on a substrate: a plurality of light emitting devices in which a first electrode, an organic layer including a light emitting layer, and a second electrode are respectively and sequentially layered; and a black insulating layer separating the organic layer for the every light emitting device, wherein the black insulating layer includes an opening disposed adjacent to an opening in the organic layer of the display unit. | 28,958 |
9,212,687 | 1. A thrust washer assembly, comprising: a washer including a circumferential outer surface, the circumferential outer surface varying radially from an axis of the washer to define a plurality of ramps; and a ring including a plurality of axial protrusions, the plurality of axial protrusions each including an inner radial surface that, via a relative rotation of the washer to the ring, engages a radially outer surface of the plurality of ramps to connect the washer and the ring by a friction-fit connection. | 7,147 |
9,077,206 | 1. A system for activating and deactivating at least one of a plurality of local converters for a specified one of a plurality of energy generating devices in an energy generating array, the system comprising: a corresponding local controller configured to perform maximum power point tracking for its own corresponding specified energy generating device of the plurality of energy generating devices and to turn on and off a power stage of the corresponding local converter for the corresponding energy generating device; and an activator coupled to the corresponding local controller, the activator configured to automatically activate and deactivate the corresponding local controller responsive to a device voltage measured from the specified corresponding energy generating device; wherein the activator comprises a power supply configured to generate a supply voltage and to provide the supply voltage to the corresponding local controller, wherein: the power supply comprises a shutdown node; and the power supply is configured to generate a non-zero supply voltage when a voltage level at the shutdown node is greater than a specified voltage and to generate a zero supply voltage when the voltage level at the shutdown node is less than the specified voltage, the power supply further comprises an input node and an output node; the activator further comprises a first resistor, a second resistor, a third resistor and a diode; the first and second resistors are coupled in series between the input node and a ground; the third resistor and the diode are coupled in series between the output node and a node at which the first and second resistors are coupled together; and the shutdown node is coupled to the node at which the first and second resistors are coupled together. | 39,819 |
9,716,005 | 1. A method of performing atomic layer deposition, comprising: providing in selected zones of a workpiece a first material of a first type that is initially hydrophilic and that becomes hydrophobic upon treatment with a fluoro-carbon plasma or fluoro-carbon ion beam; providing in other zones of said workpiece a surface of a second material that remains hydrophilic upon treatment with a fluoro-carbon plasma or fluoro-carbon ion beam; performing a plasma treatment on said workpiece using a plasma derived from a fluoro-carbon species; and performing an atomic layer deposition process on said workpiece, and growing an atomic layer of a growth material on surfaces of said selected zones while generally avoiding growth of an atomic layer of growth material in said other zones. | 42,230 |
9,460,212 | 1. A method for providing search results on a search engine, the method comprising: gathering a plurality of profile data; generating a user profile associated with a user identification using the plurality of profile data, wherein the user profile comprises a plurality of weight values with each weight value of the plurality of weight values associated with a corresponding feature category of a plurality of feature categories, wherein the weight value for each of the feature categories is based on an amount of personalization data of the plurality of profile data associated with the corresponding feature category; receiving a search input from a user and the user identification; generating a plurality of feature scores, each feature score associated with one of the plurality of feature categories based on the search input; and creating a ranked search result personalized to the specific user using the user profile, the creating of the ranked search result comprising: | 45,097 |
8,425,638 | 1. A method of operating a gasification facility comprising: a gasification furnace for gasifying a raw material to produce a produced gas and an unreacted char and for leading out the produced gas through a lead-out passage; a combustion furnace for heating a bed material by introducing and burning the unreacted char from the gasification furnace and for separating and supplying the bed material from a combustion exhaust gas to the gasification furnace; and an exhaust heat recovery boiler for producing steam through heat exchange at least with the exhaust gas from the combustion furnace, the method comprising: upon cold startup of the gasification facility, A) supplying a fluidizing air to the combustion and gasification furnaces to air-purge the combustion and gasification furnaces; B) supplying a fluidizing air to the combustion furnace to fluidize a combustion-furnace fluidized bed while supplying a preheating fuel to the combustion furnace to preheat the combustion-furnace fluidized bed up to an autoignition temperature of coal; C) charging a coal to the combustion furnace after raising the combustion-furnace fluidized bed to the autoignition temperature of coal to heat the combustion-furnace fluidized bed with combustion of the coal while gradually reducing and stopping the supplying of the preheating fuel; D) supplying the fluidizing air to the gasification furnace to fluidize a gasification-furnace fluidized bed and thereby supplying the bed material in the gasification furnace to the combustion furnace while supplying blow-up air to the combustion furnace to circulate the bed material in the combustion-furnace fluidized bed to the gasification furnace; E) gradually reducing the fluidizing air supplied to the gasification furnace while gradually increasingly supplying the steam from the exhaust heat recovery boiler in heat exchange with the exhaust