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9,497,094 | 1. A method in a network controller for supporting deployment of cloud services while providing network performance monitoring, which comprises: running at least one application on the network controller; sending, from the at least one application running on the network controller, a request for network performance data information to a performance database manager (PDM), wherein the request comprises an application name, a datapath identifier (DPID), a host identifier (HostID), and actual data items; receiving, at the network controller, a response to the request for network performance data information from the PDM; applying, at the network controller, the network performance data information on application specific heuristics; and sending, to data plane switches, a new set of flow messages to alter traffic going through services hosted on one or more virtual machines. | 16,087 |
9,543,239 | 1. A semiconductor device, comprising: a semiconductor chip; leads arranged around the semiconductor chip; wires bonded to the semiconductor chip and the leads; an island to which the semiconductor chip is bonded; a chip bonding material interposed between the semiconductor chip and the island to bond the semiconductor chip and the island to each other; and a package covering a part of the island and the leads, wherein in a plan view, the island has a quadrangular shape having four sides that are each skewed relative to respective outer sides of the package, the island includes hanging portions which in the plan view, extend from respective corner portions of the island toward the respective outer sides of the package, in the plan view, each respective lead of the leads has a side opposed to a nearest one of the four sides of the island that is nearest to the respective lead out of the four sides of the island, a lower surface of one of the leads is arranged at a rear surface of the package, and in the plan view, the lower surface of the one of the leads has a pentagonal shape. | 4,132 |
8,675,210 | 1. A level sensor for measuring a position of a surface of a substrate comprising: a projection system; and a detector; wherein the projection system comprises: wherein the detector comprises: wherein the detection grating comprises a ruled grating with multiple rules, wherein each rule of the multiple rules of the ruled grating comprises a first measurement facet associated with the first measurement detector and a second measurement facet associated with the second measurement detector; wherein the first measurement facet is configured to refract radiation of the measurement radiation beam incident on said first measurement facet towards the first optical unit, wherein the first optical unit is configured to divert radiation refracted by the first measurement facet to the first measurement detector; wherein the second measurement facet is configured to refract radiation of the measurement radiation beam incident on said second measurement facet towards the second optical unit; wherein the second optical unit is configured to divert radiation refracted by the second measurement facet to the second measurement detector; wherein the detection grating comprises a first capture element having a first capture facet associated with the first capture detector and a second capture facet associated with the second capture detector, said second capture facet being adjacent to the first capture facet; wherein the first capture facet is configured to refract radiation of the capture radiation beam incident on said first capture facet towards the first optical unit, wherein the first optical unit is configured to divert radiation refracted by the first capture facet to the first capture detector; wherein the second capture facet is configured to refract radiation of the capture radiation beam incident on said second capture facet towards the second optical unit; and wherein the second optical unit is configured to divert radiation refracted by the second capture facet to the second capture detector. | 12,548 |
9,226,212 | 1. A communication terminal device, comprising: a plurality of wireless communication units each comprising a receiver and a transmitter, and each configured to communicate with a corresponding wireless communication network; a handover factor detecting unit configured to detect an occurrence of a handover factor when one of the wireless communication units communicates with the corresponding wireless communication network; a power supply unit configured to provide power to each of the plurality of wireless communication units; a storage unit configured to store a detection order for a handover between different wireless communication networks; and a controller configured to: control the power supply unit to provide power to a first unit of the plurality of wireless communication units corresponding to a first wireless communication network; control the power supply unit to provide power to a second unit of the plurality of wireless communication units, based on the detection order, in order to detect a second network communication network corresponding to the second unit, when the handover factor detecting unit detects an occurrence of the handover factor during communication with a base station in the first wireless communication network, wherein the detection order comprises a power consumption order based on a power consumption of the transmitter in each of the wireless communication units; and the controller is further configured to detect the second wireless communication network based on the power consumption order and sequentially specifies wireless communication networks based on the power consumption order and supplies power from the power supply unit to the corresponding wireless communication unit for a predetermined time period; determine when a power consumption of the second unit is higher than a power consumption of the first unit, after the second wireless communication network is detected based on the detection order; handover from the first wireless communication network to a second wireless communication network, when the power consumption of the second unit is not higher than the power consumption of the first unit; and handover from the base station in the first wireless communication network to another base station in the first wireless communication network when the power consumption of the second unit is higher than the power consumption of the first unit, wherein the controller is further configured to determine one of the detected wireless communication networks as the second wireless communication network, when at least two wireless communication networks are detected as candidate destinations with a same destination priority order. | 16,186 |
9,610,651 | 1. A laser lift-off method comprising: generating a plurality of solid state laser pulses; converting the plurality of solid state laser pulses to an ultraviolet frequency; adjusting the transverse spatial intensity profile of the plurality of laser pulses across perpendicular transverse axes to be rectangular in shape with the shape along each transverse axis corresponding to a super-Gaussian of order eight or higher; and scanning the plurality of laser pulses across the target along a direction parallel to one of the transverse axes in order to produce laser lift-off on the target. | 4,401 |
8,660,342 | 1. A method to assess aesthetic quality of photographs, the method comprising: classifying photographs into categories; generating computational models of image aesthetics, each computational model of image aesthetics associated to one different category of said categories; extracting a plurality of features from a photograph, said plurality of features comprising simplicity features, global features computed in the whole image and/or low-level features in contrasting regions of an image of said photograph, said contrasting regions being partitions of said image obtained by applying an image segmentation algorithm based on feature contrast to said photograph; and applying a computational model of image aesthetics, using a processor, to at least part of said plurality of features extracted from said photograph, said computational model applied according to the category of said photograph, in order to assess aesthetic quality of said photograph. | 49,175 |
9,170,831 | 1. A method for virtual machine cloning, comprising: identifying a storage container comprising a base virtual machine; generating storage container metadata identifying a storage location used by the storage container to store base virtual machine data associated with the base virtual machine; generating a cloned storage container comprising a cloned virtual machine that is a thin clone of the base virtual machine; providing the cloned storage container with access to the storage location using the storage container metadata; and providing the cloned virtual machine, using the storage container metadata, with access to operating system data comprised within the base virtual machine data for use as an operating system for the cloned virtual machine, the cloned virtual machine not comprising the operating system data. | 38,578 |
8,397,204 | 1. A method of developing a system architecture comprising: defining a plurality of resources constraints maxN defining a constraint value for each of at least three optimization parameters for the system architecture, wherein the at least three optimization parameters comprise a final optimization parameter; defining a design space as a plurality of vectors representing different combinations of a number of each kind of resource R for each of the plurality of optimization parameters, defining a priority factor function for each kind of resource R determining by a processor, a plurality of satisfying sets of vectors by, for each of the optimization parameters except for the final optimization parameter, determining a set of vectors based on an intersection of the plurality of satisfying sets of vectors for the optimization parameters; selecting, by a processor, a vector from the set of vectors using the final optimization parameter by, developing the system architecture using the selected vector. | 23,523 |
8,946,141 | 1. An industrial, household, health care and/or vehicle hard surface cleaning composition comprising: a peroxygen source having concentration between about 0.01-10% and a pH between about 7-10; and a manganese decomposition agent having a concentration from about 0.5 ppm to about 10%, wherein said decomposition agent catalyzes the decomposition of said peroxygen source to form hydroxide anions sufficient to increase the pH by greater than about 3; wherein said pH is suitable for industrial, household, health care and/or vehicle hard surface cleaning. | 35,542 |
9,694,746 | 1. A vehicle comprising: a setting unit configured to set response characteristics of a vehicle driving sound for at least one of a plurality of pieces of vehicle state information and set a section-specific volume of the vehicle driving sound for at least one of a plurality of set response characteristics including revolutions per minute (RPM); and a controller configured to control an output of the vehicle driving sound generated according to a setting of the setting unit and control characteristics of a sound-specific frequency distribution of an internal space of the vehicle to be reflected when the vehicle driving sound is generated and output. | 44,480 |
8,720,153 | 1. A frusto-conical structure kit comprising: a planar base sheet having a top edge and a left end; one or more intermediate planar sheets, each intermediate sheet having a left end, a right end, a top edge, and a bottom edge such that: wherein the planar sheets are dimensioned such that joining, along lengths of corresponding edges: produces a substantially frusto-conical structure; and a planar top sheet having a bottom edge and a right end, the top sheet being dimensioned such that joining the bottom edge of the top sheet to the top edge of a last intermediate sheet, and joining the right end of the top sheet to the left end of the last intermediate sheet, produces a frusto-conical structure. | 38,652 |
