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8,710,474 | 1. An apparatus used with an external laser apparatus for generating extreme ultraviolet light, the apparatus comprising: a target storage unit configured to store a target material thereinside; a nozzle unit having a through-hole through which the target material stored inside the target storage unit is outputted, the through-hole formed therein being in fluid communication with the interior of the storage unit; an electrode facing the nozzle unit, the electrode having a through-hole formed therein; a target detector configured to detect a target formed of the target material and output a detection signal; a chamber in which extreme ultraviolet light is generated; a direct current voltage adjuster configured to apply a direct current between the target material and the electrode, the direct current voltage adjuster being capable of adjusting the direct current; a pressure adjuster configured to apply a pressure to the target material through gas, the pressure adjuster being capable of adjusting the pressure; and a controller configured to control at least one of the direct current voltage adjuster and the pressure adjuster based on the detection signal from the target detector. | 2,087 |
9,264,480 | 1. A method comprising: receiving, at a server and from a first client device, a request for a file access code that is associated with a first electronic file, the request including a user identifier associated with a first user of the first client device and a credential identifier, wherein the file access code is shared by the first client device with other client devices to enable the other client devices to access the first electronic file using the file access code; responsive to receiving the request: receiving, at the server and from the first client device, information associating the first electronic file with the file access code for sharing the first electronic file; responsive to receiving the information corresponding to the first electronic file: receiving, at the server and from a second client device, a request to access the first electronic file, the request including the file access code that is sent to the second client device by the first client device; and responsive to receiving the request to access the first electronic file including the file access code from the second client device: | 22,670 |
8,462,684 | 1. A method comprising: calculating a deactivation time interval based on a substantially consistent data rate and a capacity of a buffer, wherein the deactivation time interval corresponds to a transmitter deactivation interval; communicating the deactivation time interval to a processor configured to activate and deactivated a data transmitter periodically and according to at least the deactivation time interval; receiving, at the processor, data from a data source at the substantially consistent data rate; aggregating a plurality of data packets for a second time interval to a buffer, wherein the data packets include the data; wirelessly transmitting, by a data transmitter, the plurality of data packets from the buffer; and deactivating, by the processor, the data transmitter during the deactivation time interval. | 15,962 |
9,508,704 | 1. A method of fabricating a semiconductor package, the method comprising: preparing a semiconductor wafer having a first side and a second side, the second side facing the first side, and the semiconductor wafer including a through via exposed at the first side; forming trenches at cutting areas between chip areas and at edge areas of the semiconductor wafer on the first side; stacking a semiconductor chip on the through via; forming an under fill resin layer to fill a gap between the semiconductor chip and the semiconductor wafer and to cover a side of the semiconductor chip; forming a molding layer to cover the under fill resin layer and filling at least a portion of the respective trenches; and polishing the second side of the semiconductor wafer until a thickness of the semiconductor wafer is equal to or less than a depth of each of the trenches to expose the through via. | 45,147 |
8,343,179 | 1. A system for tissue removal comprising: a motor; and a rotatable shaft assembly coupled to the motor, wherein the rotatable shaft assembly comprises: wherein the flexible elongate member includes a helical configuration about the shaft, and a perpendicular distance between a portion of the flexible elongate member and the shaft is greater in the second extended configuration than in the first retracted configuration. | 40,809 |
9,716,374 | 1. An electrical harness comprising: an electrically conductive wire; an electrical connector in electrical communication with the conductive wire; a metal clad fiber (“MCF”) braided shield surrounding a portion of the electrically conductive wire, the MCF braided shield comprising a metal-clad fiber, the metal-clad fiber comprising a synthetic fiber clad in a metal; and an overbraid surrounding a portion of the MCF braided shield, a heatshrink material surrounding at least a portion of the overbraid, wherein the electrical connector comprises an integrated metallic backshell comprising a boot seat and a separate land; the MCF braided shield terminates on the separate land, the MCF braided shield perimetrically surrounding a radially outer surface of the separate land; the MCF braided shield is secured directly to the integrated metallic backshell of the electrical connector; the overbraid is secured directly to the electrical connector; the heatshrink material comprises a heatshrink boot secured to the boot seat of the electrical connector, wherein the heatshrink boot perimetrically surrounds a radially outer surface of the boot seat; the overbraid terminates on the boot seat, the overbraid perimetrically surrounding a radially outer surface of the boot seat; and the overbraid axially extends beyond the MCF braided shield. | 19,914 |
9,798,020 | 1. A method, comprising: adjusting a cathode bias of a detector based on a total number of events occurring in the detector during a time period while maintaining an anode bias at a desired value, the total number of events corresponding to photon energy detected by the detector; and sweeping the cathode bias across a range of voltages and counting a number of events detected for each cathode bias in the range of voltages to determine an optimal cathode bias corresponding to a maximum number of events. | 35,646 |
8,675,501 | 1. A transmission apparatus comprising: a first interface coupled to a first line, a second interface coupled to a second line, and a processor coupled to the first interface and the second interface, the processor that is operative: to terminate the first line performing a communication using a digital wrapper; to terminate a signal on the second line performing a communication using Gigabit Ethernet; to apply a transparent transcoding process to a terminated signal and a signal received from the second line and to output these signals via at least one of the first interface and the second interface; and wherein when a fault occurs in a communication performed through the first line, an auto negotiation restart signal is reported from the transmission apparatus to an opposite apparatus on the second line, and when there is no response for a predetermined time period from the opposite apparatus, the processor determines that the opposite apparatus is not providing or invalidating an auto negotiation function, and reports information indicating an occurrence of the fault to the opposite apparatus by using a signal of a MAC (Media Access Control) frame format. | 11,089 |
8,445,314 | 1. A method for creating a plurality of thin semiconductor substrates, said method comprising: forming a reusable template comprising: a semiconductor material; a surface having a 3-D surface topography comprising a plurality of raised areas separated by a plurality of depressed areas, said 3-D surface topography being adapted to substantially retain its shape during a plurality of substrate release cycles; forming a layer of porous semiconductor on said reusable template; depositing a thin crystalline semiconductor substrate on said layer of porous semiconductor; and releasing said thin crystalline semiconductor substrate, wherein said reusable template substantially retains its shape after said step of releasing said thin crystalline semiconductor substrate, and wherein said semiconductor material, said porous semiconductor layer, and said thin crystalline semiconductor substrate comprise silicon, and wherein each of said plurality of raised areas comprises a rounded top. | 10,213 |
9,239,605 | 1. A non-transitory recordable storage medium having recorded and stored thereon instructions that, when executed by a computing device, cause the computing device to: obtain a reading indicating a charge level of a battery while the computing device is operating in an active power state; determine a threshold battery charge capacity based on the reading; automatically schedule a wake-up alarm for the computing device, the wake-up alarm occurring when a battery charge capacity falls below the threshold battery charge capacity; transition the computing device from the active power state to a first low power state; and in response to occurrence of the wake-up alarm: | 27,363 |
8,457,341 | 1. A system for reproducing sound, comprising: at least one driver having first and second sound outputs in different directions; a sound barrier defining a horn passageway having first and second horn sections, with a throat end and an open end between the first and the second horn sections; the driver being mounted to the sound barrier so that the first sound output is carried in the first horn section and the first and a second sound outputs are carried in the second horn section; wherein the at least one driver is mounted to a mid portion of the sound barrier, adjacent a boundary of the first and the second horn sections, and wherein said first sound output and said second sound output are combined within said horn passageway at said mid portion. | 34,130 |
9,441,287 | 1. A poppet valve, which is subjected to surface modification through any application process selected from spraying, overlaying, and vapor deposition, using a Ni—Cr—Co-based alloy having high-temperature corrosion resistance and having a composition of: 40.0 to 50.0 mass % of Cr; 10.0 to 20.0 mass % of Co; 0.5 to 5.0 mass % of Nb; 0.01 to 5.0 mass % of Fe; 0.1 to 3.0 mass % of Si; and the remainder being 26.0 to 40.0 mass % of Ni and unavoidable impurities. | 16,191 |
8,932,129 | 1. A method of presenting one or more sub-games on a multi-play gaming machine, a controller of the multi-play gaming machine configured to display the one or more sub-games on a display of the multi-play gaming machine, each sub-game including a single instance of a wager-based game of chance, an outcome of the single instance of the wager-based game of chance being a sub-game outcome, the multi-play gaming machine connected to one or more servers over a network, the method comprising: receiving bet information from an input device of the multi-play gaming machine wherein the bet information includes at least a number of selected sub-games; selecting, based on the bet information, one of a plurality of pool files from which to select a game outcome register, each of the plurality of pool files including a plurality of game outcome registers, each of the plurality of game outcome registers including one or more sub-game outcomes, each sub-game outcome including a sub-game payout and a seed value, wherein all of the plurality of game outcome registers in an individual pool file contain the same number of sub-game outcomes, and wherein the pool file is selected based on the number of sub-game outcomes in each of the plurality of game outcome registers of the pool file and the number of selected sub-games in the bet information, such that: (i) if a first number of at least one sub-game is selected, a first pool file is selected, said first pool file including a first game outcome register including a first number of at least one sub-game outcome corresponding to the first number of at least one selected sub-game, and (ii) if a second, different number of at least one sub-game is selected to be overlappingly displayed, a second, different pool file is selected, said second, different pool file including a second, different game outcome register including a second, different number of at least one sub-game outcome corresponding to the second, different number of at least one selected sub-game; randomly selecting, using the one or more servers, one of the game outcome registers from the selected pool file; and transmitting the selected game outcome register from the one or more servers to the controller of the multi-play gaming machine, wherein: | 44,954 |