gas from the combustion furnace to the gasification furnace to purge the gasification furnace and a lead-out passage for the produced gas with the steam; F) supplying a raw material to the gasification furnace to start gasification of the raw material with the steam when a temperature of the combustion-furnace fluidized bed reaches a target temperature necessary for the gasification; and G) gradually reducing and stopping supplying the coal to the combustion furnace such that the target temperature is maintained in the combustion-furnace fluidized bed as the unreacted char is introduced into the combustion furnace, and upon shutdown of the gasification facility, H) gradually increasing supplying the coal to the combustion furnace and gradually reducing and stopping the supply of the raw material to the gasification furnace such that the steam is continued to be produced by the exhaust heat recovery boiler; I) continuing supplying the steam from the exhaust heat recovery boiler to the gasification furnace to purge the gasification furnace and the lead-out passage for the produced gas with the steam after the supply of the raw material to the gasification furnace is stopped; and J) stopping supplying the coal to the combustion furnace. | 12,080 |
9,090,169 | 1. An adapter used for supplying electric power from a power source including a power storage device mounted in a vehicle to an electrical device external to the vehicle through a charging cable, the vehicle being capable of performing external charging that allows the power storage device to be charged using electric power supplied from an external power supply through the charging cable, in response to a signal instructing power feeding that is generated by connection between the adapter and the charging cable, the vehicle performing power feeding to the electrical device, the adapter comprising: a first connection unit capable of connecting a power supply plug connected to the external power supply in the charging cable during external charging; a second connection unit electrically connected to the first connection unit and capable of connecting a power supply plug of the electrical device; and a leakage generation circuit causing a leakage state in a power transmission path connecting the first connection unit and the second connection unit when the adapter and the charging cable are incompletely fitted to each other. | 23,175 |
8,479,594 | 1. An apparatus for measuring the slip resistance of a wrench, the apparatus comprising: a base; at least one first threaded fastener threaded into the base, wherein the first threaded fastener comprises a head having a height; and at least one second threaded fastener threaded into the base, wherein the second threaded fastener comprises a head having a height, and wherein the roundness of the head of the first threaded fastener over the entire height thereof and the roundness of the head of the second threaded fastener over the entire height thereof are different; wherein the roundness of the head of the first threaded fastener over the entire height thereof is a function of the distance between a corner of the head of the first threaded fastener and a corner of a head of a standard threaded fastener when the first threaded fastener is mapped onto the standard threaded fastener, and further a function of the distance between the corner of the standard threaded fastener and the edge of an incircle of the standard threaded fastener; wherein roundness of the head of the second threaded fastener over the entire height thereof is a function of the distance between a corner of the head of the second threaded fastener and the corner of the head of the standard threaded fastener when the second threaded fastener is mapped onto the standard threaded fastener, and further a function of the distance between the corner of the standard threaded fastener and the edge of the incircle of the standard threaded fastener; and wherein the apparatus determines the slip resistance of the wrench according to the roundness of either the first threaded fastener of the second threaded fastener when the wrench can turn the first threaded fastener or the second threaded fastener. | 37,651 |
9,228,393 | 1. A method comprising: drilling a deviated borehole through a shale formation with a drill string comprising a drill bit; and simultaneously logging the shale formation with a logging tool disposed within the drill string; estimating, in real time with the drilling, fracture potential of a portion of the shale formation near the drill bit, the estimation of the fracture potential based on information acquired by the logging tool; and controlling drilling direction based on the fracture potential. | 47,963 |
9,357,513 | 1. A network device configured to reduce power consumption in a communications network, the network device having computer circuitry configured to: select a first evolved node B (eNode B) for power consumption reduction; determine that a second eNode B has available resources to communicate data traffic of a user equipment (UE) in communication with the first eNode B; calculate a power consumption rate of the communications network when a first eNode B is placed in a power savings mode; handover the UE to the second eNode B based on a reduction in the power consumption rate of the communications network; and switch the first eNode B to the power savings mode when the UE is handed over to the second eNode B. | 716 |
9,600,057 | 1. An information terminal comprising: a reading unit configured to read tag data from an RFID tag of a printing apparatus; a first transmission unit configured to transmit a return command to the printing apparatus based on address information included in the tag data, the return command instructing the printing apparatus to return from a power-saving mode to a normal power mode; a determination unit configured to, after the first transmission unit transmits the return command, determine whether the printing apparatus has succeeded or failed to return from the power-saving mode to the normal power mode; a notification unit configured to notify, in the case where the determination unit determines that the printing apparatus has failed to return from the power-saving mode to the normal power mode, a user that the printing apparatus has failed to return from the power-saving mode to the normal power mode; and a second transmission unit configured to transmit authentication data to the printing apparatus in a case where the determination unit determines that the printing apparatus has succeeded to return from the power-saving mode to the normal power mode, wherein the second transmission unit is configured to not transmit the authentication data to the printing apparatus in a case where the determination unit determines that the printing apparatus has failed to return from the power-saving mode to the normal power mode. | 26,402 |