8,647,492 | 1. A method for producing a coupled radical product from biomass comprising: providing an electrolytic cell comprising an anolyte compartment having an anode and housing an anolyte, a catholyte compartment having a cathode and housing a catholyte, and a NaSICON membrane separating the anolyte compartment and the catholyte compartment; obtaining a quantity of a biomass comprising a lipid; converting the lipid into a fatty acid by one or more of hydrolysis, fermentation, and saponification; saponifying the fatty acid to produce a sodium metal salt of the fatty acid, wherein the sodium metal salt of the fatty acid has a number of carbon atoms and wherein saponifying the fatty acid occurs in the catholyte compartment and comprises reacting a base produced by electrolysis from the catholyte with a quantity of the fatty acid to produce the sodium metal salt of the fatty acid; wherein the anolyte comprises a quantity of the sodium metal salt of the fatty acid and at least one G-type solvent and at least one H-type solvent; adding to the anolyte, a quantity of a supporting electrolyte comprising a sodium salt of a lower alkyl carboxylic acid, wherein the sodium salt of the lower alkyl carboxylic acid is selected to have a predetermined number of carbon atoms; and decarboxylating the sodium metal salt of the fatty acid within the anolyte, wherein the decarboxylating step occurs by electrolysis within the anolyte compartment and converts the sodium metal salt of the fatty acid into at least one alkyl radical and converts the supporting electrolyte into a lower alkyl radical or to a hydrogen radical that react to form a hydrocarbon coupled radical product comprising a hydrocarbon having a total number of carbon atoms based upon the number of carbon atoms of the sodium metal salt of the fatty acid or the predetermined number of carbon atoms of the sodium salt of the lower alkyl carboxylic acid. | 10,879 |
9,602,086 | 1. A circuit comprising: a first logic gate coupled to receive a clock signal and an output enable signal; a double half latch circuit including: wherein the double half-latch circuit is configured to be transparent to the state changes of the local input enable signal when the clock signal is low, and further configured to be opaque to state changes of the local input enable signal when the clock signal is high. | 29,275 |
9,166,231 | 1. A lead acid battery electrode comprising an electrode active material layer including a layer including a lead containing material as an electrode active material and a layer including porous carbon material as an electrode active material, and a current collector; wherein when a weight of lead atoms contained in said electrode active material layer is A, and a weight of the porous carbon material contained in said electrode active material layer is B, then B/(A+B)×100 is 1.5 to 70.0%, a density of said layer including the porous carbon material is 0.40 to 0.80 g/cm the layer including the lead containing material as the electrode active material and the layer including porous carbon material as the electrode active material are different layers. | 41,966 |
8,590,510 | 1. A fuel system for an internal combustion engine, comprising: a first fuel tank storing a first fuel type; a second fuel tank storing a second fuel type; a group of port fuel injectors in communication with a group cylinders; a group of direct injectors in communication with the group of cylinders; a first low pressure fuel pump in communication with the first fuel tank; a high pressure fuel pump in communication with the group of port fuel injectors via a solenoid valve, and further communicating with the group of direct injectors; and a control system configured with instructions for: | 26,235 |
9,638,083 | 1. A selective catalytic reduction system of a vehicle comprising: a pump assembly comprising: a connector element which mates with the pump assembly, the connector element defining a parting line with the pump assembly about which the connector element and the pump assembly are separable from each other, the connector element comprising: | 10,342 |
8,376,789 | 1. An electrical connector comprising: an enclosure defining a cavity with a longitudinal axis operative to receive an electrical plug; and a jack contact positioned in the cavity, the jack contact comprising: at least a first end region extending about at least a first portion of the axis; and a contact region extending towards the axis from the first end region to a free end of the contact region, wherein the contact region is operative to contact a first conductive region of the plug and deflect away from the axis when the plug is inserted into the cavity, wherein the free end of the contact region is operative to deflect towards a portion of the first end region when the contact region deflects away from the axis; and wherein the free end of the contact region is operative to contact the portion of the first end region when the contact region deflects away from the axis. | 46,165 |
9,564,397 | 1. An interconnect structure, comprising: a first conductive feature and a second conductive feature in a first dielectric layer; a first spacer along a first sidewall of the first conductive feature; a second spacer along a second sidewall of the second conductive feature, wherein the first dielectric layer extends at least in part between the first spacer and the second spacer, and wherein the first dielectric layer extends to a same level as a bottom surface of the first spacer; an air gap between the first spacer and the second spacer; and a third conductive feature over the first conductive feature, wherein the third conductive feature is electrically connected to the first conductive feature. | 22,162 |
9,462,836 | 1. A method for securing a hair extension with a natural hair, comprising: a) providing a natural hair, an hair extension, a bonding agent, and a sealing agent, wherein said bonding agent consists of cyanoacrylate, wherein said sealing agent comprises one or more selected from the group consisting of toluidine, ethyl acetate, butyl acetate, isopropyl alcohol, acetone, methyl ethyl ketone, alkyl toluidines, ethanol, isopropanol, heptanes, and heptanol; b) applying said bonding agent to said hair extension; c) attaching said hair extension with said natural hair; and d) applying said sealing agent to said hair extension attached with said natural hair, wherein said applying of said sealing agent occurs before said applied bonding agent has cured, wherein said applying of said sealing agent causes said securing of said hair extension with said natural hair to occur in one second or less. | 42,653 |
8,553,995 | 1. A method for embedding a binary sequence in a video sequence or a compressed video stream, said stream being able to be decomposed into several types of objects, the method being applied to at least one image contained in said video sequence and the method comprising: a) analyzing the video sequence in the compressed domain so as to define for a given compressed image at least one first type of objects or group of objects to be processed defining a zone of interest, b) generating a watermarking map defining the set of the blocks of pixels of the binary sequence that are eligible for the embedding operation, as well as two coefficients C c) excluding from the watermarking map, for the current compressed image, the blocks associated with the zone of interest, as well as those whose coefficients C abs(abs(C d) applying a digital watermarking function to each available block obtained in step c) so as to obtain a watermarked compressed stream by way of a binary sequence in the following manner: | 45,038 |
9,519,239 | 1. An image forming apparatus, comprising: an image carrier having a surface on which an electrostatic latent image is formed; a developing roller arranged to face the image carrier to form a development nip between the image carrier and the developing roller, the developing roller supplying toner in a two-component developer carried on a surface of the developing roller to the image carrier in the development nip so as to develop the electrostatic latent image; and a control unit that drivingly controls the image carrier and the developing roller; wherein the control unit discharges the toner in the development nip to the image carrier in a state where the developing roller is stopped, so as to calculate a toner concentration in the two-component developer based on an amount of discharged toner. | 30,762 |
8,728,156 | 1. A method for implanting a prosthetic heart valve, comprising: inserting a prosthetic heart valve in a contracted state into the body of a patient, said prosthetic heart valve having a plurality of valve leaflets and a support structure, the support structure comprising a plurality of metallic panels being different from and configured to support the plurality of valve leaflets and said contracted state including said panels of the prosthetic heart valve being in an inverted state; introducing the prosthetic heart valve to a treatment site of a body lumen having a tissue wall; and expanding the cross-sectional profile of the prosthetic heart valve into direct contact with the tissue wall of the body lumen, wherein expanding the cross-sectional profile comprises transitioning the said panels out of the inverted state. | 31,543 |
8,568,570 | 1. A method of fabricating a sheet or a fabric with a plurality of crystalline TiO 2 nano-particles, wherein the fabric comprises a textile or a nonwoven fabric, comprising: providing a polymer material as a support, wherein a type of the support is a fiber or a sheet type; and synthesizing the plurality of crystalline TiO forming the sheet or the fabric by using the support after the synthesizing. | 8,566 |
9,586,110 | 1. A shirt for improving a swinging motion of a user wearing the shirt, the shirt comprising: front and rear panels each having corresponding top, bottom and generally opposing side edges, wherein the front and rear panels are adjoined to each other by the top and side edges, defining an interior space of the shirt; said front and rear panels including sleeve cutouts formed on each side edge adjacent the top edge, and a neck cutout formed on the top edges of the front and rear panels; at least one tubular sleeve permanently joined to the front and rear panels of at least one of the sleeve cutouts, the tubular sleeve defining an inside area, the inside area being fluidly connected to the interior space of the shirt; a member substantially adjacent to the sleeve cutout and the side edges of both the front and rear panels, wherein the member is removably attached or permanently attached to the shirt; and the member further comprising a processor, a network access device and at least one sensor, wherein the processor is in communication with the network access device and the at least one sensor, the processor being configured to determine at least one characteristic of the swinging motion of the user based on information received from the at least one sensor; and wherein the member further comprises an encapsulated interior, and a pressure sensor for measuring the pressure inside the encapsulated interior. | 23,413 |
9,378,288 | 1. A computer-implemented method comprising: obtaining a set of search results that a search engine identifies as responsive to a search query; providing, for display, first multiple search results from among the set of search results; receiving data indicating a refinement to the search query; in response to receiving the data indicating the refinement to the search query, obtaining a subset of the set of search results that satisfy the refinement without instructing the search engine to perform a subsequent search; for each respective search result of second multiple search results selected from among the subset of the set of search results, obtaining a respective portion from a respective resource referenced by the respective search result, wherein the respective portion is responsive to the refinement; and providing, for display, the second multiple search results and the respective portion from the respective resource referenced by each of the second multiple search results. | 10,389 |
