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8,510,484 | 1. A content transmission apparatus, comprising: a reception unit for performing a receiving process for receiving, from a content output apparatus, either a transmission instruction or wait information that is transmitted by the content output apparatus according to a position within an output order of pieces of content data of at least one piece of content data stored with the content transmission apparatus, the output order of pieces of content data being determined by an order in which the content output apparatus receives a playback reservation from the content transmission apparatus and at least another playback reservation from at least another content transmission apparatus, the reception unit receiving the wait information in response to at least another piece of content data being ahead of the at least one piece of content data in the output order, and the reception unit receiving the transmission instruction in response to no other piece of content data being ahead of the at least one piece of content data in the output order; a transmission unit for starting transmission of the at least one piece of content data to the content output apparatus in response to the reception unit receiving the transmission instruction; and a control unit for controlling a time interval for causing the reception unit to continue to perform the receiving process according to the wait information indicating a status of wait until the transmission unit is to start the transmission of the at least one piece of content data to the content output apparatus. | 46,124 |
9,568,790 | 1. A liquid crystal display comprising: a first substrate; a gate line and a common voltage line that are on the first substrate; a gate insulating layer on the gate line and the common voltage line; a semiconductor layer on the gate insulating layer; a data line and a drain electrode that are on the semiconductor layer; a pixel electrode on the data line and the drain electrode; a passivation layer on the pixel electrode, the pixel electrode being between the first substrate and the passivation layer; a common electrode on the passivation layer; a second substrate; and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first and second substrates, wherein the pixel electrode contacts the drain electrode via a first contact hole, the common electrode contacts the common voltage line via a second contact hole in the gate insulating layer and the passivation layer, and the first and second contact holes are adjacently disposed in a thin film transistor forming region, wherein the common voltage line includes a horizontal portion traversing a middle of the pixel electrode, and a vertical portion vertically extending along the data line, one end of the vertical portion of the common voltage line is provided with a common voltage line extension, wherein the gate line includes a first gate electrode and a second gate electrode, the second gate electrode is not provided in a region where the common voltage line extension is disposed, and the common voltage line extension and the first gate electrode are adjacently disposed in an extending direction of the gate line. | 41,069 |
8,679,439 | 1. A method of producing ammonia, the method comprising: (a) gasifying a biomass in a biomass gasifier to generate biosyngas, wherein said biomass is gasified with the aid of oxygen (O (b) directing said biosyngas from said biomass gasifier to an oxyblown autothermal catalytic reformer downstream of said biomass gasifier, wherein said oxyblown autothermal catalytic reformer is operated at a temperature from about 1500° F. to 1700° F.; (c) reforming said biosyngas using said oxyblown autothermal catalytic reformer to provide a gas stream comprising hydrogen (H (d) directing said gas stream comprising hydrogen to an ammonia synthesis reactor; and (e) generating ammonia in said ammonia synthesis reactor by reacting hydrogen produced from said biosyngas with nitrogen supplied from said air separation unit. | 44,734 |
8,379,345 | 1. A spindle motor comprising: a stationary portion including a stator; and a rotating portion including a rotor magnet and rotatably supported by the stationary portion; wherein the stationary portion includes: the rotating portion includes: the upper thrust portion and the upper hub annular portion are arranged to together define a fifth gap that is continuous with the fourth gap therebetween; the outer tubular portion and the lower hub annular portion are arranged to together define a sixth gap that is continuous with the third gap therebetween; the fifth gap includes an upper surface of a lubricating oil located therein, while the sixth gap includes a lower surface of the lubricating oil located therein; the communicating hole and a space extending from the fifth gap to the sixth gap through the fourth gap, the first gap, the second gap, and the third gap are continuously filled with the lubricating oil; and the first gap includes a dynamic pressure bearing provided therein. | 1,674 |
9,741,951 | 1. A substrate for an organic electronic device (OED), comprising: a flexible base film; an inorganic material layer present on the base film; and an elastic layer present on, under, or in the inorganic material layer, and including a material having an elastic modulus at 23° C. of 20 to 400 GPa, wherein the inorganic material layer includes first and second sub layers, each having a thickness of 7 nm or less, and wherein the first sub layer has a refractive index of 1.4 to 1.9, and the second sub layer has a refractive index of 2.0 to 2.6. | 4,727 |
9,640,997 | 1. A system for stabilizing a power system, the system comprising: a power grid of transmission lines; a plurality of sources of power; a plurality of inverters connecting respective sources of power to the transmission lines of the power grid; and a controller configured to measure a low frequency oscillation of the transmission lines of the power grid and to distribute signals over a communications network to the inverters, wherein the signals control the different inverters to damp different amounts of the low frequency oscillation at a given time; wherein the controller is configured to calculate an active and a reactive power to damp the low frequency oscillation of the power grid by dividing the active and reactive powers among the inverters and wherein the controller is configured to calculate a first relative contribution to the power grid of each inverter and a second relative contribution to the power grid of each inverter, and wherein the active power is divided among the inverters based on the first relative contribution to the power grid dependent on individual inverter rating and the reactive power is divided among the inverters based on the second relative contribution to the power grid dependent on individual inverter rating. | 33,643 |
9,675,764 | 1. An injector comprising: a cylinder with a longitudinal axis and an inner wall; a solid piston free of cavities and being inserted into the cylinder without a preset orientation, the piston having a piston body and two or more deformable sealing elements, which deformable sealing elements each abut the inner wall of the cylinder at an abutting interface and seals an annular gap between the piston body and the inner wall of the cylinder; a hypodermic needle attached to an outlet at an outlet end of the cylinder opposite an actuating end of the cylinder; and a piston rod having a tubular section for housing the hypodermic needle, the tubular section having a needle insertion end comprising an engagement device for engaging a complementary engagement device of the outlet or the hypodermic needle, and a needle protection end opposite the needle insertion end, which tubular section comprises an actuating surface to directly contact and push the piston, wherein the piston rod has a length, which is equal to or larger than an operating length of the cylinder defined by the distance from the actuating end of the cylinder to the outlet end of the cylinder minus the dimension of the piston parallel with the longitudinal axis; wherein the piston is free of connecting features to connect to the piston rod, and wherein the actuating surface of the piston rod is free of connecting features to connect to the piston. | 37,213 |
9,401,611 | 1. Method for recharging a pool of batteries from a recharging device comprising several recharging terminals supplied electrically from at least one energy production source and a central unit which comprises software and hardware means for controlling the recharging device to implement the method for recharging a pool of batteries, wherein the method comprises the following steps: a. Estimation of future production of energy, comprising a predicted energy E b. Estimation of an energy need Σ c. Computation of a dummy power P d. Scheduling time of rechargings of each of the batteries connected to the recharging device over the dummy period and within a dummy power curve defined during a previous step instead of the predicted power; and e. recharging the batteries connected to the recharging device according to a temporal scheduling determined by the previous steps. | 1,486 |
9,053,811 | 1. A method for refreshing memory, the method comprising: receiving a synchronization command at a memory device; resetting an internal refresh timer in value based on receiving the synchronization command, the internal refresh timer located within the memory device; generating an internal refresh trigger within the memory device based on the internal refresh timer reaching a predetermined value; outputting a busy signal from the memory device based on the internal refresh trigger; performing a refresh of a memory array within the memory device based on the internal refresh trigger; and outputting the busy signal until completion of the refresh of the memory array within the memory device. | 40,609 |
9,850,116 | 1. An apparatus for opening a corked bottle comprising: a large caliber rifle cartridge-shaped body, wherein the body is hollow; a first aperture in the body; a second aperture in the body capable of opening a capped bottle, wherein the second aperture features a tooth; an arm pivotally connected to the body, wherein the arm features a brace that may rest against the lip of a bottle, wherein the arm is defined by an arc shaped cut out on the end of the arm that is connected to the body, whereby the arm can substantially pivot around the end of the cartridge-shaped body and still lie flush against the body, whereby the apparatus resembles a bullet when the arm is flush against the body; and a metal corkscrew shaped worm housed inside of the hollow body, wherein the worm is hingedly connected to the body via a spring controlled hinge so that the worm may pivot and be positioned at approximately perpendicular position relative to the body. | 33,493 |
8,551,304 | 1. An electrolyzer device comprising: a plurality of cells, each of the cells including: wherein the plurality of cells are connected in series. | 5,832 |
8,454,801 | 1. A biocoke producing apparatus comprising: a vessel including a heating region and a cooling region; pulverizing means for pulverizing a biomass raw material resulting from photosynthesis; heating means for heating in the heating region the biomass raw material pulverized by the pulverizing means to a temperature range in which hemicellulose of the pulverized biomass raw material is pyrolyzed so as to exhibit bonding effects; pressurization means for pressurizing the pulverized biomass during the heating to a pressure range in which lignin of the pulverized biomass exhibits a thermal curing reaction, and maintaining the pressure; and cooling means for cooling in the cooling region the pulverized biomass while maintaining the pressure; temperature detecting means for detecting temperature at a central part of an exit end of the heating region, the temperature detecting means being disposed at the exit end of the heating region; and regulation means for judging a reaction terminal point in accordance with results of the temperature detection and regulating the timing for transferring from heating to cooling in accordance with results of the judgment of the reaction terminal point. | 20,993 |
9,803,598 | 1. An air intake system for an engine comprising: a first air intake conduit having a siloxane adsorber for providing air to the engine; a second air intake conduit for providing air to the engine during regeneration of the siloxane adsorber; wherein the siloxane adsorber is heated during regeneration; an exhaust conduit selectively coupled to the first air intake conduit downstream of the siloxane adsorber; and a valve configured to couple the first air intake conduit to the exhaust conduit during regeneration of the siloxane adsorber. | 21,673 |