9,467,994 | 1. A communication apparatus comprising: a receiver which, in operation, receives downlink control information including resource block assignment information that indicates resource blocks of which one allocated cluster or a plurality of allocated clusters are comprised, the plurality of allocated clusters being inconsecutive in a frequency domain, and each cluster being comprised of resource blocks that are consecutive in the frequency domain; and a transmitter which, in operation, maps uplink data to the resource blocks indicated by the resource block assignment information and transmits the mapped uplink data, wherein the downlink control information is transmitted, from a base station, with a downlink control information (DCI) format that is used for uplink scheduling, the DCI format having a size, which is different according to a number of codewords, a number of layers, or a number of streams and which is same, regardless of a number of clusters allocated to the communication apparatus for each number of codewords, each number of layers, or each number of streams, wherein the DCI format has a same size according to a maximum value of the number of clusters for each number of codewords, each number of layers, or each number of streams; and wherein when the plurality of clusters are allocated to the communication apparatus, a number of bits used to transmit the resource block assignment information indicating the resource blocks of which the plurality of clusters are comprised is larger than a number of bits that would be used to transmit the resource block assignment information indicating the resource blocks of which the one cluster is comprised. | 35,438 |
9,195,631 | 1. A method, comprising: receiving a trigger associated with a rule; determining, using a parser, if the rule requires that historical information be provided to an event-based analysis engine in response to receiving the trigger comprising determining if the rule comprises a change management operator to determine whether data has changed from one point in time to another point in time; filtering out, using a filter, events not needed by the rule if the rule requires historical information; sending the filtered events from the filter to a query component; retrieving the historical data from a database using the query component; and providing the event-based analysis engine with the historical information based on the filtering by providing the historical information retrieved from the query component to a memory of the event-based analysis engine. | 17,520 |
9,601,905 | 1. A semiconductor optical amplifier configured to amplify a predetermined wavelength of light comprising: a quantum well active layer positioned between a p-type cladding layer and an n-type cladding layer in thickness direction; a separate confinement heterostructure layer positioned between the quantum well active layer and the n-type cladding layer; and an electric-field-distribution-control layer positioned between the separate confinement heterostructure layer and the n-type cladding layer and configured by at least two semiconductor layers having band gap energy greater than band gap energy of a barrier layer constituting the quantum well active layer. | 28,474 |
9,533,756 | 1. An aircraft taxi system using aircraft taxi profiles including torque level limits selected to optimize aircraft taxi at an airport comprising: a. an aircraft equipped with one or more nose landing gear wheel-mounted onboard non-engine drive means for generating an operating torque and controllable to transfer torque to move the aircraft autonomously at taxi speeds during ground travel, wherein said drive means comprises one or more electric drive motors selected from the group comprising high phase order electric motors, electric induction motors, permanent magnet brushless DC motors, and switched reluctance motors powered by an auxiliary power unit of said aircraft; b. one or more onboard non-engine drive means control systems in operative communication with each of the one or more onboard non-engine drive means and with an aircraft cockpit; c. a control system onboard the aircraft in control communication with said one or more onboard non-engine drive means control systems and with automatic controls activatable to produce a maximum torque or a selected percentage of torque less than the maximum torque as required to move the aircraft from a first full forward start, to limit operation of the one or more electric drive motors to a motor torque level limit below the maximum torque at subsequent full forward starts in a taxi cycle, and to lift the motor torque level limit when the aircraft has traveled a selected distance or exceeded a selected speed; and d. a plurality of updatable aircraft taxi operational profiles in a database of said control system identified by an operational profile code defining taxi parameters for zones defined by map coordinates in each airport where the aircraft lands and takes off, wherein said plurality of updatable taxi operational profiles are used by the control system to govern a level of non-engine drive means torque required for taxi by the aircraft at specific airport locations for each airport where the aircraft lands and takes off within the motor torque level limit. | 10,427 |
9,166,075 | 1. A solar cell comprising: a substrate; a first electrode that collects electricity from a first surface of the substrate; and a second electrode that receives an output from the first electrode, wherein the second electrode includes: the first electrode includes an opening at a position corresponding to a center of the base of the second electrode; and the first electrode covers at least a fringe of the base portion of the second electrode, and covers the protruding portion of the second electrode. | 36,256 |
9,684,586 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a memory configured to store: a processor communicatively coupled to the memory, the processor configured to: | 39,495 |