9,182,158 | 1. An appliance comprising: a vacuum insulated cabinet structure having an exterior wall and an interior wall with a vacuum therebetween that forms at least a back wall, bottom, right side, left side, and top of the appliance; and a dual cooling system that comprises at least one vapor compression system portion configured to operate during a pull down mode and a thermoelectric portion configured to operate in a steady-state mode without the vapor compression system operating while providing sufficient cooling to offset the steady-state heat load of the appliance; wherein the thermoelectric portion of the dual cooling system comprises a thermoelectric device positioned outside the appliance cabinet and fluid conduits fluidly connecting the thermoelectric device to either a thermoelectric portion cooling tubing section positioned to provide cooling via convective cooling to the appliance interior or a thermoelectric portion heat exchanger positioned within the interior volume of the appliance. | 16,461 |
9,526,772 | 1. A method for delivering a therapeutic or diagnostic agent to a cell in a subject, comprising administering to the subject a composition comprising the agent, wherein the agent, or a delivery vehicle comprising the agent, is conjugated to a delivery polypeptide comprising an amino acid sequence having at least 70% identity to SEQ ID NO:2, SEQ ID NO:4, SEQ ID NO:6, or to a nucleic acid encoding the polypeptide operably linked to a promoter. | 3,580 |
8,759,628 | 1. A plant of soybean variety A1035398, wherein a sample of seed of said variety has been deposited under ATCC Accession No. PTA-120776. | 48,883 |
8,899,717 | 1. A printing system, comprising: a print mechanism to print on a print medium; and a control unit coupled to the print mechanism, the control unit to: | 16,316 |
9,121,272 | 1. A method of fracturing multiple zones within a wellbore formed in a subterranean formation, the method comprising: (a) forming flow-through passages in two or more zones within the wellbore that are spaced apart from each other along the length of a portion of the wellbore, the flow-through in each of the two or more passages orientated relative to a selected direction to provide different fracture initiation pressures within each of the two or more zones; (b) introducing a fracturing fluid into the wellbore in a fracturing treatment; (c) providing a pressure of the fracturing fluid in the fracturing treatment that is above the fracture initiation pressure of one of the two or more zones to facilitate fracturing of said one of the two or more zones, the pressure of the fracturing fluid being below the fracture initiation pressure of any other non-fractured zones of the two or more zones; and then (d) repeating (c) for at least one or more non-fractured zones of the two or more zones. | 39,950 |
8,655,581 | 1. A data server providing modified route information to a first user terminal used by a first user, the data server comprising: a receiving unit configured to receive a request from the first user terminal for requesting that a second user terminal used by a second user modify route information generated by the data server; a geographical database configured to store geographical data; a route information generation unit configured to generate route information that indicates a route from a first location to a second location, using the geographical data; and a transmitting unit configured to transmit a route modification request together with the generated route information to the second user terminal, the route modification request requesting the second user terminal to modify the generated route information, wherein said receiving unit is further configured to receive modified route information from the second user terminal, and wherein said transmitting unit is further configured to transmit the modified route information to the first user terminal. | 24,844 |
8,488,506 | 1. An apparatus, comprising: an oscillator configured to awaken from a sleep mode at a predetermined time, wherein the oscillator is further configured to oscillate at an output frequency; a clock configured to maintain a sleep clock when the oscillator is asleep; and oscillator detection and control circuitry coupled to the clock and the oscillator, wherein the oscillator detection and control circuitry is configured to: receive the sleep clock from the clock and provide a power-on indication to the oscillator; detect an edge transition of an oscillation of the oscillator; measure a time from the power-on indication to edge transition detection; and store the measured time; wherein the measured time is used to awaken the oscillator at a first time, wherein the first time is different than the predetermined time. | 38,635 |
9,153,719 | 1. A solar cell module comprising: a plurality of solar cells; a front substrate positioned at first surfaces of the plurality of solar cells; a back substrate positioned at second surfaces of the plurality of solar cells; a front protective member positioned between the front substrate and the plurality of solar cells, the front protective member including a first silicone resin; a back protective member positioned between the back substrate and the plurality of solar cells, the back protective member including a second silicone resin; and a fiber material having a mesh form and including individual fibers divided by a space, the fiber material being disposed between the front substrate and the back substrate, wherein the fiber material is spaced apart from the back substrate and a distance between the fiber material and the back substrate is smaller than a distance between the fiber material and the plurality of solar cells, and wherein a thickness of the fiber material including the individual fibers is less than a thickness of the second silicone resin, and a space between the fiber material and the back substrate is filled with the second silicone resin. | 42,558 |
9,254,862 | 1. A control device for an electric power steering device, the control device configured to control an output torque of a motor that provides an assist torque to a steering torque, the output torque being controlled based on a steering-torque signal from a torque sensor that detects the steering torque, wherein the control device controls the output torque using a correction signal to damp a vibration at a natural frequency determined in accordance with a transfer characteristic from the steering-torque signal to the output torque, wherein the output torque is controlled by using an assist-torque signal proportional to a signal obtained by negatively feeding back the correction signal to the steering-torque signal as a current command corresponding to a command value of the output torque, wherein the correction signal includes a value obtained by multiplying a motor-speed signal from a motor-speed detector that determines a rotational speed of a rotary shaft of the motor by a gain. | 35,642 |
9,073,764 | 1. A method for treating wastewater comprising: mixing wastewater containing contaminants with adsorbent material in a mixing zone for a time sufficient for adsorption of the contaminants from the wastewater onto the adsorbent material to produce a mixture of treated wastewater and adsorbent material having contaminants adsorbed thereon; separating and removing a major portion of the treated wastewater from the mixture of treated wastewater and adsorbent material having contaminants adsorbed thereon; passing the adsorbent material having contaminants adsorbed thereon and a minor portion of the treated wastewater to a biological regeneration reactor containing microorganisms; retaining the adsorbent material having contaminants adsorbed thereon and the minor portion of the treated wastewater in suspension in the biological regeneration reactor for a period of time that is sufficient to allow the microorganisms in the biological regeneration reactor to biologically act on at least a portion of the contaminants on the adsorbent material to produce a regenerated adsorbent material and a biologically treated water effluent; discharging the biologically treated water effluent from the biological regeneration reactor; passing the biologically treated water effluent to a membrane operating system, to introduce the biological regeneration reactor water effluent, substantially free of adsorbent material, to the membrane operating system; discharging membrane-treated effluent from the membrane operating system; and recycling the regenerated adsorbent material to the mixing zone. | 13,913 |
8,829,715 | 1. A string level maximum power point distributed photovoltaic (PV) power plant comprising: one or more dc-dc converters; at least one string of PV modules, wherein each dc-dc converter receives power from at least one corresponding string of PV modules, and further wherein at least one dc-dc converter is configured to transfer power to a common dc-bus based upon the total system power available from each of its corresponding strings of PV modules such that each dc-dc converter transferring power to the common dc-bus continues to operate within its optimal efficiency range to increase the energy yield of the PV power plant; and at least one combiner box, each combiner box comprising: | 14,021 |
9,733,637 | 1. A method for automated provision of a monitoring function for a machining process to be executed by a machine tool, the method comprising: a processor executing a postprocessor to perform: | 46,262 |
8,445,899 | 1. An organic electronics panel formed by pasting and laminating a sealing substrate via an adhesive layer on an organic electronics element comprising a substrate having thereon at least: an anode layer including a first electrode; an organic layer; and a cathode layer including a second electrode, wherein the sealing substrate is composed of a metal foil, a polymer film being laminated on a reverse side of the metal foil opposite a side of the metal foil contacting the adhesive layer; a thickness of the polymer film is not more than a thickness of the metal foil; and heat is applied at a time of pasting and laminating the sealing substrate, or at a time of hardening the adhesive layer, and a heat shrinking ratio of the polymer film is 0.2% to 3% at the time of hardening the adhesive layer. | 29,925 |
9,123,152 | 1. A method for assessing validity of a map, comprising: receiving image data from a laser sensor, the image data being collected along a vehicle path on a roadway; compiling the image data to form a first image, wherein the compiling includes at least partially overlaying a first image data from the laser sensor over a second image data from the laser sensor; identifying a map related to the vehicle path; comparing the map to the first image; and assessing validity of the identified map based on the comparison. | 21,330 |
9,535,236 | 1. An imaging lens comprising a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element and a sixth lens element arranged in order from an object side to an image side along an optical axis of said imaging lens, each of said first lens element, said second lens element, said third lens element, said fourth lens element, said fifth lens element and said sixth lens element having an object-side surface facing toward the object side and an image-side surface facing toward the image side, wherein: said object-side surface of said second lens element has a convex portion in a vicinity of the optical axis and a concave portion in a vicinity of a periphery of said second lens element; said image-side surface of said third lens element has a convex portion in a vicinity of the optical axis and a concave portion in a vicinity of a periphery of said third lens element; said object-side surface of said fourth lens element has a concave portion in a vicinity of the optical axis; said object-side surface of said fifth lens element has a convex portion in a vicinity of the optical axis; said sixth lens element has an aspherical coefficient; said imaging lens does not include any lens element with a refractive power other than said first lens element, said second lens element, said third lens element, said fourth lens element, said fifth lens element and said sixth lens element; and said imaging lens satisfies ALT/G | 40,538 |
