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8,399,887 | 1. A semiconductor device comprising: a first conductive film; a second conductive film over the first conductive film; a first insulating film interposed between the first conductive film and the second conductive film; a first semiconductor film over the first conductive film, wherein a whole of the first semiconductor film overlaps with the first conductive film; a third conductive film over the first semiconductor film; a second insulating film interposed between the first semiconductor film and the third conductive film; a fourth conductive film; a fifth conductive film over the fourth conductive film; a third insulating film interposed between the fourth conductive film and the fifth conductive film; a second semiconductor film over the fourth conductive film, wherein a whole of the second semiconductor film overlaps with the fourth conductive film, wherein the third conductive film is provided over the second semiconductor film; a sixth conductive film; a seventh conductive film over the sixth conductive film; a fourth insulating film interposed between the sixth conductive film and the seventh conductive film; a third semiconductor film over the sixth conductive film, wherein a whole of the third semiconductor film overlaps with the sixth conductive film; an eighth conductive film over the third semiconductor film, wherein the first conductive film and the sixth conductive film are electrically connected to each other. | 48,634 |
8,972,052 | 1. A navigation control system for an autonomous vehicle, the system comprising: a transmitter comprising: an autonomous vehicle operating within a working area, the autonomous vehicle having a receiving system comprising: | 11,371 |
9,241,155 | 1. A method of displaying a three dimensional image comprising: receiving an orientation of a viewer's eyes with respect to a display, the orientation comprising a viewer's roll inclination and a viewer's yaw inclination; receiving image data; determining a pair of stereoscopic images from the image data; adjusting a distance between the pair of stereoscopic images for the viewer's yaw inclination with respect to the display; and outputting the pair of stereoscopic images on the display, the distance between the pair of stereoscopic images multiplied by the cosine of the yaw inclination of the viewer's eyes with respect to the display, the pair of stereoscopic images at substantially the same roll inclination as the viewer's roll inclination. | 29,281 |
9,046,154 | 1. A wheel drive unit for a vehicle, the wheel drive unit comprising: a planetary gear mechanism including a sun gear, an internally toothed gear, and two or more planetary gears that mesh with the internally-toothed gear; a casing integrated with the internally-toothed gear, a wheel being attached to the casing, and the casing transmitting rotation of the internally-toothed gear to the wheel; a bearing fitted to an inner circumferential surface of the casing at a position more toward an interior of the vehicle than the planetary gears and rotatably supporting the casing; wherein an inner diameter of an outer race of the bearing is larger than the diameter of a circle having a radius extending from a central axis of the sun gear to a point where the internally-toothed gear meshes with the planetary gears; an oil seal fitted to the inner circumferential surface of the casing at a position more toward the interior of the vehicle than the bearing; wherein an inner diameter of the oil seal is larger than an outer diameter of an inner race of the bearing; a first carrier body located more toward the interior of the vehicle than the planetary gears and configured to support the planetary gears; wherein the first carrier body includes an oil seal seat surface internally meshing with the oil seal, a bearing seat surface to which the inner race of the bearing is fitted and which has a smaller diameter than the oil seal seat surface, and a connecting surface configured to join the oil seal seat surface and the bearing seat surface; and an axial gap is provided between the connecting surface and a lateral surface of the inner race toward the vehicle. | 3,379 |
9,743,801 | 1. A device for preparing a beverage from a food substance contained in a capsule by injection of a liquid into the capsule, the device comprising: a pump configured to supply the liquid for injection into the capsule; an extraction head having an aperture for inserting a capsule-holder providing the capsule in a capsule-holder receiving chamber of the device; a closing mechanism configured to selectively enclose the capsule in the capsule-holder receiving chamber; a heater configured to influence a temperature of the liquid supplied for injection; at least one injection member configured to supply the liquid received from the pump to an inside of the capsule; decoding means for reading information from an encoding member provided by the capsule-holder, wherein the decoding means are situated inside of the extraction head at a rear wall of the capsule-holder receiving chamber; and a control unit connected to the decoding means, the control unit configured to control the pump based on the information to influence the preparing of the beverage with respect to a pressure of the liquid supplied by the injection member, and the control unit configured to control the heater based on the information to influence the preparing of the beverage with respect to the temperature of the liquid supplied for injection. | 42,540 |
9,776,783 | 1. A foldable sleeve for retaining a surgical instrument, the foldable sleeve comprising: a first panel having a first set of lock tabs; a second panel hingedly connected to the first panel, the second panel having a first pair of openings and a second pair of openings, wherein the first pair of openings and the second pair of openings engage and retain a shaft portion of the surgical instrument with respect to the foldable sleeve; and a third panel hingedly connected to the second panel, the third panel having a second set of lock tabs, the first set of lock tabs locks against a first section of a shaft of the surgical instrument and the second set of lock tabs locks against a second section of the shaft of the surgical instrument to retain the surgical instrument at least partially within the foldable sleeve, wherein the first panel and the third panel are each selectively movable between an unfolded position and a folded position with respect to the second panel to retain the surgical instrument at least partially within the foldable sleeve, the first panel being free from contact with the third panel when the first panel and the third panel are in the folded position such that a portion of the surgical instrument between the first panel and the third panel is exposed. | 19,352 |