8,692,480 | 1. Power supply unit, comprising: an AC/DC conversion unit coupled with an input to an AC input voltage and with an output to a DC-bus voltage, for converting the AC input voltage to a DC voltage a DC bus capacitor coupled to the DC output of the AC/DC conversion unit, and at least one sub-power supply unit receiving the DC bus voltage as input for providing at least one power supply, wherein the power supply of the at least one sub-power supply unit is at least one of reduced and switched off if the DC-bus capacitor voltage falls below a predetermined threshold value, the power supply unit further comprising a first and a second sub-power supply unit, each coupled to the DC bus voltage, wherein at least some of the sub-power supply units are switched off if the DC bus voltage falls below an under-voltage lock-out level, wherein an under-voltage lock-out level of the first sub-power supply unit is selected lower than an under-voltage lock-out level of the second sub-power supply unit. | 34,654 |
9,709,280 | 1. A hanger assembly, said hanger assembly comprising: a hanger having a threaded bore, a bushing having a threaded outer surface for attaching to an outer duct and having an inner bore, a rotator cooperating with said hanger so that said hanger is rotatable relative to an inner duct, and a bolt received in said inner bore and in said threaded bore. | 43,710 |
8,905,344 | 1. A horizontal grinder with a side tilt feed roller assembly comprising: a hammer mill frame disposed around and supporting a hammer mill assembly rotating about a hammer mill axis; a side-tilt frame hingedly coupled to a first side frame assembly of the hammer mill frame above the hammer mill and pivotable about a tilt frame axis extending substantially transverse to the hammer mill axis and between a closed position extending across said hammer mill frame and above said hammer mill and an open position; a feed roller rotatably coupled to a feed roller carrier hingedly coupled to the side-tilt frame about a roller carrier axis extending substantially transverse to the tilt frame axis; said feed roller carrier pivotable about the roller carrier axis between a use position in which said feed roller is positioned in front of said hammer mill assemlby to engage material fed into the hammer mill assembly and a raised position in which said feed roller and said feed roller carrier are positioned over said side-tilt frame; said feed roller and said feed roller carrier in the raised position being pivotable with the side-tilt frame about the tilt-frame axis between the closed and open positions; wherein when the side-tilt frame is advanced to the open position, the center of gravity of the side-tilt frame, the feed roller and the feed roller carrier extends past a vertical plane through said tilt frame axis. | 42,475 |
9,147,840 | 1. A memory, comprising: a first electrode and a second electrode formed within a first layer; a third electrode and a fourth electrode formed within a second layer; a resistive-switching memory element comprising a metal oxide layer and disposed between the first electrode and the third electrode, the metal oxide layer having a first thickness and a forming voltage that corresponds to the first thickness; and an antifuse element comprising a dielectric layer and disposed between the second electrode and the fourth electrode, the dielectric layer having a second thickness that is less than the first thickness and a dielectric breakdown voltage that is less than the forming voltage. | 24,151 |
8,712,616 | 1. A vehicle comprising: at least one wheel; a motor coupled to the wheel and configured to provide regenerative brake torque; and at least one controller configured to predict future powertrain oscillation based on input indicative of a wheel speed and to control the motor to reduce the regenerative brake torque prior to the powertrain oscillation. | 12,998 |
9,012,091 | 1. A secondary battery comprising: a cathode comprising: an anode comprising an anode active material; an electrolyte; a separator. | 21,985 |
9,596,703 | 1. A method for ensuring parallel data random access, comprising: when a random access sequence transmitted by a user equipment through a physical random access channel (PRACH) in an auxiliary serving cell is sent in a same subframe with an other uplink transmission in a different serving cell and when power is limited, controlling a priority of power transmission of the PRACH and a priority of power transmission of an uplink channel over which the other uplink transmission is performed, the controlling comprising: controlling a priority of power transmission of a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission over which does not comprise uplink control information (UCI) to be lower than a priority of power transmission of a PUSCH transmission over which comprises the UCI, the priority of power transmission of the PUSCH transmission over which comprises the UCI to be lower than a priority of power transmission of a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH), and the priority of power transmission of the PUCCH to be lower than a priority of power transmission of the PRACH. | 1,509 |
8,962,900 | 1. A method of producing aromatics and light paraffins, comprising: a) introducing oils derived from oil, coal or wood into a hydrogenation and reaction area comprising a hydroprocessing process and a hydrocracking process; b) hydroprocessing the oils in the presence of a hydroprocessing catalyst to partially saturate aromatic components having two or more aromatic rings into aromatic components having one aromatic ring, such that an amount of aromatic components having one aromatic ring in the oils is increased; c) hydrocracking the hydroprocessed oils in the presence of a hydrocracking catalyst to form hydrocracked oils; d) separating the hydrocracked oils into e) recirculating the hydrocarbonaceous components having 11 or more carbons to the hydrogenation and reaction area; f) feeding the hydrocarbonaceous components having 6-10 carbons to an aromatic separation process or a transalkylation process, g) feeding the hydrocarbonaceous components having 5 or fewer carbons to a light separation process to recover paraffins; | 31,155 |
9,399,064 | 1. A pitavastatin-containing preparation comprising pitavastatin or a pharmacologically acceptable salt thereof and at least one kind of basic additive selected from the group consisting of magnesium hydroxide, magnesium carbonate, and magnesium silicate, wherein an aqueous solution or an aqueous dispersion of the pitavastatin-containing preparation has a pH of more than 8 and 10 or less. | 25,833 |
9,141,413 | 1. A system that facilitates designing a microsystems-enabled photovoltaic (MEPV) cell, the system comprising: a processor; and a computer readable data storage device that comprises a plurality of components that are executed by the processor, the plurality of components comprising: a data repository in which is embodied a list of selectable parameters of an MEPV cell, each said parameter being indicative of a physical property or an operational property of the MEPV cell; a stored model of the MEPV cell in which: interrelationships among the parameters of the MEPV cell are represented; at least one generalized design of the MEPV cell is embodied; and the generalized design includes specifications of at least a substrate layer, doped n-type and p-type regions of the substrate layer, and a contact layer that includes backside electrical contacts; a receiver component that receives a user-designated constraint on one or more of the selectable parameters, which are thereby designated as constrained parameters, and that further receives a selection of one or more other selectable parameters relative to which the MEPV cell is to be optimized, whereby such other parameters are designated as objective parameters; and an analysis component that computes respective values for a plurality of parameters of the MEPV cell such that the MEPV cell is optimized with respect to the one or more objective parameters, wherein the analysis component computes the respective values for a subset of the selectable parameters excluding the objective parameters, based on the stored model of the MEPV cell and subject to the user-designated constraint; wherein the interrelationships among the parameters of the MEPV cell that are represented in the stored model include an interdependence among cell efficiency, SRH lifetime, and separation between collection electrodes within a given cell whereby cell efficiency rises with electrode separation in a range of SRH lifetimes and falls with substrate thickness in a different range of SRH lifetimes; wherein said interrelationships further include an interdependence among cell efficiency, SRH lifetime, and substrate thickness whereby cell efficiency rises with substrate thickness in some regimes of substrate thickness and SRH lifetime and falls with substrate thickness in other said regimes; and wherein cell efficiency, SRH lifetime, separation between collection electrodes within a given cell, and substrate thickness are included on the list of selectable parameters. | 13,407 |
9,311,645 | 1. A processor-implemented method programmed in a non-transitory processor-readable medium and to execute on one or more processors of a machine configured to execute the method, comprising: receiving, at the machine, in-store tracking information for a shopper, wherein receiving further includes identifying with the in-store tracking information aisles visited within a store and how long the shopper pauses at specific locations within specific aisles of the store and factoring into with how long the shopper pauses situations in which the shopper is blocked or encounters obstacles during particular pauses; correlating, at the machine, aspects of the in-store tracking information with known products of the store; comparing, at the machine, purchased items with expected items when the shopper checks out of the store; and making, at the machine, a decision as to whether to audit the shopper before the shopper exits the store. | 11,243 |