8,690,155 | 1. A method of playing a pathology board game, comprising: providing a colored game board having 1) an illustration of the human circulatory system comprising organs, vein, artery, and limbs; and 2) a colored circle or wheel comprising a pie chart having a plurality of diseases, each disease having its own color and a number to indicate how many spaces each player moves through the illustrated circulatory system; providing a card holder with 1) a plurality of treatment/remedy cards, wherein each treatment/remedy card comprises at least one treatment or remedy for a disease and is colored to match a corresponding disease on the colored circle; and 2) a plurality of preventative cards, wherein each preventative card comprises at least one preventative modality to prevent a disease and is colored to match a corresponding disease on the colored circle; providing a plurality of pegs corresponding to each organ; and providing at least one pathology booklet comprising a plurality of tables, each table comprising 1) an explanation of a disease on the colored circle or wheel for at least one of an organ, vein, artery, or limb of the illustrated human circulatory system and symptoms associated with the disease; 2) a diagnostic test for the disease; 3) at least one of treatment for the disease corresponding to a treatment/remedy card, or a preventative modality for the disease corresponding to a preventative card, each player choosing a cell for circulation throughout the human circulatory system illustrated on a colored game board; each player being dealt a plurality of treatment/remedy cards and a plurality of preventative cards; during a turn, each player spinning the colored circle or wheel to indicate a disease and number; advancing the cell the indicated number along the circulatory system, thereby landing on an organ, vein, artery, or limb; locating in the at least one pathology booklet at least one of a treatment or prevention for the indicated disease corresponding to the organ, vein, artery, or limb on which the player landed; a player matching at least one of a treatment/remedy card or preventative card corresponding to the indicated disease, thereby avoiding the disease; as each player successfully passes through each organ, the player places a peg corresponding to the organ in a slot behind the card holder; wherein the first player to pass through the circulatory system in any order and who has a treatment/remedy card or preventative card for the last organ is declared the winner of the game. | 48,774 |
9,113,201 | 1. A broadcast receiving device comprising: a receiver which selects a channel and receives a first broadcast signal that includes a plurality of frames; a signal processor which processes the first broadcast signal; a controller which controls the receiver to select another channel when a channel change command is received; a communication component which receives, from an external device, at least one reference frame from among frames of a second broadcast signal received from the another channel, wherein the at least one reference frame relates to a frame from the first broadcast signal that corresponds to a time when the channel change command was received; and a storage component which stores the received at least one reference frame, wherein when the channel change command is received, the receiver receives the second broadcast signal which is provided on the another channel which corresponds to the received channel change command and stores the received second broadcast signal in the storage component, and the signal processor decodes the frames of the second broadcast signal by using the at least one reference frame, and wherein when the channel change command is received, the controller determines an external device which has selected and is playing the another channel or which stores a reference frame of the another channel, and uses the communication component to request the at least one reference frame from the determined external device. | 46,205 |
9,356,519 | 1. A switching power-supply device comprising: a plurality of converter blocks connected in parallel and each of which includes: a smoothing circuit to which the rectification circuit of each of the converter blocks is connected; a control unit that controls a switching operation of the first series circuit of alternately turning on-and-off the first switching element and the second switching element with dead time in which the first switching element and the second switching element are turned off, for each of the converter blocks; and a current detection unit that detects currents flowing in each of the converter blocks, wherein at least one of the converter blocks further comprises: a second series circuit including a third switching element and a fourth switching element connected to the direct-current power supply; and a reactor that is connected between a connection point of the third switching element and the fourth switching element and a primary coil-side terminal of the capacitor, and wherein, for each of the converter blocks having the second series circuit and the reactor, the control unit: performs controlling of a switching operation of the second series circuit of turning on-and-off the third switching element and the fourth switching element, alternately, with dead time in which the third switching element and the fourth switching element are turned off, to a frequency of switching operation of the first series circuit; and controls a phase difference between the switching operation of the first series circuit and the switching operation of the second series circuit, based on a difference between current flowing in the converter block, which is detected by the current detection unit, and current flowing in another converter block, so that a voltage of the capacitor is adjusted to adjust the current flowing in respective converter blocks, wherein, for each of the converter blocks having the second series circuit and the reactor, the control unit: increases the phase difference between the switching operation of the first series circuit and the switching operation of the second series circuit when the current flowing in the converter block, which is detected by the current detection unit, is larger than the current flowing in another converter block; and decreases the phase difference between the switching operation of the first series circuit and the switching operation of the second series circuit when the current flowing in the converter block, which is detected by the current detection unit, is smaller than the current flowing in another converter block. | 14,695 |
