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8,938,965 | 1. A thermal-powered reciprocating-force motor, comprising: a shutter switchable between a first position adapted to allow passage of solar energy and a second position adapted to block passage of solar energy; an actuator having opposing ends, said actuator including a shape memory alloy (SMA) that changes in length as a function of temperature, said actuator coupled to said shutter for controlling switching thereof between said first position and said second position based on length of said SMA, said actuator positioned with respect to said shutter such that (i) solar energy is adapted to impinge on said SMA when said shutter is in said first position wherein said SMA experiences contraction in length until said shutter is switched to said second position, and (ii) solar energy is adapted to be impeded from impingement on said SMA when said shutter is in said second position wherein said SMA experiences extension in length; an elastic member coupled to each of said opposing ends of said actuator for applying a force to said SMA that aids in said extension in length until said shutter is switched to said first position; and reflective material directly in contact with said shutter for reflecting said solar energy towards said actuator when said shutter is in said first position and for reflecting said solar energy away from said actuator when said shutter is in said second position. | 41,053 |
9,063,849 | 1. A memory chip, comprising: a) a device comprising a plurality of memories further comprising a plurality of storage cell types, b) a plurality of serial parallel protocols, wherein the serial parallel protocols comprise: c) a limited number of electrical pins requiring use of said serial parallel protocols; d) a hardware serial interface; e) each memory of said plurality of memories formed of a different memory type and integrated together into said memory chip by the use of a unified manufacturing process; f) said hardware serial interface provides a bidirectional function to conserve a usage of said electrical pins and to transfer commands, addresses and data into said device and out of said device, wherein the serial-parallel protocols control the read, write and transfer of data in and out of the device, including write-while-write and read-while-write operations in the plurality of memories, wherein a state of a serial clock (SCK) signal and an input signal of a serial input output (SIO) determines memory operations. | 19,801 |
8,622,023 | 1. A pet litter box, comprising: a housing having left, right, front, and back walls defining a well, wherein: a grid comprising a plurality of holes between grid lines configured for the housing, and a locking mechanism along an edge of said grid; a locking frame having an aperture, configured to lock over the grid; and a locking mechanism on an outside wall of said housing to engage said locking mechanism on said grid. | 46,669 |
9,557,997 | 1. A method for executing a loop on a computing system, the method comprising: programming, into hardware of a configurable hardware block, a hardware circuit that performs one or more target functions within the loop, wherein programming reconfigures one or more of: wherein the configurable hardware block is associated with a plurality of registers; wherein the plurality of registers includes a loopcount register, an input register and an output register; for each iteration of the loop, | 13,964 |
9,268,701 | 1. A data storage system for storing data received from a host, comprising: a non-volatile memory comprising at least a write cache portion and a read cache portion, the write cache portion configured to store data frequently written by the host relative to a write frequency threshold and the read cache portion configured to store data frequently read by the host relative to a read frequency threshold, wherein data frequently written by the host is identified by tracking a number of write commands issued by the host, wherein data frequently read by the host is identified by tracking a number of read commands issued by the host, and wherein initial sizes of the write and read cache portions are greater than zero; and | 21,484 |
8,801,838 | 1. A method for creating water vapor supersaturation in an airflow, comprising: introducing an airstream in a laminar flow into a wet-walled condenser, the airstream having an inlet temperature T1 at the inlet of the condenser, the condenser having an outlet; controlling a first portion of the condenser having a length and being adjacent to the inlet to a first temperature T2 greater than T1 by at least 5° C.; and controlling a second portion of the condenser between the first portion and the outlet at a second temperature T3 lower than T2; wherein the first portion and the second portion of the condenser define a volume, and the airstream flows through the condenser in a laminar manner, wherein introducing the airstream into the condenser creates a volumetric air flow rate within the volume, the volume having a cylindrical geometry or a multiple plate geometry wherein each plate has a width and a separation between plates; wherein for a cylindrical geometry the length of the first portion divided by the volumetric flow rate is less than 0.5 s/cm | 17,744 |
8,410,122 | 1. A compound having the formula: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or stereoisomer thereof, wherein: R R R each occurrence of R each occurrence of R each occurrence of R each occurrence of R each occurrence of R J is —C(R K is —C(R L is —C(R Q is arylene or heteroarylene, each of which can be unsubstituted or optionally substituted with R W is a bond, alkylene, —C(O)—, —C(O)O—, —C(O)NH— or —S(O) Y is alkylene, —O— or —N(R Z is alkylene, —O— or —N(R p is 0, 1 or 2; q is 1, 2 or 3, such that the sum of p and q is from 1 to 4; and each occurrence of t is independently 0 or 1. | 18,769 |
9,444,365 | 1. A tracking method for a voltage converter, in particular an inverter, of a photovoltaic system, for tracking a working point of a PV generator, comprising: changing an intermediate circuit voltage by voltage increments of a predetermined level in a direction towards a lower or a higher voltage; and limiting a mean rate of change of the intermediate circuit voltage in a subperiod between two voltage increments by a maximum mean rate of change, wherein the maximum mean rate of change is determined depending on a level of a voltage difference between the intermediate circuit voltage and a minimum required intermediate circuit voltage. | 8,096 |
9,769,186 | 1. At least one non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising one or more instructions that when executed by at least one processor, cause the processor to: monitor network traffic to and from a device; compare the monitored network traffic to characteristics of the device to determine if the monitored traffic is outside the characteristics of the device, wherein the characteristics of the device at least partially include characteristics from an original equipment manufacturer related to sending and receiving packets, and wherein the characteristics from an original equipment manufacturer are retrieved while monitoring network traffic; and assign an untrusted reputation to the device if the monitored traffic is outside the characteristics of the device. | 42,111 |
8,914,654 | 1. A communication system including a network interface apparatus and an information processing apparatus, the information processing apparatus comprising: a negotiation unit configured to perform negotiation processing for acquiring communication information for executing encryption communication, with an external apparatus; a first communicating unit configured to execute, when the information processing apparatus is operating in a first power mode, the encryption communication with the external apparatus based on the acquired communication information; and a notification unit configured to notify the network interface apparatus of the acquired communication information; and the network interface apparatus comprising: a second communicating unit configured to execute, in a case where the information processing apparatus operates in a second power mode of which power consumption is lower than the first power mode, the encryption communication, with the external apparatus, based on the communication information notified by the notification unit; a determining unit configured to determine whether the communication information notified by the notification unit is effective; and a switching unit configured to cause the information processing apparatus to switch, in a case where the determining unit determines that the communication information notified by the notification unit is not effective, from the second power mode to the first power mode. | 42,242 |
9,331,580 | 1. A switching power supply system including: a transformer comprising: a switching device connected to the primary winding to carry out switching operations based on a first control signal, the first control signal comprising a series of pulses, and on a second control signal; an output voltage producing section rectifying and smoothing a voltage generated in the secondary winding to produce an output voltage; an output voltage detecting section detecting a voltage generated in the tertiary winding to produce an output voltage detection signal based on the detected voltage; a checking pulse generator generating the pulses of the first control signal at specified first intervals; and a switching controlling section producing the second control signal based on the output voltage detection signal to control the switching operations of the switching device; wherein a first interval of the specified first intervals is longer than each of intervals at which the second control signal is generated. | 20,712 |
9,112,087 | 1. A layered waveguide stack radiant energy converter array comprising: a plurality of superposed waveguides, each waveguide comprising a core layer having a radiant energy converter disposed therein, and two conductive cladding layers disposed on opposing sides of the core layer, the conductive layers being electrically coupled to the converter and acting as charge carriers for it; each waveguide having at least one inlet for passage of radiant energy therethrough, the inlet extending between the cladding layers, such that radiant energy entering the waveguide impinges on at least two layers of the waveguide, the inlet further defining a minimum cutoff frequency for the energy to propagate in the waveguide. | 689 |
9,199,271 | 1. A method for manufacturing a building material, comprising steps of: providing a building board having a front surface, a rear surface, and a side surface that connects the front surface to the rear surface; applying a coating to the front surface of the building board, so that a coating film is formed on the font surface and the side surface; and removing or reducing the coating film which is formed on the side surface of the building board by laser irradiation, wherein the building board has a convexo-concave surface on the front surface, the convexo-concave surface comprises a convex portion and a concave portion, and the removing or reducing of the coating film by laser irradiation on the side surface comprises removing or reducing the coating film from the apex of the convex portion to the lowest point of the concave portion so that the coating film is removed or reduced by at least 5 mm as measured from the lowest point of the concave portion to the rear surface to the building board so that the side surface has i) a part in which the coating film has been removed or reduced by laser irradiation and ii) a part in which the coating film has not been removed or reduced by laser irradiation. | 14,261 |
9,821,394 | 1. A numerical control apparatus of a wire-electrical discharge machine for electrical discharge machining a work by a wire electrode line along a machining path including a taper angle or a taper machining amount correction amount, the numerical control apparatus comprising: a unit configured to, when a taper angle or a taper machining amount correction amount instructed in a first front block in two successive contact machining path blocks is different from a taper angle or a taper machining amount correction amount instructed in a second rear block in said two successive contact machining path blocks, | 647 |
8,791,309 | 1. A process of synthesizing 3,3,3-trifluoropropyne, the process comprising the steps of: providing a solution of 1-chloro-3,3,3-trifluoropropene in tetrahydrofuran; and, adding potassium tert-butoxide to the solution to yield the 3,3,3-trifluoropropyne. | 24,555 |