9,191,282 | 1. A method comprising: identifying, by a processor, a service level agreement (SLA) associated with transmitting data between a first device and a second device, wherein the data is transmitted via a path through a first network and a second network, wherein at least one of the first network and the second network is a wireless network, wherein a portion of the path through the first network includes a network element that is associated with a first pathway having a first bandwidth and a second pathway having a second bandwidth lower than the first bandwidth, wherein the path includes one of the first pathway or the second pathway, and wherein identifying the SLA includes: identifying, by the processor and based on the SLA, a desired delay associated with transmitting the data between the first device and the second device; determining, by the processor, a first occupancy of a first queue and a second occupancy of a second queue included in the network element, wherein the first queue is associated with the first pathway and the second queue is associated with the second pathway; estimating, by the processor and based on the first occupancy, the second occupancy, the first bandwidth, and the second bandwidth, a first expected delay associated with transmitting the data through the first network via the one of the first pathway or the second pathway; identifying, by the processor, a second expected delay associated with transmitting the data through the second network; determining, by the processor and based on the first expected delay and the second expected delay, a composite delay associated with transmitting the data between the first device and the second device via the path and using the one of the first pathway or the second pathway; comparing, by the processor, the composite expected delay and the desired delay; and configuring, by the processor, the network element to transmit the data based on comparing the composite expected delay and the desired delay, wherein configuring the network element includes: | 44,392 |
8,919,492 | 1. An adsorption unit for combustion gas of an internal combustion engine for adsorption of products of incomplete combustion, the adsorption unit configured to be arranged in an intake conduit of an intake manifold, the adsorption unit comprising: an adsorption housing having a chamber section with an inner wall; an adsorption element disposed in said adsorption housing; said adsorption element comprised of a gas-permeable adsorption medium; wherein said adsorption unit forms at least a portion of the intake conduit of the intake manifold of the internal combustion engine; wherein said hollow body has axially opposed open ends and a main flow passage of the combustion gas extends through said hollow body and the combustion gas flows in a main flow direction through said hollow body; wherein said adsorption element includes an exterior circumferential side facing away from said interior; wherein said exterior circumferential side and said inner wall of said chamber section delimit a bypass chamber surrounding said absorption element outwardly in a radial direction; wherein said bypass chamber includes a downstream end in said main flow direction and said downstream end is closed off; wherein said bypass chamber includes an upstream end in said main flow direction; wherein said upstream end has at least one bypass opening that communicates with said main flow passage; a hollow support body including: | 6,051 |
8,756,840 | 1. A sole plate assembly for an electric hand iron, said sole plate assembly comprising: a metal outer frame member; a metal retaining ring member shaped to fit inside said metal outer frame member; a flat sole plate member shaped to fit in said metal retaining ring member; and a flexible seal member arranged to locate in said metal retaining ring member. | 46,795 |
9,408,094 | 1. A method for wireless communication, the method comprising: receiving one or more radio frames or parts of a frame of a voice call on a downlink channel; demodulating the received one or more frames or parts of the frame; decoding the demodulated one or more frames or parts of the frame; computing one or more demodulator-based metrics; computing one or more decoder-based metrics; combining the one or more demodulator-based metrics and the one or more decoder-based metrics using a reliability function that assesses reliability of the decoded one or more frames or parts of the frame, parameters of the reliability function being adaptively adjusted during the voice call to tune the reliability function over time, the parameters of the reliability function being different from the one or more demodulator-based metrics and the one or more decoder-based metrics; and accepting or rejecting the decoded one or more frames or parts of the frame based on the assessment of the reliability of said frames or parts of the frame. | 40,127 |
9,718,693 | 1. A process of producing a metal carbonate comprising: providing each of the following components: a source of magnesium hydroxide, an alkali-metal hydroxide, and a gaseous waste stream containing carbon dioxide; reacting said components together to form an alkali-metal carbonate or an alkali-metal bicarbonate from the reaction of said carbon dioxide with said alkali-metal hydroxide, while in the presence of said source of magnesium hydroxide; and reacting magnesium hydroxide from said source of magnesium hydroxide with said alkali-metal carbonate or alkali-metal bicarbonate, as said alkali-metal carbonate or alkali-metal bicarbonate forms in situ, to produce a magnesium carbonate composition. | 10,274 |
8,792,222 | 1. A driver circuit for an electric vehicle, comprising: a first voltage driver having a first output line electrically coupled to a first side of a main contactor coil of a main contactor, the first voltage driver having a first voltage feedback line coupled to both the first output line and to a microprocessor; a second voltage driver having a second output line electrically coupled to a second side of the main contactor coil, the second voltage driver further having a second voltage feedback line coupled to both the second output line and to the microprocessor; the microprocessor configured to measure a first voltage on the first voltage feedback line if the main contactor coil is not energized by the microprocessor; the microprocessor further configured to measure a second voltage on the second voltage feedback line if the main contactor coil is not energized by the microprocessor; the microprocessor further configured to set a first status flag associated with the main contactor equal to a fault condition value if the first voltage is greater than a threshold voltage value; and the microprocessor further configured to set the first status flag associated with the main contactor equal to the fault condition value if the second voltage is greater than the threshold voltage value. | 47,364 |
9,530,972 | 1. A photovoltaic device comprising: a first electrode; a second electrode; and an active layer disposed at least partially between the first and second electrodes, the active layer comprising a perovskite material having the formula CBiX | 20,538 |
9,456,776 | 1. A non-invasive method applied to a life object, comprising: detecting a position of a controlled area in the life object, the position of the controlled area being detected with a first electromagnetic wave having a first prescribed wavelength; and controlling a life activity by illuminating the controlled area with a second electromagnetic wave having a second prescribed wavelength, wherein the first prescribed wavelength is included in a range from 0.840 μm to 2.50 μm, and the first electromagnetic wave passes through at least a part of the life object so that the position in a depth direction of the life object is detected, the second electromagnetic wave is condensed to one cell in the controlled area, the life activity of the one cell corresponding to cellular activity is controlled, and the second prescribed wavelength is included in a range from 0.945 μm to 1.86 μm and the second prescribed wavelength relates to the cellular activity, and the cell absorbs the second electromagnetic wave at the second prescribed wavelength so that the cellular activity of the cell is controlled. | 7,323 |
9,436,639 | 1. A distributed system server system for a packet processing without top of rack (TOR) units, comprising: a plurality of servers, each server having a memory controller configured to send network packet data directly to at least one offload processor module via the memory bus to which the offload processor module is attached; wherein a first of the offload processor modules is connected directly to a second of the offload processor modules through the IO ports of the first and second processor modules, the first and second offload processor modules configured to provide bidirectional network packet flow between at least the first and second offload processor modules and at least one host processor without use of a TOR unit for an inter-server connection. | 7,265 |
8,907,181 | 1. A seed of soybean cultivar 21239, or a part thereof, a representative sample of the seed having been deposited under ATCC Accession No. PTA-121150. | 23,978 |
9,335,633 | 1. A positive resist composition comprising a polymer comprising recurring units having a carboxyl and/or phenolic hydroxyl group substituted with an acid labile group and recurring units (a) having a 4-pyrone ester, represented by the general formula (1), and having a weight average molecular weight of 1,000 to 500,000 as a base resin, and an organic solvent wherein R 1 is hydrogen or methyl, R 2 is methyl or ethyl, and X is a single bond, phenylene group, napthylene group, or a C 1 -C 12 linking group having an ester radical, ether radical or lactone ring. | 40,817 |
9,133,417 | 1. A liquid cleaning and disinfecting composition comprising: an alkyl or substituted alkyl asymmetrically branched alkyl amine oxide having a first alkyl moiety with n about 4% to about 40%, by weight of the total composition, of anionic surfactant selected from the group consisting of alkyl sulfate, alkyl ethoxy sulfates and mixtures thereof; and at least one biocide selected from the group consisting of a halogenated benzyl alcohol derivative, a halogenated hydroxydiphenylether, a quaternary ammonium salt, an alkylbenzethonium chloride, a peroxide bleach system, and mixtures thereof; and a divalent metal-salt selected from the group consisting of Zn carbonate, Zn sulphate, Zn citrate, and mixtures thereof, wherein the composition is free of symmetrically branched amine oxide, |n | 28,073 |
9,014,839 | 1. A process for producing a toothed wheel having a herringbone gearing by means of milling a workpiece on a numerically controlled machine tool comprising at least 4 axes, a universal machine tool or a machining center, by successively moving a milling cutter, of the machine tool along machining paths relative to the workpiece based on control data, comprising: generating the control data for guiding the milling cutter relative to the workpiece, comprising: determining a first tooth flank geometry which corresponds to a geometry of a first tooth flank of a first partial gearing of the herringbone gearing, determining a second tooth flank geometry which corresponds to a geometry of a second tooth flank of a second partial gearing of the herringbone gearing, determining a transition section geometry which corresponds to a geometry of a transition section between the first tooth flank and the second tooth flank, determining an overall tooth flank geometry which comprises the first tooth flank geometry, the transition section geometry and the second tooth flank geometry, and generating the control data based on the overall tooth flank geometry, the control data indicating path data for guiding the milling cutter of the machine tool along machining paths, each of the machining paths extending transversely to the profile direction of the tooth flanks, and along the first tooth flank geometry, the transition section geometry and the second tooth flank geometry; and milling the workpiece on the machine tool using a milling cutter based on the generated control data, the milling cutter being successively guided along the machining paths indicated by the path data. | 26,387 |
9,306,257 | 1. An apparatus including circuitry for shifting a phase of a radio frequency (RF) signal, comprising: a substrate formed of an electrical insulator and having mutually opposed first and second sides; first, second, third and fourth electrical signal terminals disposed on said substrate; a first electrically conductive layer disposed on said first side and including a first electromagnetic transmission line pattern with mutually dissimilar and electrically separate first and second pattern portions, wherein a second electrically conductive layer disposed on said second side and including a second electromagnetic transmission line pattern for electromagnetic communication with said second pattern portion. | 46,104 |