8,802,288 | 1. An electrode for an electrochemical cell comprising: a current collector comprising: an active electrode material, wherein the nano-scale coating has a maximum thickness of less than about 200 nanometers; wherein the nano-scale coating is disposed between the active electrode material and the metallic substrate; and wherein the nano-scale coating is substantially free of a binder. | 37,187 |
9,646,148 | 1. A method for remotely managing a portable storage device, the method comprising: receiving, by a processor, a request from an endpoint device to send a command to the portable storage device; authenticating, by the processor, the endpoint device that has sent the request; and transmitting, by the processor, the command to the portable storage device, wherein the command is transmitted wirelessly, wherein the command comprises an unlock command for unlocking the portable storage device, wherein the portable storage device is a multi-media card. | 42,616 |
9,253,833 | 1. An apparatus, comprising: an integrated circuit (IC) configured to couple to a bipolar junction transistor (BJT) through a single pin that is configured to couple to an emitter of the bipolar junction transistor (BJT), wherein the integrated circuit (IC) comprises: a switch configured to couple to the emitter of the bipolar junction transistor (BJT); a current detector coupled to the switch and configured to detect when a current from the emitter of the bipolar junction transistor (BJT) reaches a threshold value; and a controller coupled to the switch and to the current detector and configured to: | 15,350 |
8,535,104 | 1. A cooling system for a marine battery, the cooling system comprising: a substantially air-tight housing; at least one battery disposed in the housing; a heat exchanger circulating cooling fluid through the housing; and an air circulation device circulating cooling air along a series of flow paths comprising a first flow path across the heat exchanger and the at least one battery and a second flow path returning to the air circulation device; wherein the cooling fluid comprises seawater. | 21,149 |
8,576,707 | 1. A method for single-channel bus coupling of a safety-critical process, comprising: processing a data record via at least two redundant processing channels on a protocol-specific basis using identical laws in each of the redundant processing channels to form one redundant safe protocol with two redundant safety messages, wherein the two redundant safety messages processed with identical laws are joined together to form a further common safe protocol, whereby each of the at least two processing channels accesses a plurality of register locations in a common buffer register, with write authorization for each register location of the plurality of register locations being allocated only once in such a way that the two redundant safety messages are joined together in components by in each case writing in different components of the respective safety-based protocols to form the further common safe protocol. | 18,758 |
8,877,467 | 1. A method of making a saccharified biomass material, the method comprising: (a) providing a cellulosic or lignocellulosic biomass feedstock; (b) saccharifying the biomass feedstock, comprising; | 28,448 |
9,551,971 | 1. A sheet storage apparatus comprising: a first sheet storage unit and a second sheet storage unit which are stacked in a vertical direction and configured to store a sheet conveyed by the sheet conveyance unit, each of the first sheet storage unit and the second sheet storage unit including: a control unit configured to detect presence of a sheet stored in each of the first sheet storage unit and the second sheet storage unit according to an output of each sensor, wherein, in a case where a first rotary member included in the first sheet storage unit is at the home position, at least a part of the first rotary member, viewed from a downstream side in the sheet conveying direction, overlaps a virtual line extending in the direction orthogonal to the sheet conveying direction and passing through a rotational axis of a second rotary member included in the second sheet storage unit. | 12,871 |
8,478,350 | 1. A distribution method in an application system of a mobile communication network, the mobile communication network comprising a base station and a mobile communication switching center, the method comprising: (a) establishing a connection between a mobile communication terminal and an application system distribution platform through the mobile communication network; (b) accessing a corresponding application system by activating an application system human-computer interaction module installed on the application system distribution platform; (c) operating the application system and the human-computer interaction module; (d) obtaining a screen display image interface of the human-computer interaction module by an output processing module of the application system distribution platform and sending the screen display image interface to the mobile communication terminal; (e) displaying the screen display image interface by the mobile communication terminal and sending input information to the human-computer interaction module; and (f) repeating the step (c) through step (e) until the mobile communication terminal quitting the operation of the application system; wherein the step (a) comprises establishing a virtual channel between a virtual agent module of the mobile communication terminal and a virtual channel module of the application system distribution platform for sending the input information of the mobile communication terminal and the screen display image interface. | 4,288 |
8,853,479 | 1. A method for production of an alkylbenzene product from a natural oil comprising: deoxygenating the natural oil to form a stream comprising paraffins; dehydrogenating at least a portion of the paraffins to provide mono-olefins, di-olefins and aromatics; selectively hydrogenating the di-olefins to form additional mono-olefins and separating and removing the aromatics from the mono-olefins before alkylating; alkylating benzene with the mono-olefins under alkylation conditions to provide an alkylation effluent comprising alkylbenzenes and benzene; and isolating the alkylbenzenes to provide the alkylbenzene product. | 22,848 |
9,242,900 | 1. A method of fabricating a porous material, the method comprising: combining a geopolymer resin and a liquid to form a mixture; stirring, shaking, shearing, agitating, sonicating, or vibrating the mixture at a pressure lower than atmospheric pressure; solidifying the mixture to form a solid embedded with the liquid; and removing at least a portion of the liquid from the solid to yield the porous material. | 31,799 |
9,062,658 | 1. A rotor blade for a wind turbine, comprising: a casing structure of first and second flat fiber composite materials, which forms a rotor blade surface, wherein at least at a leading edge and trailing edge of the rotor blade, the first and second fiber composite materials provide a frequency-dependent radar reflection factor for radar radiation that is incident perpendicular to the rotor blade surface and that have a reflection minimum at a given frequency in a range of 1 GHz to 10 GHz; and an inner structure configured to stabilize the casing structure, wherein the inner structure comprises a third fiber composite material having a reflection minimum at a given frequency in the range of 1 GHz to 10 GHz, wherein the first fiber composite material covers at least the leading edge and the second fiber composite material covers at least the trailing edge, wherein the inner structure is arranged within the casing structure so that it is located below a portion of the rotor blade surface covered by the first fiber composite material and outside of a portion of the rotor blade surface covered by the second fiber composite material, and wherein the first and second fiber composite materials are different fiber composite materials. | 32,531 |
8,775,054 | 1. A cold start control system for a vehicle, comprising: a starter control module that initiates cranking of a spark ignition direct injection (SIDI) engine in response to user actuation of an ignition switch; a mode setting module that sets a mode of operation to a coldstart mode when an engine coolant temperature is less than a predetermined temperature during the cranking; a throttle control module that allows a throttle valve to be biased to a predetermined open position when the SIDI engine is off and that, in response to the setting of the mode to the coldstart mode, selectively closes the throttle valve relative to the predetermined open position during the cranking; and a fuel control module that, in response to the setting of the mode to the coldstart mode, disables direct injection of fuel for a first combustion event during the cranking. | 42,815 |
9,831,431 | 1. An OLED curved-surface display panel comprising: a first transparent electrode; an organic luminescent layer; a second transparent electrode; and a reflective electrode, wherein the second transparent electrode is closer to a display side than the first transparent electrode, and wherein a thickness of the first transparent electrode increases from a middle portion of the curved-surface display to an edge portion of the curved-surface display. | 35,707 |
9,818,674 | 1. A semiconductor component having at least first and second terminals, comprising: a support having first and second device receiving portions, a first lead extending from the first device receiving portion and a second lead extending from the first die receiving portion, wherein the first and second leads are integral with the first device receiving portion; a third lead adjacent to and electrically isolated from the first and second device receiving portions; and a first semiconductor device having a first surface and a second surface, wherein a first bond pad extends from a first portion of the first surface, a second bond pad extends from a second portion of the first surface and a third bond pad extends from a third portion of the first surface, the first semiconductor device mounted to the support in a flip chip configuration, wherein the first bond pad is coupled to the first device receiving portion, the second bond pad is coupled to the second device receiving portion, and the third bond pad is coupled to the third lead, wherein the first semiconductor device is configured from a III-N semiconductor material. | 22,389 |
9,853,561 | 1. A load control device for controlling power delivered from an AC power source to an electrical load, the load control device comprising: a thyristor adapted to be electrically coupled between the AC power source and the electrical load, the thyristor having first and second main terminals through which current can be conducted to energize the electrical load and a gate terminal through which current can be conducted to render the thyristor conductive; a gate coupling circuit configured to receive first and second drive voltages, the gate coupling circuit comprising two MOS-gated transistors electrically coupled in anti-series connection, the MOS-gated transistors electrically coupled to conduct current through the gate terminal of the thyristor in response to the first and second drive voltages; and a control circuit configured to generate the first and second drive voltages for individually controlling the MOS-gated transistors of the gate coupling circuit, the control circuit being configured to control the gate coupling circuit to cause the MOS-gated transistors to conduct a pulse of current through the gate terminal of the thyristor at a firing time during a present half-cycle of the AC power source to render the thyristor conductive, the control circuit being further configured to control the gate coupling circuit to allow the MOS-gated transistors to conduct at least one other pulse of current through the gate terminal of the thyristor after the firing time during the present half-cycle. | 14,651 |