9,818,814 | 1. An organic light emitting display device comprising: a plurality of pixel regions on a substrate, each including a sub-pixel region, a transmissive region and a peripheral region; a plurality of sub-pixel circuits in the sub-pixel region that control the sub-pixel region; a planarization layer that covers the plurality of sub-pixel circuits, wherein the planarization layer comprises a transmissive window in the transmissive region; a first electrode disposed on the planarization layer in the sub-pixel region; a second electrode disposed on the first electrode; and a plurality of wirings disposed in at least a double level configuration at different levels over the substrate in the peripheral region. | 23,506 |
9,415,660 | 1. A backup power generator for battery powered transport refrigeration units comprising in combination: i. a first support housing, said first support housing having at least a top, an open front, and an open bottom; ii. said support housing containing and supporting therein, a jackshaft, said jackshaft having a first pulley on one end and a second pulley on an opposite end; iii. said first pulley being connected by a V-belt to a drive pulley, said drive pulley being located between two wheels of a semi-truck trailer, any tension on said V-belt being regulated by a spring loaded idler wheel impinging on said V-belt; iv. a second support housing supporting a generator therein, said generator having a wide pulley on one end thereof, said wide pulley and said second pulley of said jackshaft being connected by a cog belt; v. surmounted on said first support housing, a voltage regulator, wherein said voltage regulator is electrically connected to said generator; vi. said voltage regulator being electrically connected to at least one battery. | 36,486 |
8,523,985 | 1. A humidification-dehumidification system comprising: a source of liquid including a vaporizable component; a humidifier including a carrier-gas inlet and a carrier-gas outlet; a liquid inlet and a liquid outlet, wherein the liquid inlet is coupled with the source of the liquid; and a chamber in which liquid introduced from the liquid inlet can contact a carrier gas containing a condensable fluid in vapor phase that is introduced from the carrier-gas inlet in a counterflow arrangement and in which a portion of the liquid can vaporize into the carrier gas; a bubble-column vapor mixture condenser including at least a first stage and a second stage, each stage including a carrier-gas inlet, a carrier-gas outlet and a chamber configured to contain a liquid bath in fluid communication with the carrier-gas inlet and the carrier-gas outlet, wherein the carrier-gas inlet of the first stage is in fluid communication with the carrier-gas outlet of the humidifier, wherein the carrier-gas outlet of the first-stage is in fluid communication with the carrier gas inlet of the second stage, and wherein the carrier-gas outlet of the second stage is in fluid communication with the carrier-gas inlet of the humidifier to facilitate flow of the carrier gas from the humidifier through the chamber of the first stage and then through the chamber of the second stage before returning to the humidifier; a conduit passing from the source of the liquid through the chamber of each stage of the bubble-column condenser to recover energy from condensation; and an intermediate exchange conduit coupled with (a) the conduit between the first stage and the second stage of the bubble-column vapor mixture condenser and (b) the humidifier chamber at an intermediate stage for transfer of the liquid therebetween. | 33,800 |
8,352,578 | 1. A data-transmitting method for a wireless sensor network comprising: constructing a wireless sensor network having a plurality of nodes and a sink, with the nodes sensing environmental information and transmitting data to each other and the sink raising quests to and collecting the sensed environmental information from the nodes; clustering the plurality of nodes to form a plurality of groups, with one of the plurality of nodes in each group identified as a kernel and the nodes in the same group around the kernel being most clustered; identifying one of all the plurality of nodes as a summit dissemination node and the kernels in all the plurality of groups as first level dissemination nodes, with the summit dissemination node being a nearest node to a geometric center of all the kernels; transmitting data between the quest-raising sink and one of the first level dissemination nodes or between said sink and the summit dissemination node through one of the first level dissemination nodes to collect information sensed by a source that is one of the plurality of nodes; and executing when the nodes are clustered; clustering the plurality of nodes to form said plurality of groups by a K-means algorithm; locating the kernel of each group; selecting a plurality of the nodes in various radial directions from the kernel for each group, wherein those selected plurality of nodes is an adjacent node and a remote node in each direction, with the adjacent node being a nearest node to the kernel and the remote node being a farthest node to the kernel; obtaining a plurality of circles for each group, with the adjacent nodes as centers and distances between the kernel and the adjacent nodes as radiuses; and identifying the nodes in the circles in an original group while the nodes out of the circles being re-clustered to be in the original group or another of the groups. | 19,640 |
9,809,121 | 1. A vehicle charging system for a hybrid electric vehicle, the vehicle charging system comprising: a connection system coupleable to an external charging source, the connection system configured to utilize a first connection and a second connection; a plurality of DC converters on-board the vehicle and coupleable to the connection system, the plurality of DC converters configured to operate in combination to step up and step down an input voltage derived from the external charging source; an energy storage device coupleable to at least one of the plurality of DC converters; and a controller programmed to: | 43,836 |
9,527,569 | 1. An aircraft comprising: a hydrogen-containing envelope; an electrolyser to convert water into hydrogen; a hydrogen-replenishment system for replenishing the envelope with hydrogen generated using the electrolyser; and a water-collection system for collecting water as a liquid from the envelope and supplying the water to the electrolyser. | 31,894 |
8,660,617 | 1. A method for managing power consumption in a subscriber station in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: engaging the subscriber station in sleep mode; and while the subscriber station is in the sleep mode, | 42,764 |
9,848,280 | 1. A wireless sensor module comprising: a primary body; a primary processor mounted to said primary body; a first plurality of sockets mounted to said primary body and disposed in electrical communication with said primary processor; a secondary body releasibly mounted to said primary body through a first socket of said first plurality of sockets; a secondary processor mounted to said secondary body, said primary processor and said secondary processor disposed in electrical communication with one another through said first socket and operating asynchronously; a first transducer releasibly mounted to said primary body and disposed in electrical communication with said primary processor through a second socket of said first plurality of sockets, said primary processor configured to direct the electrical signals generated by said first transducer to said secondary processor; a first wireless transceiver disposed in electrical communication with said primary processor; wherein said secondary processor is configured to process the electrical signals generated by said first transducer independently of said primary processor and selectively communicate output to said primary processor; and wherein said primary processor is configured to control communications through said first wireless transceiver independently of said secondary processor. | 17,696 |
9,444,837 | 1. Method in a network comprising at least a first device and a second device, where the sending of a packet by two devices simultaneously generates a collision, wherein it comprises, at the second device, the steps of: receiving a packet comprising a first part and a second part, said second part comprising at least an identification of a source address and a destination address of the packet; in the case of detecting a collision during the reception of the first part of the packet, not issuing a packet indicating a collision detection; and in the case of detecting a collision during the reception of the second part of the packet, after having correctly receiving said first part of said packet, issuing a packet indicating a collision detection, wherein said packet indicating a collision detection does not comprise any source or destination address. | 16,202 |
9,828,726 | 1. A method for separating lignin from a lignin containing liquid medium and treating the separated lignin, wherein the method comprises: precipitating lignin from the lignin containing liquid medium by adding a pH lowering agent to the lignin containing liquid medium, thereafter subjecting the lignin to a hydrothermal carbonization process in a wet state such that a slurry of carbon containing material is formed, recovering carbon containing material derived from the lignin as the result of the carbonization after the hydrothermal carbonization process, and adjusting the pH value of the lignin in the wet state before the hydrothermal carbonization process to a value above 8 so as to control particle size of the carbon containing material. | 13,016 |
9,659,141 | 1. A system comprising: a non-transitory, computer readable storage medium for storing data representing a layout of a layer of an integrated circuit (IC) comprising a plurality of polygons defining circuit patterns to be divided among a number (N) of photomasks for multi-patterning a single layer of a semiconductor substrate, where N is greater than two; an electronic design automation (EDA) tool configured for: | 45,549 |
9,080,864 | 1. A pipe alignment device comprising: an adaptor coupling that is adapted to fit onto and secure itself to an open distal end of an existing pipe; wherein the adaptor coupling is also able to secure an alignment housing thereon, and from which a leveling laser projects a laser line away from the existing pipe for use in pipe fitting; wherein the alignment housing includes a spirit level that enables adjustment of the alignment housing with respect to the existing pipe; wherein the adaptor coupling is further defined as a first opening and a second opening; wherein the first opening has a first inner diameter that is less than a second inner diameter of the second opening; wherein the adaptor coupling includes a plurality of screw holes that are linearly aligned along an outer surface of the adaptor coupling; wherein a plurality of set screws work to secure the adaptor coupling onto the open distal end of the existing pipe as well as the alignment housing. | 3,788 |
8,688,094 | 1. Method comprising: storing a permanently allocated protocol identifier in a mobile communication device; powering on the mobile communication device and entering an idle state so that a mobile communication network is not aware of the device; receiving a transmission from a mobile communication network to the mobile communication device after powering on the device but before the mobile communication network becomes aware of the device due to the device being in an idle state; in response to the receiving a transmission step, the mobile communication device identifying a matching protocol identifier; in response to the identifying step, the mobile communication device processing the transmission; establishing communication between the mobile communication device and the mobile communication network so that the mobile communication network is capable of tracking the mobile communication device; the mobile communication network dynamically allocating another protocol identifier; and the mobile communication device receiving and processing at least one other transmission from the mobile communication network that contains the another protocol identifier. | 41,128 |