8,431,577 | 1. A crystalline form of (S)-zopiclone having a powder X-ray diffraction pattern with characteristic peaks expressed in terms of 2θ at 11.08°, 12.38°, 15.86°, 17.88°, 19.98° and 20.58°; a differential scanning calormetry thermogram with a peak at 207.7° C. and an infrared absorption spectrum (IR) with characteristic peaks at 3078 cm −1 , 2942 to 2838 cm −1 , 2790 cm −1 , 1716 cm −1 , 1463 cm −1 , 1372 cm −1 and 757 cm −1 . | 12,836 |
9,195,532 | 1. A display processing system comprising: a display unit that displays occurrence status information of a failure, which has occurred due to heat accumulation of a server that provides a service, for a predetermined period of time, according to a level of an effect of said failure on said service and also displays energy efficiency information of said server for said predetermined period of time so as to be associated with said failure occurrence status information; and a degree-of-effect calculation unit that calculates a degree of effect of heat accumulation for said predetermined period of time on operation of said service on the basis of occurrence status information of said heat accumulation of said server, said occurrence status information of said failure due to said heat accumulation, or a level of an effect of heat accumulation on said service for said predetermined period of time, wherein said display unit displays said energy efficiency information of said server for said predetermined period of time and said degree of effect on said operation of said service so as to be associated with each other. | 30,246 |
9,834,261 | 1. A rear spoiler device ( 14 ) for a vehicle ( 1 ) having at least one pivoted rear door ( 6 , 8 ), the rear spoiler device ( 14 ) comprising: at least one air deflector element ( at least one support device ( wherein the at least one support device includes a four-bar linkage ( wherein the rear spoiler device is configured to be mounted exclusively to the at least one rear door ( | 7,089 |
9,597,636 | 1. A system for treating an exhaust gas comprising: a. a first SCR catalyst zone comprising are iron loaded medium- or large-pore molecular sieve having a first ammonia storage capacity in mmol NH b. a second SCR catalyst zone comprising a copper loaded small-pore molecular sieve having a second ammonia storage capacity in mmol NH wherein the first SCR catalyst zone is disposed upstream of the second SCR catalyst zone with respect to normal exhaust gas flow through the system and wherein the second ammonia storage capacity is greater than the first ammonia storage capacity and the first ammonia storage capacity is not more than about 1.5 mmol/g catalyst, and the second ammonia storage capacity is at least about 1.2 mmol/g catalyst. | 5,751 |
9,222,097 | 1. A method of selecting RYMV (Rice Yellow Mottle Virus) P1 proteins having PTGS (Post Transcriptional Gene Silencing) suppressor activity, said method comprising: cloning genes encoding RYMV P1 proteins downstream of a RYMV 35S promoter to form expression cassettes, said expression cassettes containing a GUS reporter gene, inoculating the expression cassettes encoding the suppressor proteins by biolistics onto rice leaves, mechanically inoculating RYMV virus into said rice leaves, assaying the viral load by DAS-ELISA using a polyclonal antibody directed against the virus, visualizing the restoration of expression of the GUS reporter gene encoding beta-glucoronidase by histochemical assay, quantifying the restoration of expression of the GUS reporter gene by assaying the enzymatic activity of GUS, detecting siRNAs as evidence of PTGS by Northern blotting, and selecting P1 proteins having PTGS suppressor activity. | 2,678 |
9,770,705 | 1. A catalyst composition comprising particles of gold-platinum alloy and particles consisting essentially of platinum (0) on a support comprising titania wherein (a) the molar ratio of platinum to gold of the catalyst is from about 4:1 to 1:1, (b) the particle sizes of the platinum (0) particles are substantially in the range of from about 2 to about 50 nanometers, (c) the total gold and platinum metal loading of the catalyst is from about 2 to about 8 wt %, and (d) the gold-platinum alloy is formed at a temperature between about 200° C. and about 350° C. and wherein the catalyst has the ability to catalyze conversion of glucose to glucaric acid at a yield in excess of 60%. | 25,927 |
9,326,290 | 1. A resource scheduling method, comprising: determining whether to set a semi-persistent scheduling scheme for a User Equipment, UE, upon determining a cell serving the UE as an interference limited cell with a traffic load of a downlink control channel of the interference limited cell being above a preset traffic load threshold; configuring the UE with semi-persistent scheduling parameters upon determining the semi-persistent scheduling scheme to be set for the UE; allocating a semi-persistent scheduling resource for transmitting service data of an access service for the UE according to the semi-persistent scheduling parameters upon determining the UE to transmit the service data in the semi-persistent scheduling scheme; and sending resource scheduling information of the allocated semi-persistent scheduling resource to the UE on the downlink control channel of the UE. | 32,657 |
9,431,650 | 1. A method of manufacturing an anode, the anode being used in a battery including a cathode, an anode and an electrolyte, the method comprising: providing an anode active material layer including anode active material particles on an anode current collector, the anode active material particles including silicon (Si), tin (Sn) or both; and forming, in a region of a surface of each of the anode active material particles destined to be in contact with the electrolyte, an oxide-containing film including an oxide of at least one selected from the group consisting of silicon, germanium (Ge), and tin by applying the oxide-containing film in a liquid phase to the anode active material particles. | 44,232 |
8,431,623 | 1. A method for preparing a porous PVA scaffold using PVA and a pore-forming agent, comprising: melting the PVA by heat; cooling down the PVA and mixing the PVA with the pore-forming agent to form a PVA mixture; repeatedly freezing/thawing the PVA mixture to form a cured PVA mixture; and stirring the cured PVA mixture with a hydrochloric acid solution at a temperature of 65 to 100° C. to form the porous PVA scaffold. | 12,660 |
9,144,630 | 1. A composite comprising a structural part, a porous part, wherein said structural part and said porous part both comprise fibres and a matrix, such that an amount of fibres per volume of the structural part is larger than an amount of fibres per volume of the porous part, and at least two reinforcing parts arranged at a distance from each other, said at least two reinforcing parts separate from and unconnected to one another, said at least two reinforcing parts extending from the structural part to the porous part, thus connecting said structural part to said porous part, wherein each reinforcing part is in the form of a band having a length, a width and a height, the width and the height both being independently at most 20% of the length of the band, at least one of the reinforcing parts is partially embedded into the structural and porous parts, and | 3,470 |
9,541,022 | 1. An engine control module (ECM) comprising: a plurality of driver banks configured to drive a plurality of combustion control elements, each of the plurality of driver banks including two low side driver circuits and a high side driver circuit, the high side driver circuit in each of the plurality of driver banks being shared pairwise by two combustion control elements in the plurality of combustion control elements, and each one of said at least two low side driver circuits being respectively associated with the two combustion control elements; and a field programmable gate array (FPGA) coupled to the plurality of driver banks and configured to provide firing signals to at least twelve high side driver circuits to simultaneously drive at least twelve combustion control elements respectively coupled to the at least twelve high side driver circuits, said at least twelve combustion control elements being enabled by the respective low side driver circuits coupled to each of the at least twelve combustion control elements. | 21,413 |
9,760,755 | 1. A fingerprint matching method, applied for a swipe sensor, comprising the steps of: obtaining, by a fingerprint sensor, a first swiping dataset comprising a plurality of frames sensed when a finger is swiped over a surface of the fingerprint sensor, wherein each of the frames of the first swiping dataset covers a portion of the fingerprint; generating, by a processing unit, a registered dataset from the first swiping dataset, wherein the registered dataset comprises a first number of frames selected from the first swiping dataset, and wherein the registered dataset is generated from the first swiping dataset by performing the steps of: obtaining, by the fingerprint sensor, a second swiping dataset comprising a second number of frames sensed when the finger is swiped over the surface of the fingerprint sensor, wherein each of the frames of the second swiping dataset covers a portion of the fingerprint and the second number is greater than the first number; comparing, by the processing unit, the frames of the second swiping dataset with those of the registered dataset in sequence; and verifying, by the processing unit, the second swiping dataset when the second swiping dataset is determined to match the registered dataset according to the result of the comparing step. | 10,680 |
8,890,697 | 1. A method to alert a user of a mobile device located in the user's pocket in order to prevent an unsafe exposure of radiation to the user's groin area, comprising initiating an user warning cycle from the mobile device on a predetermined cycle, wherein the cycle includes a period in which an alert is active followed by a period in which the alert is not active; determining if the mobile device is in at least one of a predetermined plurality of transmission modes; determining if the mobile device has observed acceleration over a predetermined period of time; and disabling the user warning cycle if the mobile device is determined not to be in the at least one transmission mode or has not observed acceleration over the predetermined period of time. | 35,888 |
8,454,728 | 1. A method of recycling hydrogen (H 2 ) supplied to a chamber, the method comprising the steps of: drawing gas comprising at least hydrogen from the chamber using a first vacuum pump that exhausts gas therefrom at a sub-atmospheric pressure; diverting away from a second vacuum pump backing the first vacuum pump a portion of the sub-atmospheric pressure gas exhausted from the first vacuum pump; treating the diverted portion of the sub-atmospheric pressure gas to produce a purified gas comprising hydrogen; and supplying the purified gas to the chamber. | 41,490 |
8,540,208 | 1. A bistable valve ( 100 ), comprising: an armature ( a biasing device ( a plurality of permanent magnets ( an electromagnetic coil ( | 2,048 |
9,395,118 | 1. A building comprising: a building structure comprising at least a front wall and an angled roof forming a roof junction with said front wall; and an energy recovery system comprising: wherein said intake duct is in communication with a wind blowing toward said front wall and said discharge opening is in communication with a wake region adjacent to said discharge opening and induced by a wind flowing behind said roof junction. | 38,162 |