9,276,406 | 1. A control device for a power supply circuit comprising: a plurality of high-voltage battery packs connected in parallel with each other, comprising: a plurality of relays capable of cutting off power supply from said battery packs provided and opened based on an operation of said safety switches, wherein when the partial voltage detected by said partial voltage detector does not exceed a predetermined determination voltage for a predetermined time, all of said relays are maintained in an open state. | 26,771 |
9,141,106 | 1. A method for operating a field device of process automation technology, wherein the field device has stored in a memory, profile information for different servicing devices and associated with the profile information is, in each case, an identification of the corresponding servicing device, wherein the method comprises the steps of: connecting the field device for communication with at least one servicing device; and in case of a request by a servicing device for access to the field device the servicing device transmits its identification and the field device can access the associated profile information via the received identification and as a function of said profile information allows an accessing by the servicing device, thus access allowed by the field device depends on the particular servicing device which places the access request, and on the operating state, in which the field device is operated, where in: said operating states include an operating state with blocked or limited access, in which the field device is operated, when a request for access to the field device is placed by a servicing device and wherein said operating states of the field device, as a function of which an accessing is allowed, include at least three of the following operating states: an “offline” operating state, in which the field device is not connected in a plant of process automation technology; and “online” operating state, in which the field device is connected in a plant of process automation; a “commission” operating state (“start-up” operating state), in which parameters of the field device are set before integration of the field device into a process; a “non-commission” operating state (operating state before start-up), in which a field device, which has not previously been in operation, is present; an “off-control” operating state, in which the field device is “online”, but is not, however, yet integrated into a process; an “on-control” operating state, in which the field device is “online” and integrated into a process. | 37,361 |
8,654,527 | 1. A thyristor valve module, comprising two same thyristor valve segments in the whole thyristor valve module; each segment includes a saturated reactor, a thyristor valve unit, a direct current equalizing resistor unit, an acquiring energy unit, a damped resistor unit, a damped capacitor unit, a gate series unit and a water cooling system; the thyristor valve unit, the direct current equalizing resistor unit, the acquiring energy unit, the damped resistor unit, the damped capacitor unit and the gate series unit is fixed and connected together to form a thyristor valve string module; the saturated reactor itself constitutes a module; the thyristor valve unit is made up of several thyristor valves and its sub components have a series connection, there is a first cooler from the water cooling system at a side of each thyristor valve and a second cooler from the water cooling system at another side of each thyristor valve; according to an electrical structure of the thyristor valve strings, each of the thyristor valve strings includes a damped resistor, a damped capacitor, a direct current equalizing resistor, an acquiring resistor and a gate series circuit; the arrangement of the thyristor valve string is centered on the thyristor valve unit, the thyristor valve unit are arranged to have at both sides the gate series unit, the damped resistor and the damped capacitor respectively; the thyristor valve string module and the saturated reactor module are series connected and constitute the thyristor valve segment; and wherein a support structure of the thyristor valves module adopts a bracket structure, the support bracket is made up of an aluminum alloy beam and a small section insulated beam to support the saturated reactor module and the thyristor valve string module. | 38,290 |
9,416,752 | 1. A gas turbine engine comprising: an engine core having a core exit nozzle within an annular by-pass duct defined within a surrounding nacelle, the nacelle having an exhaust nozzle at an aft end thereof; a selectively deployable noise-reduction section on an inner surface of the aft end of the nacelle exhaust nozzle, said inner surface of the aft end of the nacelle exhaust nozzle being downstream of the core exhaust nozzle and receiving mixed exhaust gas flow, including core engine gas flow and bypass air flow, therethrough, the noise-reduction section including at least one inflatable envelope, projections deployable from the inner wall of the nacelle exhaust nozzle to form a rough surface at the loft line of the inner wall when the envelope is pressurized and the projections are retracted when the envelope is de-pressurized; means are provided to retain the inner wall in the loft line, the so formed rough surface effectively thickens the boundary layer to reduce the speed of the mixed flow of engine exhaust and by-pass air at the outer radius of the nozzle to reduce the differential velocity with the ambient air thus reducing the jet noise level of the engine, wherein the selectively deployable noise-reduction section on the inner surface of the aft end of the nacelle exhaust nozzle, including the inflatable envelope comprising a fixed outer wall and a displaceable inner wall radially spaced apart therefrom, the envelope including metal walls defining a pressurizable cavity and an inlet in fluid communication with the pressurizable cavity, at least a portion of the inner wall being radially inwardly displaced when the envelope is pressurized and retracted radially outwardly when the envelope is de-pressurized; an annular perforated sleeve having a plurality of openings therein and provided on the inner nacelle loft line, radially inwardly of the inner wall, to limit the travel of the inner wall; and wherein the inner wall includes a plurality of pins which are aligned with the plurality of openings in the perforated sleeve, the pins projecting through the openings in the perforated sleeve when the envelope is pressurized to form the rough surface at the loft line of the inner wall of the nacelle exhaust nozzle to thereby thicken the boundary layer and reduce the speed of the mixed flow of engine exhaust and by-pass air at the outer radius of the nozzle to reduce the differential velocity with the ambient air thus reducing the jet noise level of the engine. | 33,100 |