9,693,304 | 1. A computer program product, comprising a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having a computer readable program code embodied therein, the computer readable program code adapted to be executed to implement a method for transmitting a resource map of a local macro node to a neighboring macro node in a Coordinated Multipoint (CoMP) system, comprising: generating a resource map of the blanked resource components and scheduled resource components for physical resources of the local macro node; transmitting the resource map from the local macro node to the neighboring macro node, wherein the neighboring macro node is within a neighboring coordination set different from a local coordination set; and scheduling blanked resource components for the local macro node for a same frequency-domain index and a same time-domain index as a cell-edge resource component for lower power nodes LPNs in the local coordination set. | 35,881 |
8,850,743 | 1. A light emitting component for facilitating plant growth, comprising: a first Light Emitting Diode (LED) having first and second spectral characteristics including a peak in the wavelength range from 600 to 700 nm, and a peak in the wavelength range from 440 to 500 nm, respectively, the first spectral characteristics being arranged to exhibit a full width of half maximum of at least 50 nm or more, and the second spectral characteristics having a maximum of 50 nm full width of half maximum; and an up-conversion unit including a material configured to provide that all or part of an emission at a frequency of 600-800 nm is generated using a whole or partial wavelength up-conversion of radiation power of the first Light Emitting Diode, the up-conversion unit providing that all or part of an emission at wavelengths of 500-600 nm is arranged to be reduced below an intensity in a 400-500 nm band and below an intensity in a 600-700 nm band. | 31,024 |
9,467,010 | 1. A method of inserting a continuous conductor having a rectangular cross-section into slot segments formed in a stator core, the method comprising: forming a core member extending from a first end portion to a second end portion and a plurality of slot segments each having an opening; inserting a stator winding having a plurality of phases into select ones of the slot segments, each of the plurality of phases having at least one conductor including a plurality of substantially straight segments alternately connected by a plurality of end loop segments, wherein a section of the at least one conductor includes three consecutive end loop segments and three consecutive straight segments formed from a single continuous conductor; and narrowing the opening of each of the plurality of slot segments forming an annular stator core having a central axis, wherein the three consecutive straight segments are substantially similarly radially spaced from the central axis. | 30,560 |
8,420,671 | 1. A stabilised monomer composition comprising at least 50 wt.-%, based on the total weight of the stabilised monomer composition, 3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene as the monomer and 0.001 to 10 wt. %, based on the total weight of the stabilised monomer composition, of a stabiliser that inhibits the formation of dimeric or trimeric 3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene during storage, wherein the stabiliser is completely dissolved in the monomer without the formation of a separate liquid phase or a remaining solid mass. | 8,462 |
9,711,446 | 1. A resin composition, comprising: (A) an epoxy resin; (B) a curing agent; and (C) an inorganic filler, Wherein a content of An average particle diameter of A product of a specific surface area (m a moisture permeation of a cured product obtained by thermally curing said resin Composition is 0.05 to 2.8 g·mm/m | 35,026 |
9,005,394 | 1. A method for preventing pitch contamination on cylinders, calendar roll, canvas and breaker stack roll of a paper-making machine comprising spraying onto their surfaces an anti-soiling composition comprising a polysiloxane compound, the polysiloxane compound being represented by the following formula (1), wherein a substituent R wherein a substituent R wherein the number of amino-modified groups per molecule of the polysiloxane compound is in a range from 0.5 to 5 so that a coat film is formed on a dry part region so as to disperse pitch, and the polysiloxane compound has a compounding ratio in a range from 0.1 to 40% by weight, and wherein the polysiloxane compound of the anti-soiling composition is applied to the cylinders, calender roll, canvas, and breaker stack roll in an amount per unit area of paper passing therethrough of from 10 μg/m | 45,224 |
8,622,429 | 1. A swiveling wheel trailer and frame comprising: a) a bow-tie shaped strong member frame further comprising strong back member configured in a central location with members radiating angling towards but not necessarily to said trailer's front right and left corner edges and rear right and left corner edges, wherein said radiating frame members are attached to cross member located transverse across ends of said radiating frame members across the trailer's front from right to left corner edges and across the trailer's rear from right to left corner edges; b) a swiveling assembly, further comprising of a king pin, a swing frame, one wheel, one wheel attachment on said swing frame, and a swiveling assembly attachment located in the rear cleft of rear radiating frame members; c) a tow hitch, further comprising a tow vehicle dual hitch receiver points, two adaptors, and two hingeable hitching arms, wherein said hitching arms are attached to two independently operated tilting arms; d) a tilting frame stabilizer, further comprising two independently operated tilting arms attached to pivoting attachment means located on left and right side of strong back member near inflection outward of front radiating members, a caster attachment means attached to rear cross member, and two 360o swivelable casters attached near width of trailer. | 27,821 |
8,916,987 | 1. A hydrokinetic electrical generating device, comprising: at least one wing assembly having at least one axis vertical wing; a horizontal wing support beam assembly having at least one sliding member slidably connected to the wing support beam assembly; a pivot rod extending from the at least one wing and rotatably connected to the at least one sliding member such that the at least one wing is rotatable with respect to the pivot rod as the at least one sliding member slides with respect to the wing support beam assembly; a mechanical-electrical section having a flywheel rotatably connected by a drive belt to an electrical generator; a slide connector connected to the at least one sliding member; and a flywheel connecting rod rotatably connected to both the slide connector and the flywheel, such that sliding motion of the at least one sliding member due to a water flow force acting on the at least one wing transferred through the pivot rod to displace the at least one sliding member acts through the flywheel connecting rod to rotate the flywheel and via the drive belt acts to rotate the electrical generator. | 29,271 |
9,587,549 | 1. Air gap-insulated exhaust manifold for a supercharged internal combustion engine, the exhaust manifold comprising: an engine flange for fastening the exhaust manifold to an engine block of the internal combustion engine; a turbine flange for fastening the exhaust manifold to a turbine of an exhaust gas turbocharger; two separate inner pipes, which lead each from at least one inlet opening for exhaust gas arranged in the area of the engine flange to an outlet opening for exhaust gas arranged in the area of the turbine flange; an outer pipe, which envelopes the two inner pipes, forming an air gap insulation, the outer pipe extending between the engine flange and the turbine flange; and a separate partition, which separates an interior space of said outer pipe into two interior spaces, one of said two inner pipes being arranged in one of said two interior spaces and another one of said two inner pipes being arranged in another one of said two interior space, wherein the partition is arranged at the turbine flange such that said partition is movable relative to the turbine flange, wherein the partition is movably retained in at least one holding contour at the engine flange, the at least one holding contour being formed by a holding support of the engine flange, wherein a front-side edge area of the partition engages the holding support such that said front-side edge area is movably retained by the holding support, wherein the partition is movable relative to the turbine flange and the engine flange when said partition is exposed to a thermal load, wherein the partition is guided by guide contours of the turbine flange such that the partition is movably retained by said turbine flange, wherein said manifold comprises a linear manifold portion located adjacent to said turbine flange, said partition being expandable in an axial direction relative to said turbine flange and said engine flange when said partition is exposed to said thermal load, wherein said axial direction is parallel to said linear manifold portion. | 33,901 |
9,326,009 | 1. A system for operating a hospitality establishment having a plurality of rooms, the system comprising: a plurality of set-top boxes respectively disposed in the plurality of rooms, each set-top box programmably assigned to a respective room, each set-top box comprising: the server being disposed in communication with the plurality of set-top boxes, the server being co-located at the hospitality establishment; the server sending each of the plurality of set-top boxes the next room assignment; and the server receiving the interactive instructions relative to the first, second, third, and fourth interactive requests, a housekeeping schedule stored at the server, the next room assignment forming a portion of the housekeeping schedule, which is dynamically maintained based on the interactive instructions received at the server relative to the first interactive icon; the server, based on the housekeeping schedule, sending each of the plurality of set-top boxes the next room assignment; a maintenance schedule stored at the server, the maintenance schedule being dynamically maintained based on the interactive instructions received at the server relative to the second interactive icon and fourth interactive icon; and the server optimizing the maintenance schedule prior to dispatching maintenance tasks. | 14,620 |
8,424,159 | 1. A door retaining device comprising: a housing and a retaining rod which traverses the housing, the housing configured to be firmly fixed to one of a door of a vehicle and a framework of said door, while the rod is configured to be pivotably fixed to the other of the door of the vehicle and the framework of said door, the device furthermore comprising a brake mechanism, housed in the housing which comprises at least one brake body stressed by a corresponding compression spring towards the retaining rod to exert by friction a resistance to longitudinal movement of the rod in relation to the housing, the housing formed by several parts assembled to one another, comprising a guide body molded in plastic for guiding the rod, provided with a through hole which is traversed by said rod and with at least one side hole in communication with the through hole; and a receptacle, detachably plugged to the side hole of the guide body, which houses and guides the movement of the brake body towards the retaining rod through the side hole, and in which the compression spring is supported to exert thrusting action on the brake body. | 3,811 |
8,836,271 | 1. A charging method for a transportation vehicle without a contact wire, which is configured such that, when a vehicle running on a track and being equipped with an energy storage device and a regenerative brake, stops at a station on the track, the energy storage device of the vehicle is charged by a charging device provided on a ground side, the method comprising: charging, by the charging device, the energy storage device with a voltage set value which is between a maximum allowable voltage value of the energy storage device and a minimum allowable voltage value thereof and is close to the maximum allowable voltage value, wherein the charging by the charging device includes charging the energy storage device with a voltage set value being set such that a voltage value of the energy storage device during powering of the vehicle is greater than the minimum allowable voltage value of the energy storage device and the voltage value of the energy storage device during regenerative braking of the vehicle is less than the maximum allowable voltage value of the energy storage device, wherein the voltage set value is set to a value satisfying the following expression: VS wherein VS | 15,410 |