8,695,399 | 1. A detector for detecting sulfur components, the detector comprising: a storage portion configured to store SOx and NOx in the exhaust gas passing through an exhaust passage, in which the more an amount of stored SOx increases, the more an amount of NOx that can be stored decreases; and an electronic control unit configured to (i) estimate the amount of stored SOx on the basis of the amount of NOx stored in the storage portion, and (ii) estimate an integrated amount of SOx passing through the exhaust passage during a given period or a value on the basis of the integrated amount, wherein the electronic control unit prohibits the estimating of the amount of stored SOx for estimating the integrated amount of SOx or the value on the basis of the integrated amount when a current amount of NOx that can be stored is not stored in the storage portion. | 44,084 |
8,897,170 | 1. A communication method for a mobile terminal in a sensor network, the method comprising: continuously broadcasting an agent request message specifying request information at predetermined time intervals during a first period, receiving an agent reply message containing a reply value corresponding to the request information from at least one of a plurality of sensor nodes that has received the agent request message; and selecting, as an upstream agent, a sensor node that has transmitted a best value among the reply values of the agent reply messages received during the first period, selecting the upstream agent to transmit an upstream packet received from the plurality of sensor nodes of the sensor network; piggybacking information of the neighboring sensor nodes on the upstream packet and transmitting the upstream packet to the upstream agent; and receiving a downstream packet responsive to the upstream packet through a downstream agent selected by a gateway that has received the upstream packet through the upstream agent. | 8,846 |
9,499,473 | 1. A method for producing nitrous acid ester in which an alcohol is supplied to an upper part of a reaction column for producing nitrous acid ester, is made to flow downward from the upper part to a lower part of the reaction column, nitric oxide and oxygen, or a gas mixture thereof is supplied to the lower part of the reaction column, and nitric oxide, oxygen, and the alcohol are reacted, thereby generating nitrous acid ester, the method comprising: a step of extracting a bottom liquid containing water, nitric acid, and an alcohol from the bottom part of the reaction column so as to supply the bottom liquid to a reactor, and supplying nitric oxide and/or carbon monoxide to the reactor; a step of generating nitrous acid ester by brining nitric oxide and/or carbon monoxide into contact with the bottom liquid in the reactor; a step of supplying nitrous acid ester obtained in the reactor to the reaction column; a step of supplying a reaction liquid containing water, nitric acid, and the alcohol to a nitric acid condensing column from a lower part of the reactor; and a step of separating a low-boiling point component by distillation from the reaction liquid in the nitric acid condensing column under control of a concentration of an alcohol in a condensed liquid being generated at a bottom part of the nitric acid condensing column to be less than 4.0% by weight, and extracting the condensed liquid from the lower part of the nitric acid condensing column so as to introduce the condensed liquid into the reactor. | 20,904 |
8,788,183 | 1. An engine idle speed control system for a vehicular gear, comprising an electronic controller, an engine, a battery, a starter switch electrically connected to the battery, a starter motor electrically connected to the starter switch, and an ignition unit and a fuel supply unit connected to the engine, wherein the engine has a gear mechanism and a clutch, the clutch is connected to a clutch lever, the electronic controller is connected to a vehicle speed sensor, a throttle position sensor and an engine revolution speed sensor, the clutch lever is provided with a node switch to provide a lever node control signal, the gear mechanism is provided with a gear node switch to provide a gear node control signal, and the electronic controller is electrically connected to the node switch of the clutch lever and the gear node switch of the gear mechanism, so as to control automatic idle speed stop and start of the engine, wherein the vehicle further comprises a side stand node switch electrically connected to the electronic controller, and the electronic controller is used to control forced idle speed stop of the engine when the side stand node switch is in a parking state, and wherein the vehicle further comprises a forced idle speed stop switch electrically connected to the electronic controller, and the electronic controller is used to control manual idle speed stop of the engine if the forced idle speed stop switch is turned on. | 36,515 |
9,761,908 | 1. A sulfide solid electrolyte material comprising a Li element, an Me element (Me is at least one kind selected from the group consisting of Sb, Si, Ge, Sn, B, Al, Ga, In, Ti, Zr, V and Nb), a P element and a S element, wherein the sulfide solid electrolyte material comprises: a first structural part composed of a first ion conductor containing the Li element, the Me element, the P element and the S element; and a second structural part composed of a second ion conductor containing the Li element, the Me element, the P element and the S element, wherein the second structural part is formed to cover a plurality of the first structural parts; the first ion conductor has a peak at a position of 2θ=29.58°±0.50° in X-ray diffraction measurement using a CuKα ray; does not have a peak at a position of 2θ=27.33°±0.50° in X-ray diffraction measurement using a CuKα ray or when diffraction intensity at the peak of 2θ=29.58°±0.50° is regarded as I a weight ratio γ of the Me element to the P element in the second structural part is less than 0.72. | 5,124 |
9,841,383 | 1. A method for characterizing the uniformity of a material, comprising: selecting a set of size scales at which to measure uniformity within an area of interest in an image of the material; suppressing features in the image smaller than a selected size scale of interest within the set of size scales; dividing the image into patches equal to the size scale of interest; and calculating a uniformity value within each patch. | 17,381 |
9,557,491 | 1. An optical fiber adapter for optically coupling two optical fiber connectors, each optical fiber connector having an optical ferrule with a mating end for mating with the mating end of the optical ferrule of the other connector, and the adapter comprising: a housing having a first end, a second end opposite the first end, and defining an axial cavity extending from the first end to the second end, each of the first end and the second end having at least one connector clip and being configured for receiving and selectively retaining one of the optical fiber connectors therein for mating of the mating ends of the optical ferrules at a mating location within the housing, and the housing comprising: | 39,451 |
9,572,203 | 1. A control system for controlling a melting process in an electrical arc furnace for melting a metallic material, comprising an electromagnetic stirrer for stirring the melt and a power supply unit arranged to supply power to the stirrer, characterized in that the control system comprises: a stirrer control unit, operatively connected to the power supply unit of the stirrer, for controlling the power supply in response to control values for the power supply to the stirrer, at least one sensor arranged to measure the power supply to the stirrer, a processing unit arranged to receive measured data regarding process variables from said at least one sensor arranged to measure the power supply to the stirrer and to: | 1,845 |
8,645,729 | 1. An arrangement comprising a microcontroller; an external device connected with the microcontroller, wherein the microcontroller is operable to determine control and status of the external device independently of when the microcontroller is in a low power sleep mode, wherein the external device has external connections only consisting of a power supply input and a single output line, and wherein the microcontroller comprises: a digital processor having a wake-up input, the wake-up input wakes up the digital processor from a sleep mode to an operational mode when a first logic level is applied thereto and does not wake up the digital processor when a second logic level is applied thereto; a power-up timer coupled with a first external pin of the microcontroller, wherein the power-up timer provides an external device power up signal at the first external pin coupled with the power supply input of the external device during a first time period; a sample timer, wherein the sample timer causes an external device output signal from the single output line received at a second external pin to be applied to the wake-up input of the processor during a second time period, wherein the second time period starts after the first time period has started and wherein during the second time period, the external device output signal defines whether the processor wakes up to the operational mode or remains in the sleep mode. | 41,821 |
8,349,055 | 1. A method of scrubbing flue gases from a plurality of diesel engines in a single scrubber comprising a housing, the method comprising: conveying the flue gases from the plurality of diesel engines directly to the single scrubber through a plurality of conduits, wherein the conduits are attached separately at separate individual inlets, and scrubbing said flue gases in a scrubbing process such that all the flue gases conveyed to the housing are scrubbed by the same scrubbing process in the same scrubber. | 46,638 |
8,666,915 | 1. A method of information retrieval, comprising: determining, using a microprocessor, Q generative models (λ) in accordance with Probabilistic Latent Semantic Indexing (PLSI), said Q generative models being determined in an offline training; receiving a user query (q); choosing, using said microprocessor, N generative models out of the Q generative models, with N<Q; and determining, using said microprocessor, a content item (d) based on said query and a combination of the N generative models, wherein said step of choosing includes determining, for each of the Q generative models, a value based on a quality estimation function, wherein the N generative models are chosen depending on the value, the quality estimation function depends on the query, such that the choosing of the N generative models depends on the query, wherein the step of choosing is performed at runtime when the query is received, and the query comprises a plurality of N words w1, . . . , w−N, and the quality estimation function is given by w | 45,048 |
8,627,790 | 1. A W6 engine, comprising: two W3 engine units disposed juxtaposed on a common crankshaft, said engine units having juxtaposed cylinders with pistons driving the common crankshaft; wherein said juxtaposed cylinders in said W3 engine units have axes enclosing a common bank angle of 30 to 70°; each said cylinder having at least two intake valves and at least one exhaust valve, and exhaust pipes of said cylinders leading to an exhaust; said intake valves for the individual said cylinders of said two W3 engine units being disposed in wall portions of the respective said cylinders that are oriented in the same circumferential direction about the crankshaft or in lateral portions of their cylinder block; said at least one exhaust valve for the individual said cylinders of said two W3 engine units being disposed in wall portions of the respective said cylinders or cylinder blocks that are oriented in the same, but opposite, circumferential direction about the crankshaft as the wall portions in which said intake valves are disposed; wherein a predetermined number of side-valve exhaust valves and side-valve intake valves are disposed in or on mutually opposed wall portions of a V-shaped space bounded by said juxtaposed cylinders in the respective said W3 engine units; and each said exhaust valve closing each of said exhaust pipes, leading from a valve seat of each said exhaust valve to a lateral or outer surface of the respective said W3 engine unit in which said cylinder with said exhaust valve is disposed and which faces away from the respective other said W3 engine unit. | 36,281 |