8,629,815 | 1. A binocular head mounted display, comprising: a frame for wearing on a head of a user; right and left displays for displaying right and left images to the user, wherein the right and left displays are mounted to the frame; a first alignment sensor including a first laser source mounted proximate to one of the right or left displays and a first photo-detector array mounted opposite the first laser source and proximate to an opposite one of the right or left displays, the first alignment sensor mounted to measure misalignment between the right and left displays due to deformation of the frame about one or more rotational axes and to generate a first signal that is indicative of the misalignment; and a control system coupled to the first alignment sensor to receive the first signal and including logic to calculate the misalignment based at least in part upon the first signal. | 48,854 |
9,816,853 | 1. A fibre optic cable comprising: a core structure; and an optical fibre wound around a periphery of the core structure, wherein the core structure comprises a mass which is moveable in a preferred direction within the cable such that movement of said mass in said preferred direction causes a change in length of the fibre wound around the periphery of the core structure. | 32,964 |
8,461,247 | 1. A dispersion powder composition redispersible in water obtained by drying a dispersion composition, the dispersion composition comprising: a dispersion A having a glass transition temperature T a dispersion B having a glass transition temperature T wherein the difference of the glass transition temperatures T wherein dispersions A and B each contain approximately 0 to 70 mol-% of vinyl acetate monomer units, based on the respective total monomer component of the individual dispersions, the glass transition temperatures T wherein the dispersion composition provides at 23° C. and ambient pressure a cement compatibility based on the ratio of the time taken by a mixture of 10 g of Portland cement CEM I 52.5R in 190 g of water with 1.0 g of dispersion composition based on solids content to form in a measuring cylinder a transparent water phase, which is determined visually, of 25% of the total volume of water, cement and dispersion composition, as compared to the corresponding time of the same cement/water mixture without dispersion composition, wherein the cement compatibility ratio is approximately 0.3:1 or greater, wherein the polymer particles of dispersion A and the polymer particles of dispersion B are polymerized separately, and wherein dispersions A and/or B further comprise high molecular weight stabilization systems in an amount of approximately 3 to 15% by weight, based on monomer component employed, wherein dispersion A and dispersion B are dried separately or jointly, and wherein the drying is performed by spray drying, freeze drying, fluidized-bed drying, roller drying and/or quick drying, and wherein the dispersion powder composition is redispersible in water. | 17,992 |
9,302,224 | 1. A system comprising: a heavy duty diesel truck engine, the heavy duty diesel truck engine configured to produce an exhaust gas comprising particulate matter, NO, and NO an oxidation catalyst in exhaust gas communication with the heavy duty diesel engine, the oxidation catalyst configured to convert a substantial portion of the NO in the exhaust gas to NO a particulate trap in exhaust gas communication downstream of the oxidation catalyst, the particulate trap configured to react a portion of the NO a urea reductant injector positioned downstream of the particulate trap, the urea reductant injector configured to inject a metered dose of urea reductant into the exhaust gas; an SCR catalyst, the SCR catalyst configured to reduce the NO and NO wherein the system is configured to operate at a sufficient temperature to react NO further wherein the oxidation catalyst and the particulate trap are configured to collectively modify the exhaust gas such that it has an NO to NO | 5,246 |
9,286,178 | 1. A controller comprising: an address generator that sets a plurality of different paths, each connecting an information processing apparatus connected to a storage apparatus via a network, first and second storage mediums, and the controller, and generates a second address that is different from a first address used for a communication with the information processing apparatus via the network; an access monitor that determines that no access has been issued for a certain time duration from the information processing apparatus to the first or second storage medium; an access issuing unit that issues, in response to the access monitor determining that no access has been issued for the certain time duration from the information processing apparatus, a test access to the first and second storage mediums on one of the plurality of paths, using the second address; and an access decoder that converts the test access to an access including the first address, receives a result of the access including the first address from the one of the first and second storage mediums, and checks for an error, wherein the access issuing unit issues the test access preferentially on one of the plurality of different paths, based on a history of usage of the storage apparatus. | 42,047 |