8,627,295 | 1. A computer implemented method for testing a user interface, comprising: extracting object data associated with user interface elements from a file associated with the user interface; storing an object definition for respective ones of the user interface elements in memory; referencing an automation rule with the object definition to obtain a testing sequence for the user interface elements, wherein the testing sequence obtained from the automation rule is based on a type of respective ones of the user interface elements, wherein extracting the object data from the file associated with the user interface comprises referencing a set of extraction rules configured to identify the types of the user interface elements; referencing a test definition with the object definition to obtain one or more attributes of the user interface elements to be tested, wherein the object data associated with the user interface elements includes the attributes of the corresponding user interface elements; and generating, via a processor, a test script for the user interface using the one or more attributes of the user interface elements and the testing sequence. | 42,961 |
8,920,726 | 1. A blood analyzer comprising: a sample preparation portion configured to prepare a first measurement sample and a second measurement sample; a light information generation portion configured to generate first fluorescent information and at least two types of first scattered light information from said first measurement sample and to generate second fluorescent information and second scattered light information from said second measurement sample; and a control portion configured to wherein said sample preparation portion is further configured to prepare a third measurement sample, said blood analyzer further comprising an electrical information generation portion configured to generate electrical information of a sample from said third measurement sample, and wherein | 42,587 |
9,519,165 | 1. An automated detection method, comprising steps of: moving at least one panel to a first detection station by a first automatic loading device for an automated lighting detection of the panel; assembling the panel with at least one polarizer and at least one circuit board to obtain a display module and moving the display module to a second detection station by a second automatic loading device for an automated optical detection and an automated lighting detection of the display module; and combining the display module and a backlight module to form a display device and moving the display device to a third detection station by a third automatic loading device for an automated lighting detection of the display device. | 24,991 |
8,798,971 | 1. A computer-implemented method, comprising: accessing, using a processor of a computer, a statechart, wherein the statechart: graphically defining a truth table graphical function in the statechart in the block diagram model of the system, the graphically defining comprising: simulating the statechart and the block diagram model, the simulating comprising: | 7,930 |
9,548,926 | 1. A switch, comprising: one or more ports; link management circuitry configured to operate a port of the one or more ports of the switch in conjunction with a remote switch to form a virtual link aggregation; and load balancing circuitry configured to: wherein a respective element of the data structure corresponds to a switch participating in the virtual link aggregation; and in response to the index indicating that an element of the data structure corresponds to the switch, designate the switch as a primary switch for the multicast group, | 31,221 |
9,796,648 | 1. A method for producing a glycerol product, comprising exposing glycerol to a solid acid catalyst in a supercritical or subcritical carbon dioxide (SCF CO 2 ) reaction medium, whereby a glycerol product is produced by solid acid catalyzed dehydration of the glycerol. | 47,032 |
8,679,962 | 1. A method of fabricating a semiconductor device, comprising: providing a semiconductor substrate; forming an interface layer on the semiconductor substrate; forming a first gate dielectric layer on the interface layer; forming a first layer on the first gate dielectric layer, wherein the first layer is a metal layer; oxidizing the first layer to form a metal oxide layer, wherein the oxidizing the metal layer includes gettering oxygen from the interface layer; forming a second layer including a metal oxide, wherein the forming the second layer includes depositing a layer of at least one of TaC, TaCO, TaCNO and oxidizing the deposited layer using at least one of an anneal and a plasma process, and further includes diffusing oxygen from the second layer to the first gate dielectric layer; and forming a third layer on the second layer; wherein the third layer includes metal. | 47,683 |
8,536,797 | 1. A semiconductor light source apparatus, comprising: a semiconductor light emitting device; a power supply circuit that supplies operating power; a drive circuit including (i) a passive element that accumulates and discharges the power from the power supply circuit, (ii) a charging path that supplies and accumulates the power from the power supply circuit in the passive element, (iii) a discharging path that discharges the power accumulated in the passive element by causing the semiconductor light emitting device to emit light, and (iv) a plurality of switching elements that switch between the charging path and the discharging path, and thereby intermittently drive the semiconductor light emitting device; a constant current switch controller that (A) detects a voltage applied to a path when each one of the charging path and the discharging path is selected and (B) switches the plurality of switching elements by calculating a switching duty ratio of the plurality of switching elements such that a current flowing through the passive element is maintained at a constant value in accordance with detection results; and a duty monitoring unit that adjusts a voltage value of the power supplied by the power supply circuit in accordance with the switching duty ratio calculated by the constant current switch controller. | 11,582 |
9,231,839 | 1. A communication unit for determining frequency-dependent quadrature (FDIQ) imbalance, the communication unit comprising: a quadrature transmitter comprising: an analog feedback loopback path for selectively first routing the filtered first quadrature test signal to a quadrature receiver via a first route; the quadrature receiver comprising: wherein the quadrature transmitter is arranged to receive a second quadrature test signal and the analog feedback loopback path selectively routes a filtered second quadrature test signal to the quadrature receiver via a second route that is different from the first route and the quadrature receive baseband circuit is arranged to determine a frequency-dependent quadrature imbalance of at least one component in at least one of the transmitter or receiver based on the decoded further filtered first quadrature test signal and the decoded further filtered second quadrature test signal. | 7,941 |
8,646,438 | 1. An air intake duct for connecting a suction port of a supercharger, comprising: a duct inlet oriented in a first direction; a duct outlet fluid connected with the suction port of the supercharger and oriented in a second direction substantially perpendicular to the first direction; and a duct body for defining an air intake passage extending from the duct inlet to the duct outlet; wherein | 37,114 |
9,631,235 | 1. A method for diagnosing an autoimmune or autoinflammatory disease (AID) selected from the group consisting of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and ANCA-associated vasculitis (AAV) in an individual suffering from the AID or suspected of suffering from the AID that presents one or more established criteria for the diagnosis and/or classification of the AID, said method comprising the steps of: a. determining by quantitative PCR the amount or concentration of blood plasma circulating mitochondrial nucleic acid (mtNA) in a sample comprising blood, plasma, or serum obtained from said individual using a primer pair capable of specifically amplifying a designated mitochondrion-specific nucleotide sequence, wherein said mtNA is mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and said quantitative PCR utilizes amplification primers capable of specifically amplifying the mitochondrial ATP-6 gene; b. comparing the amount or concentration of mtDNA determined in step (a) with a control amount or concentration of mtDNA associated with a healthy subject; and c. diagnosing said individual with the AID when (i) said measured mtDNA amount or concentration is elevated relative to said control amount or concentration. | 47,038 |
8,980,481 | 1. A non-aqueous electrolyte solution for a lithium secondary battery comprising an ionizable lithium salt, an organic solvent and additives wherein the additives comprise (a) 1 to 10% by weight of a mixture of a halogenated cyclic carbonate represented by Formula 1: wherein X and Y are each independently hydrogen, chlorine or fluorine, with the proviso that X and Y are not simultaneously hydrogen, and a compound containing a vinylene or vinyl group, based on the total weight of the non-aqueous electrolyte solution, and (b) 0.1 to 9% by weight of a nitrile compound having a C wherein the halogenated cyclic carbonate and the vinylene or vinyl group-containing compound are mixed in a weight ratio of 1:0.5 to 1:5. | 28,898 |
8,642,010 | 1. An ultrasound contrast agent comprising a microvesicle conjugated to at least one polypeptide having the ability to bind to KDR or VEGF/KDR complex, wherein the polypeptide comprises an amino acid sequence selected from the group consisting of wherein J is the spacer or linker group 8-amino- 3,6-dioxaoctanoyl. | 32,528 |
8,882,030 | 1. An autonomous electricity production and conditioning system for an aircraft, including: a rotary shaft; a main compressor mounted integral with the rotary shaft; a power turbine for rotating the rotary shaft; and a cold expansion turbine rotated by the rotary shaft and supplied with a compressed gas from the main compressor; wherein the system comprises an upstream assembly supplying outside air to the aircraft, which outside air has not passed through a propulsion engine of the aircraft, the upstream assembly being connected to an inlet of the main compressor, the system also including a main alternator mechanically connected to the rotary shaft, and an auxiliary alternator separate from the main alternator, and wherein the auxiliary alternator is mechanically connected to the rotary shaft; and an electric network of the aircraft includes batteries which are electrically connectable to the auxiliary alternator to supply the auxiliary alternator with power and cause it to operate as an engine to start rotation of the rotary shaft and electrically disconnectable from the auxiliary alternator when the power turbine rotates the rotary shaft independently, such that when the rotary shaft is rotated by the power turbine, the main alternator operates as a generator and provides electric power to the electric network of the aircraft. | 9,605 |
9,212,550 | 1. An apparatus, comprising: a fluid communication device operable to establish fluid communication between a downhole tool and a subterranean formation penetrated by a wellbore in which the downhole tool is positioned; a sample chamber in selectable fluid communication with the formation via the fluid communication device; and an assembly mechanically coupling the sample chamber within the downhole tool and comprising a cam rotatable between a first position and a second position, wherein the cam preloads the sample chamber when in the first position and is disengaged from the sample chamber in the second position, and wherein the assembly further comprises: | 35,569 |
9,193,182 | 1. A printing device comprising: at least one radiant heater along a printing path of the printing device, the at least one radiant heater includes at least two emitters; a circuit that measures a voltage and a current supplied to each of the at least two emitters; and a controller that receives a measurements of the voltage and current supplied to each of the at least two emitters and calculates an electrical power supplied to each of the at least two emitters; wherein the controller compares the calculated electrical power supplied to the at least two emitters and adjusts the electrical power supplied to at least one of the at least two emitters if a difference in power supplied to each of the at least two emitters exceeds a threshold to reduce the electrical power difference between the at least two emitters. | 24,640 |