9,312,554 | 1. A hydrogen generator comprising: a tubular reformer configured to generate a hydrogen-containing gas by a reforming reaction using a material gas; a CO reducer configured to reduce carbon monoxide contained in the hydrogen-containing gas generated in the reformer; a tubular hydro-desulfurizer provided at an outer periphery of the reformer and configured to remove a sulfur compound contained in the material gas; and a material gas supply passage through which the material gas and the hydrogen-containing gas to be supplied to the hydro-desulfurizer flows, wherein an output of the reformer is fluidly coupled to the material gas supply passage, wherein: the material gas supply passage is configured to perform heat exchange with the CO reducer; the hydro-desulfurizer has one end surface and another end surface; and a material gas inlet port of the hydro-desulfurizer is provided at the one end surface closer to the CO reducer than the another end surface. | 24,039 |
9,844,869 | 1. A hand power tool, comprising: a hand power tool device including: a drive unit having at least one drive shaft; a transmission housing having at least one opening; a transmission unit having at least one transmission element and a planetary gear, the at least one transmission element positioned in the at least one opening, and the planetary gear positioned in the transmission housing; a cooling unit having at least one fan element; and at least one sealing element contacting the transmission element and the transmission housing, and configured to seal the transmission unit in at least one axial direction, wherein the at least one fan element defines at least one receiving region configured to at least partially receive the at least one sealing element. | 30,478 |
9,611,520 | 1. A method for the treatment of metal-containing waste, the method comprising: (i) feeding a wet particulate metal-containing waste under gravity into a plasma treatment unit comprising a furnace; (ii) plasma treating the particulate metal-containing waste to form a layer of slag and, optionally, a layer of metal beneath the layer of slag; and (iii) recovering slag and/or metal from the plasma treatment unit; wherein the plasma treatment unit comprises an electrically conductive hearth for holding the layer of slag and optional layer of metal, one or more inlets for the particulate metal-containing waste arranged above the hearth, and a graphite electrode arranged above the hearth so that, in use, a plasma arc is formed between the electrode and the hearth, wherein the one or more inlets for the particulate metal-containing waste are arranged adjacent to the electrode and sufficiently close to the electrode so that, in use, the particulate metal-containing waste fed into the plasma treatment unit falls close to the arc formed between the electrode and the hearth and is heated by the plasma arc before contacting the slag layer such that moisture present in the particulate metal-containing waste is completely volatilized in a head space of the furnace above the slag layer; wherein the wet particulate metal-containing waste comprises an ore comprising a metal selected from the group consisting of iron, nickel, copper, titanium, chromium, and manganese; and a slag comprising titanium dioxide and metallic iron is recovered from the ore. | 10,426 |
9,284,685 | 1. A foil apparatus for a paper making machine comprising: an elongated foil member defining a work surface positionable relative to the forming fabric of a paper making machine; an elongated pulse generator coupled to the foil member along a length of the foil member, the pulse generator being mounted adjacent to the foil member for forming a nip between the work surface and the forming fabric, the nip for creating movement in a slurry stock of a paper making machine for reducing flocculation. | 48,257 |
8,777,614 | 1. A system for remotely monitoring the rotational speed of a rotating tip of a pneumatic dental handpiece, comprising: a dental handpiece having a proximal end and a distal end; a rotating tip located at the distal end of the handpiece; a light at the distal end of the handpiece; a fluid supply; a fluid conduit connected to the proximal end of the handpiece to provide fluid communication from the fluid supply to the handpiece to drive the rotating tip; a hose coupling attached at one end to the fluid conduit, and at the other end to the handpiece, the hose coupling further comprising a sensor for detecting the rotating tip speed of the tip; a control valve in the fluid conduit to regulate the flow of fluid from the fluid supply into the handpiece; and a controller in communication with the sensor and with the valve, wherein the controller receives a signal from the sensor, the controller comparing the detected speed to a preset speed range, and adjusts the control valve to meter fluid to the handpiece as required so that the rotating speed of the tip is maintained within the reset speed range. | 11,290 |
8,480,894 | 1. A desalination system comprising: a plurality of vertical pressure vessels (PVs), each in fluid communication with a feed pipe, a brine pipe and at least one permeate pipe, and each comprising at least five membrane elements having a diameter of at least 16 inches set one upon the other in a column, wherein each membrane element is secured with an o-ring, such that each membrane element supports the membrane elements positioned above it, to yield a load upon each but a top membrane element, wherein each PV holds one column of membrane elements, wherein each membrane element is arranged to produce permeate from feed water and to convey the permeate through a central vertical conduit in the membrane element, and wherein the central vertical conduits of all membrane elements per PV are in fluid communication with each other and with the at least one permeate pipe; a feeding module arranged to deliver feed water via the feed pipe to the PVs; a brine collecting module arranged to receive brine via the brine pipe from the PVs; and a permeate module arranged to receive permeate via the at least one permeate pipe from the membrane elements in the PVs, wherein the membrane elements are configured to support the load of the membrane elements positioned thereupon, and wherein the columnar arrangement of the membrane elements in the vertical PVs is configured to allow for thermal expansion of the membrane elements while limiting, by generating the loads upon the membrane elements and without any additional limiting mechanism, a movement of the membrane elements upon abrupt feed water flow changes, and further to yield a full evacuation of foam produced during cleaning of the membrane elements wherein at least some of the PV's include a plurality of sensors, each sensor associated with one of the membrane elements in the PV and arranged to measure a flow and a salinity of feed water in the PV at the sensor's position upon external power induction, the sensors further arranged to communicate the measurements; at least one measurement device arranged to inductively provide power to sensors in a specified range therefrom and receive measurements therefrom; and a data processor arranged to receive the measurements from the at least one measurement device and calculate therefrom vertical flow and salinity profiles in the PV, to yield an indication of a faulty membrane element. | 4,562 |
8,556,019 | 1. A hybrid vehicle having a saddle, comprising: a rear-wheel supporting member swingably attached to a body frame and adapted to support a rear wheel; a drive power transmitting mechanism adapted to transmit a power of an internal combustion engine from one side of the rear-wheel supporting member in a widthwise direction of the vehicle to a drive shaft of the rear wheel; and an electric motor adapted to transmit a driving force from an opposite side of the rear-wheel supporting member in the widthwise direction of the vehicle to the drive shaft of the rear wheel, wherein the rear wheel includes a wheel hub portion having an inner cylindrical hub provided on a side of the drive shaft and a cylindrical outer hub provided in a radially outer side of the inner hub, wherein the electric motor includes a motor housing accommodating a stator and a rotor therein, and a rotational shaft extending from the motor housing and the drive shaft have a common axis and an end of rotational shaft is connected to an end of the drive shaft at a position surrounded by the cylindrical outer hub, and wherein one end portion of the motor housing in the widthwise direction is supported on the outer hub via a bearing which is fitted with the cylindrical outer hub in a radially contacting manner, and the motor housing is fixedly connected to the rear-wheel supporting member by a connection member. | 30,639 |
9,031,834 | 1. A method for providing spectral speech descriptions to be used for synthesis of a speech utterance comprising the steps of receiving at least one spectral envelope input representation corresponding to the speech utterance, where the at least one spectral envelope input representation includes at least one of at least one formant and at least one spectral trough in the form of at least one of a local peak and a local valley in the spectral envelope input representation, extracting from the at least one spectral envelope input representation a rapidly varying input component, where the rapidly varying input component is generated, at least in part, by removing from the at least one spectral envelope input representation a slowly varying input component in the form of a non-constant coarse shape of the at least one spectral envelope input representation and by keeping the fine details of the at least one spectral envelope input representation, where the details contain at least one of a peak or a valley, creating a rapidly varying final component, where the rapidly varying final component is derived from the rapidly varying input component by manipulating at least one of at least one peak and at least one valley, combining the rapidly varying final component with one of the slowly varying input component and the spectral envelope input representation to form a spectral envelope final representation, and providing a spectral speech description output vector to be used for synthesis of a speech utterance, where at least a part of the spectral speech description output vector is derived from the spectral envelope final representation. | 3,562 |
9,203,339 | 1. A motor driving device including a rotor which holds a permanent magnet and is rotatably disposed about a rotary shaft, a stator in which a coil for each phase is wound around a stator iron core having a plurality of salient poles, a motor driving circuit for energizing the coil, and an operational clock generator for generating a clock signal for the motor driving circuit, the motor driving device comprising: a PWM duty ratio detecting unit for detecting a target rotational speed based on a duty ratio of a PWM signal input from a host system; a PWM period detecting unit for detecting a period of the PWM signal; a PWM period error calculating unit for calculating an error between a PWM period output from the PWM period detecting unit and a PWM period previously set as a reference calculated by using the operational clock generator; a position detecting sensor for detecting a permanent magnet of the rotor; and an actual rotational speed calculating unit for calculating an actual rotational speed of the rotor by using a signal output from the position detecting sensor, wherein the motor driving device controls a speed while correcting the actual rotational speed based on the PWM period error. | 30,094 |
8,882,892 | 1. A cyclone for a powder recovery system, comprising: a cylindrical portion and a conical portion alignable with each other along a vertical axis of the cyclone, said conical portion comprising a conical upper section and a conical lower section, said conical lower section being pivotally attached to said conical upper section by a joint, wherein said conical lower section is pivotable about said joint between a first position and a second position, said conical lower section being aligned with said conical upper section along said vertical axis when said conical lower section is in said first position, said conical lower section being aligned along a second axis that is different from said vertical axis when said conical lower section is moved from said first position to said second position, said conical lower section comprising an outlet that is in fluid communication with a suction mechanism when said conical lower section is in said second position. | 27,660 |
9,177,034 | 1. A data storage system comprising: a plurality of storage zones, each storage zone comprising a plurality of nodes wherein each node comprises a plurality of storage devices and a controller, the controller including a processor and memory a first node of a plurality of nodes included in a first zone of the plurality of storage zones, the first node having instructions which when executed cause a first processor included in a first controller in the first node to perform actions including: | 49,644 |