9,469,392 | 1. A method of folding and unfolding a wing, the method comprising: rotating an unfixed portion of the wing with respect to a fixed portion of the wing between a flight position of the wing and a folded position of the wing; securing, about a rotation axis in a lower-side of the fixed portion of the wing, a rotating portion of a latch assembly, to the fixed portion, the rotating portion connecting to a rotation bar that rotates, the rotating portion comprising a slot; securing a secured portion, comprising a latch bar, of the latch assembly to a lower-side of the unfixed portion of the wing; and rotating, between an open position of the latch assembly and a closed position of the latch assembly, the rotating portion of the latch assembly, via moving a latch actuator connecting to the rotation bar at a lug that rotates about the rotation axis, the rotation bar being radially offset from the rotation axis and located between the lug and the slot. | 3,760 |
8,858,230 | 1. An artificial root for dental implantation, comprising: a neck portion; an end portion for implanting, which is opposite the neck portion; a body portion defined between the neck portion and the end portion; and a multiplex thread structure formed on a surface of the body portion from the end portion toward an end approaching to the neck portion, the multiplex thread structure at least comprising a first thread and a second thread; wherein the first thread forms a root portion with a first width for the second thread which has a crest portion with a second width being accommodated therein, and the multiplex thread structure is configured in such a way that the second width of the crest portion is simultaneously increased when the first width of the root portion gradually increases along the surface of the body portion, the first width of the root portion of the first thread gradually increases towards the end portion, and the first thread has a thickness increasing along the surface of the body portion from the end portion towards the neck portion. | 36,054 |
8,526,971 | 1. A system for providing information to a mobile user, the system comprising: a mobile communication device including an input device configured to receive from an operator a selection signal indicative of at least one topic of interest; a wireless communication network; and at least one server configured to retrieve information corresponding to the present position of the mobile communication device and to at least one user selected topic of interest, the at least one server configured to send said retrieved information to the mobile communication device at least in part over said wireless communication network, wherein the least one server is further configured to determine a dynamically adjustable refresh interval specifying how frequently the mobile communication device is to collect position signals from external sources and to send the dynamically adjustable refresh interval to the mobile communication device. | 29,084 |
8,967,020 | 1. A handlebar and handlebar brace assembly comprising: a pair of handlebars; left and right ring clamps clamped to left and right handlebar sides of the handlebars respectively; a left brace side having a left mounting ear at a left end and a male threaded right end, the left mounting ear attached to the left clamp; a right brace side having a right mounting ear at a right end and a left end having a cylindrical exterior and a female threaded passage, the right mounting ear attached to the right clamp; a coupling having a female threaded left end threadably cooperating with the male threaded right end of the left brace side, a concave cylindrical mouth at a coupling right end slideably cooperating with the left end of the right brace side, a hollow portion in a left coupling end, and a solid portion to the right of the hollow portion, the solid portion having a fastener passage there through coaxial with the coupling, the fastener passage having a smaller cross-section than the hollow portion, a left end of the right brace side abutting the solid portion; a rubber tube residing inside the hollow portion of the coupling to the left of the solid portion of the coupling; a threaded fastener running through the rubber tube and the solid portion of the coupling, and threaded into the female threads in the right brace side; and a washer between a head of the threaded fastener and the rubber tube for applying force against the rubber tube, wherein the brace holds the clamps together resisting bending of the handlebars which separates the clamps. | 29,748 |
9,077,386 | 1. A method of transmitting information over a data bus capable of transmission of data in physical form and comprising multiple distinct analog signal transmission elements, the method comprising: receiving a first set of physical signals representing the information; mapping the first set of physical signals to a code word within a respective subcode using an encoder; and mapping values of the code word within the respective subcode to the multiple distinct analog signal transmission elements of the data bus; wherein the respective subcode is a subcode among a plurality of subcodes, wherein the respective subcode among the plurality of subcodes consists of multiple code words selected from among valid code words of a vector signaling code, wherein the plurality of subcodes collectively comprise the vector signaling code, wherein the vector signaling code presents an enlarged code word space and includes a first unbalanced subcode and a second unbalanced subcode, wherein a sum of analog signal transmission elements representing the first unbalanced subcode is opposite in sign to a sum of analog signal transmission elements representing the second unbalanced subcode. | 7,254 |
9,477,639 | 1. A method for tracking driving habits, comprising: receiving an indication of an association of a personal device with a driver in a vehicle, the personal device being a telecommunications and computing device associated with a driver of the vehicle; determining that the driver is engaging in a suspect activity while driving; comparing the suspect activity with a severity scale indicative of a relative risk of the activity, comparing further comprising: | 31,132 |
9,039,531 | 1. A control device comprising: an electric motor; an unbalanced weight positioned on a shaft of the electric motor; and a controller configured to: | 44,617 |