8,558,323 | 1. A thin film transistor, comprising: a gate insulating layer; a gate electrode formed on a bottom side of the gate insulating layer; a channel layer formed on a top side of the gate insulating layer; a source electrode that contacts a first portion of the channel layer; and a drain electrode that contacts a second portion of the channel layer; wherein the channel layer has a double-layer structure, including an uppermost layer and a lower layer, the lower layer being disposed between the uppermost layer and the gate insulating layer, wherein the uppermost layer has a carrier concentration lower than that of the lower layer, and wherein the uppermost layer is doped with a carrier acceptor in order to have an electrical resistance higher than that of the lower layer. | 13,711 |
8,991,547 | 1. Driveline for a motor vehicle comprising drive shaft suspended by means of a pendulum suspension, the pendulum suspension comprising a fastening configuration fixedly connected to the vehicle and a drive shaft fastening connected to the drive shaft and pivotably journalled relative to the fastening configuration, wherein the transmission configuration comprises a driven input shaft, characterized by an electric motor arranged for driving of the drive shaft, wherein the rotor of the electric motor is connected to the input shaft and a non-rotating portion of the electric motor comprising the stator of the electric motor is fixedly connected to said drive shaft fastening, and wherein the electric motor is placed outside the drive shaft fastening. | 1,287 |
8,585,892 | 1. A wastewater treatment system for a watershed defining an aquifer or waterway, comprising: a network of independent wastewater treatment facilities, each of the independent wastewater treatment facilities having: at least one monitor located to measure water that includes wastewater discharged from two or more of the independent wastewater treatment facilities and operable to monitor water quality parameters of the watershed; and a central monitoring location operable to manage the watershed by: | 37,600 |
8,459,914 | 1. A lashing strap hook for securing a load on a load platform, said load platform having first and second substantially rectangular stake pockets having an open top and open bottom and an end wall and positioned at opposite sides of the load platform, and wherein a lashing strap is to be used with an associated strap winch for placement over a top of the load on the load platform, comprising: a hook portion merging into a lashing strap retaining portion; the hook portion being shaped for engagement with an upper edge of the end wall of the respective stake pocket and comprising a smooth bending radius outer bridging surface having a width at least equal to a width of the lashing strap to be used and bounded at side edges by first and second respective guide surfaces extending above the outer bridging surface; said hook retaining portion comprising first and second bar retaining elements spaced apart to define a slot therebetween, the second retaining element being at an end of the retaining portion and the first retaining element being inwardly of said second retaining element, both said first and second retaining elements extending between opposite first and second side bars of the hook retaining portion, said first and second retaining elements and said slot being dimensioned and adapted to receive an end of said lashing strap to be threaded around each of said first and second retaining elements and inserted through said slot; and said bridging surface being dimensioned and adapted relative to said hook retaining portion such that with the hook having its retaining portion in a longitudinally extending vertical alignment, said lashing strap when threaded onto said retaining portion will pass over and onto said bridging surface to assist in retaining said hook portion on said end wall upper edge of said stake pocket. | 17,821 |
8,790,549 | 1. An electronic component having an electrode or a wiring, wherein part or the whole of the electrode or the wiring has a chemical composition in which an Al content is 10 at % to 25 at %, a Co content is 5 at % to 20 at %, and the balance is composed of Cu and unavoidable impurities, and the chemical composition represents a ternary alloy in which two phases of a Cu solid solution formed by Al and Co being dissolved into Cu and a CoAl intermetallic compound coexist together. | 30,147 |
8,821,642 | 1. A flat panel display (FPD) manufacturing apparatus that performs a process on a substrate under vacuum conditions, the apparatus comprising: a chamber, including: | 20,110 |
9,404,508 | 1. A suction housing of an internal combustion engine for arrangement between a first and a second compressor of the internal combustion engine, comprising: a floor element, a first and a second side wall element that are opposite from each other and protrude from the floor element, and a first and a second front wall element that are opposite from each other and protrude from the floor element, the floor element, the first and second side wall elements, and the first and second front wall elements defining an internal space; wherein an open end with an inlet opening for inflow of charge air into the internal space of the suction housing is provided opposite from the floor element; wherein in the internal space comprises a bar element, which is arranged between the first and second side wall element and which protrudes from the floor element, while connecting the first and second front wall element; wherein the first side wall element has a first outlet opening and the second side wall element has a second outlet opening each for inflow into a compressor inlet; and wherein the floor element has a rib element protruding in the direction of the internal space, the rib element extending in a direction transverse to the bar element. | 37,420 |
9,061,334 | 1. A device for handling and/or transporting work rolls and/or back-up rolls of a roll stand, with which the work rolls and/or the back-up rolls can be brought from the roll stand into a roll workshop by a locomotive, the device comprising: no more than one locomotive; at least two tracks arranged at different heights and on which a roll is pushed or pulled by the locomotive; and no more than one lifting table operatively arranged to raise and lower the locomotive to one of the at least two different heights to bring it onto a desired one of the tracks, wherein one of the tracks is arranged at a first height so that at least one work roll can be moved out of the roll stand and another one of the tracks is arranged at a second height so that at least one back-up roll can be moved out of the roll stand. | 36,003 |
8,694,959 | 1. A method, comprising: receiving, by a processor, first data from a first programming language and second data from a second programming language, wherein at least one of the first programming language or the second programming language is a graphical programming language; and assessing, by the processor, an applicability of the first programming language with regard to programming the industrial controller in accord with a programming language standard utilized in programming industrial controllers; assessing, by the processor, an applicability of the second programming language with regard to programming the industrial controller in accord with the programming language standard; and combining, by the processor, at least a portion of the first programming language with at least a portion of the second programming language to facilitate creation of a third programming language, wherein the first programming language, the second programming language and the third programming language are disparate and the third programming language is utilized to program the industrial controller in accord with the programming language standard. | 31,830 |
8,493,746 | 1. A solder ball comprising: inert nano-sized particles having dimensions from 1 nm to 1,000 nm in all directions and comprising a metal nitride selected from an alkaline earth nitride, a transition metal nitride, a Lanthanide nitride, an Actinide nitride, and a compound thereof; and tin (Sn) at an atomic concentration of at least 95%. | 16,222 |
9,431,939 | 1. An electric motor or generator system comprising a rotor having a first set of magnet poles; a stator having a first sensor mounted on the stator and a second sensor mounted on the stator approximately 180 mechanical degree apart from the sensor, wherein the first sensor is arranged to output a first signal indicative of a first rotor flux angle associated with the first set of magnet poles as the rotor rotates relative to the stator and the second sensor is arranged to output a second signal indicative of a second rotor flux angle associated with the first set of magnet poles as the rotor rotates relative to the stator wherein the first sensor and the second sensor are arranged, due to their mounted positions on the stator, such that a measured offset error at the first sensor and a measured offset error at the second sensor are opposite in sign; and means arranged to determine a corrected rotor flux angle by averaging the first rotor flux angle indicated by the first sensor and the second rotor flux angle indicated by the second sensor. | 6,526 |
9,130,454 | 1. A control circuit of a power converter, the power converter comprising an upper switch, a lower switch, and an inductor, the control circuit comprising: a periodical signal generating circuit, configured to operably generate a first filtered signal, a second filtered signal, and a periodical signal according to a second feedback signal corresponding to a voltage at a first terminal of the inductor; a comparison circuit, coupled with the periodical signal generating circuit, configured to operably compare a reference signal with the periodical signal to generate a comparison signal; a control signal generating circuit, coupled with the comparison circuit, configured to operably generate a control signal according to the comparison signal to dynamically adjust an off time of the upper switch; and a signal adjusting circuit, coupled with the periodical signal generating circuit and the comparison circuit; wherein during a load transient period at which a load of the power converter changes from a relatively light load to a relatively heavy load, when the lower switch is turned on, the signal adjusting circuit reduces an output current of the periodical signal generating circuit to accelerate a loop response of the power converter. | 39,732 |
8,632,928 | 1. A hydrogen fuel cell system comprising: a fuel cell; a fuel cartridge including a reactant fuel material; and a water feed tray operably connected to the fuel cartridge and configured to provide an aqueous solution into the fuel cartridge to react with the reactant fuel material to develop hydrogen for the fuel cell, wherein said water feed tray includes a spring mechanism operably connected to the water feed tray and configured to push the fuel cartridge against the fuel cell providing the force required for a hydrogen seal during operation of the system. | 8,474 |