8,983,221 | 1. An image processing apparatus which estimates a point spread function (PSF) of at least one input image, the image processing apparatus comprising: a non-transitory memory device storing a program; and a hardware processor configured to execute the program and cause the image processing apparatus to function as: an S/N ratio estimation unit configured to estimate an S/N ratio of the input image at each spatial frequency; a restricted range calculation unit configured to calculate a restricted range which more likely includes a spatial frequency in which the S/N ratio is lower, the restricted range being a range in which a frequency component of the input image is restricted, the range being of the spatial frequency; a frequency restriction unit configured to generate a restricted image by restricting a frequency component of the input image within the restricted range; and a PSF estimation unit configured to estimate the PSF of the input image, using the restricted image. | 30,440 |
9,455,242 | 1. A semiconductor optoelectronic device, comprising: a growth substrate; a semiconductor epitaxial stack unit formed on the growth substrate, comprising: a first electrode directly formed on the growth substrate and electrically connected to the first semiconductor material layer via the growth substrate; an insulating layer formed on the growth substrate and comprising a first opening to expose the first electrode; a second electrode formed on the insulating layer, wherein a portion of the insulating layer is between the second electrode and the growth substrate; and a conductive connection structure electrically connecting the second electrode with the second semiconductor material layer, wherein the second electrode and the conductive connection structure are not overlapped with the first electrode from a top view of the semiconductor optoelectronic device, the second electrode is overlapped with the first, electrode from a lateral view of the semiconductor optoelectronic device, and wherein the first electrode and the second electrode are both next to a same side of the semiconductor epitaxial stack unit such that the first electrode is positioned beside the second electrode on the same side of the semiconductor epitaxial stack unit. | 5,070 |
9,621,221 | 1. A method of cancelling self-interference in a full duplex radio, comprising: converting a radio frequency (RF) analog output signal of a transmission chain of the radio to a digital baseband signal; digitally filtering the digital baseband signal using a digital adaptive filter; converting the digitally filtered signal to an analog signal; combining the analog signal with a received signal from another radio in an analog portion of a receive chain of the radio. | 24,825 |
9,127,219 | 1. A biomass gasification system, comprising: a feedstock preparation system configured to generate a biomass feedstock comprising a biomass fuel and a tar cracking additive; a gasifier fluidly coupled to and downstream of the feedstock preparation system, wherein the gasifier is a down-draft gasifier and is configured to gasify the biomass fuel in the presence of the tar cracking additive to generate first and second mixtures, wherein the first mixture comprises producer gas and a first portion of the tar cracking additive, and the second mixture comprises a second portion of the tar cracking additive and ash, and wherein the gasifier comprises: an additive recycle system fluidly coupled to a second gasifier outlet and an inlet of the feedstock preparation system, the second gasifier outlet is aligned with the centerline axis of the gasifier, wherein the additive recycle system is configured to generate a recycled additive feed, and wherein the recycled additive feed comprises the first portion of the tar cracking additive, or the second portion of the tar cracking additive, or a combination thereof, and wherein the additive recycle system directs the recycled additive feed to the inlet of the feedstock preparation system. | 17,508 |
9,540,871 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a motor; and a gearbox comprising an internal enclosure and an external enclosure, wherein the internal enclosure encloses gears, and wherein the external enclosure encloses the internal enclosure and creates a cavity between the internal enclosure and the external enclosure; an output shaft comprising a through-channel, the output shaft extending through the internal enclosure and the external enclosure, wherein the gears apply torque to the output shaft; a window covering tilt rod that passes through the through-channel of the output shaft; a selectable tilt rod adapter insert fixedly disposed within the through-channel of the output shaft, the adapter having an internal shape complementary to the tilt rod and an external shape complementary to the through-channel of the output shaft, wherein the output shaft applies torque to the tilt rod via the tilt rod adapter. | 887 |
9,384,169 | 1. A computer implemented numerical method for solving an inverse problem in subsonic flows, comprising: transforming a set of two-dimensional Euler equations in the Eulerian plane, using a transforming matrix with Jacobian into a stream-function transformation in a stream-function plane expressed by a time τ-direction, a stream-function ξ-direction and a particle traveling distance λ-direction, so-called two-dimensional Euler equations in the stream formulation in the stream-function plane formally are where f where ρ, p, and E are respectively density, pressure and total energy, u, v are two velocity components in a Cartesian coordinator system; U, V are two stream-function geometry state variables; building a computing grid in the stream-function plane, using the computer; solving so-called two-dimensional Euler equations in the stream-function formulation in the computing grid in the stream-function plane, using the computer, including solving a Riemann problem across a streamline presenting a solid-wall with a prescribed pressure distribution on the solid-wall to determine a flow angle; calculating a solid wall angle associated with the solid wall based on the determined flow angle; and determining a geometric shape of an aerodynamic solid-wall of a nozzle using the prescribed pressure distribution on the solid wall and the solid wall angle, wherein the determined geometric shape matches with an original geometric shape of the solid wall of the nozzle. | 16,327 |