8,448,000 | 1. A data processing system, comprising: a housing; a plurality of components mounted within the housing, the plurality of components including: a plurality of sensors instrumented within the housing, at least one of the sensors determining a temperature in the data processing system, according to instructions stored in the memory the processor managing working states of at least a portion of the plurality of components based on information obtained from at least a portion of the plurality of sensors, the power management unit causing the system to shutdown when a measurement of one of the plurality of sensors exceeds a threshold, wherein information about the shutdown is recorded in the memory, and wherein the processor records the information about the shutdown and instructs the system to shutdown in response to a signal from the power management unit. | 22,824 |
9,676,086 | 1. A torque tool for applying a controlled torsional moment to a mechanical device, comprising: an electrical machine drive system comprising a synchronous reluctance motor, the synchronous reluctance motor comprising: wherein the drive system further comprises a gear system mechanically coupled to the motor shaft and configured to apply the torsional moment to the device. | 9,597 |
8,601,361 | 1. A method for automatically populating a table, comprising: receiving an indication that at least a portion of a data object comprising a set of one or more data values and a corresponding set of one or more metadata values is to be included in a table, wherein each metadata value comprises a label for its corresponding data value; automatically matching the set of metadata values of the data object with a set of one or more table header values associated with an existing or default table definition when there is an exact match and when there is a fuzzy match at least between the one or more labels of the set of metadata values of the data object and the set of one or more table header values associated with the existing or default table definition; selecting for inclusion in the table a selected subset of the set of data values of the data object, wherein the selection is based on the metadata value and the header values associated with the existing or default table definition, and each data value in the selected subset has a corresponding metadata value that matches with a header value in the set of header values; and automatically including in the table an entry corresponding to the data object, the entry comprising the selected subset of data values of the data object, wherein each data value in the entry is located in a location determined at least in part by its corresponding metadata value and header value with which its corresponding metadata value matches. | 32,229 |
9,416,129 | 1. A compound, or a stereoisomer of said compound, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt of said compound or said stereoisomer, said compound having the structural Formula (I): or a tautomer thereof having the structural Formula (I′): or pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein: R ring A is selected from the group consisting of aryl, monocyclic heteroaryl, monocyclic cycloalkyl, monocyclic cycloalkenyl, monocyclic heterocycloalkyl, monocyclic heterocycloalkenyl, and a multicyclic group; each R wherein said alkyl, haloalkyl, heteroalkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, cycloalkyl, -alkyl-cycloalkyl, heterocycloalkyl, and -alkyl-heterocycloalkyl of R m is 0 or more; ring B is selected from the group consisting of a 6-membered aryl, 6-membered cycloalkyl, 6-membered cycloalkenyl, 6-membered heteroaryl, a 6-membered heterocycloalkyl, and a 6-membered heterocycloalkenyl ring, wherein each said heteroatom containing ring comprises from 1 to 4 ring heteroatoms independently selected from the group consisting of N, N-oxide, O, S, S(O), and S(O) each R n is 0 or more; ring C is selected from the group consisting of aryl, monocyclic heteroaryl, monocyclic cycloalkyl, monocyclic cycloalkenyl, monocyclic heterocycloalkyl, monocyclic heterocycloalkenyl, and a multicyclic group; each R wherein said alkyl, haloalkyl, heteroalkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, cycloalkyl, -alkyl-cycloalkyl, aryl, -alkyl-aryl, heteroaryl, -alkyl-heteroaryl, heterocycloalkyl, and -alkyl-heterocycloalkyl of R p is 0 or more; R each R each R wherein each said alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, heteroalkyl, haloalkyl, cycloalkyl, -alkyl-cycloalkyl, heterocycloalkyl, -alkyl-heterocycloalkyl, aryl, -alkyl-aryl, heteroaryl, and -alkyl-heteroaryl of R each R wherein each said cycloalkyl, -alkyl-cycloalkyl, aryl, -alkyl-aryl, heteroaryl, and -alkyl-heteroaryl of R each R R R R each R wherein each said alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, heteroalkyl, haloalkyl, cycloalkyl, -alkyl-cycloalkyl, heterocycloalkyl, -alkyl-heterocycloalkyl, aryl, -alkyl-aryl, heteroaryl, and -alkyl-heteroaryl of R | 31,880 |
8,802,388 | 1. A recombinant polypeptide comprising a catalytic domain of an endo-β-mannanase, wherein the catalytic domain is at least 95% identical to the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:10 or a mature form of an endo-β-mannanase, wherein the mature form is at least 90% identical to the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:7. | 20,688 |
8,541,238 | 1. Method for detection comprising: providing a fluid thermal media in a first tank, with all of the fluid thermal media in the first tank under temperature control different than outside of the first tank; providing a fluid thermal media in a second tank with all of the fluid thermal media of the second tank under temperature control different than the temperature control of the fluid thermal media in the first tank and different than outside the first and second tanks; providing a carrier including regions containing contents with the carrier wound on and extending between first and second spools; moving the carrier wound on and extending between the first and second spools from outside the first tank into the first tank and submerging the carrier wound on and extending between the first and second spools into the fluid thermal media of the first tank with the contents contained in the carrier undergoing a reaction while being submerged; winding the carrier between the first and second spools with the carrier extending between the first and second spools while in the first tank, with submerging the carrier including submerging the first and second spools with the carrier extending therebetween in the fluid thermal media of the first tank; and detecting a condition of the contents in the regions of the carrier while the contents are submerged in the fluid thermal media of the first tank and while the contents are located intermediate the first and second spools, with submerging the carrier including submerging the carrier in the fluid thermal media of the second tank after the carrier is removed from the fluid thermal media of the first tank. | 14,927 |