8,855,091 | 1. A method for determining Idle mode Signaling Reduction (ISR) deactivation in a mobile communications system where a first network entity and a second network entity are included and an ISR feature for a user equipment (UE) has been activated, the method comprising: (A) receiving, by the first network entity, from the UE, a location registration request message as the UE moves to a second cell from a first cell and reselects the second cell, the first and second cells served by the first network entity; (B) deciding, by the first network entity, to keep or deactivate an activated idle mode signaling reduction (ISR) feature based on information on whether IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) voice over Packet Switched (PS) session can be supported; and (C) sending, by the first network entity, to the UE, a location registration accept message including information on the decision to keep or deactivate an activated ISR feature, wherein (B) includes: determining whether the first and second network entities support an ISR feature; determining whether the UE is a UE using IMS voice (voice over IMS); and deciding to activate or deactivate the ISR feature according to whether the first network entity supports IMS voice over PS session for the second cell and whether the second network entity supports IMS voice over PS session. | 1,321 |
9,172,041 | 1. An integrated graphene-based structure comprising an N-dimensional array of elements formed on a surface of a substrate, wherein: (i) the N-dimensional array of elements includes a plurality of rows, (ii) each respective row in the plurality of rows comprises a corresponding plurality of elements formed along a first dimension, the first dimension characterized by an axis of the respective row, each element in the corresponding plurality of elements (a) comprising at least one graphene stack comprising a plurality of planar sheets collectively forming a planar layer and (b) separated from an adjacent element along the first dimension by a first average spatial separation thereby resulting in a first periodicity in lateral spacing along the first dimension, (iii) each respective row in the plurality of rows is separated from an adjacent row along a second dimension by a second average spatial separation, thereby resulting in a second periodicity in lateral spacing along the second dimension, and (iv) the N-dimensional array exhibits a set of characteristic electromagnetic interference properties in response to electromagnetic radiation incident on the N-dimensional array, wherein each respective element in the corresponding plurality of elements comprises a plurality of contiguous cavities in the substrate in a direction substantially orthogonal to the native lateral surface of the substrate, and wherein the plurality of contiguous cavities is stacked contiguously along the direction substantially orthogonal to the surface of the substrate. | 40,964 |
8,655,626 | 1. A computer-aided method for carrying out a structural design to optimize a target function of an aircraft fuselage section subjected to the possibility of suffering damage having significant effects on the structural integrity of said aircraft fuselage section, the method comprising: obtaining finite element models that include relevant information for an optimization analysis for the aircraft fuselage section in an undamaged condition and for the aircraft fuselage section in at least one damaged condition, consisting of a replica of said aircraft fuselage section in the undamaged condition but eliminating or degrading damaged zones of said aircraft fuselage section; defining at least one design variable of said aircraft fuselage section; defining at least one design constraint and one load case for said aircraft fuselage section in the undamaged condition; defining at least one design constraint and one load case for said aircraft fuselage section in the at least one damaged condition; providing at least one simulation module for analyzing one or more failure modes of said aircraft fuselage section; and iteratively modifying the at least one design variable of said aircraft fuselage section for the purpose of optimizing said target function by analyzing simultaneously said undamaged condition and said at least one damaged condition using said at least one simulation module, the undamaged condition being analyzed using the at least one design constraint and one load case for said aircraft fuselage section in the undamaged condition and the at least one damaged condition being analyzed using the at least one design constraint and one load case for said aircraft fuselage section in the at least one damaged condition. | 8,575 |
9,263,215 | 1. A tool for switching a state of an electromagnetic relay comprising: a switching member configured to move between a first position and a second position along a path, wherein the tool is configured such that movement of the switching member from the first position to the second position causes a change of a switch state of the electromagnetic relay via a magnetic force exerted by the switching member, wherein the electromagnetic relay includes a movable contact coupled to an end of an armature through an actuation blade, and wherein the tool is configured such that the magnetic force causes movement of the armature. | 30,959 |
9,241,392 | 1. An apparatus for controlling at least one digital control ready (DCR) lighting fixture, the apparatus comprising: at least one sensor to provide at least one sensor signal representative of the at least one change in the environment; a memory to store at least one rule governing a change in the variable illumination provided by the at least one DCR lighting fixture based at least in part on the at least one change in the environment; a processor, operably coupled to the at least one sensor and to the memory, to generate the at least one digital control signal based on the at least one rule and the at least one sensor signal; and an input/output bus, operably coupled to the processor, to receive the at least one digital reporting signal and direct current (DC) power from the at least one DCR lighting fixture and to provide the at least one digital control signal to the at least one DCR lighting fixture and to at least one other DCR lighting fixture serially coupled to the at least one DCR lighting fixture. | 40,589 |
8,984,704 | 1. A solar panels cleaning system, comprising: a track ( a cleaning carriage ( a conveying carriage ( wherein said conveying carriage has a supporting frame ( and wherein a top bar ( a control system, for controlling a movement of said conveying carriage ( | 45,490 |
8,343,545 | 1. A method of producing microparticles comprising a bioactive and a vehicle, which method comprises providing a solvent having a bioactive dispersed or dissolved therein and a vehicle dissolved therein, wherein the vehicle is an acrylic-based polymer, a cellulose-based polymer or a polyvinly-based polymer, carrying out an emulsification in a non-solvent phase to produce an emulsion comprising the bioactive and the vehicle in a solvent phase, and evaporating the solvent to leave said microparticles, wherein a mixture of at least two surfactants is employed to stabilise the emulsion, wherein the mixture comprises sorbitan monoleate and sorbitan dioleate, wherein the mixture has a hydrophilic-lipophilic balance (HLB) of from 3 to 5, and wherein the method yeilds micropaticles having a median diameter of up to 100 μm. | 37,406 |
8,931,675 | 1. A vacuum roller for a web handling system, the vacuum roller comprising: (a) a drum, the drum having an inner surface, an outer surface, a front end and a rear end, the drum being shaped to at least partially define a plurality of externally communicable vacuum paths; (b) a plurality of movable elements, each movable element being disposed within an associated vacuum path and serving to regulate the passage of air therethrough, wherein each of the plurality of movable elements is metallic and is adapted for displacement between a first position and a second position, wherein air is at least substantially restricted from passing through its associated vacuum path when the movable element is disposed in its first position and air is permitted to freely pass through its associated vacuum path when the movable element is disposed in its second position; and (c) at least one stationary magnetic element for selectively displacing each movable element. | 32,494 |
9,423,037 | 1. A diaphragm attached to a diaphragm valve, having a single-layer structure comprising rubber materials, and comprising; a membrane part deforming and moving up and down with opening and closing of a flow channel and a flange part which is provided around said membrane part and sandwiched between a valve body and a bonnet, wherein said flange part has an annular ridge, wherein said annular ridge comprises an upper ridge protruding upward and a lower ridge protruding downward from a position corresponding to said upper ridge, wherein said upper ridge has an inner upper ridge and an outer upper ridge with a protruding height of said outer upper ridge being lower than a protruding height of the inner upper ridge, which are consecutively formed in a staircase pattern, and further wherein said lower ridge has an inner lower ridge and an outer lower ridge with a protruding height of the outer lower ridge being higher than a protruding height of the inner lower ridge, which are consecutively formed in a staircase pattern. | 10,590 |
9,243,303 | 1. A method for dissolving and rapidly hydrolyzing lignocellulose biomass, comprising the following steps: (1) placing the lignocellulose biomass in pure water in a solid/liquid volume ratio of 0.003 to 1.05:1; (2) heating pure water to a temperature of 330 to 403 C; (3) mixing the products obtained in steps (1) and (2) and putting the resultant mixture into a reactor, while keeping the biomass concentration in the mixture at 0.1 to 51.5%, setting the pressure at 19 to 416 MPa or water density at 523 to 905 kg/m | 42,652 |
9,434,611 | 1. A hydrogen-generating agent, comprising an epoxy resin and granular calcium hydride contained in a matrix of the epoxy resin, wherein the epoxy resin is a resin other than any water-soluble resin, the content of the granular calcium hydride being 60% or more by weight. | 13,810 |
9,510,651 | 1. A reclosable fastener comprising: a first track comprising a first engagement profile and a first retention feature, the first retention feature disposed above a top of the first engagement profile, the first retention feature comprising a first upward extension extending upwardly above the first engagement profile and defining a top of the first retention feature and a first outward extension extending outwardly from the first upward extension, wherein the first engagement profile has a first interlocking element with an inwardly-extending bottom surface; a second track comprising a second engagement profile and a second retention feature, the second retention feature disposed above a top of the second engagement profile, the second retention feature comprising a second upward extension extending upwardly above the second engagement profile and defining a top of the second retention feature and a second outward extension extending outwardly from the second upward extension, wherein the second engagement profile has a second interlocking element with an inwardly-extending bottom surface; and a slider disposed on the first and second tracks and having a bottom surface substantially level with or above the bottom surface of each of the first and second interlocking elements, the slider interlocking the first and second engagement profiles together when moved from an open position toward a closed position along the first and second tracks. | 42,105 |