9,239,155 | 1. A lighting apparatus comprising: a base unit placed on a floor or fixed at a wall; a first rod-shaped member having one end coupled to the base unit and having a long shape in a lengthy direction; a lighting unit installed at the other end of the first rod-shaped member and including a light source for emitting light; and a base connection unit installed at the base unit and coupled to the one end of the first rod-shaped member, wherein the base connection unit comprises: a rotating member rotatably coupled to the base unit; a base cam fixed to the rotating member and including a base cam through-hole that penetrates a central portion of the base cam; a main shaft disposed in the base cam through-hole, capable of performing a tilt operation for rotating in one direction and the other direction on the basis of a tilt rotation central axis orthogonal to the lengthy direction of the first rod-shaped member, and having an upper portion to which the one end of the first rod-shaped member is coupled and fixed; and an elastic member that is provided to change an elastic bearing power applied to the main shaft, as the main shaft is tilted. | 44,547 |
9,217,346 | 1. A method for operating an exhaust gas system of an internal combustion engine, the method comprising the following steps: providing the exhaust gas system with at least one adsorber for adsorbing hydrocarbons, a catalytic converter disposed downstream of the at least one adsorber for converting hydrocarbons and at least one heater disposed between the at least one adsorber and the catalytic converter; heating exhaust gas between the adsorber and the catalytic convertor with the at least one heater; and adjusting a heat output of the at least one heater in dependence on a state of aging of the catalytic converter. | 38,685 |
8,882,368 | 1. An optical communication module for performing a optical transmission, comprising: a transparent board on which a convex lens and a photoelectric device are arranged; a convex portion arranged on a front surface of the transparent board; and a reflecting portion that reflects light, wherein the reflecting portion is optically connected to the convex lens and arranged on the transparent board, the optical transmission is performed with the photoelectric device through the convex lens, the transparent board, and the reflecting portion, the photoelectric device is aligned with the convex portion on the front surface of the transparent board, and optically connected to the convex portion, the convex lens is integrally formed on a back surface of the transparent board, the convex portion intersects an optical axis of the convex lens, and the convex portion works as the reflecting portion. | 24,349 |
8,521,772 | 1. A computer-implemented method, the method comprising: capturing a first portion of a rendered document using a portable data capture device; sending a text segment from the first captured portion to a document server, wherein the document server is configured to index text of a corpus of documents; receiving from the document server a document identifier of an electronic document containing the text segment; sending an enhancement package request including the document identifier to a media server, wherein the media server is different from the document server; receiving from the media server an enhancement package associated with the document identifier, wherein the enhancement package includes multiple media presentations associated with multiple words of the rendered document, wherein each word of the multiple words is associated with a respective media presentation of the multiple media presentations; capturing a second portion of the rendered document using the portable data capture device; locating within the enhancement package a media presentation associated with one or more identified words within the second captured portion; and providing for presentation of the associated media presentation using the portable data capture device. | 4,265 |
8,435,197 | 1. Knee-joint orthosis for guiding the patella of a patient during the transition from an extended position to a flexed position of the knee joint and vice versa, with a fastening means for fastening to a thigh and a lower leg, with at least one laterally arranged stabilizing element that takes up a flexion of the knee joint and bears on the thigh and lower leg, and with a dimensionally stable guide element that can be held in position by an arrangement of tensioning straps and is arranged to bear laterally on the patella by way of a lateral base part from which medially directed attachments extend proximally and distally of the patella and are secured to strap sections on the orthosis in the area of the thigh and of the lower leg in such a way that a medial tensile force is exerted on the attachments, wherein the strap sections are designed with an elasticity, that a laterally directed elastic strap allowing a sideways movement of the base part is connected to the base part, the elasticity of which strap is greater than the elasticity of the strap sections, and that the elasticities of the medially directed strap sections , on the one hand, and of the laterally directed strap, on the other hand, are chosen such that, during a flexion of the hinge from the extended position, it is the laterally directed strap that first stretches at least quite predominantly, and a stretch limiter, provided for the laterally directed strap, is active at a predefined flexion limit angle of the knee joint, such that, for a greater flexion of the knee hinge, it is the medially directed strap sections that stretch at least predominantly. | 33,540 |
9,528,713 | 1. A combined hot water supply and air-conditioning device comprising: at least one heat source unit that is equipped with an air-conditioning compressor that compresses a first refrigerant, and a heat source unit-side heat exchanger; a plurality of indoor units that are connected in parallel to the heat source unit, the indoor units being equipped with a use-side heat exchanger through which the first refrigerant flows; at least one hot water supply unit that is connected in parallel to the heat source unit, the hot water supply unit being equipped with a refrigerant-refrigerant heat exchanger through which the first refrigerant and a second refrigerant flow, a heat medium-refrigerant heat exchanger through which a heat medium and the second refrigerant flow, and a hot water supply compressor that compresses the second refrigerant; and a controller configured to control a capacity of the heat source unit-side heat exchanger equipped to the heat source unit; wherein in heating operation, the controller is configured to set a lower limit for a capacity of the heat source unit-side heat exchanger, and control the capacity of the heat source unit-side heat exchanger to adjust the capacity of the heat source unit-side heat exchanger relative to a heating operation capacity ratio to prevent deviation from a predetermined operating range of the air-conditioning compressor and to suppress an increase in pressure, the heating operation capacity ratio is a value obtained by dividing a total load of the indoor units and the hot water supply unit by a load of the heat source unit. | 38,161 |
9,083,062 | 1. A battery pack comprising a control system and no more than about 130 lithium ion pouch batteries connected in series generating an average voltage of at least about 400V with a 50% depth of discharge and having an energy capacity at full discharge of at least about 15 kilowatt-hours based on full depth of discharge, wherein each lithium ion battery has a thickness from about 7 mm to about 18 mm and a planar area from about 25,000 mm 2 to about 50,000 mm 2 , wherein the positive electrode comprises an active composition approximately represented with a formula Li 1+b Ni α Mn β−δ Co γ A δ O 2−z F z , in which b ranges from about 0.01 to about 0.3, α ranges from 0 to about 0.4, β ranges from about 0.2 to about 0.65, γ ranges from about 0 to about 0.46, δ ranges from 0 to about 0.15, and z ranges from 0 to about 0.2 with the proviso that α and γ are not both zero, wherein A is a metal dopant distinct from Ni, Mn and Co, or combinations thereof and wherein the control system is designed to monitor function of the series connected batteries for the operation of a vehicle without any parallel connections of the batteries. | 18,813 |
9,107,872 | 1. A Streptococcus pneumoniae immunogenic composition comprising 10 or more capsular saccharides from at least 10 different S. pneumoniae serotypes, each capsular saccharide conjugated to a carrier protein, wherein the composition comprises at least three different carrier proteins, wherein the composition comprises: serotype 19F capsular saccharide conjugated to diphtheria toxoid (DT); serotype 18C capsular saccharide conjugated to tetanus toxoid (TT); and serotype 1, 4, 5, 6B, 7F, 9V, 14 and 23F capsular saccharide conjugated to protein D from Haemophilus influenzae. | 15,208 |
9,437,038 | 1. A computing device, comprising: a display screen; a camera; at least one computing device processor; a memory device including instructions that, when executed by the at least one computing device processor, enable the computing device to: | 41,955 |
8,512,323 | 1. A system for viewing multiple images comprising: at least one digitized static image of tissue or a structure; a slit-limp apparatus for real-time observation of a tissue or structure; at least one digitizing apparatus connected to said slit-lamp apparatus for digitizing the real-time observation; a secondary display device capable of displaying the digitized static image overlapped and aligned with the real-time digitized image. | 39,949 |
9,222,411 | 1. A combined bleed air and hot section component cooling air system for a gas turbine engine, the combined bleed air and hot section component cooling air system comprising: a high-pressure bleed air line configured to receive high-pressure bleed air from a high-pressure stage of a compressor; a first precooler operatively connected to the high-pressure bleed air line to receive at least some of the high-pressure bleed air, transfer heat from the high-pressure bleed air to ambient air, and discharge cooled high-pressure bleed air; a high-pressure discharge line operatively connected to the first precooler to receive the cooled high-pressure bleed air; a first pressure regulator in the high-pressure discharge line, the first pressure regulator being configured to receive at least some of the cooled high-pressure bleed air and discharge pressure-regulated cooled bleed air; a pneumatic systems supply line operatively connected to the high-pressure discharge line downstream of the first pressure regulator to receive the pressure-regulated cooled bleed air; and a hot section component cooling air line operatively connected to the high-pressure discharge line upstream of the first pressure regulator and configured to convey at least some of the cooled high-pressure bleed air to a hot section component for use as hot section component cooling air, further comprising an intermediate-pressure bleed air line configured to receive intermediate-pressure bleed air from an intermediate stage of the compressor and supply the intermediate-pressure bleed air to the first precooler, the first precooler being configured to receive the intermediate-pressure bleed air, transfer heat from the intermediate-pressure bleed air to ambient air, and discharge cooled intermediate-pressure bleed air; an intermediate-pressure discharge line operatively connected to the first precooler to receive the cooled intermediate-pressure bleed air; a second pressure regulator in the intermediate-pressure discharge line, the second pressure regulator being configured to receive at least some of the cooled intermediate-pressure bleed air and discharge pressure-regulated cooled bleed air to the pneumatic systems supply line. | 11,714 |