8,596,674 | 1. A vehicle side airbag apparatus comprising: a seat frame that is made of resin and supports a pad disposed inside a side portion of a seatback, wherein the seat frame includes a recess that is elongated in a top-bottom direction of a vehicle, and that opens to a vehicle front side; a module casing that is disposed inside the recess and includes an outer side wall and an inner side wall, wherein the outer side wall and the inner side wall are arranged in parallel with each other, and extend in a front-rear direction of the vehicle, and the outer side wall is disposed outside the inner side wall in a width direction of the vehicle, in a horizontal sectional view; and a side airbag that is stored in a folded manner within the module casing, wherein when gas produced by an inflator is supplied to the side airbag, the side airbag is deployed along a surface of a side portion of a vehicle body, the surface facing an inside of a vehicle cabin, wherein at least one of the outer side wall and the inner side wall includes a low rigidity portion configured to be provided in an area including at least a portion of a region overlapping with an iliac crest of a seated occupant in a side view. | 28,694 |
9,113,796 | 1. A method for adjusting a visualization of volume data of an object as an image with regard to diagnostically relevant medical information relating to an environment of a region under investigation, the method comprising: specifying at least one slice region in accordance with slice information within the volume data; using a first mapping of a value range of the volume data for visualizing the at least one slice region on a display; and using a second mapping different from the first mapping for visualizing a region bordering on the at least one slice region on the display, wherein the first mapping, or the first mapping and the second mapping use at least one transfer function or a window level specification, wherein the at least one transfer function, the window level specification, or the at least one transfer function and the window level specification of the first mapping are selected in accordance with a visualization of calcifications, adipose, or connective tissue, wherein the first mapping is selected in accordance with the visualization of calcifications, and wherein the second mapping is selected in accordance with the visualization of adipose or connective tissue. | 28,153 |
8,734,376 | 1. An integrated perfusion system comprising: a disposable element, the disposable element including an RFID tag that is programmed with information describing volumetric operational settings of the disposable element; and a heart lung machine including | 12,018 |
8,599,541 | 1. An electronic apparatus, comprising: a casing, having at least one accommodation space, wherein the accommodation space is used for accommodating a data access apparatus; an access module, disposed in the accommodation space, wherein the casing is formed with an opening at a position corresponding to an access unit, so that an external card is inserted in or pulled out through the opening, and an end of the access module is pivoted on the casing; and a cap, for covering and sealing the accommodation space, wherein the access module is disposed between the data access apparatus and the cap; wherein two corresponding sides of the accommodation space respectively have a first wall, the access module is pivoted on the first wall, a pivot hole is respectively disposed at a corresponding position of each first wall, and the access module has a pivot shaft corresponding to each pivot hole, so that the access module is pivoted between the two side walls. | 3,337 |
8,676,501 | 1. A method of providing satellite-based navigation at a navigation device, the method comprising: receiving long-term navigation information at the navigation device from a communication system, wherein the long-term navigation information is associated with a nominal orbital path of a navigation satellite for a time period longer than approximately 24 hours, wherein the navigation satellite has an actual orbital path that is repeatedly adjusted to substantially conform to the nominal orbital path; estimating at the navigation device a position of the navigation satellite using the long-term navigation information; repeating at the navigation device the receiving and the estimating operations for a plurality of additional navigation satellites using long-term navigation information associated with each of the additional navigation satellites; determining at the navigation device a position of the navigation device based on the estimated positions of the navigation satellite and the additional navigation satellites; and wherein the actual orbital path adjustment and the long-term navigation information permit the estimating, repeating, and determining to be performed during the time period without requiring updated navigation information. | 37,198 |
9,581,760 | 1. A Ytterbium doped multicomponent glass fiber for laser generation and amplification from 1.01 to 1.12 micron wavelength, comprising: a core; and a cladding; wherein said core comprises: at least 2 weight percent glass network modifier selected from BaO, CaO, MgO, ZnO, PbO, K ytterbium oxide at a level from about 3 to about 50 weight percent; wherein: the mode of the core is guided with step index difference between the core and the cladding; a numerical aperture of the fiber is between 0.01 and 0.04; core diameter is from 25 to 60 micron; and a length of the gain fiber is shorter than 60 cm. | 45,459 |
8,980,125 | 1. An active material for a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery comprising: first particles; and second particles scattered on the surfaces of the first particles, wherein the circularity of the first particles with the second particles scattered thereon is 0.800 to 0.950; and the ratio r1/r2 of the average particle diameter r1 of the second particles to the average particle diameter r2 of the first particles is 1/20 to 1/2. | 47,537 |