9,292,068 | 1. An article comprising a non-transitory machine-accessible storage medium including instructions that when executed cause a system to: analyze a plurality of power state change events of a multicore processor including a plurality of cores during an evaluation interval to determine a number of frequency transitions responsive to the plurality of power state change events for each of N-core turbo frequencies; select one of the N-core turbo frequencies to be a maximum operating frequency of the multicore processor for a next operating interval based at least in part on the number of frequency transitions, the selected N-core turbo frequency less than a configured maximum operating frequency of the multicore processor; and control the plurality of cores to operate at no higher than the selected N-core turbo frequency for the next operating interval. | 28,269 |
8,915,774 | 1. A portable game carcass hanger comprising: a first mounting strap having a first end and second end; a second mounting strap identical to the first mounting strap; a cam buckle disposed on the first end of each of the first and second mounting straps; wherein the second end of each of the first and second mounting straps is configured to securingly engage the respective fastening device; wherein each of the first and second mounting straps is configured to wrap around a vertical support body; a mounting bracket comprising: a threaded first hook removably disposed on the distal end of the second leg; a triangular hanger having an apex and a bottom end opposite the apex; and at least one second hook removably disposed on the bottom end of the hanger; wherein the apex removably engages the first hook; wherein the at least one second hook is configured to permit the hanging of at least one game carcass thereon; and wherein the second strap is disposed immediately adjacent the entire back plate. | 17,870 |
9,166,042 | 1. A semiconductor power device having a drain electrode disposed in a bottom surface of a semiconductor substrate comprises an active cell area and a termination area, wherein: the semiconductor substrate supports a top epitaxial layer of a first conductivity type having a super-junction structure comprising dopant columns of a second conductivity type extending vertically in said epitaxial layer; a planar gate disposed on top of the epitaxial layer comprising a first planar gate segment and a second planar gate segment separated by a center gap between the first and second planar gate segments; body regions disposed in said top epitaxial layer below outer edges of the first gate segment and the second planar gate segment wherein each of the body regions encompassing a source region of the first conductivity type and each of the body regions extending laterally to a top region of one of the dopant columns; and a Schottky metal layer disposed on top of an insulation layer covering over and completely surrounding the first and second planar gate segments wherein the Schottky metal layer further filling contact trenches opened through the insulation layer at two outer edges of the first and second planar gates and through the center gap between the first and second planar gate segments wherein the contact trenches filled with the Schottky metal layer at two outer edges of the first and second planar gates extending into a top portion of the top epitaxial layer to contact the body regions and the source regions and the Schottky metal filling the trench opened through the center gap between the first and second planar gate segments further extending below the body region and contacting the epitaxial layer. | 21,326 |
9,187,005 | 1. A system comprising: a monitoring module configured to monitor a charge level of a battery in a vehicle; a network interface module configured to a control module configured to generate (a) a first signal based on (i) the reply and (ii) the first set of charging parameters, and (b) a second signal based on (i) the charge return request and (ii) charge return parameters; a charging module configured to charge the battery based on the first signal; and a charge retrieval module configured to return charge from the battery to the utility company based on the second signal. | 3,903 |
9,304,420 | 1. A two-component developer comprising a toner including a binder resin, a colorant and a release agent, the toner having an exposure rate of the release agent on the toner surface of 1.00% or above and 3.07% or below, and the toner having a dispersion diameter of a release agent exposed on the toner surface of 200 nm or less and a resin-coated carrier comprising a carrier core material and a resin coating layer formed on a surface of the carrier core material, the carrier core material being soft ferrite having remanent magnetization of 10 emu/g or less and having an apparent density of 1.86 g/cm the resin-coated carrier comprising a resin coating layer containing a conductive agent, and having a volume resistance of 10 the carrier core material having a volume average particle size of 35 μm or more and 40 μm or less, the resin coating layer containing a silicone resin having a coupling agent dispersed therein, the toner further including a first charge control agent, the resin coating layer including a second charge control agent, and the first charge control agent and the second charge control agent having a same charging polarity, the exposure rate of the release agent on the toner surface and the apparent density of the carrier core material satisfying the following formula (1): wherein y represents the exposure rate of the release agent on the toner surface, and x represents the apparent density of the carrier core material. | 2,856 |
8,597,636 | 1. A method for treating an immune thrombocytopenia or inflammatory arthritis in a mammal, said method comprising: a) obtaining a sample of leukocytes having a Fcγ receptor and being syngeneic or autologous to the cells of the treated mammal; b) contacting said leukocytes of step a) with an antibody composition binding to a γ-chain dependent Fcγ receptor under conditions sufficient to allow the crosslinking of the γ-chain dependent Fcγ receptor; and c) administering said leukocytes of step b) to said mammal; wherein said treated leukocytes ameliorate said immune thrombocytopenia or inflammatory arthritis in said mammal; wherein the antibody composition is selected from the group consisting of i) an IVIg, ii) a combination of an antibody specific for the FcγRIIIA receptor and an anti-IgG antibody, and iii) an immune complex comprising an antigen and an IgG antibody specific for the antigen. | 44,249 |