9,103,567 | 1. A photovoltaic energy apparatus comprising: a) a plurality of primary branches extending radially outwardly from a central trunk in a spiral arrangement having a ratio of x turns around the trunk for every y primary branches; and b) a plurality of photovoltaic panels joined to a plurality of corresponding adjustable mounting fixtures joined to the primary branches, each of the photovoltaic panels defining a panel plane and joined to one of the plurality of primary branches by a corresponding one of the plurality of adjustable mounting fixtures comprising a first member joined to the one of the plurality of primary branches, an intermediate hinge piece pivotably joined to the first member, and a second member joined to the photovoltaic panel and pivotably joined to the intermediate hinge piece; wherein for each photovoltaic panel, the corresponding adjustable mounting fixture is operable to enable adjustment of an inclination angle of the panel plane of the photovoltaic panel with respect to a horizontal plane, and adjustment of the panel plane with respect to the radially outward direction from the central trunk; and wherein the inclination angle of the panel planes of the photovoltaic panels with respect to the horizontal plane, and the directions of the panel planes with respect to the radially outward direction from the central trunk are each individually adjusted to provide the plurality of photovoltaic panels with a range of inclination angles with respect to the horizontal plane of between zero and ninety degrees, and a range of directions of the panel planes radially outwardly between zero and 360 degrees around the central trunk. | 11,885 |
8,772,977 | 1. A wireless power feeder for feeding power from a feeding coil to a receiving coil by wireless using a magnetic field resonance phenomenon between the feeding coil and receiving coil, comprising: a feeding coil; a power transmission control circuit that feeds AC power to the feeding coil; a control signal generation circuit that generates a control signal having a control frequency; and a comparison circuit that generates an enable signal when a predetermined magnitude relationship is established between the level of the control signal and that of a reference signal, wherein the power transmission control circuit feeds the AC power to the feeding coil under only while the enable signal is being generated. | 41,414 |
9,609,267 | 1. A method for processing video images intended to be transmitted to a receiver in order to be used for forming graphics to be displayed, the method comprising: acquiring digital video image data from a sensor; electronically processing said acquired video image data by either (1) replacing some of the video image data with a control message, or (2) adding a control message to the video image data; the control message containing at least a group of control data of a non-video type and which defines information intended to be used by said receiver to form graphics to be displayed starting from at least the remaining video image data after said replacement, in said processed image; transmitting said processed image data to a receiver; extracting the control data from the processed image data; forming an image from the video image data in the processed image data as a function of the extracted control data; displaying said image formed from the video image data on a display; the acquired video image being formed of video image data arranged in the form of N lines or M columns; | 4,232 |
9,394,214 | 1. A process for producing a C5+ composition, comprising: (a) providing a reverse-flow reactor comprising: (i) first and second hydrocarbon conversion catalysts, the first hydrocarbon conversion catalyst having oxidative coupling functionality and the second hydrocarbon conversion catalyst having dehydrocyclization functionality and (ii) at least one thermal mass, wherein (A) the first hydrocarbon conversion catalyst, (B) the second hydrocarbon conversion catalyst, and (C) the oxygen storage material are deposited on or in the thermal mass, and within a catalytic conversion zone of the reverse-flow reactor; (b) during a first time interval, i. passing a heating fluid comprising an oxidant and a hydrocarbon fuel through the reverse-flow reactor system and a first portion of the oxidant with the hydrocarbon fuel under combustion conditions to (A) produce a heated combustion gas and (B) transfer heat from the heated combustion gas to the thermal mass, wherein the oxidant is present in the heating fluid in a stoichiometric excess of that needed for substantially complete combustion with the hydrocarbon fuel, ii. transferring at least a second portion of the oxidant's oxygen to an oxygen storage material for storage with the oxygen storage material, and iii. lessening or discontinuing the passing of the oxidant through the reverse-flow reactor; (c) during a second time interval, i. passing a hydrocarbon reactant comprising methane through the reverse-flow reactor, ii. releasing stored oxygen and catalytically converting at least a portion of the hydrocarbon reactant's methane with at least a portion of the released oxygen in the presence of the first hydrocarbon conversion catalyst to produce a first reaction mixture comprising a C iii. catalytically converting at least a portion of the first reaction mixture in the presence of the second hydrocarbon conversion catalyst to produce a second reaction mixture comprising the C (d) conducting at least a portion of the second reaction mixture away from the reverse-flow reactor. | 20,553 |
9,249,717 | 1. A suction pipe assembly of an internal combustion engine, the suction pipe assembly comprising: a suction pipe including a cooling fluid intercooler arranged in the chamber of the suction pipe housing; the seal chamber is delimited by the first connecting flange, the second connecting flange and a connecting plate of the cooling fluid intercooler; a seal, disposed in the seal chamber, sealing the suction pipe relative to the cooling fluid intercooler; the seal made of an initially flowable sealing material introduced into the seal chamber as a liquid between the first connecting flange and the first housing part and contacting second connecting flange of the second housing part into the circumferential seal chamber in an initially flowable state and subsequently cured in a curing phase in the seal chamber; the seal chamber seal-tightly closed with the exception of at least one fill opening extending through the second connecting flange through which the liquid sealing material is introduced into the seal chamber while the first housing part and the second housing part are in the closed state. | 11,737 |
9,534,509 | 1. A device for improving the production of heat by cogeneration comprising: a steam boiler; a turbine receiving the steam from the steam boiler, the steam expanding within the turbine, the turbine producing an exhaust; an air condenser receiving the exhaust from the turbine and in which the exhaust condenses into water, the air condenser being configured to exchange a latent heat of condensation from the exhaust with a cooling gas flowed through the air condenser, and to dissipate the heated cooling gas into atmosphere external to the air condenser; at least one hydrocondenser receiving the exhaust from the turbine and in which the exhaust condenses into water; and a secondary cooling circuit where a coolant for the hydrocondenser is directed toward a heat exchanger in which heat from the coolant is extracted and used, then the coolant is returned to the hydrocondenser, wherein the hydrocondenser comprises a tube bundle incorporated in a steam distribution chamber within the air condenser, the tube bundle circulating the coolant within the steam distribution chamber, and wherein the condensed water from both the air condenser and the hydrocondenser is looped back to the steam boiler. | 32,910 |
9,787,197 | 1. A switching power supply unit comprising: a pair of input terminals that receives an input voltage; a pair of output terminals that outputs an output voltage; first to third primary windings and first to third secondary windings that form three transformers; a switching circuit disposed between the pair of input terminals and the first to the third primary windings, and including first to fourth switching devices and first and second capacitors; a rectifying smoothing circuit provided between the pair of output terminals and the first to the third secondary windings, and including six rectifying devices, a choke coil, and an output capacitor that is disposed between the pair of output terminals; and a driver that performs a switching drive that controls operation of the first to the fourth switching devices, wherein | 43,877 |
9,715,878 | 1. A system for arbitrating spoken dialog results in a vehicle, the system comprising: an event timer module, including a processor, configured to: a semantic interpretation module, including a processor, configured to receive the first recognition results and determine a first confidence level associated with the first recognition results, to receive the second recognition results and determine a second confidence level associated with the second recognition results; a short cut module, including a processor, configured to determine whether the first confidence level is above a threshold and to provide the first recognition results to an output module if the first confidence level is above the threshold; a result selection module, including a processor, configured to select and provide to the output module the first recognition results when the first confidence level is not above the threshold, and the first confidence level is greater than the second confidence level wherein the result selection module is further configured to select the first recognition results based in part on the first time and the second time. | 36,319 |
9,018,463 | 1. A plant of soybean cultivar S120078, representative seed of said soybean cultivar having been deposited under ATCC Accession No. PTA-120265. | 46,209 |
8,968,226 | 1. A therapeutic anatomical device, comprising: a sleeve having a substantially cylindrical geometry with at least one end open, and having a thickness adequate to provide an elastic section modulus to resist a bending moment sufficient to restrict the normal range of motion of an anatomical part absent significant deformation; wherein said sleeve is comprised of an elastomeric, dermatologically compatible material capable of contraction upon exposure to an activation modality, and wherein said contraction causes an effective reduction in circumference of at least a portion of said sleeve to conform to and support a target anatomy; wherein said activation modality is selected from the group consisting of: heat cold, chemical reagent, electromagnetic energy, mechanical energy; further comprising; at least one region having a greater thickness than that of the sleeve; and an integrated therapeutic member; wherein said therapeutic member is a longitudinal support member; and wherein said therapeutic member is at least one lateral support brace. | 18,916 |
9,095,335 | 1. A method of joining a first length of suture and a second length of suture, the method comprising: providing a ferrule including a substantially cylindrical body having a first end defining a first cavity and a second end defining a second cavity, wherein the first and second cavities are configured to receive ends of respective first and second lengths of suture; inserting the end of the first length of suture within the first cavity and the end of the second length of suture within the second cavity; and, applying energy to the ferrule to weld the ends of the first and second lengths of suture thereto. | 12,008 |
9,241,177 | 1. A system comprising: input interfaces to a first set of communication channels that form an incoming bonded channel group; first output interfaces to a second set of communication channels that form a first outgoing bonded channel group; second output interfaces to a third set of communication channels that form a second outgoing bonded channel group; and transbonding circuitry in communication with the input interfaces and the first and second output interfaces, the transbonding circuitry configured to: | 31,578 |
9,103,071 | 1. A process of making paper or paperboard, the process comprising: introducing a dual retention system into a cellulosic thin stock, subjecting the cellulosic thin stock to one or more shear stages, and then draining the cellulosic thin stock on a moving screen to form a dried sheet, wherein the dual retention system consists of a first polymeric retention aid and a second polymeric retention aid, the first polymeric retention aid is a water-soluble cationic polymer exhibiting an intrinsic viscosity of at least 6 dl/g, the second polymeric retention aid is a water-soluble cationic polymer exhibiting an intrinsic viscosity of from 6 to 8 dl/g, the second polymeric retention aid has a greater cationic charge density than the first polymeric retention aid, the second polymeric retention aid comprises from 30 to 50 mol % of cationic monomers and from 50 to 70 mol % of non-ionic ethylenically unsaturated monomer units. | 5,082 |