9,432,505 | 1. A method for performing data transmission in a user equipment device (UE), wherein the UE comprises at least two subscriber identity modules (SIMs) and at least two radios, the method comprising: conducting a first voice call on a first radio of the UE; conducting a second voice call on a second radio of the UE, wherein the conducting the second voice call on the second radio is performed concurrently with the conducting the first voice call on the first radio; receiving a request to perform a data communication on the UE during the conducting the first voice call and the second voice call; determining if one of the first or second radios has a voice call that is currently on hold after the receiving the request to perform the data communication; if a respective radio has a voice call that is determined to be on hold, performing the data communication on the respective radio while the voice call is on hold on the respective radio; after the performing the data communication on the respective radio while the voice call is on hold on the respective radio, determining that the respective radio no longer has a voice call that is currently on hold; determining that the other radio of the first and second radios has a voice call that is currently on hold; and performing further data communication on the other radio while the voice call is on hold on the other radio. | 2,151 |
8,705,684 | 1. A surface conditioning scheduling process to mitigate susceptibility to crack initiation or crack growth in a boiling water nuclear reactor or pressurized water nuclear reactor using a plurality of working crews, the process comprising: (a) defining a plurality of working zones in an annulus region of a reactor vessel flange; (b) assembling a circular platform on the reactor vessel flange such that the circular platform is supported on the reactor vessel flange and extends radially inward from the reactor vessel flange toward a central axis of the reactor vessel, the annulus region working zones residing on the circular platform at a level above the reactor vessel flange; (c) positioning one of the working crews in each of the annulus region working zones; (d) defining a plurality working zones in a core region of the reactor vessel; (e) positioning one of the working crews in each of the core region working zones; and (f) the working crews performing surface conditioning in areas of the reactor vessel accessible from their respective working zones such that the surface conditioning process can be completed in no more than thirty days. | 29,890 |
8,576,234 | 1. A method for simulating an animation effect during the display of a digitally encoded picture, comprising: accessing a set of predetermined animation effects; identifying, using a processor and a memory, a first selected portion of the picture with a computer implemented main subject identification algorithm, wherein the main subject identification algorithm includes, mapping a picture with a grid having a plurality of adjacent squares, each squares being assigned a density factor, indicative of the amount of information included in the square, predetermining a density upper thresholds and a density lower thresholds, identifying on the picture a first largest possible set of adjacent squares all having a density factor higher than the predetermined upper thresholds and a second largest possible set of adjacent squares all having a density factor less than the predetermined lower thresholds, and selecting as the main subject one of the first and second set; selecting at least one of the predetermined animation effects; and applying to the picture the selected at least one predetermined animation effect. | 15,703 |
9,840,529 | 1. A fuel cell comprising a hydrogen oxidation catalyst, wherein the hydrogen oxidation catalyst is a dinuclear transition metal complex having a chemical structure represented by the following general formula (1) or (2): wherein, in the general formulae (1) and (2), M Ar Ar | 19,130 |
9,012,763 | 1. A stretchable photovoltaic module comprising: first and second stretchable photovoltaic devices, wherein the first stretchable photovoltaic device overlays the second stretchable photovoltaic device such that electromagnetic radiation can pass through the first photovoltaic device and impinge the second stretchable photovoltaic device, and wherein: the first stretchable photovoltaic device comprises: the second stretchable photovoltaic device comprises: | 15,175 |
8,753,964 | 1. A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device comprising the steps of: forming a plurality of fins on a semiconductor substrate, the fins comprising a semiconductor material and having first and second side surfaces, the first and second side surfaces having a bottom portion adjacent to the semiconductor substrate; forming a gate electrode over and in contact with each of the plurality of fins; forming first spacers on the gate electrode; forming a second spacer only on the first and second side surfaces, the second spacer being parallel to and covering only the bottom portion of the first and second side surfaces adjacent the semiconductor substrate; after forming the second spacer, depositing an insulator layer over the gate electrode and the plurality of fins; etching a trench opening in the insulator layer that exposes the plurality of fins and extends between the plurality of fins; siliciding the plurality of fins through the trench opening, the siliciding extending down to the second spacer on the first and second side surfaces such that the siliciding is spaced from the semiconductor substrate by the second spacer; and filling the trench opening with a metal in contact with the silicided fins to form a local interconnect connecting the plurality of fins. | 26,897 |
8,919,467 | 1. A method for operating a hybrid vehicle in which at least two units, of which at least one is an internal combustion engine, supply torque for a hybrid vehicle drive, comprising: ascertaining an overall required reserve torque; determining boundary values of currently available reserve torques of each individual one of the at least two units; in the internal combustion engine, determining a reserve torque that is able to be achieved by increasing an air charge at a simultaneous ignition timing adjustment, the determining of the reserve torque being performed while taking into account a combustibility limit of a fuel; in the case of at least one electric motor as another one of the at least two units, drawing upon as one of the boundary values at least one of a maximum torque, a minimum torque, and a state of charge of an energy store, which supplies the electric motor with driving power; making an apportionment of the overall reserve torque to individual ones of the at least two units within the determined boundary values, as a function of limits of currently available reserve torques; and determining an overall gain of a controller having at least one of an overall proportional component and an overall derivative component apportioned to the at least two units corresponding to the apportionment of the overall reserve torque. | 34,293 |