9,372,190 | 1. A method of predicting an increased risk of a patient developing a disease state where said disease state belongs to the group of diseases consisting of atherosclerosis, atherothrombosis, microangiopathy, metabolic syndrome, non-alcoholic steatohepatitis, insulin resistance, diabetes, and combinations thereof, wherein said method comprises the steps of: (a) obtaining a cell-free plasma sample from said patient, the cell-free plasma sample comprising a lipoprotein fraction in or in addition to high molecular weight complexes capable of being disrupted by freezing and thawing the sample; (b) contacting the sample with an anti-CD36 antibody to obtain a CD36-antibody complex, wherein said anti-CD36 antibody is selected from the group of antibodies consisting of monoclonal anti-human CD36 antibody sc-7309, rabbit polyclonal antibodies specific for amino acids 1-300 of human CD36, and goat polyclonal antibodies specific for an N-terminal peptide of human CD36; (c) incubating said sample with said antibody to obtain a CD36-antibody complex; (d) contacting said complex with a labelled compound having specific binding affinity for said complex; (e) detecting labelled compound bound to said complex, whereby an amount of CD36 protein present in said cell-free plasma sample comprising high molecular weight complexes is measured as indicative of a level of circulating CD36 in the patient; and (f) determining whether the CD36 level measured in step (e) is above a reference level determined from healthy subjects, an increased level of circulating CD36 in said patient above the reference level from the healthy subjects being predictive of an increased risk of the patient developing said disease state. | 45,177 |
8,490,720 | 1. A valve for use in inserting or removing tubulars from a wellbore, comprising: a housing having a housing passage extending between ends thereof; first and second members disposed in said housing passage to close said housing passage when said members contact and to allow flow through said housing passage when said members are moved out of contact, at least one of said members having more than one degree of freedom of movement; said first member translates axially along said housing passage and further comprises a first through passage that skews about a center of rotation located on an axis of said housing passage. | 10,470 |
9,745,047 | 1. An aircraft generating a lift from an interior of the aircraft, comprising: having a fuselage, engines and wings, having a plurality of ports on surface of a casing of the fuselage and wings, and having a plurality of exits at a tail of the fuselage, and having a fluid channel between the ports and the exits; wherein the wings comprising first and second wings located at the left and right of the fuselage; the engines comprising first and second engines located under the first and second wings which could generate lift, respectively; and a third engine, equipped inside the tail of the fuselage and located in the fluid channel, having an air-in vent and an air-out vent, wherein the air-in vent communicates with the ports, and the air-out vent communicates with the exit, wherein the third engine drives a fluid to flow within the fluid channel in the casing of the fuselage and wings, so that the fluid speed formed inside the fluid channel and over an upper surface of the casing communicating with the fluid channel is larger than that on lower surface of the casing in natural state, resulting in a pressure difference between the upper and lower surfaces of the casing and thus creating a lift. | 19,893 |
8,676,119 | 1. A method comprising: detecting touching of one or more portions of at least one first device with one or more portions of at least one second device; and communicating pairing information from the at least one first device to the at least one second device at least partly in response to detecting touching of one or more portions of the at least one first device with one or more portions of the at least one second device to facilitate pairing of the at least one second device with at least one third device. | 43,176 |
9,365,125 | 1. A plug connector for electrically connecting an electric vehicle to a charging device, the plug connector comprising: a plug or a socket; an electromechanically driven locking device; and a drive device for the locking device, wherein the drive device comprises the locking device; wherein: the plug or the socket is configured for establishing an electrical connection to a second socket or a second plug of a second plug connector associated with the electric vehicle or the charging device, the locking device comprises a bolt which is movable vertically along an axis in the plug-in direction of the plug or the socket to mechanically lock and/or unlock an interconnected plug/socket pair, the locking device and/or the plug or the socket has a centering device configured in such a way that the locking device can be detachably fastened in a form-fitting manner to the plug or to the socket in a position predetermined by the centering device, the centering device is configured in two parts with a first part on the drive device and a second part on the plug or on the socket, the first part of the centering device provided on the drive device has a projection extending semi-circularly in an axial direction relative to the plug-in direction of the plug or the socket, and the second part of the centering device provided on the plug or on the socket has a semi-circularly extending groove for receiving the projection in a form-fitting manner. | 7,616 |
9,422,060 | 1. A turboprop-powered medium altitude long endurance aircraft, comprising: a heat exchanger having an air flow channel interlaced with a heat-storage material; an air inlet arranged to input external air from ground-based cooling air and/or a ram air scoop directly into the air flow channel so as to cool the heat-storage material; and an air recirculation path including the air flow channel; wherein | 3,975 |