9,624,269 | 1. An isolated polynucleotide encoding a polypeptide comprising the amino acid sequence X1-S-X2-Y-C-R-L-X3-X4-X5-X6-C-(X7) n (SEQ ID NO: 6), wherein X1 is glutamic acid or aspartic acid: wherein X2 is methionine, leucine, isoleucine or valine; wherein X3 is leucine or methionine: wherein X4 is glycine, serine or alanine; wherein X5 is leucine, isoleucine or valine; wherein X6 is glycine or alanine; wherein X7 is glycine, aspartic acid or glutamic acid, and wherein n is 0 or 1, or a complement thereof. | 13,309 |
9,020,600 | 1. A method to treat an eyelid disorder comprising: temporarily affixing non-particulate magnetic material to the surface of the lower rim of the upper eyelid; temporarily affixing non-particulate magnetic material to the surface of the upper rim of the lower eyelid or to surface of the upper orbital rim; and allowing the force of a magnetic field to move the upper and lower eyelids or the upper eyelid. | 10,221 |
9,231,350 | 1. A connector, comprising: a housing having a cylindrical shape and configured to insert therein a wire which has a terminal at a terminal portion of the wire; a shield shell disposed on an outer peripheral side of the housing; a mounting member configured to be assembled with the housing and the shield shell and to set the terminal therein; and a fixing mechanism, wherein the mounting member includes a tubular portion configured to be inserted into a gap between the housing and the shield shell in a diameter direction of the housing and to be contacted with an end face of the housing, the shield shell includes a fixing portion configured to be fixed to the housing, and a movable portion rotatably connected to the fixing portion and disposed on an outer periphery of the tubular portion, the housing is molded integrally with the fixing portion and the wire by an insulating resin, and the fixing mechanism is provided between the movable portion and the tubular portion in the diameter direction, is configured to move the end face of the housing toward the tubular portion when the movable portion is rotated, and is configured to fix the housing and the shield shell to the mounting member in a state where the tubular portion and the end face of the housing closely contacted with each other. | 14,090 |
9,365,995 | 1. An apparatus for skimming and separating an oil layer from a water surface, comprising: (a) a horizontally disposed separation plate positioned between a water surface and a layer of oil floating on said water surface; (b) a baffle plate positioned in a desired proximity of said separation plate; (c) a vacuum head delivering a suction force, said vacuum head positioned vertically above said separation plate and in fluid communication with said layer of floating oil; and (d) wherein said separation plate and said baffle plate direct said suction force from said vacuum head to collect said layer of oil above said separation plate such that said suction force is directed ahead of said baffle plate. | 1,202 |
8,432,440 | 1. A system, comprising: a turbine engine, comprising: a combustion chamber that houses a flame while the turbine engine is in operation; a viewing port into the combustion chamber; a camera configured to obtain an image, or series of images, of the flame in the combustion chamber through the viewing port; and a controller configured to receive the image, or series of images, from the camera, to analyze the image, or series of images, to identify at least one of flame temperature, flashback, flame holding, substantially excessive dynamic oscillations, changes to fuel composition, and lean blowout precursors based on the image, or series of images, and to adjust a parameter of the turbine engine based on at least one of the identified flame temperature, flashback, flame holding, substantially excessive dynamic oscillations, changes to fuel composition, and lean blowout precursors. | 2,086 |
8,951,658 | 1. A cable-type secondary battery comprising: an electrode assembly comprising | 31,012 |
9,286,472 | 1. A packet handling system, comprising: at least one main processor coupled to a system bus and to a memory bus by a memory controller, a plurality of offload processors disposed on hardware modules directly connected to a memory bus and configured to provide security related services on packets received over the memory bus by operation of the memory controller prior to redirection to the main processor; an arbiter disposed on at least one of the hardware modules and connected to each of the plurality of offload processors of its hardware module, the arbiter configured to schedule resource priority for instructions or data received from the memory bus by operation of the memory controller; a first virtual switch disposed on at least one of the hardware modules in communication with both the main processor and the plurality of offload processors by operation of the memory controller using the memory bus, with the first virtual switch configured to receive memory read/write data over the memory bus, and further directing at least some memory read/write data to the arbiter; and a second virtual switch coupled to the system bus and configured to receive the packets and direct the packets to at least the first virtual switch by operation of the memory controller. | 45,191 |
9,326,621 | 1. A food shield, comprising: at least one shield panel adapted to be positioned between two shield panel support structures and adapted for coupling to the two shield panel support structures, said shield panel having a front edge, a back edge and opposed end sections and defining a thickness between a front face and an opposite face; a first panel clamp assembly comprising an upper panel clamp, and a lower panel clamp that mates with the upper panel clamp with the upper panel clamp and lower panel clamp when mated together defining a panel receiving slot of the panel clamp assembly therebetween, such that the at least one shield panel is held between the upper panel clamp and lower panel clamp in the panel receiving slot along a front edge at or near one end section of the shield panel with the upper panel clamp contacting the front face and the lower panel clamp contacting the opposite face, and the at least one shield panel is slidably positionable along the entirety of the length of the front edge within the slot defined between the upper panel clamp and the lower panel clamp, until the upper panel clamp and lower panel clamp are tightened to maintain the shield panel in a fixed position; a second panel clamp assembly comprising a second upper panel clamp, and a second lower panel clamp that mates with the second upper panel clamp with the second upper panel clamp and second lower panel clamp when mated together defining a second panel receiving slot of the second panel clamp assembly therebetween, such that the at least one shield panel is held between the second upper panel clamp and second lower panel clamp in the panel receiving slot along a rear edge at or near the one end section of the shield panel with the second upper panel clamp contacting the front face and the second lower panel clamp contacting the opposite face, and the at least one shield panel is slidably positionable along the entirety of the length of the rear edge within the slot defined between the second upper panel clamp and the second lower panel clamp, until the second upper panel clamp and second lower panel clamp are tightened to maintain the shield panel in a fixed position; a first adjustable bracket assembly adapted for coupling to at least one post of one of the shield panel support structures, wherein said first adjustable bracket assembly provides location and angular adjustment of the shield panel in respect to the at least one post, the first adjustable bracket assembly comprising: at least two first separable collar portions and a first grip element positioned at least partially between the at least two first separable collar portions, the first grip element having an inner surface that mates with the at least one post; and a second adjustable bracket assembly adapted for coupling to at least one post of the other of the shield panel support structures, wherein said second adjustable bracket assembly provides location and angular adjustment of the shield panel in respect to the at least one post of the other shield panel support structures, the second adjustable bracket assembly comprising: at least two second separable collar portions and a second grip element positioned at least partially between the at least two second separable collar portions, the second grip element having an inner surface that mates with the at least one post of the other of the shield panel support structures. | 35,890 |
8,881,513 | 1. A device for producing electrical energy from the exhaust gas of an internal combustion engine, the device comprising: a generator having an exhaust gas inlet connection, an exhaust gas outlet connection and at least one heat exchange section between said exhaust gas inlet and outlet connections; said heat exchange section including multiple heat exchange units and a plurality of radial flow paths transverse to said exhaust gas inlet connection and configured to be assigned to said multiple heat exchange units, at least some of said multiple heat exchange units having at least one radially configured thermoelectric element and a cooling device, said at least one thermoelectric element being captively connected to said cooling device. | 38,978 |
9,425,883 | 1. A system for wireless communication, comprising: a) a plurality M of receivers coupled to M antennas and configured to handle N communication channels, wherein N≧2 and wherein N≦M≦(2N−1); b) N channel state machines configured to dynamically allocate multiple channels of the N channels to the M receivers to support dynamic switched diversity for multi-channel dynamically controlled reception; c) an arbitration component configured to arbitrate between channel state machines when such channel state machines work concurrently; and d) a fast lock control mechanism operative to accelerate the locking time of one receiver based on at least one parameter received from another receiver. | 28,250 |
9,519,806 | 1. A domain-specific web server apparatus comprising: first circuitry configured to receive a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) request; second circuitry configured to generate an input symbol based on the HTTP request; third circuitry configured to validate that a value of the input symbol is valid according to a first domain, wherein the first domain is one of a plurality of domains embedded into hardware of the domain-specific web server apparatus, wherein the first domain includes, via a hardwired symbolic notation, values that the HTTP request is allowed to have; fourth circuitry configured to generate an output symbol by mapping the input symbol from the first domain to a second domain of the plurality of domains; fifth circuitry configured to determine output data based on the output symbol; and sixth circuitry configured to transmit the output data as a response to the HTTP request. | 26,320 |
9,785,651 | 1. A computer implemented visual search engine comprising: a searchable database indexing a collection of data associated with a plurality of known objects, the collection indexed according to a plurality of image-derived keys; and a network-accessible search server coupled with the searchable database and, upon a processor in the server executing software instructions stored in a non-transitory computer readable memory, configured to: | 38,410 |
9,789,423 | 1. A filtration apparatus comprising: a filtering column which interior is divided by a perforated partition into a filtrate zone and a filtering zone, wherein said filtering zone is adapted to receive a stream of raw-water and a lower portion of its volume is filled with filtering grains, and wherein said filtrate zone is adapted to receive a filtrate obtained from passage of said stream of raw-water via said filtering grains and said perforated partition; and a pressure reducing device in fluid communication with said lower portion of said filtering zone and with an upper portion thereof, wherein said pressure reducing device is adapted to receive a stream of water and responsively to continuously remove filtering grains from said filtering zone and separate filtration residues therefrom by the reduction of pressure conditions thereinside, and direct a stream comprising said stream of water and said separated filtering grains and filtration residues to said upper portion of said filtering zone; wherein the pressure reducing device is a Venturi device adapted to receive a stream of water and continuously remove filtering grains from the filtering zone and separate filtration residues therefrom by means of a Venturi effect; and wherein the Venturi device comprises a pressure chamber having an inlet adapted to receive the stream of water and a tapering outlet adapted to produce the Venturi effect. | 7,120 |