9,477,466 | 1. An information processing apparatus, comprising: a determiner that determines whether processing specified by an offload instruction is executed based on at least one of a user setup, a ratio of power consumption of a device to a power supply thereto, a residual battery capacity, a profile in which a pre-set power saving policy is described, whether a quick response is require of an application, and whether the application performs an intermittent operation; an issuer that issues the offload instruction corresponding to a first process executed in company with a first identifier capable of uniquely specifying a resource of a first arithmetic operation device, if the determiner determines that the processing is executed; and a communicator that transmits the offload instruction to a second arithmetic operation device and receives a result of execution of the offload instruction from the second arithmetic operation device, wherein, in the second arithmetic operation device, the first identifier contained in the offload instruction is converted into a second identifier capable of uniquely specifying a resource of the second arithmetic operation device, and processing specified by the offload instruction is executed. | 18,561 |
9,457,873 | 1. A method for fabricating a floating spar platform, the method comprising: providing an apparatus for forming a continuous-fiber composite tube; forming, using the apparatus, a first multi-shot continuous-fiber composite (“MSCFC”) tube exhibiting continuity of fiber, wherein at least two molding runs of the apparatus, which produce at least two workpieces, are required to form the first MSCFC tube; forming a tapered region at an end of the first MSCFC tube by: (a) disposing a tapered mandrel at the end of the first MSCFC tube; (b) rolling fabric that remains attached to the end of the first MSCFC tube onto the mandrel; (c) infusing resin into the fabric; and (d) curing the resin; and attaching mooring lines to the first MSCFC tube. | 18,912 |
9,757,691 | 1. A selective catalytic reduction catalyst composition, comprising: a metal oxide catalyst; and from 50 wt % to 98 wt % by weight of a metal doped zeolite catalyst, wherein the catalyst composition increases a conversion efficiency of nitrogen oxides to nitrogen and water by at least 2% compared to the metal oxide catalyst alone or the metal doped zeolite catalyst alone. | 18,505 |
9,396,823 | 1. A floating nuclear power reactor, comprising: a floating vessel having a bottom positioned beneath the water level of a body of water, sides extending upwardly from said bottom, and an upper end which is positioned above the water level of the body of water; said floating vessel including an upstanding cylindrical support structure having a lower end, an upstanding cylindrical side wall, having inner and outer surfaces, and a closed upper end; a nuclear power reactor positioned within said cylindrical support structure; said nuclear power reactor including an upstanding containment structure having a lower end positioned on said bottom of said floating vessel, an upstanding side wall, having upper and lower ends, which is in engagement with said inner surface of said side wall of said cylindrical support structure and a domed upper end; said containment structure defining a sealed interior compartment, having upper and lower ends; said domed upper end of said containment structure and said upper end of said side wall of said cylindrical support structure and said closed upper end of said cylindrical support structure defining a vent chamber; said vent chamber being filled with a filter material; at least one first steam exhaust pipe extending from said vent chamber to the atmosphere; at least one second steam exhaust pipe extending from said upper end of said interior compartment of said containment structure into said vent chamber; an upstanding reactor vessel, having upper and lower ends, is positioned in said interior compartment of said containment structure; said reactor vessel having an interior compartment with upper and lower ends; a third steam exhaust pipe extending from said upper end of said interior compartment of said reactor vessel outwardly through said containment structure to a turbine; a normally open valve imposed in said third steam exhaust pipe; a by-pass steam exhaust pipe extending from said third steam exhaust pipe, outwardly of said containment structure, to said vent chamber; a normally closed valve in said by-pass steam exhaust pipe; at least one first return pipe, filled with a liquid, extending outwardly from said upper end of said interior compartment of said reactor vessel into said interior compartment of said containment structure, thence downwardly, and thence inwardly into said interior compartment of said reactor vessel at said lower end thereof, and thence upwardly within said interior compartment of said reactor vessel to form a closed loop return pipe; a first water passageway, having inner and outer ends, extending through said bottom of said containment structure; said outer end of said first water passageway being in fluid communication with the body of water; said inner end of said first water passageway being in fluid communication with said interior compartment of said containment structure; a normally closed first hatch associated with said first water passageway; said first hatch being movable between a closed position and an open position; said first hatch, when in said closed position, closing said first water passageway; said first hatch, when in said open position, permitting water from the body of water to flow inwardly through said first water passageway into said interior compartment of said containment structure; a second water passageway, having inner and outer ends, extending through said bottom of said containment structure; said outer end of said second water passageway being in fluid communication with the body of water; said inner end of said second water passageway being in fluid communication with said interior compartment of said reactor vessel; a normally closed second hatch movably associated with said second water passageway; said second hatch being movable between a closed position and an open position; said second hatch, when in said closed position, closing said second water passageway; said second hatch, when in said open position, permitting water from the body of water to flow inwardly through said second water passageway into said interior compartment of said reactor vessel; said first hatch being movable from its said closed position to its said open position when a condition within said interior compartment of said containment structure reaches a predetermined level thereby permitting water from the body of water to flow into said interior compartment of said containment structure; and said second hatch being movable from its said closed position to its said open position when a condition within said interior compartment of said reactor vessel reaches a predetermined level thereby permitting water from the body of water to flow into said interior compartment of said reactor vessel. | 19,396 |
8,762,017 | 1. A method for opening of an automatically controlled clutch of a vehicle wherein the vehicle comprises a combustion engine for generating driving force intended for transmission to at least one powered wheel via the clutch and a gearbox, the method comprising the steps of: opening the clutch at an initial rate of opening to at least a first clutch position substantially corresponding to a position at which the clutch can at most transmit a maximum torque which the combustion engine can deliver at idling speed; and from the first position, opening the clutch at a second rate of opening which is lower than the initial rate. | 36,891 |
8,975,773 | 1. A charging system for an electric vehicle, comprising: a rechargeable battery module, having a plurality of rechargeable batteries connected in series or in parallel, for providing electric power and storing electric power from an external power source; a motor driver, linked to the rechargeable battery module, for controlling output of the electric power from the rechargeable battery module by a control signal; a power switch, connected to the rechargeable battery module and the external power source, for conducting electric power between the rechargeable battery module and the external power source when electric potential in the external power source is higher than that in the rechargeable battery module, and stopping electric power conduction between the rechargeable battery module and the external power source when electric potential in the external power source is lower than that in the rechargeable battery module; and a control circuit, connected with the external power source and the motor driver, for generating the control signal to the motor driver when there is an current from the external power source; wherein the motor driver stops outputting electric power from the rechargeable battery when the control signal is received and keeps outputting electric power from the rechargeable battery when the control signal doesn't exist. | 24,277 |
9,775,113 | 1. A voice wakeup detecting device for an electronic product, the voice wakeup detecting device comprising: a digital microphone, for controlling a first interrupt signal by judging whether a digital voice signal contains a subword, wherein if the digital microphone confirms that the digital voice signal contains the subword, the digital microphone asserts the first interrupt signal; a speech recognition processor connected to the digital microphone, wherein the speech recognition receives the digital voice signal when the first interrupt signal is asserted; and a main processor connected to the speech recognition processor; wherein when the first interrupt signal is not asserted, the digital microphone is powered, the speech recognition processor is not powered and the main processor is in a sleep state; wherein when the first interrupt signal is asserted, the digital microphone and the speech recognition processor are powered and the main processor is in the sleep state; and wherein the speech recognition processor selectively asserts a second interrupt signal by judging whether the digital voice signal contains a keyword, wherein if the speech recognition processor confirms that the digital voice signal contains the keyword, the main processor is waked up from the sleep state to a normal working state in response to the second interrupt signal. | 48,491 |
9,267,554 | 1. A torque transmission device for a drive train of a motor vehicle, the drive train further including a primary driving engine having a primary power take-off shaft, a secondary driving engine, and a drive train shaft, the torque transmission device comprising: at least one torque transmission element; and a torque damper device, the at least one torque transmission element including a transmission input element, a transmission output element, and a transmission actuation device and the torque damper device including a damper input element and a damper output element, the damper output element being supported on the damper input element, the secondary driving engine including a stator device and a rotor device arranged in the stator device to rotate about an axis of rotation, the rotor device including a rotor recess, the torque damper device and the torque transmission element being arranged radially inside the rotor recess. | 17,647 |