8,611,358 | 1. A method for mobile computer networking on a distributed network, the method comprising: with a network element of a local network, establishing a connection to a mobile client device; with said network element, determining a home network of said mobile client device without using a logical address of a packet of data from said mobile client device, wherein determining the home network includes: with said network element, forwarding network traffic from said mobile client device to the home network of said mobile client device through the indicated output port. | 34,883 |
9,037,417 | 1. A method for evaluating an action of one or more compounds on a molecular flux rate through a solid or liquid tumor formation pathway in a living system, said method comprising: a) administering a first isotope-labeled substrate to a first living system, not exposed to said one or more compounds, for a period of time sufficient for said first isotope-labeled substrate to enter into and label at least one DNA molecule derived from the solid or liquid tumor to produce at least one first isotope-labeled DNA molecule derived from the solid or liquid tumor within said solid or liquid tumor formation pathway in said first living system; b) obtaining one or more samples from said first living system, wherein said one or more samples comprise said at least one first isotope-labeled DNA molecule derived from the solid or liquid tumor; c) measuring an isotopic content, rate of incorporation, and/or pattern or rate of change in isotopic content and/or pattern of isotope labeling of said at least one first isotope-labeled DNA molecule derived from the solid or liquid tumor; d) calculating a molecular flux rate through said solid or liquid tumor formation pathway based on the isotopic content, rate of incorporation, and/or pattern or rate of change of isotopic content and/or pattern of isotopic labeling in said at least one first isotope-labeled DNA molecule derived from the solid or liquid tumor; e) exposing a second living system to said one or more compounds; f) administering a second isotope-labeled substrate to said second living system for a period of time sufficient for said second isotope-labeled substrate to enter into and label at least one DNA molecule derived from the solid or liquid tumor to produce at least one second isotope-labeled DNA molecule derived from the solid or liquid tumor; g) obtaining one or more samples from said second living system, wherein said one or more samples comprise said at least one second isotope-labeled DNA molecule derived from the solid or liquid tumor; h) measuring an isotopic content, rate of incorporation, and/or pattern or rate of change in isotopic content and/or pattern of isotope labeling of said at least one second isotope-labeled DNA molecule derived from the solid or liquid tumor; i) calculating a molecular flux rate through said solid or liquid tumor formation pathway in said second living system based on the isotopic content, rate of incorporation, and/or pattern or rate of change in isotopic content and/or pattern of isotope labeling of said at least one second isotope-labeled DNA molecule derived from the solid or liquid tumor; and j) comparing said molecular flux rate through said solid or liquid tumor formation pathway in said first living system to said molecular flux rate through said solid or liquid tumor formation pathway in said second living system to evaluate the action of said one or more compounds on said molecular flux rate through the solid or liquid tumor formation pathway in said second living system. | 18,178 |
8,446,058 | 1. An electric motor comprising: a housing; a stator arranged within the housing, the stator including a plurality of terminal leads; a terminal box mounted to the housing; and a terminal block assembly arranged within the terminal box, the terminal block assembly including a terminal block portion including a body portion having a base portion including at least one mounting member secured in the terminal box through a first mechanical fastener and a terminal surface portion supporting a first plurality of terminals and a terminal block section that is distinct from the terminal block portion, the terminal block section including a body section having a base section including at least one mounting element secured in the terminal box through a second mechanical fastener and a terminal surface section supporting a second plurality of terminals, the terminal block portion being configured and disposed to be spaced from the terminal block section in the terminal box, the plurality of terminal leads being electrically connected to corresponding ones of the first and second pluralities of terminals. | 28,935 |
9,252,624 | 1. A battery control device comprising: a control unit which controls a battery pack having a plurality of single cells connected therein; a voltage measurement unit which measures voltage between terminals of the single cells or the battery pack; a current measurement unit which measures a current flowing through the single cells or the battery pack; a temperature measurement unit which measures a temperature of the single cells or the battery pack, and the internal resistance characteristic information describes the correspondence relation regarding each of the duration time; wherein the control unit acquires the state of charge of the single cells by using the result of the measurement by the voltage measurement unit and by the current measurement unit; wherein using the duration time that differs between an operation mode in to which to supply power to an electric vehicle and an operation mode in which to supply power to a hybrid vehicle, the control unit acquires the internal resistance value corresponding to the temperature, state of charge, and duration time of the single cells from the internal resistance characteristic information, and wherein the control unit uses an upper or lower voltage, an open circuit voltage, and the internal resistance value of the single cells to calculate a charging current or a discharging current of the single cells, the control unit further performing a control to charge or discharge the single cells in accordance with the charging current or the discharging current. | 31,022 |
9,165,720 | 1. A composite comprising: 0.5 to 5 parts by mass of a conductive polymer having nitrogen atoms per 100 parts by mass of a porous carbon material; wherein a ratio of peak area derived from nitrogen atoms to peak area derived from carbon atoms (nitrogen/carbon ratio) in the spectrum by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy is from 0.005 to 0.05. | 47,004 |
8,893,804 | 1. A method of propagating pressure pulses in a subterranean well, the method comprising: flowing a fluid composition through at least one variable flow resistance system which includes an inlet, a vortex chamber, and an outlet, a vortex being created when the fluid composition flows spirally about the outlet; and the vortex being alternately created and dissipated in response to a variation in backpressure being transmitted from the vortex chamber to the inlet, wherein the inlet supplies the fluid composition to first and second flow passages, and wherein the variable flow resistance system further comprises a control passage which receives a portion of the fluid composition from the vortex chamber, thereby influencing more of the fluid composition to flow into the chamber via the second flow passage, when the fluid composition spirals about the outlet in the chamber due to flow of the fluid composition into the chamber via the first flow passage. | 1,534 |
9,589,280 | 1. A method of generating user profiles, the method comprising: obtaining a plurality of location data sets from different providers of user geolocation history, each location data set including a plurality of user-activity records, each user-activity records being associated with a user identifier and including geolocations of the corresponding user and times that the corresponding user was at the geolocations, the different providers having different user identifiers for a given corresponding user; matching, by one or more processors, the user identifiers between the location data sets based on geolocations of the corresponding user and times that the corresponding user was at the geolocations; and storing the matched user identifiers in association with one another in corresponding user profiles, wherein: the geolocations are sensed based on wireless signals received by or transmitted from mobile user devices; the location data sets are anonymized such that no canonical user identifier is present for the corresponding users across the plurality of location data sets; at least some of the location data sets are obtained with a batch process such that the at least some of the location data sets contain data collected over at least an hour; the user identifiers uniquely identify each corresponding user within a corresponding location data set; and the location data sets comprise: | 6,305 |
9,325,242 | 1. A method of operating a switching regulator having a power stage coupled to a load through an inductor and a capacitor, the capacitor being a single capacitor or a bank of capacitors in parallel, the method comprising: controlling operation of the power stage via a pulse width modulation (PWM) signal generated based on a difference between a reference voltage and a load voltage of the load; sampling the load voltage; sampling inductor current of the inductor at a lower rate than the load voltage; estimating capacitor current of the capacitor based on the sampled load voltage; generating a first modification term based on the sampled inductor current; generating a second modification term based on the estimated capacitor current; combining the first and the second modification terms to form a voltage offset; adjusting the reference voltage by the voltage offset; and adjusting the PWM signal applied to the power stage based on the adjusted reference voltage. | 19,901 |
8,651,392 | 1. A thermo-element comprising: a casing having a bottom; a thermally expandable material filled in the casing, the thermally expandable material including paraffin capable of expanding and contracting due to temperature changes; an elastic sealing member sealingly enclosing the thermally expandable material in the casing; a piston movable in an axial direction thereof; a guide member fixed to an upper portion of the casing and formed with a sliding hole for slidably holding the piston; a liquid chamber defined internally by the elastic sealing member, the guide member and the piston; and a deformable, incompressible fluid received in the liquid chamber, wherein the piston is adapted to be moved along the sliding hole of the guide member in the axial direction, according to expansion and contraction of the thermally expandable material and through the incompressible fluid in the liquid chamber, the thermo-element being characterized in that it comprises a bellows surrounding an outer periphery of the piston, wherein an upper end of the bellows is sealingly fixed to an upper region of the outer periphery of the piston, and a lower end of the bellows is sealingly fixed to an upper portion of the guide member, so that a hermetic liquid space is defined between an outer surface of the piston and an inner surface of the bellows, and wherein the piston is internally formed with a through-hole extending inside the piston in the axial direction and communicating with the liquid chamber, and a radial hole extending radially from the through-hole and having an opening exposed to the liquid space outside the piston, so that the incompressible fluid in the liquid chamber can flow in and out of the liquid space according to expansion and contraction of the thermally expandable material. | 4,955 |
9,486,013 | 1. A cigarette comprising: a lighting end and a mouth end; a smokable segment disposed at the lighting end, said smokable segment having a length and comprising a smokable material circumscribed by wrapping material; a mouth end piece segment disposed at the mouth end; an aerosol-generation system disposed between the smokable segment and the mouth end piece segment, the aerosol-generation system including a piece of outer wrapping material oriented to provide an overwrap (i) around the aerosol-generating segment for at least a portion of its length, (ii) around the heat generation segment for the length of that segment, and (iii) around the smokable segment for at least a portion of its length; those segments being connected together by the overwrap to provide a cigarette rod; the mouth end piece segment being connected to the cigarette rod using tipping material, and further comprising a buffer between the heat generation segment and the aerosol-generating segment, wherein the buffer comprises a structure selected from a group consisting of: a foamed metal material; a foamed ceramic material; a foamed ceramic metal composite; and any combination thereof. | 4,969 |