9,166,135 | 1. An optical/electrical transducer apparatus, comprising: a housing having a section that is thermally conductive and a member that is at least partially optically transmissive, the optically transmissive member being connected to the thermally conductive section of the housing to form a seal for a vapor tight chamber; a working fluid within the chamber, wherein pressure within the chamber configures the working fluid to absorb heat during operation of the apparatus, to vaporize at a relatively hot location as the working fluid absorbs heat, to transfer heat to and condense at a relatively cold location, and to return as a liquid to the relatively hot location; and a wicking structure in contact with the working fluid comprising semiconductor nanowires within the chamber configured as an active driven part of an optical/electrical transducer and configured to be driven to emit light from within the chamber through or to be driven by light received in the chamber via the optically transmissive member. | 17,490 |
8,830,606 | 1. An interchangeable lens to be detachably attached to a camera body, the interchangeable lens including a holding unit at which a plurality of contacts is arranged, the interchangeable lens comprising: an optical system including a driven member; a driving device that drives the driven member; a first contact to which a drive voltage for operating the driving device is supplied from the camera body; a second contact that is a ground terminal corresponding to the drive voltage; a third contact to which a first clock signal is input from the camera body; a fourth contact through which a first data signal is input from the camera body in synchronization with the first clock signal; a fifth contact that outputs a second data signal to the camera body in synchronization with the first clock signal; a sixth contact to which a second clock signal is input from the camera body; a seventh contact that outputs a third data signal to the camera body in synchronization with the second clock signal; an eighth contact that outputs a first asynchronous signal that is asynchronous with the first clock signal and the second clock signal to the camera body; a ninth contact to which a second asynchronous signal that is asynchronous with the first clock signal and the second clock signal is input from the camera body; a tenth contact that outputs a third asynchronous signal that is asynchronous with the first clock signal and the second clock signal to the camera body; an eleventh contact to which an operating voltage is supplied from the camera body for receiving the first data signal from the camera body using the fourth contact and transmitting the second data signal to the camera body using the fifth contact based on the first asynchronous signal output from the eighth contact and the first clock signal input at the third contact and for transmitting the third data signal to the camera body using the seventh contact based on the second asynchronous signal input at the ninth contact, the third asynchronous signal output from the tenth contact, and the second clock signal input at the sixth contact; and a twelfth contact that is a ground terminal corresponding to the operation voltage, wherein: the first contact to the twelfth contact are aligned in a line at the holding unit; the first contact is arranged on one end and the eleventh contact is arranged at another end of the arrangement of the twelve contacts; the second contact is arranged next to the first contact in the arrangement of the twelve contacts; and the twelfth contact is arranged next to the eleventh contact in the arrangement of the twelve contacts. | 31,219 |
8,717,551 | 1. A system comprising: a light modulation unit configured to modulate the incident light stream, wherein the light modulation unit includes an array of light modulating elements; a spectral sensing device; a processing unit configured to: | 21,621 |
8,443,165 | 1. A method comprising: receiving a command for storing data to a plurality of data storage resources; storing the data in a set of buffer storage locations; defining a plurality of jobs for the command, each of the plurality of jobs having an associated data operation with at least one of the data storage resources; and reallocating a subset of the buffer storage locations that stored the data for a completed job prior to completion of at least one other job. | 1,134 |
9,029,024 | 1. A nonaqueous electrolytic solution of an electrolyte salt dissolved in a nonaqueous solvent, which comprises a sulfonate compound represented by any of the following general formulae (I) to (III) in an amount of from 0.01 to 10% by mass of the nonaqueous electrolytic solution: wherein R wherein R wherein R | 36,534 |
9,672,046 | 1. A processor comprising: a plurality of processor components for performing a corresponding plurality of processor functions; a plurality of power planes, each power plane associated with one of the processor components; and a power control unit (PCU) to dynamically adjust power to each of the power planes based on processing requirements of a device in which the processor is used, workload characteristics, power constraints, and thermal constraints for a current use of the processor, wherein the power constraints comprise a specified power budget, the PCU to ensure that the combined power used by the power planes does not exceed the specified power budget when dynamically adjusting power to each of the power planes, and wherein the thermal constraints comprise a specific thermal budget for each one of the processor components, the PCU to ensure that the power used by each power plane does not cause the temperature of the associated processor component to exceed the specific thermal budget of the associated processor component when dynamically adjusting power to each of the power planes. | 46,143 |
8,936,149 | 1. A carrier for holding a plurality of containers, the carrier comprising: a bottom panel; a top panel at least partially in face-to-face contact with the bottom panel, wherein the top panel is foldably connected to the bottom panel along a longitudinal fold line; a handle comprising a bottom gripping portion in the bottom panel and a top gripping portion in the top panel, the bottom gripping portion comprising a first edge and an opposing second edge, and the top gripping portion comprising a third edge and an opposing fourth edge; at least a first container receiver and a second container receiver for at least partially receiving a respective container of the plurality of containers, wherein the first container receiver is foldably connected to the handle along at least a first fold line and a second fold line, and the second container receiver is foldably connected to the handle along at least a third fold line and a fourth fold line; and a first opening at least partially defined by the first container receiver and the handle and a second opening at least partially defined by the second container receiver and the handle, the first edge of the bottom gripping portion and the third edge of the top gripping portion at least partially defining the first opening, and the second edge of the bottom gripping portion and the fourth edge of the top gripping portion at least partially defining the second opening. | 28,900 |
9,654,813 | 1. A method for providing an interactive event experience, the method comprising: receiving live stream signals, including audio signals, from each of a plurality of physical venues of an interactive event; synchronizing the live stream signals from the plurality of physical venues; presenting a plurality of objects on a content layer that is instantiated at each of a plurality of display devices of each of the plurality of physical venues, each of the plurality of objects corresponding to live stream signals from one of the plurality of physical venues; and managing presentation of each of the plurality of objects on a particular display device at a first physical venue of the plurality of physical venues; wherein managing the presentation includes providing options to manage the position of each of the plurality of objects relative to each other; wherein the volume of the audio signal associated with a second object of the plurality of objects is based on a distance between the second object and a first object corresponding to the first physical venue, the second object corresponding to a second physical venue of the plurality of physical venues. | 36,491 |
9,706,976 | 1. An ultrasound system, comprising: a base unit; a cordless removable battery pack comprising a battery, a housing of the battery and electrical contacts on the housing; a removable cable assembly; and a probe in communication with the base unit, comprising: a housing of the probe, the housing of the probe including a single mating surface configured to receive both of the cordless removable battery pack and a first electrical connector of the removable cable assembly at different times, wherein the same mating surface electrical contacts only couples either the cordless removable battery pack or the first electrical connector of the removable cable assembly to the probe at a time; a transducer array positioned within the housing, wherein the transducer array emits acoustical energy and receives return reflections of the acoustical energy; and a transmitter, within the housing of the probe, mounted on a circuit substrate and communicatively coupled to the transducer array, wherein the transmitter stimulates the transducer array to emit acoustical energy, and the transmitter is configured to receive power, via the mating surface electrical contacts, from either the cordless removable battery pack or the first electrical connector. | 35,398 |
8,974,365 | 1. A method for treating a condition associated with thalamocortical dysrhythmia, the method comprising in combination: applying, external to the skull, transcranial low voltage electrical stimulation (TLVES) therapy or transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) therapy to a patient suffering from a condition associated with thalamocortical dysrhythmia; administering to the patient intravenously, intramuscularly, orally, intranasally or by inhalation a dissociative anesthetic during the TLVES therapy or the TMS therapy, wherein the dissociative anesthetic is ketamine administered at a dose of about 50 mg to about 500 mg or at a dose of about 0.5 mg/kg to about 5 mg/kg. | 38,915 |
8,468,998 | 1. An engine assembly comprising: an engine structure defining a cylinder bore and an intake port in communication with the cylinder bore and adapted to mitigate intake air swirl within the cylinder bore; a piston disposed within the cylinder bore for a reciprocal stroke between a top dead center position and a bottom dead center position, the piston including a torroidal combustion bowl defining an annular recess portion in an axial end surface thereof; and a direct injection fuel system including a fuel injector that provides a fuel spray to a combustion chamber defined by the piston and the engine structure, the fuel spray defining a continuous annular plume intersecting the annular recess portion in the piston when the piston is in an injection position within 20 percent of the reciprocal stroke from the top dead center position, wherein the annular plume defines an inner radial periphery and an outer radial periphery, an annular centerline of the annular plume between the inner and outer radial peripheries extending radially inward relative to an annular center of the annular recess portion when the piston is in the injection position to define a rolling fuel spray pattern in a rotational direction from an inner radial surface of the annular recess portion to an outer radial surface of the annular recess portion. | 12,207 |