8,609,635 | 1. A compound of the formula: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein: A is -alkylene-N(R B is 5-membered monocyclic heteroarylene group or a 9-membered bicyclic heteroarylene group containing at least one nitrogen atom, wherein said 5-membered monocyclic heteroarylene group and said 9-membered bicyclic heteroarylene group can be optionally fused to a benzene, pyridine or pyrimidine ring, and wherein said 5-membered monocyclic heteroarylene group or its fused counterpart and said 9-membered bicyclic heteroarylene group or its fused counterpart, can be optionally and independently substituted on one or more ring nitrogen atoms with R C is a bond, —C(R D is -alkylene-N(R M X X each occurrence of R each occurrence of R each occurrence of R each occurrence of R each occurrence of R each occurrence of R each occurrence of R each occurrence of R each occurrence of R each occurrence of R each occurrence of R each occurrence of R each occurrence of R and wherein an R 15 group can be optionally and independently substituted on one or two ring carbon atoms with R 12 ; each occurrence of R and wherein when R 16 is said 3 to 7-membered cycloalkyl group, said 4- to 7-membered heterocycloalkyl group, said phenyl group or said heteroaryl group, then R 16 can be optionally substituted with up to three groups, which can be the same or different, and are selected from C 1 -C 6 alkyl, halo, —C 1 -C 6 haloalkyl, C 1 -C 6 hydroxyalkyl, —OH, —C(O)NH—(C 1 -C 6 alkyl), —C(O)N(C 1 -C 6 alkyl) 2 , —O—(C 1 -C 6 alkyl), —NH 2 , —NH(C 1 -C 6 alkyl), —N(C 1 -C 6 alkyl) 2 and —NHC(O)—(C 1 -C 6 alkyl); each occurrence of R and wherein an R 17 group can be optionally and independently substituted on one or two ring carbon atoms with up to two R 12 groups; each occurrence of q is independently an integer ranging from 1 to 4; and each occurrence of r is independently an integer ranging from 0 to 6, wherein at least one of A and D is R | 9,848 |
8,567,405 | 1. A fixation device for immobilizing a head of a patient relative a treatment unit or medical device during treatment of the head, the fixation device comprising an interface unit adapted to be fixated in relation to an adaptor unit for connection to the treatment unit, or to a frame for connection to the medical device; a bite-block for being inserted into a mouth of a patient; and a positioning arrangement movably connecting the bite-block to the interface unit, wherein the positioning arrangement is adapted to be fixated by means of an adhesive for fixation of the bite-block such that the head of a patient can be immobilized relative to said adaptor unit or frame wherein the positioning arrangement comprises an elongated linking arm having two opposite ends which are movably connected to the bite-block at a first end by means of a first joint respectively to the interface unit at a second end by means of a second joint, and wherein the linking arm comprises an internal adhesive channel network adapted to supply the two joints with adhesive. | 1,688 |
8,668,838 | 1. An electrolytic solution for an electric double layer capacitor, comprising: (I) a solvent for dissolving an electrolyte salt; and (II) an electrolyte salt, wherein the solvent (I) for dissolving an electrolyte salt includes propylene carbonate and (Ib) a fluorine-containing chain ether, the fluorine-containing chain ether (Ib) is HCF the volume ratio of the propylene carbonate to the fluorine-containing chain carbonate and/or the fluorine-containing chain ether is 5/95 to 95/5, and the electrolyte salt (II) is a tetraalkyl ammonium salt, a spiro-bipyrrolidinium salt, or an imidazolium salt. | 41,202 |
8,920,944 | 1. An electronic or optoelectronic component comprising a precursor of a n-dopant, wherein the precursor of a n-dopant is a dopant for doping an organic semiconductive material, a blocking layer, a charge injection layer, an electrode material, a storage material or a semiconductor material itself in the electronic or optoelectronic component, wherein the precursor is selected from the group consisting of formulae 3, 3a, and 3b: wherein L is an organic, inorganic, or organometallic leaving group selected from the group consisting of H, sec-aliphatic-alkyl, tert-aliphatic-alkyl, CH wherein Ar is aryl; A-B, C-D, and E-F independently of one another are placeholders for one or more sp in formulae 3, 3a, and 3b, X, Y and z independently are N or P; n is an integer from 0 to 2; and m is an integer from 0 to 2. | 46,926 |
9,192,125 | 1. A seed, plant, plant part, or cell of inbred maize variety PH1TPD, representative seed of said variety having been deposited under ATCC accession number PTA-122427. | 47,138 |
9,498,019 | 1. An impact absorbing shoe comprising: a composite sole including an outer sole, a midsole, and an insole; and an upper secured to said sole and comprising a toe cap, vamp, and collar, said midsole comprising— | 37,200 |
8,921,045 | 1. An isolated nucleic acid comprising the nucleic acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:1, SEQ ID NO:3, SEQ ID NO:5, SEQ ID NO:7, or SEQ ID NO:9, or the full length complement thereof. | 48,427 |
9,853,544 | 1. A method, comprising: controlling a power supply system to avoid an over-voltage event across one or more switching devices of the power supply system, the controlling step based on switching overlap information that includes instructions for advancing one or more pulse edges of a switching signal associated with at least one of the switching devices; and prioritizing one switching signal over another based on bus bar geometry when determining which switching signal should be advanced. | 19,935 |
9,719,181 | 1. A method for providing droplets comprising metal ions, the method comprising: contacting a solvent to a metal to produce solvated metal ions; applying voltage to produce solvent droplets comprising the solvated metal ions; and directing the solvent droplets comprising the solvated metal ions to a mass spectrometer. | 41,359 |
9,592,486 | 1. An olefin polymerization reactor comprising: a tubular portion that extends in a vertical direction; a tapered portion disposed inside the tubular portion, an inside diameter of the tapered portion decreasing downwardly, and comprising a vertically penetrating orifice at a bottom end thereof; a tubular lower deflector disposed above the orifice of the tapered portion, an outside diameter of the tubular lower deflector increasing downwardly and a bottom end thereof being located away from an inner wall of the tubular portion, and comprising a vertically penetrating orifice at a top end thereof; and an upper deflector disposed above the orifice of the lower deflector, an outside diameter of the upper deflector increasing downwardly, a top end thereof being closed, a bottom end thereof being located away from the inner wall of the tubular portion, and an outside diameter at the bottom end being equal to or greater than an inside diameter of the orifice of the lower deflector, wherein the area of the outer surface of the upper deflector is smaller than the area of the outer surface of the lower deflector. | 13,829 |
8,480,363 | 1. A method of turning an axle for the production of power by a self-starting device utilizing an airflow, comprising: an axle, adapted to be positioned perpendicular to the airflow; five radial sets of supporting spars attached to the axle; multiple mutually non-interfering vanes attached to only an outer portion of the supporting spar set, each vane rotatably attached to each of the spars; and a positioning element for each vane to limit the movement of each vane from rotating substantially more than a perpendicular or parallel angle from its supporting spar; wherein the device retains each vane in a position that utilizes the airflow to rotate the axle the method comprising the steps of: | 30,490 |
9,595,483 | 1. A cutting device used when manufacturing a plurality of products by cutting an object to be cut, the cutting device comprising: a cutting jig having a plurality of first marks and a plurality of cutting grooves and on which an object to be cut is placed, the object having a plurality of second marks and a plurality of third marks formed of a plurality of external electrodes; a cutting mechanism for cutting the object, which is placed on the cutting jig, along a plurality of cutting lines; a conveyance mechanism for conveying the object; a movement mechanism for moving the cutting jig and the cutting mechanism relative to each other; an imaging module for capturing at least the plurality of first marks and the plurality of third marks, to produce primary image data; and a control module for causing the conveyance mechanism to align the cutting jig and the object that is placed on the cutting jig, wherein the control module is adapted to compare (a) first positional information including positional information of a specific first mark stored or (b) first positional information including positional information of a specific first mark obtained by image-processing the primary image data, with third positional information including positional information of a specific third mark measured based on the primary image data, to calculate a primary displacement amount showing a relative positional displacement between the plurality of cutting grooves and the plurality of third marks, respectively, the conveyance mechanism is adapted to move the object to a primary target position depending on the primary displacement amount by means that the object is picked up from the cutting jig and the conveyance mechanism and the cutting jig are moved relative to each other based on the primary displacement amount, and then again place the object on the cutting jig, and the cutting mechanism is adapted to cut the object, which is placed again, along the plurality of cutting lines. | 22,247 |
9,684,355 | 1. A method, comprising: requesting timestamps at predetermined intervals while in an active state and upon returning from a sleep state to an active state, while not requesting timestamps during the sleep state; receiving a first timestamp and a second time stamp in response to timestamp requests; capturing event information for the first timestamp or second timestamp or any combination thereof; identifying an application running in a foreground at the second timestamp, the identified application running in the foreground further identified as a triggering application; determining if a difference between a first time stamp and a second time stamp received exceeds the predetermined interval; and, if so, identifying mobile computing device entry into a sleep state during a time period indicated by the determined timestamp difference. | 16,030 |
9,408,079 | 1. A system of security in a nationwide wireless network using wireless routers as wireless access points (WAP), the system of security comprising: a WAP, with a CPU and a memory and a wireless interface, connects a mobile wireless device of an employee of a company to a company computer system, wherein the WAP has an interface logic that exclusively on a cellular telephone network receives a telephone call from the employee; the interface logic in the WAP, in response to the telephone call, generates a set of bounded random numbers (BRNs) and voice delivers the set of BRNs to the employee for input to a mobile wireless device interface logic, wherein the set of BRNs generated by the WAP and input to the mobile wireless device are used to generate a sequence of random encryption keys for communication security between the mobile wireless device and the WAP. | 32,015 |
9,429,471 | 1. A photodiode array for spectrometric measurements having a plurality of photodiodes arrayed in a one-dimensional form, the photodiode array being arranged so that an array direction of the photodiodes is made to coincide with a wavelength-dispersing direction of a light-dispersing element so as to concurrently detect wavelength components of light dispersed by the light-dispersing element, wherein: the photodiodes are divided into groups in such a manner that each group includes one or more photodiodes neighboring each other in the array direction, with at least one group including two or more photodiodes; and the groups are covered with an antireflection coating having a common transmittance characteristic for each group, and being composed of a material different from a neighboring group or having a thickness different from a neighboring group. | 15,511 |