9,662,092 | 1. An ultrasound observation apparatus comprising: a processor comprising hardware, wherein the processor is configured to: | 43,131 |
9,191,662 | 1. A display apparatus, comprising: a display, operating in a three-dimension (3D) mode or a two-dimension (2D) mode, that displays a 3D image content when operating in the 3D mode, and displays a 2D image content when operating in the 2D mode; a controller that controls the display to operate in one of the 3D mode and the 2D mode and generates a remote control signal to control a pair of glasses, the remote control signal including an identification instruction requesting for an identification code of the pair of glasses, the remote control signal further including both of audio data to be audibly played by the pair of glasses and vibration data configured to cause the pair of glasses to vibrate; a transmitting circuit configured to transmit the remote control signal to the pair of glasses; and a receiving circuit that receives a status signal from the pair of glasses, the status signal indicating the identification code of the pair of glasses and an indication of a power supply status of the pair of glasses that allows the display to show the power supply status to the user by on-screen display (OSD), wherein the 3D image content carries at least one set of a left frame and a right frame, each set forms a 3D image, and wherein the display apparatus further comprises: an image processing module that retrieves the 2D image content from the 3D image content; and a format converting module that extracts the at least one set of the left frame and the right frame from the 3D image content, and selects one frame from each set of left and right frames to form the 2D image content, wherein the display apparatus automatically displays the 2D image content when the status signal indicates power supply for the pair of glasses is interrupted, and wherein the display apparatus is configured to record a plurality of operating parameters for a plurality of pairs of glasses including predetermined audio volumes for speakers in respective pairs of glasses. | 30,160 |
8,378,370 | 1. A light emitting diode (LED) package structure, comprising: a substrate, comprising a first surface and a second surface opposite to each other, an opening shaped from the first surface toward the second surface, a phosphor layer coated on a bottom surface of the opening with two opposite parts of the bottom surface respectively neighboring to two opposite side walls of the opening exposed, a metal layer coated on the two exposed opposite parts of the bottom surface, the two opposite side walls and the first surface; a LED chip, received in the opening and configured on the phosphor layer, the LED chip comprising a pair of conductive pads electrically connecting to the metal layer and a solder pad configured on one side of the LED chip away from the pair of conductive pads; and a colloid, filled between the LED chip and the metal layer to attach the substrate to the LED chip; wherein the metal layer comprises a first metal layer coated on the two exposed opposite parts of the bottom surface, a second metal layer coated on the two opposite side walls and a third metal layer coated on the first surface of the substrate, the pair of conductive pads electrically connecting to the first metal layer, and the solder pad is coplanar with the third metal layer. | 17,158 |
8,460,590 | 1. A process for continuously producing an elastomeric composition, comprising: providing at least one extruder; metering and feeding at least one elastomer into the at least one extruder; metering and feeding at least one filler into the at least one extruder; wherein the metering and feeding of the at least one elastomer is separate from the metering and feeding of the at least one filler; metering and feeding at least one ingredient different from said at least one elastomer and said at least one filler into the at least one extruder; mixing and dispersing the at least one filler and the at least one ingredient different from said at least one elastomer and said at least one filler into the at least one elastomer using the at least one extruder; and extruding a resulting elastomeric composition through a discharge opening of a housing of the at least one extruder; wherein the at least one extruder comprises: wherein the housing comprises: wherein at least one of said at least one ingredient different from said at least one elastomer and said at least one filler comprises a subdivided product comprising one or more minor ingredients dispersed in at least one thermoplastic binding agent, wherein the at least one thermoplastic binding agent comprises: wherein the subdivided product contains greater than 70%-by-weight and less than 98%-by-weight of the one or more minor ingredients with respect to the total weight of the subdivided product and is conveyed, before metering and feeding into the at least one extruder, by at least one pneumatic conveying line, and wherein said one or more minor ingredients are selected from crosslinking agents, crosslinking accelerators, and crosslinking retardants; and are to be used during the crosslinking of a product comprising the elastomeric composition. | 18,330 |
9,516,999 | 1. An endoscope apparatus comprising: an imaging section that includes a phase difference detection element for implementing phase detection autofocus, and acquires a captured image; a phase difference calculation section that calculates a phase difference based on a signal output from the phase difference detection element; a lens position selection section that selects a focus lens position that is either a near point-side focus lens position or a far point-side focus lens position based on the phase difference, the near point-side focus lens position and the far point-side focus lens position being discrete focus lens positions set in advance; a driver section that changes a focus lens position of the imaging section to the focus lens position selected by the lens position selection section; and a boundary position setting section that sets a boundary position between a near point-side in-focus object plane position that corresponds to the near point-side focus lens position and a far point-side in-focus object plane position that corresponds to the far point-side focus lens position, wherein the lens position selection section selects the near point-side focus lens position when the lens position selection section has determined that a position of an object corresponding to the phase difference is closer to the imaging section than the boundary position, and selects the far point-side focus lens position when the lens position selection section has determined that the position of the object corresponding to the phase difference is farther from the imaging section than the boundary position, wherein the lens position selection section stores a first phase difference corresponding to the boundary position when the near point-side focus lens position is selected, and a second phase difference corresponding to the boundary position when the far point-side focus lens position is selected, and wherein the lens position selection section selects the far point-side focus lens position when the lens position selection section has determined that the phase difference calculated by the phase difference calculation section is larger than the first phase difference in a state in which the near point-side focus lens position is selected, and selects the near point-side focus lens position when the lens position selection section has determined that the phase difference calculated by the phase difference calculation section is smaller than the second phase difference in a state in which the far point-side focus lens position is selected. | 18,610 |
9,226,952 | 1. A composition of matter comprising an isolated amino acid peptide consisting of the sequence KKGKKGKKSATWLALSRIAGLCNRAVFQ [SEQ ID NO:9]. | 18,515 |
9,559,532 | 1. A method of charging a metal-air battery pack mounted within an electric vehicle, the method comprising the steps of: coupling said metal-air battery pack to an external charging power source via a battery charging system; determining an oxygen concentration level within a first region corresponding to said metal-air battery pack of said electric vehicle; comparing said oxygen concentration level to a first preset oxygen concentration level; initiating charging of said metal-air battery pack if said oxygen concentration level is less than said first preset oxygen concentration level, and if said oxygen concentration level is greater than said first preset oxygen concentration level, performing the steps of: suspending charging of said metal-air battery pack; comparing said oxygen concentration level to a second preset oxygen concentration level; and resuming charging of said metal-air battery pack when said oxygen concentration level falls below said second preset oxygen concentration level. | 1,129 |
9,334,163 | 1. A hydrogen storage method comprising: a hydrogenation step of hydrogenating a hydrogen storage alloy while increasing pressure in an atmosphere; and a dehydrogenation step of dehydrogenating the hydrogenated hydrogen storage alloy while decreasing the pressure in the atmosphere, wherein: in the hydrogenation step, a hydrogen storage ratio calculated as an atomic weight ratio between hydrogen and the hydrogen storage alloy is obtained beforehand as a theoretical value, a pressure corresponding to the theoretical value is set as a first pressure value, a pressure value ten or more times greater than the first pressure value is set as a second pressure value, and the pressure in the atmosphere is increased up to the second pressure value, in the dehydrogenation step, the pressure in the atmosphere is decreased from the second pressure value to or below the first pressure value, and the hydrogenation step and the dehydrogenation step are repeatedly executed so as to make the hydrogen storage alloy store hydrogen above the theoretical value. | 11,168 |
9,302,448 | 1. A floor underlayment system comprising: a subfloor; a deformable adhesive comprised of one or more acrylic polymers that can be synthetic or natural polymers or combinations thereof, wherein said deformable adhesive has a high shear deformation capacity and is bonded directly to said subfloor; a flexible membrane, wherein said flexible membrane is attached to said subfloor with said deformable adhesive, and wherein said flexible membrane comprises: a finish floor consisting of at least one of ceramic, quarry tile, stone, slate and very rigid and brittle material, wherein said finish floor is attached to said flexible membrane. | 34,863 |
8,849,078 | 1. A high-power single-mode (HPSM) fiber laser system, comprising: a directional fiber router provided with a plurality of spaced ports; a launching fiber component coupling a SM input signal over free space into one of the ports, the launching component having passive delivery and pigtailed SM fibers spliced to one another; a receiving fiber component receiving a SM output signal over free space from an other port of the router, the receiving fiber component having spliced pigtailed and delivery single mode (SM) passive fibers, wherein an inner end of the launching component couples the input signal into the one port and an inner end of the receiving component receives the output signal; a light stripper extending between protective coatings of respective delivery and pigtailed fibers of each fiber component, the light stripper being operative to distributively remove a portion of the SM signal from the cladding of one of passive fiber before the portion reaches the protective coating of the other passive fiber, wherein the multi-port router is configured with an additional input port receiving a second input signal over free space from a second launching component, the additional port having a wavelength-selective component configured to transmit the second input signal but reflect the input signal from the one input port so that the input signals are multiplexed to define the output signal; and a nonlinear optical crystal receiving the SM output signal from the delivery passive fiber of the receiving component the crystal being phase matched to a desired wavelength. | 35,884 |
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