9,628,668 | 1. An authentication method implemented in an electronic device, the electronic device including: an input part that is configured for an operator to input various pieces of information, the operator being each of one or more users, and a storage part that is configured to store a respective piece of information of each of the one or more users, the method comprising: causing the storage part to hold a respective piece of information of each of the one or more users, the respective piece of information being in the form of a mutually related set of a user identification number for each of the one or more users, a first password for each of the one or more users, and a database that is configured to store various pieces of characteristic data that are involved in at least an inputting of the first password via the input part that is conducted by each of the one or more users; and authenticating an operator as a user who is related to the user identification number that is inputted at a time of the authentication request in a case where the operator conducts an input for requesting an authentication relied on any one of the user identification numbers that are stored in the storage part, when a first piece of information that is inputted via the input part is in coincidence with the first password that is related to the user identification number of the inputted authentication request and concurrently when each of the various pieces of information at a time of inputting the first information via the input part falls within a specified region that is set relative to a histogram that the data base indicates that is related to the user identification number of the inputted authentication. | 22,810 |
8,904,615 | 1. A method of loading a fastening member to a plurality of heads retained to a magazine, comprising the steps of: selecting one of said plurality of heads; disposing the selected head between a socket and the fastening member; advancing the socket in an advancing direction toward the selected head and engaging said socket with said selected head; retaining the selected head on the socket; moving the socket further in the advancing direction so as to detach the selected head from the magazine and move the selected head away from the magazine in the advancing direction while retaining the selected head on the socket; engaging the selected head with the fastening member; retaining the fastening member on the selected head by fitting the fastening member into the selected head as the socket and selected head are moved in the advancing direction; and retracting the socket and the selected head together with the retained fastening member so as to move the socket and selected head in a retracting direction, which is opposite to the advancing direction and toward the magazine, wherein the step of retaining the fastening member includes the steps of: rotating the socket, while advancing the selected head toward the fastening member; initiating detection of a torque reaction force of the head, and measurement of an elapsed time required in the fastening member retaining; monitoring a relative distance of the selected head relative to the fastening member, while determining whether the elapsed time required in fitting of the fastening member has exceeded a predetermined time value; determining whether the torque reaction force of the head is at least a predetermined torque reaction force value when the relative distance is equal to or less than a first predetermined value, while determining whether the relative distance is less than a second predetermined value; and determining that the fastening member is fitted to the selected head when the torque reaction force of the head is at least the predetermined value. | 43,223 |
8,749,118 | 1. A vibrating actuator assembly comprising: a diaphragm; at least one vibrator disposed at the diaphragm and that vibrates when an electric signal is applied thereto; a vibration shaft having one end coupled to the diaphragm; a rotor disposed on an outer side of the vibration shaft to contact an outer surface of the vibration shaft and that moves by vibration of the vibration shaft, wherein the rotor comprises a screw surface on an outer surface of the rotor; and an elastic presser disposed at another end of the vibration shaft and that elastically presses the rotor toward the diaphragm. | 1,840 |
8,433,746 | 1. A method, comprising: identifying, at an enterprise service bus (ESB) server of a computing system, an object targeted for a first service deployed at the ESB server, wherein the first service is defined by a set of actions, wherein the ESB server integrates an Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) aspect; detecting a predefined state of the ESB server, wherein said detecting the predefined state comprises matching the object against a pointcut of the AOP aspect; when the predefined state of the ESB server is detected, executing an additional action by the ESB server without modifying the set of actions of the first service, wherein said executing the additional action comprises executing an advice of the AOP aspect to perform the additional action when the object matches the pointcut; during executing the set of actions of the first service, detecting whether a given join point in the program matches the pointcut of the AOP aspect defined in the ESB server, wherein the AOP aspect is to alter the behavior of the program by executing the additional action to perform additional behavior at the given join point when the join point matches the pointcut without modifying the set of actions of the first service; and when the given join matches the pointcut, applying the advice of the AOP aspect to execute the additional action to perform the additional behavior. | 10,831 |
9,002,413 | 1. A combination cell phone comprising: a cell phone having a cell phone housing; a battery assembly disposed in the cell phone housing, and the battery assembly having a primary battery and a secondary battery and wherein the primary and secondary batteries are isolated from one another and each is for powering a load derived from the cell phone; a circuit disposed in the cell phone housing and a switch is operatively associated with the cell phone and the primary and secondary batteries such that either the primary or secondary battery is capable of powering the cell phone; the circuit includes a delay logic circuit operatively associated with a switch allowing for uninterrupted cell phone operation when switching from the primary battery to the secondary battery; the circuit includes a primary battery passgate component for selecting or isolating the primary battery from a load; the circuit includes a secondary battery passgate component for selecting or isolating the secondary battery from the load; and, wherein the primary passgate component includes a first NFET passgate, a first PFET passgate, a second NFET passgate and second PFET passgate each being operatively associated with the delay logic circuit and for allowing either the selection or the isolation of the load from the primary battery. | 18,237 |
8,341,833 | 1. A method for manufacturing a printed circuit board including: a single-layer or multilayer substrate having a surface provided with a mounting area for installing an electronic part thereon; a plurality of bonding lands positioned in the mounting area for fixing electrodes of the electronic part, and a wiring pattern connected to the bonding lands, the method comprising steps of: (o) measuring deformation of the substrate; (p) calculating a position for the mounting area to be allocated based on the deformation measured in the step (o); and (q) pattering the bonding lands and the wiring pattern by correcting an originally allocated position of the mounting area based on the calculated position in the step (p), so that the bonding lands has a predetermined pitch according to dimensions of the electronic part regardless of the deformation of the substrate. | 23,455 |
8,729,232 | 1. A non-naturally occurring, recombinant polypeptide comprising a heterologous sulfatase motif having a 2-formylglycine (FGly) residue, wherein the heterologous sulfatase motif is less than 13 amino acid residues and contains a contiguous sequence of the formula: wherein | 3,176 |
9,706,779 | 1. An endophyte deposited with The Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures (CBS) as Deposit No. CBS 133163 further comprising a recombinant nucleic acid sequence. | 37,657 |
9,837,675 | 1. A fuel supplying apparatus for a direct carbon fuel cell, comprising: a separating pipe forming a cylindrical internal flow path in a vertical direction around a tubular cell soaked in an anode medium mixed with a carbon fuel, a separating pipe having a through-hole through which the anode medium may enter and exit; a flow pipe forming a cylindrical external flow path in the vertical direction around the separating pipe; and a bubbling means supplying a gas to the external flow path between the flow pipe and the separating pipe, wherein as the gas supplied to the external flow path vertically moves, the anode medium in the external flow path primarily flows, and the anode medium in the internal flow path communicating with the external flow path through the through-hole secondarily flows, wherein the flow pipe includes a collecting part widening downwards, wherein the collecting part guides the gas supplied to a lower portion of the flow pipe to the external flow path, wherein the bubbling means includes a supplying pipe supplying the gas, wherein an end of the supplying pipe is configured to supply the gas to the external flow path between the flow path and the separating pipe, and wherein the through-hole of the separating pipe has a slope ascending to an outside thereof. | 41,026 |
9,148,321 | 1. An interface circuit, comprising: a deserializer including: a frame detection circuit configured to detect the frame signal at one of the output terminals of the plurality of first output terminals, wherein the frame detection circuit includes a first detection unit configured to detect the frame signal first terminal of the plurality of first output terminals, and a second detection unit configured to detect the frame signal at a second terminal of the output terminals of the plurality of first output terminals, the first detection unit includes a first shift register configured to receive the frame signal output at the first terminal; and the second detection unit includes a second shift register configured to receive the frame signal output at the second terminal. | 26,933 |
9,260,442 | 1. A compound of formula (Q): wherein R each R yy is 0, 1, 2, 3 or 4; ZZ is —(CH R TT is an unsubstituted or substituted C R providing that in (Q), R R (i) hydrogen, or (ii) alkyl, cycloalkyl, heterocyclo, aryl, heteroaryl, cycloalkylalkyl, heterocycloalkyl, arylalkyl, or heteroarylalkyl, any of which may be optionally independently substituted with one or more R R said alkyl, haloalkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, cycloalkyl, cycloalkenyl, heterocyclo, aryl, heteroaryl, arylalkyl, heteroarylalkyl, cycloalkylalkyl, and heterocycloalkyl groups may be further independently substituted with one or more -(alkylene) n is 0, 1 or 2, and m is 0 or 1; and R (i) hydrogen or (ii) alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl cycloalkyl, heterocyclo, aryl, heteroaryl, cycloalkylalkyl, heterocycloalkyl, arylalkyl, or heteroarylalkyl any of which may be optionally independently substituted with one or more R R (i) hydrogen or (ii) alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, cycloalkyl, heterocyclo, aryl, heteroaryl, cycloalkylalkyl, heterocycloalkyl, arylalkyl, or heteroarylalkyl any of which may be optionally independently substituted with one or more R or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. | 46,103 |
8,715,389 | 1. A method, comprising: leaching, by thiosulfate, a gold and/or silver-containing material in at least one of an ion-exchange resin-in-leach and ion-exchange resin-in-pulp circuit, the circuit comprising a co-current portion where the gold and/or silver-containing material and a gold and/or silver-collecting ion-exchange resin flow co-currently and a counter-current portion where the gold and/or silver-containing material and gold and/or silver-collecting ion-exchange resin flow counter-currently, wherein the gold and/or silver-containing material flows first through the co-current portion arid second through the counter-current portion. | 11,455 |
8,515,151 | 1. A method for determining a frequency distribution for dimensions of objects, in which method there is available an image from which the frequency distribution of imaged objects is determined; the method comprising defining a measured dimension of an object in the image being a real dimension; and modifying, via a processor, the frequency distribution of the dimensions of the objects measured from the image by a weighting operation associated with a probability of the real dimensions of the objects being imaged in the image. | 31,833 |