8,985,668 | 1. A sealing structure of a fuel inlet box for sealing the fuel inlet box against a mounting surface at a periphery of a mounting hole of a vehicle body side panel, the fuel inlet box having an opening to be opened and closed by a lid body and mounted on the mounting surface, and the fuel inlet box comprising a main body member, and a sealing member formed of an elastic material and sealing a gap between the main body member and the mounting surface, the main body member having: a box portion having a side wall surrounding an inner space, the opening communicating with the inner space and a connection port of a fuel filler pipe, and a storage wall bulging from the side wall of the box portion toward an outside of the box portion and having a storage space communicating with the inner space of the box portion and rotatably storing an arm portion provided on the lid body, and the storage wall having a storage opening periphery constituting part of an opening periphery surrounding the opening, at least the storage opening periphery of the opening periphery having a flange portion facing the mounting surface, the storage wall having a base portion disposed on a vehicle body inner side of the vehicle body side panel, the base portion being connected through the mounting hole of the vehicle body side panel to the flange portion disposed on a vehicle body outer side of the vehicle body side panel, the mounting surface of the vehicle body side panel interposed between the base portion and the flange portion, and the flange portion facing the mounting surface through a gap extending in a planar direction of the mounting surface, the sealing member having a seal lip provided on the flange portion of at least the storage opening periphery of the opening periphery and extending toward the mounting surface and inclined toward an outer peripheral side of the opening periphery, an outer basing point of a root portion of the seal lip being located at a facing surface of the flange portion facing the mounting surface, wherein the facing surface of the flange portion facing the mounting surface has a stepped portion bent in a direction away from the mounting surface, the outer basing point of the root portion of the seal lip being located in a vertical wall portion of the stepped portion extending in a direction away from the mounting surface, and an inner basing point of the root portion of the seal lip portion being located in an inner peripheral portion of the facing surface of the flange portion closer to the opening than the stepped portion. | 17,948 |
8,656,502 | 1. A computer program product embodied on a non-transitory computer readable medium, comprising: a product update for a previously-installed computer program in a computer, wherein a determination is made whether a licensing control program separate from the previously-installed computer program was originally configured with said previously-installed computer program prior to installing said product update, wherein when the previously-installed computer program is configured without a licensing control program, installing a license control program, said licensing control program being responsive to license key data to indicate that said previously-installed computer program is licensed, wherein said previously-installed computer program is a malware scanning computer program and the product update includes at least one scanner engine and updated malware definition data that is updated automatically through a website download, that is added to existing malware definition data of the computer, and that is configured for detecting and addressing malware threats identified in network traffic, wherein the product update is not applied to the computer when it is determined that a grace period has expired and the license key data has not been entered, wherein the at least one scanner engine and the malware definition data is updated when the grace period has not expired and the license key data has not been entered, and wherein the previously-installed computer program is permitted to continue to be functional in the computer after the grace period in order to evaluate subsequent network traffic with the existing malware definition data. | 36,228 |
9,470,205 | 1. A wind turbine blade system, comprising: a first blade segment having a first spar element that includes first planks having a first thickness and a first plank composition; and a second blade segment having a second spar element that includes second planks having a second thickness and a second plank composition different than the first plank composition, the second blade segment being joined to the first blade segment at a joint, wherein an overall product of thickness and elastic modulus of the first planks is equal or approximately equal to an overall product of thickness and elastic modulus for the second planks. | 11,569 |
8,826,082 | 1. An optical communication system comprising: a plurality of interface boards which transmit and receive optical signals to and from interface boards facing the plurality of interface boards; and a monitoring control device which monitors states of the plurality of interface boards, wherein a first interface board of the plurality of interface boards includes: a replacement unit capable of monitoring the states of the plurality of interface boards on behalf of the monitoring control device and independently receiving supply of power; and a control unit configured to start the replacement unit in a case where a fault occurs in the monitoring control device and stop or halt the replacement unit in a case where there is no fault in the monitoring control device. | 22,152 |
9,791,533 | 1. A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus comprising: execution circuitry configured to execute first data collection after a predetermined inversion time elapses from a time when a labeling pulse is applied to a fluid flowing into an imaging region of a subject and second data collection without application of the labeling pulse; and generation circuitry configured to generate a differential image by using the first data and the second data, wherein the generation circuitry is configured to generate the differential image by (i) a first differential method when the inversion time and a longitudinal relaxation time of the fluid have a first relationship, and (ii) a second differential method, differing from the first differential method, when the inversion time and a longitudinal relaxation time of the fluid have a second relationship differing from the first relationship. | 7,741 |
8,441,735 | 1. As an article of manufacture, an optical element comprising: a body having first and second opposed, substantially planar, major surfaces thereon, the first surface defining a light incident surface, the second surface defining a light output surface, the light output surface having a plurality of grooves formed therein, each groove having a mouth opening on the light output surface, the mouth having a predetermined width dimension “b” measured in the plane of the light output surface, each groove having opposed, substantially planar boundary walls that extend into the body and terminate therewithin at a closed apex, the closed apex having an included apex angle α, the optical element being improved in that it is operative to collect light incident upon the light incident surface thereof at an incident angle β up to a maximum operating angle β the improved optical element being characterized in that: | 11,925 |
9,736,829 | 1. A method for wireless communication, comprising: monitoring a first carrier for an indication of a result of a clear channel assessment (CCA) for a second carrier, wherein the first carrier is in a licensed dedicated spectrum and the second carrier is in a shared spectrum; and communicating using the second carrier based on the indication of the result. | 21,881 |
9,828,446 | 1. A curable composition comprising: (a) a fluoropolymer containing one or more azide groups wherein the azide group is not a sulfonyl-azide group; and (b) a curing agent, wherein the curing agent comprises at least one of a carbon triple bond, and wherein the curable composition is free of a metal catalyst. | 26,351 |
8,801,730 | 1. A medical robot comprising: a retention device comprising a control device supplied with said electrical signal representing said position; a robot arm comprising multiple movement axes; an attachment device that attaches said patient support to said robot arm; and said control device being configured to operate said robot arm dependent on said indication position of the respective openings of auditory canals of the ears of the patient. | 16,280 |
8,709,979 | 1. A method of preparing a MgB 2 superconducting wire, the method comprising the steps of: preparing a raw powder for the MgB providing the raw powder between a pair of rolling rolls without a tube for powder roll compaction, wherein the raw powder is provided through an outlet of a hopper that is positioned adjacent to an inlet of the rolling rolls; and rolling the raw powder to compact it and produce the MgB | 29,623 |
8,748,740 | 1. A photovoltaic device comprising: a first electrically conductive layer; at least one photoelectrochemical layer comprising metal-oxide particles, an electrolyte solution and an asphaltene dye, wherein the metal-oxide particles comprise a photocatalytic material optionally dispersed in a surfactant; and a second electrically conductive layer comprising a counter-electrode, wherein the second electrically conductive layer comprises one or more conductive elements comprising carbon, graphite, soot, carbon allotropes or any combinations thereof. | 20,156 |
8,939,497 | 1. A motor vehicle dashboard crossbeam, comprising a first section and a second section extending along parallel axes, a wall of the first section and a wall of the second section being attached at a junction region by an induction brazing weld, wherein each of the first and second sections comprises an end fastening portion extending into the junction region, the first and second sections being attached at the junction region via the respective end fastening portions, wherein the induction brazing weld is continuous and entirely circumscribes the wall of at least one of the sections at the junction region, wherein the end fastening portion of the first section is fitted onto the end fastening portion of the second section, the induction brazing weld extending between said end fastening portions so as to fasten the end fastening portions to each other, and wherein the end fastening portion of the first section comprises a flare at an end thereof such that part of the wall of the second section extends opposite said flare, the weld extending between said flare and said part of the wall. | 48,097 |
8,757,168 | 1. A cigar holder, comprising: a cigar retention member operable to retainably engage a cigar without application of a compressive force to the cigar, the cigar retention member comprising a cigar cradle extending in a first direction corresponding to a length of the cigar and a second direction corresponding to a circumference of the cigar, wherein the cigar cradle comprises; a clamping assembly operable to clampingly engage a support structure, wherein the cigar retention member is supportably engaged with the clamping assembly. | 20,209 |
9,466,820 | 1. An electrode-incorporating separator having two separator sheets facing each other and an electrode held between the two separator sheets, wherein facing surfaces of the two separator sheets each include a coated portion coated with a ceramic and a non-coated portion that is not coated with the ceramic and is arranged in at least a portion of a range corresponding to a periphery of the electrode, the two separator sheets are joined to each other at the non-coated portions, each of the separator sheets has a rectangular shape, the electrode has a tab that protrudes outward from a periphery of the electrode, the non-coated portion is formed along one side of the separator sheet and the other side of the separator sheet, the one side of the separator sheet corresponds to a side from which the tab of the electrode protrudes, and the other side of the separator sheet faces the one side of the separator sheet, and a joint portion at which the two separator sheets are joined is located at opposite sides of the tab. | 13,020 |