8,700,365 | 1. A method for evaluating the influence of different liquid properties to a thermal performance of a transformer, the method comprising the steps of: providing a calculation model of the transformer, the calculation model being configured to return an indicator of the thermal performance of the transformer; providing the calculation model with at least one reference liquid parameter value; providing the calculation model with a new liquid parameter value different from the reference liquid parameter value; providing the calculation model with a numerical load, the numerical load being indicative of a real load on the transformer; running a simulation by executing the calculation model on a computer process or based at least in part on the reference liquid parameter value, the new liquid parameter value, and the numerical load to thereby obtain calculated results indicative of the thermal performance of the transformer with a liquid corresponding to the new liquid parameter value. | 17,069 |
9,383,596 | 1. A variable spectrum element comprising a pair of optical substrates arranged opposite at a distance from each other, first, second, third, and fourth capacitive sensors each including a pair of electrodes that are placed on surfaces of the pair of the optical substrates opposite to each other respectively and each detecting a distance between the surfaces of the pair of the optical substrates opposite to each other at each placed position, and first, second, third, and fourth actuators relatively moving one of the pair of the optical substrates relative to the other optical substrate to change a distance between the surfaces of the pair of the optical substrates opposite to each other, the first and third capacitive sensors being placed at positions at which the first and third capacitive sensors are symmetrical with respect to a line connecting centers of mass of the surfaces of the pair of the optical substrates opposite to each other, respectively, the second and fourth capacitive sensors being placed at positions at which the second and fourth capacitive sensors are symmetrical with respect to the line connecting the centers of mass of the surfaces of the pair of the optical substrates opposite to each other, respectively, the first, second, third, and fourth actuators being placed on lines running from the center of mass of the surface of each of the pair of the optical substrates opposite to each other to the centers of the first, second, third, and fourth capacitive sensors respectively, respectively, and the variable spectrum element comprising a control unit, the control unit calculating a distance between the centers of mass of the surfaces of the pair of the optical substrates opposite to each other, with signals from the first, second, third, and fourth capacitive sensors, the control unit calculating a first angle that is made between a surface perpendicular to the line connecting the centers of mass of the surfaces of the pair of the optical substrates and the surface of the relatively moved optical substrate of the surfaces of the pair of the optical substrates opposite to each other, with signals from the first and third capacitive sensors, the control unit calculating a second angle that is made between the surface perpendicular to the line connecting the centers of mass of the surfaces of the pair of the optical substrates and the surface of the relatively moved optical substrate of the surfaces of the pair of the optical substrates opposite to each other, with signals from the second and fourth capacitive sensors, the control unit calculating a difference between a distance between the surfaces of the pair of the optical substrates opposite to each other at a position of the first actuator placed on the pair of the optical substrates and a distance between the surfaces of the pair of the optical substrates opposite to each other at a position of the second actuator placed on the pair of the optical substrate, with signals from the first and second capacitive sensors, the control unit actuating the first and third actuators on the basis of the distance between the centers of mass of the surfaces of the optical substrates, the first angle, and the difference between the distance between the surfaces of the pair of the optical substrates opposite to each other at the placed position of the first actuator and the distance between the surfaces of the pair of the optical substrates opposite to each other at the placed position of the second actuator, the control unit actuating the second and fourth actuators on the basis of the distance between the centers of mass of the surfaces of the optical substrates, the second angle, and the difference between the distance between the surfaces of the pair of the optical substrates opposite to each other at the placed position of the first actuator and the distance between the surfaces of the pair of the optical substrates opposite to each other at the placed position of the second actuator, and the control unit repeating the process which ranges from the calculation of a distance between the centers of mass of the surfaces of the optical substrates to the actuations of the second and fourth actuators until the difference between the distance between the surfaces of the pair of the optical substrates opposite to each other at the placed position of the first actuator and the distance between the surfaces of the pair of the optical substrates opposite to each other at the placed position of the second actuator becomes approximately equal to zero. | 41,971 |
8,981,126 | 1. A phosphenium compound with the general formula I: in which R R X | 30,834 |
9,234,681 | 1. A method of fabricating a solar concentrator comprising: arranging a plurality of curved independent reflecting sections concentrically to form a primary reflector, each reflecting section having a reflecting surface that is stationary relative to the Earth wherein each of the reflecting sections is oriented independently of the other reflecting sections such that each section redirects incident solar radiation towards an associated target area, wherein a target area associated with a first of said reflecting sections moves relative to a target area associated with a second of said reflecting sections as an angle of incidence of solar radiation relative to the concentrator changes; positioning a secondary reflector at each of said associated target area, each of said secondary reflector redirecting solar radiation from an associated one of said independent reflecting sections towards a remote absorber, each of said secondary redirecting reflector being movable relative to the primary reflector; and repositioning each secondary reflector with their associated target area such that the redirection of the solar radiation from each of said independent reflecting sections to the remote absorber is maintained as said angle of incidence of solar radiation relative to the concentrator changes. | 21,572 |
9,073,538 | 1. An electric drive module for motor vehicles having first and second wheels, comprising: an electric motor; an input member driven by said electric motor; an output member; a two-speed module operable for selectively establishing first and second speed ratio drive connections between said input member and said output member, said two-speed module including a gearset, a first clutch, a second clutch, and a clutch actuator, said gearset including a first component driven by said input member, a second component driving said output member, and a third component, said first clutch being operable in a released mode to permit relative rotation between said first component and said second and third components and in an engaged mode to restrict relative rotation between said first component and said second and third components, said second clutch being operable in a released mode to permit rotation of said third component and in an engaged mode to restrict rotation of said third component, said clutch actuator being operable in a first mode to establish said first speed ratio drive connection by shifting said first clutch into its engaged mode and said second clutch into its released mode, and said clutch actuator being operable in a second mode to establish said second speed ratio drive connection by shifting said first clutch into its released mode and said second clutch into its engaged mode; and a differential assembly having a differential input driven by said output member, a first differential output drivingly connected to the first wheel, and a second differential output drivingly connected to the second wheel. | 33,657 |
9,282,527 | 1. A method for support of mobile-terminated service delivery over a multi-Radio Access Technology (RAT) and/or multi-domain mobile network wherein an User Equipment (UE) can be registered with multiple serving Core Network (CN) nodes, said method comprising: using termination selection information, including indication of a preferred serving CN node and/or preferred domain for mobile-terminated service delivery attempt towards said UE, said preferred serving CN node and/or said preferred domain determined as the serving CN node and/or domain most likely to reach the UE, based on termination selection support information retrieved from said multiple serving CN nodes; using, for said determination of the serving CN node and/or domain most likely to reach the UE, termination selection support information including information on UE probability of camping per RAT. | 14,102 |
9,696,100 | 1. A method for a vehicle comprising: prior to an engine start and when a temperature of a powertrain of the vehicle is lower than external ambient temperature: | 24,217 |
8,941,496 | 1. A Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) system, comprising: an electronic device being powered by a battery; an RFID device, external to the electronic device, and in electrical communication with the electronic device; and a mechanism for estimating a remaining potential energy of the battery, wherein a flag is set on the RFID device when an estimated remaining potential energy of the battery is below a predefined threshold, the RFID device being configured to send an indication to a remote device, upon receiving a query from the remote device, of whether the flag is set or not set, wherein the RFID device includes circuitry for monitoring usage of the battery, the RFID device being configured to store and output, in addition to the indication of whether the flag is set or not, an estimated life remaining in the battery and an indication of actual battery usage: wherein a remote device queries the RFID device to determine whether the flag is set, the RFID device being configured to send the indication of whether the flag is set to the remote device via an air interface, the indication only indicating whether the flag is set or not set; wherein the electronic device includes at least one of a visual display device and a sensor. | 17,421 |
8,534,745 | 1. A closure assembly for securing a moveable panel relative to a body of a vehicle, the closure assembly comprising: a striker assembly having a base and a wire striker fixedly attached to the base; a latch mechanism moveable along a path between a closed position configured for engaging the wire striker in interlocking engagement to secure the latch mechanism relative to the striker assembly, and an open position configured for not engaging the wire striker in interlocking engagement to allow movement of the latch mechanism along the path relative to the striker assembly; and a biasing mechanism including a bumper fixedly attached to the base of the striker assembly, and an arm fixedly attached to the latch mechanism; wherein the arm is flexible about an axis in one of an inward direction toward or an outward direction away from the path; wherein the arm engages the bumper and is moved inward toward the path in response to movement of the latch mechanism from the open position into the closed position; and wherein the inward movement of the arm biases the latch mechanism in both a lateral direction relative to the path and an axial direction along the path, to dampen movement of the latch mechanism relative to the striker assembly. | 42,202 |
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