8,931,273 | 1. A method of operating a boosted engine, comprising: during a first tip-in, discharging pressurized air from a boost reservoir to an intake manifold downstream of a compressor with a first, smaller amount of spark retard; and during a second tip-in, discharging pressurized air from the boost reservoir to the intake manifold with a second, larger amount of spark retard. | 48,421 |
9,543,572 | 1. A non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery that comprises an electrode body comprising a positive electrode and a negative electrode, wherein the positive electrode has an operating voltage of 4.5 V to 5.5 V relative to lithium metal, the electrode body comprises a lithium titanate-containing layer comprising lithium titanate and a binder, the lithium titanate-containing layer being isolated from the negative electrode, the lithium titanate-containing layer has a thickness of 5 μm to 15 μm, and the lithium titanate-containing layer is placed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, wherein a separator is placed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, and the lithium titanate-containing layer is provided above the positive electrode side surface of the separator. | 37,633 |
9,382,527 | 1. A recombinant host cell comprising a nucleic acid construct comprising a polynucleotide coding for a polypeptide having carbonic anhydrase activity, wherein (a) the amino acid sequence of the polypeptide is at least 80% identical to the sequence of amino acid residues 28 to 259 or 36 to 259 of SEQ ID NO: 2, or at least 80% identical to the sequence of amino acid residues 23 to 243 of SEQ ID NO: 13 and (b) the polynucleotide is operably linked to one or more control sequences that direct the production of the polypeptide in the recombinant host cell. | 7,771 |
8,713,927 | 1. A water displacement apparatus comprising: a water container means comprising a water container member for containing water within, said water container member having an entrance area through which beams from the sun may pass into said water container member, an inlet means for allowing water from a water supply to enter said water container member; and an outlet means for allowing water from said water container member to exit said water container member; a water displacement means positioned generally above said water container member; said water displacement means being an evaporation system for evaporating water from within said water container member of said water container means, through said outlet of said water container member; a water condenser means connected to said outlet of said water container member of said water container means; whereby beams from the sun may pass into said water container member through said entrance area and evaporate the water from within, such that said evaporated water may move through said outlet of said water container member and through said water condenser means, with said evaporated water being sufficiently cooled as it travels through said condenser means so that it returns to a liquid form. | 2,410 |
8,644,213 | 1. A data communication method for a wireless communication network including a coordinator and a plurality of network nodes, comprising: (a) broadcasting, from the coordinator, a beacon frame for informing the network nodes of a duration of a current superframe, the current superframe comprising a beacon period during which the network nodes receives the beacon frame broadcasted by the coordinator, a contention period after the beacon period, during which contention period, at least one network node reserves a channel by transmitting a channel request message to the coordinator and receiving a confirmation message from the coordinator, and a contention free period during which the at least one network node communicates with the coordinator through at least one reserved channel; (b) transmitting a Guaranteed Time Slot (GTS) frame from the coordinator to the at least one network node, allocating timeslots in accordance with the channel request message to the at least one network node for use within the current superframe, the GTS frame being transmitted during the contention period; and (c) transmitting a data frame from the coordinator to a corresponding target network node through the timeslots of the current superframe allocated to the at least one network node in (b). | 30,626 |
9,670,602 | 1. Open-end spinning rotor ( 1 ), comprising a rotor shaft ( 2 ), a rotor cup ( 3 ) and a coupling device ( 4 ), which releasably connects the rotor shaft ( 2 ) and the rotor cup ( 3 ) and has a receiving element ( 5 ) connected to the rotor shaft ( 2 ) and an axle element ( 6 ) connected to the rotor cup ( 3 ), characterised in that the coupling device ( 4 ) comprises at least three clamping bodies ( 7 , 8 , 9 ), which are arranged between a contour ( 10 ) of the receiving element ( 5 ) and a contour ( 11 ) of the axle element ( 6 ), in that the contour ( 10 ) of the receiving element ( 5 ), the contour ( 11 ) of the axle element ( 6 ) and the clamping bodies ( 7 , 8 , 9 ) are configured in such a way that by driving the rotor shaft ( 2 ), a relative rotational movement is firstly produced between the receiving element ( 5 ) on the one hand and the clamping bodies ( 7 , 8 , 9 ) and the axle element ( 6 ) on the other hand, in that owing to the relative rotational movement, the clamping bodies ( 7 , 8 , 9 ) are clamped between the contour ( 11 ) of the axle element ( 6 ) and the contour ( 10 ) of the receiving element ( 5 ) and in that the drive torque is thereby transmitted from the rotor shaft ( 2 ) to the rotor cup ( 3 ), characterised further in that the contour ( 10 ) of the receiving element ( 5 ), the contour ( 11 ) of the axle element ( 6 ) and the clamping bodies ( 7 , 8 , 9 ) are configured in such a way that the clamping bodies ( 7 , 8 , 9 ), independently of the drive direction of the rotor shaft ( 2 ) when the rotor shaft ( 2 ) is driven, are clamped between the contour ( 10 ) of the receiving element ( 5 ) and the contour ( 11 ) of the axle element ( 6 ). | 40,251 |
9,433,171 | 1. A seed of hybrid corn variety CH537945, produced by crossing a first plant of variety CV483519 with a second plant of variety CV000902, wherein representative seed of said varieties CV483519 and CV000902 have been deposited under ATCC Accession numbers PTA-12082 and PTA-122207, respectively. | 17,507 |
9,667,574 | 1. A machine implemented method of communicating, comprising: (i) composing an electronic message, via a first device having a processing unit and program code stored on a storage device of said first device; (ii) selecting a well-known animation character, via the first device; (iii) transmitting the electronic message, via the first device; (iv) transmitting the well-known animation character, via the first device; (v) receiving the electronic message, via a server having a processing unit and program code stored on a storage device of said server; (vi) receiving the well-known animation character, via the server: (vii) transmitting the electronic message, via the server; (viii) transmitting the well-known animation character, via the server; (ix) receiving the electronic message, via a second device having a processing unit and program code stored on a storage device of said second device; (x) receiving the well-known animation character, via the second device; (xi) converting the electronic message into speech using one of synthesized voice of the well-known animation character and actual voice of the well-known animation character, via the second device; (xii) generating moving images of the well-known animation character, via the second device; (xiii) outputting the speech, via the second device; and (xiv) displaying the moving images, via the second device. | 35,192 |
8,394,036 | 1. A method for determining an angle of anteversion of an acetabulum in a pelvic bone, comprising: non-invasively determining a position of an anterior superior iliac spine at one side of the pelvic bone, non-invasively determining a position of a posterior superior iliac spine at the one side of the pelvic bone, passing a plane extending perpendicularly to a transverse plane of the pelvic bone through points defined by position data of the anterior superior iliac spine and of the posterior superior iliac spine, rotating the plane about an axis of rotation extending perpendicularly to the transverse plane through a predetermined angular magnitude of 38°, and determining an angle between the rotated plane and a frontal plane as an angle of anteversion. | 15,219 |
9,737,330 | 1. An assembly formed by a clinician for treating a lesion in a body lumen to enlarge a passageway in the body lumen, the assembly comprising a separate cutting member and a separate tracking member initially unattached to the cutting member prior to assembly by a clinician, the tracking member configured to receive a member thereover for interposition between the cutting member and the tracking member, the cutting member having a proximal portion and a distal portion and a coupler at the distal portion for the clinician to couple the separate tracking member to the cutting member to form the assembly, the assembly having the proximal portion of the cutting member and the proximal portion of the tracking member extending outside the body when the assembly is positioned within the body adjacent the lesion and the cutting member and tracking member are separated from each other and configured for insertion of the member over the tracking member and not over the cutting member such that the tracking member is internal of the member and the cutting member is external of the member, the coupler having an opening dimensioned to receive the tracking member to retain a distal portion of the tracking member adjacent the distal portion of the cutting member when assembled by the clinician, the cutting member with coupled tracking member being insertable into the body lumen as a unit, the cutting member configured for movement by the member inserted over the tracking member in a direction transverse to a longitudinal axis of the tracking member to widen a gap between the cutting member and tracking member at least at a distal region. | 32,996 |
9,547,418 | 1. An electronic device comprising: a processor; an environment sensor unit configured to detect working environment of the electronic device to get a detected environment information; a display unit; and a storage unit configured to store a preset environment threshold, a preset moving speed threshold, and one or more programs, which when the one or more programs executed by the processor, cause the processor to: compare the detected environment information with the preset environment threshold; determine a type of the working environment of the electronic device; control the display unit to adjust user interface or interaction mode of the electronic device, according to the type of the working environment of the electronic device; detect moving speed of the electronic device in use; compare the detected moving speed with the preset moving speed threshold, and control the display unit to enlarge operation buttons and menus when the detected moving speed is greater than the preset moving speed threshold. | 39,768 |
9,458,227 | 1. An antibody comprising the amino acid sequences of SEQ ID NO:7, SEQ ID NO:8 and SEQ ID NO:9, and having a non-IgG2 constant region. | 35,726 |
8,493,758 | 1. An apparatus for generating a current command value for tracking a maximum power point of a solar energy generating system including a solar cell module and a flyback power converter for receiving a voltage from the solar cell module to output the received voltage as a grid voltage, the apparatus comprising: a voltage detector detecting a voltage input into the flyback power converter; a first calculator calculating an output power from the detected input voltage; a second calculator calculating a power variation based on the calculated output power and a voltage variation of the input voltage; and a current command value generator generating a current command value for tracking the maximum power point of the solar cell module from the calculated voltage variation and the calculated power variation. | 35,186 |