9,048,145 | 1. A method for manufacturing an array substrate, comprising: step A: forming patterns of a first conduction layer, source and drain electrodes, an active layer, and an insulation layer in sequence on one side of the substrate, with the insulation layer coated on the active layer, the first conduction layer being in direct contact with one side of the array substrate and with the source and drain electrodes formed independent of the first conduction layer and located at least partially on the first conduction layer wherein at least one via hole is provided on the insulation layer for exposing the first conduction layer; and step B: sequentially forming a gate metal layer and a passivation layer on the substrate on which the first conduction layer, the source and drain electrodes, the active layer, and the insulation layer have been formed, wherein the gate metal layer comprises a gate electrode and a gate line, and the gate metal layer is directly coupled to the first conduction layer through the at least one via hole to form a path for dispersing static electricity. | 41,504 |
8,995,440 | 1. An avionics system for distributing in-flight information to an occupant of an aircraft viewing a portable electronic device, such system comprising: a discovery datagram generator configured to a flight navigation datagram generator configured to the FTP/HTTP server a portable electronic device (“PED”) configured to | 36,081 |
9,543,107 | 1. Method for generating a specific radiation dose rate curve for an X-ray radiation for irradiation of a substrate, wherein the specific radiation dose rate curve represents a radiation dose rate as a function of distance, characterized in that the specific radiation dose rate curve is generated by selecting at least two predetermined radiation dose rate curves which are different from the specific radiation dose rate curve which is to be generated, and each of which represents a radiation dose rate as a function of distance, and by composing the specific radiation dose rate curve proportionally from the at least two predetermined radiation dose rate curves. | 24,268 |
8,617,374 | 1. A capillary tube, comprising: a longitudinal transparent tubular body defining a bore; and a clear transparent hard coating on the body, allowing light to transmit between the bore and external of the transparent hard coating through the hard coating, wherein the transparent hard coating comprises a clear hard-coated polymer, wherein the hard-coated polymer comprises a fluoropolymer material. | 14,600 |
8,684,122 | 1. A power-assisted bicycle comprising: a front wheel and a rear wheel, one of the front and rear wheels being a drive wheel and having a hub ( a frame connecting the front and rear wheels; a secondary battery and a motor that are mounted on the frame; a crankshaft to which a manual force is to be applied; a sprocket ( a transmission ( wherein the transmission ( wherein the one-way clutch ( wherein a regenerative mechanism is arranged to convert the reverse input applied to the output shaft of the motor to electric power and store the electric power in the secondary battery. | 18,739 |
9,268,494 | 1. A method of reducing power consumption in a storage array comprising: writing data to a multiple disk array in response to a write command; synchronously copying said data from said multiple disk array to a read spare drive; reading data from said read spare drive, and not from said multiple disk array; spinning down said multiple disk array whenever a write cycle has not been initiated for a predetermined period so that said multiple disk array enters a passive state and consumes less energy; writing additional data to solid state storage whenever an additional write cycle is initiated and said multiple disk array is in said passive state; synchronously copying said additional data written to said solid state storage to said read spare drive; spinning up said multiple disk array in response to initiation of said additional write cycle when said multiple disk array is in said passive state; writing said additional data written to said solid state storage to said multiple disk array after said multiple disk array is spun up; flushing said additional data written to said solid state storage after said data written to said solid state storage is written to said multiple disk array. | 3,099 |
8,908,139 | 1. A liquid crystal display apparatus, comprising: a plurality of sub-pixels; a first substrate on which at least one first thin film is disposed; a second substrate facing the first substrate and on which at least one second thin film is disposed; a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate; and a spacer unit disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate to maintain a space where the liquid crystal layer is disposed, and continuously formed across at least two sub-pixels from among the plurality of sub-pixels, wherein the spacer unit comprises a contact unit and an isolation unit comprising a plurality of isolation sub-units, wherein the contact unit is formed to contact the first thin film closest to the liquid crystal layer and the second thin film closest to the liquid crystal layer, wherein the isolation unit is formed to be spaced apart from the first thin film closest to the liquid crystal layer and to contact the second thin film closest to the liquid crystal layer, and wherein a distance between the plurality of isolation sub-units and the first thin film closest to the liquid crystal layer is not uniform, wherein there are a plurality of second thin films, which together comprise a color filter unit comprising a first color filter, a second color filter, and a third color filter, wherein the first color filter comprises a plurality of first area units and a first connecting unit connecting the first area units that are adjacent to each other, wherein the second color filter comprises a plurality of second area units and a second connecting unit connecting the second area units that are adjacent to each other, wherein the third color filter comprises a plurality of third area units and a third connecting unit connecting the third area units that are adjacent to each other, wherein each of the first, second and third connecting units comprises two connecting sub-units with different thicknesses from one another, and wherein the contact unit of the spacer unit is formed to correspond to the thicker of the connecting sub-units of each of the three color filters, and wherein the isolation sub-units of the spacer unit comprise first isolation sub-units and second isolation sub-units, the first isolation sub-unit is formed to correspond to the thicker of the connecting sub-units of the three color filters, in each of which the contact unit is not formed, and the second isolation sub-unit is formed to correspond to the thinner of the connection sub-units of the three color filters. | 10,645 |
8,347,713 | 1. An apparatus for measuring dynamic rigidity of a main shaft of a machine tool, characterized by comprising: an unbalanced master that is attached to the main shaft via a holder and of which position of a center of gravity is offset with respect to a center of rotation of the main shaft so that an exciting force of the unbalanced master is generated by rotation of the main shaft; a tachometer that measures a rotational speed of the main shaft; and a run-out amount measuring device that is positioned so as to face the unbalanced master at a position that is a predetermined position in an axial direction and is any given position in a circumferential direction, and that measures an amount of run-out of the unbalanced master when the exciting force is generated, wherein the dynamic rigidity of the main shaft is calculated based on a relation between the rotational speed measured by the tachometer and the amount of run-out measured by the run-out amount measuring device. | 37,238 |
9,775,244 | 1. A multilayer ceramic component comprising: a multilayer ceramic capacitor including a ceramic body including a plurality of first and second internal electrodes having respective dielectric layers interposed between the plurality of first and second internal electrodes, to be alternately exposed to opposite surfaces of the ceramic body in a length direction, and first and second external electrodes respectively including first and second connection portions formed on the opposite surfaces of the ceramic body in the length direction, and connected to the first and second internal electrodes, respectively, and first and second band portions extended from the first and second connection portions, respectively, to cover portions of surfaces of the ceramic body in a width direction and a thickness direction; and first and second metal frames respectively including first and second upper horizontal portions disposed on first and second surfaces of the first and second band portions in the thickness direction, respectively, first and second lower horizontal portions disposed to be spaced apart from the first and second upper horizontal portions, respectively, in a direction away from the first and second band portions, and first and second inclined support portions diagonally connecting the first and second upper horizontal portions and the first and second lower horizontal portions to each other, respectively, wherein in the first and second metal frames, the first and second inclined support portions are inclined in the width direction of the ceramic body. | 40,196 |
9,744,875 | 1. A method for controlling a battery comprising a number n of battery module strings which have a plurality of battery modules, each battery module having a coupling unit configured as a voltage converter and configured to couple the battery modules to one another, the method comprising: supplying a load, which is connected to the battery, with a predetermined and substantially constant total power, the total power corresponding to a sum of n individual powers of the n battery module strings; and adjusting n−1 string voltages which are present in each case at n−1 battery module strings, by the total power, the load and by setting a string voltage present at an nth battery module string with amplitude and phase relation, wherein at least two of the n individual powers are unbalanced with respect to one another, and wherein n is a natural number and is greater than or equal to two. | 31,462 |
8,473,122 | 1. A method for actively deforming, by feedback control, an aerodynamic profile comprising an elastic material, applied to a part of the surface of the aerodynamic profile, said elastic material being in contact with a fluid flow; said elastic material being able to be deformed by one or more shape memory actuators), placed in contact with the elastic material, said actuators being controlled by a computer connected to sensors, said method comprising at least the following steps: measurements of physical fluid flow condition variables by the sensors; transmissions of the measured physical flow condition variables to the computer; detection of possible transition points between a laminar flow and a turbulent flow of the fluid over the elastic material according to the measured physical flow condition variables; calculation of a deformation to be applied to the elastic material according to positions of the detected transition points; calculation of one or more set points to be applied by one or more actuators to obtain the deformation to be applied to the elastic material; transmission of the calculated set point to the actuators; deformation of the elastic material by the actuators; measurement of the actual deformation of the elastic material; calculation of a new set point to be applied by one or more actuators according to the actual deformation of the elastic material. | 4,030 |