9,503,024 | 1. An amplifying device comprising: a signal splitter configured to split an input signal to a plurality of signals having a phase difference between the plurality of signals fluctuating in accordance with an absolute value of an amplitude of the input signal; a plurality of amplifiers configured to amplify the plurality of signals respectively; a combiner configured to combine a plurality of signals amplified by the plurality of amplifiers to generate an output signal; a selector configured to select one of the output signal whose phase is inverted and the output signal whose phase is non-inverted; and a switch controller configured to control the signal splitter so that phases of the plurality of signals are non-inverted, and to control the selector so that the selector selects one of the output signal whose phase is inverted and the output signal whose phase is non-inverted, in accordance with a first point of time when the absolute value of the amplitude of the input signal becomes a minimum or a second point of time deviated from the first point of time by a predetermined time period. | 16,610 |
9,802,978 | 1. A compound of formula I or esters, or salts thereof wherein X is O, N—OR Y is O, N—OR Z is ═O or ═S; R R R R R R R R R R | 32,487 |
9,229,108 | 1. A method comprising: directing at least one laser beam pulse from a laser that is mounted on a moving underwater vehicle toward an underwater structure while the vehicle is at a first location relative to the underwater structure; detecting light that is reflected from the underwater structure using a light detector mounted on the underwater vehicle; generating a first data point cloud from the detected light autonomously in real time, the first data point cloud being suitable for generating a three-dimensional model of the underwater structure; generating a virtual alignment model autonomously in real time of the underwater structure from the first data point cloud; while generating the virtual alignment model autonomously in real time of the underwater structure from the first point cloud data, moving the underwater vehicle from the first location to a second location relative to the underwater structure; directing one or more additional laser beam pulses from the laser that is mounted on the moving underwater vehicle toward the underwater structure while the vehicle is at the second location relative to the underwater structure; detecting light that is reflected from the underwater structure from the one or more additional laser beam pulses using the light detector and generating a second data point cloud autonomously in real time; aligning a sample of the second data point cloud obtained to the virtual alignment model autonomously in real time; and building a three dimensional virtual model autonomously in real time of the underwater structure with the virtual alignment model and the sample of the second data point cloud. | 31,554 |
8,585,810 | 1. An apparatus for regenerating a CO 2 absorption solution comprising: a first storage tank for storing an absorption solution that contains absorbed CO a regeneration column for generating an absorption solution regenerated by heating the absorption solution to free CO a separation drum for separating the CO a multi-stepped compressor for compressing the CO a heat exchanger for performing a heat exchange between absorption solution discharged from the first storage tank and the CO a temperature sensor for detecting temperature of the absorption solution after the heat exchange in the heat exchanger; and a flow meter for controlling a flow rate of the absorption solution passing through the heat exchanger according to the temperature of the absorption solution detected by the temperature sensor. | 26,978 |
9,779,690 | 1. An image display device that displays a portion of a predetermined image to be displayed in an image display area of a display, and scrolls the predetermined image according to a detected scroll operation with respect to the predetermined image, the image display device comprising: at least one processor and memory configured to: detect a scroll operation with respect to the predetermined image displayed in the image display area of the display; specify an amount of the predetermined image displayed in the image display area to be scrolled according to the detected scroll operation; scroll the predetermined image according to the amount to be scrolled; regulate the amount to be scrolled so that an end of the predetermined image does not enter the inside of the image display area if the predetermined image is scrolled in the image display area according to the amount to be scrolled; change a display mode of at least a portion of a peripheral area of the image display area in the display when the amount to be scrolled is regulated; display a scroll bar for scrolling the predetermined image together with the predetermined image on the display; and change a display mode of a slider of the scroll bar when the amount to be scrolled is regulated by changing a degree of shading of a display color of the slider according to a relational amount of the regulated amount to be scrolled. | 47,844 |
8,909,425 | 1. A system comprising: a flow device having a speed, wherein the flow device is configured to output a raw speed signal; a component in fluid communication with the flow device; and a controller in communication with the flow device that is configured to: | 17,914 |
9,523,548 | 1. A computer-readable non-transitory medium embodying information indicative of instructions for causing one or more machines to perform operations for controlling a turret with swivel assemblies mounted thereon, the operations comprising: rotating a first swivel assembly for a first pointable device around a first vertical axis, the first swivel assembly supported by a first portion of a rotatable platform on a turret, the turret having a second swivel assembly for a second pointable device supported by a second portion of the rotatable platform, the second pointable device pointing at an off-board location; slewing the turret based on the rotation of the first swivel assembly; and rotating the second swivel assembly around a second vertical axis opposite the rotation of the slewing of the turret such that the second pointable device continues to point at the off-board location. | 14,453 |
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