8,535,899 | 1. An assay method for identifying an agent which modulates the interaction of a hypoxia inducible factor (HIF) hydroxylase with a substrate of the hydroxylase, the method comprising: contacting a HIF hydroxylase and a substrate of the hydroxylase under conditions in which the hydroxylase interacts with the substrate, in the presence or absence of a test substance; and determining the interaction, or lack of interaction of, the hydroxylase and the substrate, wherein the interaction of the hydroxylase with the substrate in the presence or absence of the test substance is determined by measuring the hydroxylase activity of the hydroxylase; wherein the HIF hydroxylase is chosen from: (a) the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 2, 4, 6 or 8, FLJ21620 (BAB15101) or Clorf12 (NP071334); (b) a variant thereof having at least 60% identity to the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 2, 4, 6 or 8 and having HIF hydroxylase activity; or (c) a fragment of either (a) or (b) having HIF hydroxylase activity. | 17,864 |
9,008,406 | 1. A method for discriminating a colony based on a photo image of the colony composed of pluripotent stem cells, the method comprising discriminating between a differentiated colony containing differentiated pluripotent stem cells and an undifferentiated colony containing only undifferentiated pluripotent stem cells based on the luminance of the photo image, wherein a colony having a region with a luminance higher than the first threshold of the luminance is determined as the differentiated colony, and a colony having only a region with a luminance equal to or lower than the first threshold is determined as the undifferentiated colony, and the first threshold is determined by applying a discriminant analysis to the distribution of the number of pixels with respect to each luminance value in a median filtered image obtained by applying median filtering once or multiple times to the photo image. | 11,041 |
9,559,633 | 1. A photovoltaic module mounting structure, comprising: a plurality of photovoltaic modules, each of which being attached with: a first backside securing block connector member and a first backside hook connector member attached to a first side of the photovoltaic module, the first backside securing block connector member and the first backside hook connector member further attached to a front bracket assembly; a second backside securing block connector member and a second backside hook connector member attached to a second side of the photovoltaic module, the second backside securing block connector member and the second backside hook connector member further attached to a rear bracket assembly; wherein the front bracket assembly is freely rotatable about the first backside securing block connector member and the first backside hook connector member, and the rear bracket assembly is freely rotatable about the second backside securing block connector member and the second backside hook connector member; wherein the plurality of photovoltaic modules are arranged into rows, and are connected to each other by one of a plurality of bottom connector members, so as to constitute a photovoltaic module matrix system; wherein the plurality of photovoltaic modules comprise two photovoltaic modules positioned on two ends of each of the rows respectively; wherein the two photovoltaic modules define a first position and a last position of each of the rows respectively; wherein two photovoltaic modules placed adjacent to each other in each of the rows define a neighboring position with respect to each other; wherein the front bracket assembly and the rear bracket assembly of the photovoltaic module in the first position are attached to the plurality of bottom connector members in the first position; wherein the front bracket assembly and the rear bracket assembly of the photovoltaic module in the last position are attached to the plurality of bottom connector members in the last position; wherein the front bracket assembly of each of the photovoltaic modules between the photovoltaic module in the first position and the photovoltaic module in the last position is attached to the plurality of bottom connector members in the neighboring position defined by the photovoltaic module and a photovoltaic module placed to one side of the photovoltaic module, and the rear bracket assembly of each of the photovoltaic modules between the photovoltaic module in the first position and the photovoltaic module in the last position is attached to the plurality of bottom connector members in the neighboring position defined by the photovoltaic module and another photovoltaic module placed to the other side of the photovoltaic module; wherein the first backside securing block connector member, the first backside hook connector member, the second backside securing block connector member and the second backside hook connector member are attached to the photovoltaic module by using an adhesive structural tape, the adhesive structural tape being disposed on a predetermined attaching portion of the top wing surfaces of the first and second backside hook connector members as well as the first and second backside securing block connector members; and wherein the first and second backside securing block connector members have a similar structure as that of the first and second backside hook connector members, both of which being formed from a section bar by extrusion molding, and wherein the first and second backside securing block connector members are attached to the first bracket assembly and the rear bracket assembly, respectively, via a securing block, the first and second backside hook connector members are attached to the front bracket assembly and the rear bracket assembly via a hook member, and wherein bottom sides of the first and second backside securing block connector members and the first and second backside hook connector members in contact with the securing block or the hook member are curved with a shallow groove to provide position limiting for the securing block or the hook member during mounting, the bottom sides being further provided with a screw hole corresponding to a countersunk bore of the securing block or the hook member. | 4,269 |
8,360,671 | 1. An art instrument having a self-contained reservoir for storing and dispensing application liquid, comprising: a reservoir body for containing the application liquid, said reservoir body having an open end including an opening; a dispensing assembly that dispenses the application liquid from said reservoir, said dispensing assembly comprising: a partly movable control mechanism that controls movement of said actuating assembly relative to said reservoir body, said control mechanism having a first configuration on said reservoir body in which said control mechanism allows said channel of said primary orifice restrictor to be in flow communication with said channel of said second orifice restrictor and a second configuration on said reservoir body in which said control mechanism prevents engagement of said primary orifice restrictor with said second orifice restrictor and thus opening of said closure of said channel of said secondary orifice restrictor to thereby maintain said channel of said secondary orifice restrictor in a closed state until manual movement of said control mechanism into said first configuration. | 32,797 |
8,578,762 | 1. A spark plug assembly, comprising: a generally annular ceramic insulator having an upper shoulder and a lower shoulder; a metal annular outer shell having an outer surface extending continuously from a proximal end to an opposite fastening end and a central cavity bounded by an inner surface, said inner surface having a flange extending radially inwardly to axially confront said lower shoulder of said insulator, said outer surface having an external threaded region adjacent said fastening end and an annular sealing seat extending radially outwardly from said threaded region adjacent said flange, wherein said sealing seat is aligned substantially radially with said flange, said outer surface having an annular shoulder extending radially between said sealing seat and said proximal end, said annular shoulder being longitudinally spaced from said sealing seat by a portion of said outer surface, said shell having an annular turnover extending radially inwardly toward said cavity adjacent said proximal end, said turnover axially confronting said upper shoulder of said insulator and inhibiting axial movement of said insulator relative to said outer shell; and a sensor assembly received about said outer shell between said shoulder of said shell and said turnover, said sensor assembly being responsive to send a signal in response to relative axial movement between said insulator and said outer shell. | 31,499 |
9,590,527 | 1. A method for operating an inverter which is connected to an energy supply grid via a transformer for feeding in electrical energy into the energy supply grid, comprising: measuring output currents and output voltages of the inverter; and actuating power switches of the inverter using actuation signals that are generated as a function of the measured output currents and the measured output voltages at a fundamental frequency of the energy supply grid, and wherein the actuation signals are further generated as a function of a harmonic component of the measured output voltages of the inverter at a multiple of the fundamental frequency using a control loop with positive feedback. | 43,493 |
8,506,934 | 1. A method of diagnosing hyposmia or anosmia in a human, the method comprising: (i) obtaining a nasal mucus specimen from the human; (ii) detecting a cyclic nucleotide level in said nasal mucus specimen; (iii) comparing said cyclic nucleotide level to a cyclic nucleotide level of a control population; and (iv) diagnosing said hyposmia or anosmia in the human based on a decreased level of said cyclic nucleotide for said nasal mucus specimen compared to the cyclic nucleotide level of the control population, wherein the cyclic nucleotide level is detected by an immunoassay, and wherein the method further comprises determining detection (DT) and recognition (RT) thresholds and magnitude estimation (ME) for four odorants: pyridine, nitrobenzene, thiophene and amyl acetate. | 6,290 |
8,985,920 | 1. A blade holding apparatus for holding one end of a wind turbine blade during a handling procedure, the blade holding apparatus comprising: a support structure comprising an opening for accommodating one end of the wind turbine blade; clamping arrangement arranged in the opening, the clamping arrangement configured to exert a clamping force on the wind turbine blade, the clamping arrangement comprises a pair of blade gripping elements mounted on opposing sides of the opening in the support structure; and a locking arrangement for locking the clamping arrangement relative to the support structure, wherein at least one of the pair of blade gripping elements is moveably mounted along a side of the opening in the support structure, a motion of the at least one blade gripping element relative to the opening of the support structure is effected by the weight of the blade. | 38,603 |
8,448,420 | 1. An aircraft nacelle in which a power plant is arranged, comprising: a duct ( | 32,687 |
8,373,099 | 1. A method of providing at least a partial amount of heat to a climate-controlled space comprising the steps of: providing a fuel cell for producing electrical power for an HVAC&R system, said fuel cell also producing a substantial amount of heat during operation; directing at least a portion of the heat produced by said fuel cell to said climate-controlled space during periods of time in which heat in the climate-controlled space is required, the portion of the heat produced by said fuel cell provided to the climate-controlled space being supplemental to heat provided by said HVAC&R system; and providing a channeling assembly which can be selectively modulated to adjust the portion of the heat produced by said fuel cell provided to said climate-controlled space and a portion of the heat produced by said fuel cell provided to an alternate location. | 24,147 |
9,261,003 | 1. System for treating exhaust gas, the system comprising: an exhaust duct; a catalytic converter arranged in the exhaust duct; an injector for injecting a substance into the system; a bypass duct comprising a bypass inlet and a bypass outlet, the bypass duct bypassing a section of the exhaust duct, wherein the bypass duct is arranged such that only part of the catalytic converter is bypassed by the bypass duct, wherein the catalytic converter comprises a diversion outlet, which is connected to the bypass inlet, and wherein the diversion outlet is arranged upstream of the downstream end of the catalytic converter. | 8,213 |
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