9,667,136 | 1. A totem-pole power factor correction circuit (totem-pole PFC), connected behind an input inductor receiving electric power from an alternating current (AC) power source, said AC power source being provided with a first connecting terminal connected to said input inductor, and a second connecting terminal, comprising: a first bridge arm comprising a first switch and a second switch connected in series with said first switch, said first bridge arm being connected to said input inductor at a series connection point between said first switch and said second switch; a second bridge arm, connected in parallel with said first bridge arm, comprising a third switch and a fourth switch connected in series with said third switch, said second bridge arm being connected to said second connecting terminal of said AC power source at a series connection point between said third switch and said fourth switch; and a capacitor connected in parallel with said first bridge arm and said second bridge arm; wherein said first bridge arm is presented as a high-frequency working area, and provided with a first current transformer element being connected in series with said first switch and generating a first detecting signal by sensing, as well as a second current transformer element being connected in series with said second switch and generating a second detecting signal by sensing, said first detecting signal and said second detecting signal being integrated to obtain current waveform for said input inductor. | 43,697 |
9,717,726 | 1. A method of treating diarrhea in a patient, comprising administering an H1 receptor antagonist and an H2 receptor antagonist to the patient, wherein the patient does not have mastocytic enterocolitis, and the patient has chemotherapy induced diarrhea, wherein the H1 receptor antagonist comprises cetirizine, levocetirizine, or mixtures thereof. | 32,004 |
9,126,908 | 1. A sulfonic acid group-containing polymer produced by polymerization of a compound comprising an aromatic sulfonic acid derivative as represented by formula (M1), wherein a sulfonic acid group is contained in more than 50% of all phenyl groups: wherein, in the formula (M1), n | 18,657 |
8,869,526 | 1. A wastegate arrangement ( 5 ) of an exhaust-gas turbocharger: having a compressor ( having a turbine ( wherein the wastegate arrangement ( wherein the spindle shaft ( | 33,824 |
8,892,047 | 1. A wireless communication terminal comprising: a processor which generates a plurality of channels by dividing at least part of a frequency band for ultra-wideband communications into a plurality of frequency sub-bands, a receiver which receives a radio signal in at least one of the plurality of channels, a channel changer which changes a channel to receive the radio signal, a transmitter which transmits an identification (ID) request signal to another wireless communication terminal, and a controller which controls whether to change the channel among the plurality of channels when the radio signal is not received from outside within a preset time, wherein the radio signal is a chaotic signal having a plurality of frequency components in the ultra-wideband frequency band, wherein the controller determines whether an ID response signal is received from the another wireless communication terminal in the at least one of the plurality of channels within the preset time, in response to the ID request signal, and the transmitter re-transmits the ID request signal in the channel changed by the channel changer when the ID response signal is not received within the preset time, wherein the controller determines whether the ID response signal is received through a particular channel within the preset time in order to transmit and receive a signal through an optimal channel, sequentially determines whether a power level of the ID response received through the particular channel is higher than a certain level, and changes the channel by generating a control signal which varies a filtered band of a filter when the power level of the received ID response signal is below the certain level. | 7,173 |
9,064,855 | 1. A semiconductor device, comprising: a semiconductor chip having a plurality of electrodes on the surface thereof, a plurality of lead terminal portions for external connection, hanging lead portions coupled to a supporting portion on which the semiconductor chip is mounted, metal wires for respectively connecting the lead terminal portions and the electrodes of the semiconductor chip to each other, and a sealing resin for sealing the semiconductor chip and the metal wires in such a manner that a part of each lead terminal portion is exposed, wherein lead terminal portions among the plurality of the lead terminal portions arranged adjacent to the hanging lead portions each have a chamfered portion at an end closer to the semiconductor chip, the chamfered portion is chamfered substantially along an adjacent one of the hanging lead portions, and four pairs of the chamfered portions are placed across the corresponding hanging lead portions, wherein the plurality of lead terminal portions includes successively adjacent lead terminal portions each having a head side confronting the semiconductor chip, the head sides of the respective successively adjacent lead terminal portions being aligned along a straight line, and each of the head sides confronts a corresponding one of the head sides across the semiconductor chip, and wherein the plurality of lead terminal portions are arranged in an area that is wider than the supporting portion in a side view. | 36,856 |
8,390,504 | 1. An imaging system comprising a transmitter for directing radiation at a scan volume in which there is a target; a receiver for receiving scattered radiation from the volume; and a reflect array for focusing incident beam radiation; a processor for processing the scattered radiation to generate an image according to amplitude and phase of the received radiation; a display coupled to the processor, for generating an image display; wherein the transmitter is adapted to transmit the incident radiation with a substantially single frequency; wherein the system is adapted to identify a concealed material; wherein the processor is adapted to classify a concealed dielectric material according to permittivity relative to that of the human body, said relative permittivity being deduced from amplitude and phase information in the received radiation; wherein the processor is adapted to measure phase and amplitude of scattered radiation both near the concealed material and at the concealed material, that near the concealed material providing a reference; and wherein the system is adapted to detect radiation from two or more volume elements, a volume element providing reference data if it does not include the concealed material; wherein the transmitter and the receiver comprise a horn in a confocal arrangement, in which the horn illuminates a reflect array and the reflect array is configured to focus the radiation at an element in the scan volume, and the reflections are in turn refocused by the reflect array at the horn aperture, and the processor is adapted to control the reflect array to scan the focal point throughout the scan volume in a systematic way, and to use horn pattern and the scan strategy to compute the geometry associated with each volume element in terms of individual rays, and in which amplitude and phase variations between the object and the surrounding volume and the computed geometry are used to estimate the relative permittivity; and wherein for each transmitted ray data for two returned rays is processed by the processor, in which a first ray is reflected off the surface of the object and a second ray is transmitted through the object and reflected at an interface between the object and the body, and in which the processor is adapted to perform an estimation process which tracks both rays and identifies the following events: both rays are recovered and both contribute to the estimation process. | 9,464 |
9,701,333 | 1. A folding stroller having a frame that can be arranged in at least a first configuration and a second configuration, the frame comprising: a handgrip fixedly connected to an upper joint; a lower joint pivotally connected to the upper joint, the lower joint being fixedly connected to a front tube; a rear joint pivotally connected to the lower joint, the rear joint being fixedly connected to a rear tube; a joint connecting rod connected to the lower joint, the rear joint, and the upper joint; wherein a distance between the upper joint and the rear joint is larger than a safety gap threshold that avoids nipping or shearing a user's hands while the frame is in the first configuration, while the frame is in the second configuration, and while the frame is transitioning between the first configuration and the second configuration; wherein the first configuration is a folded configuration and the second configuration is an unfolded configuration, the stroller further comprising a frame locking mechanism, the frame locking mechanism comprising: | 17,216 |
9,463,219 | 1. A method for treating a brain cancer that is a glioma, comprising administering a therapeutically effective amount of at least one compound to a subject in need of treatment for a glioma, wherein the compound is selected from the group consisting of: (a) a Hematopoietic Signal peptide-containing Secreted 1 (HSS1) peptide comprising SEQ ID NO:6; (b) a Hematopoietic Signal peptide-containing Membrane domain-containing 1 (HSM1) peptide comprising SEQ ID NO:4; (c) a peptide having at least about 90% homology to a HSS1 peptide comprising SEQ ID NO:6 and comprises amino acids 1-227 of SEQ ID NO: 6, wherein the peptide is capable of reducing proliferation of glioma cells; (d) any combination thereof. | 10,368 |
9,714,838 | 1. A navigation system comprising: a terminal device including a camera and a display unit; a holding unit which holds the terminal device such that the display unit and a lens of the camera are exposed; and an attaching unit which attaches the holding unit to a movable body, wherein the terminal device further comprises: | 8,004 |
9,702,182 | 1. A flood barrier shield system for installation in a building opening having a base and at least two side portions defining a lower portion of the opening, said flood barrier shield system comprising: a water impervious panel having a base edge and at least two side edges generally complementary in shape and slightly shorter than the lengths of the base and side portions of the opening into which it is to be installed; said panel having a front and rear faces respectively facing away from and towards the building opening when installed therein; seal housings mounted on the panel adjacent each of the base edge and side edges of the panel; said seal housings having an outwardly facing opening formed therein positioned to respectively face the base and side portions of the building opening when installed therein; seal bars mounted in each of said housings including a seal mounting bar and a flexible seal mounted on said bar to extend from the seal housing opening to contact the base and side portions of the building opening when installed therein; and means for securing said seal mounting bars to their associated seal housing and for selectively moving said seal bars and seals mounted there between retracted and extended positions relative to said seal housing openings; wherein said side edges meet said base edge at corners, and wherein said seal housings, seal bars and flexible seals are mitered at said corners, said seals being sealed together at their mitered ends without materially changing the seal shape at the mitered ends, whereby seal ends fill corners of the building opening when installed therein. | 34,617 |
8,892,921 | 1. A method for controlling a multitasking microprocessor system, comprising: monitoring the multitasking microprocessor system connected to an interconnect, the monitoring comprising monitoring performance of a plurality of processing units forming a producer-consumer system on the interconnect; issuing commands to the plurality of processing units to provide operations and power distributions to the plurality of processing units such that the performance and power modes are assigned to the plurality of processing units based on the monitoring; and determining the operations and power distributions according to the performance of the plurality of processing units compared to a flow condition of the multitasking microprocessor system. | 30,180 |
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