8,364,900 | 1. A method for replacing an entry in a least-recently-used way in a skewed-associative cache, comprising: receiving a cache line address; generating two or more indices using the cache line address, wherein generating each index involves computing the index using a hash function for which an input is the cache line address, wherein a different hash function is used to compute an index for each way for each of the two or more indices in the skewed-associative cache; generating two or more intermediate indices using the two or more indices; using at least one of the two or more indices or the two or more intermediate indices to perform a lookup in one or more lookup tables, wherein the lookup returns a value which identifies a least-recently-used way; and replacing the entry in the least-recently-used way. | 48,549 |
8,467,661 | 1. A personal video recorder (PVR) recording a received television program on a hard disk and reading the recorded television program from said hard disk for reproduction and display on a monitor device disposed separately from the PVR, the PVR comprising: a display screen provided on a front surface of a body of the PVR; and a control unit that controls displays on the display screen and the monitor device, wherein the control unit is adapted to display on said display screen commercial information about a commercial video skipped in a commercial skip mode in which a program video of the television program recorded on said hard disk is reproduced with the commercial video in the recorded television program skipped, and to cause the monitor device to display the program video with the commercial video skipped, and wherein the monitor device and the PVR are separate devices. | 33,534 |
8,802,253 | 1. A weld validation system for a battery module, the battery module having first and second battery cells and an interconnect member welded to first and second tabs of the first and second battery cells, respectively, comprising: a gripping device having first and second gripping fingers contacting the interconnect member; a battery cycling device being electrically coupled to the battery module that charges and discharges the battery module when the first and second gripping fingers are contacting the interconnect member; a temperature sensor disposed on one of the first and second gripping fingers that generates a first signal indicative of a temperature of the interconnect member when the battery cycling device is discharging the battery module; a computer programmed to determine a first temperature value indicative of the temperature of the interconnect member based on the first signal; the computer further programmed to determine if the first temperature value is less than or equal to a threshold temperature value; and the computer further programmed to generate a first control signal to induce a display device to display a first message indicating weld joints of the interconnect member are validated if the first temperature value is less than or equal to the threshold temperature value when the battery cycling device is discharging the battery module. | 30,254 |
8,655,542 | 1. A fuel filter diagnostic system for a vehicle that has a filter cartridge, which includes a filter adapted to filter foreign objects contained in fuel used in an internal combustion engine of the vehicle, the fuel filter diagnostic system comprising: an electronic tag that is attached to the filter cartridge and includes: a wireless receiver device that is installed to a predetermined location of the vehicle, which is other than the filter cartridge and receives the individual product information transmitted from the electronic tag; and a diagnostic device that diagnoses whether the individual product information is received by the wireless receiver device or whether the filter cartridge installed in the vehicle has a desired filtering performance based on contents of the individual product information received by the wireless receiver device, wherein: when the diagnostic device diagnoses that the filter cartridge does not have the desired filtering performance, the diagnostic device limits an output of the internal combustion engine below a predetermined value. | 30,201 |
8,376,013 | 1. A method for curing of a radiation-curable medium, comprising: disposing a composition in between at least two objects, said composition comprising 1) an uncured radiation-curable medium and 2) an energy modulation agent; applying energy from at least one of x-rays, gamma rays, or an electron beam through at least one of the two objects and into the composition, wherein the energy interacts with the energy modulation agent comprising a photon emitter which emits light within the uncured medium that directly or indirectly cures the uncured medium by polymerization of polymers in the medium; and with the emitted light, curing the radiation-curable medium by activating a photoinitiator in the radiation-curable medium so that the at least two objects are fixed together. | 40,511 |
9,249,538 | 1. A laundry treatment apparatus having a drying function, comprising: a cabinet having a front wall, a rear wall, side walls and a base section, wherein the base section comprises an internal side facing the interior of the cabinet and an external side exposed to the outside of the cabinet, a laundry storing chamber arranged inside the cabinet for treating laundry using process air, a process air loop for circulating the process air through the laundry storing chamber, and a heat pump system for dehumidifying and heating the process air, the heat pump system having a refrigerant loop comprising: a first heat exchanger for heating a refrigerant and cooling the process air, a second heat exchanger for cooling the refrigerant and heating the process air, a refrigerant expansion device, a compressor, and an auxiliary heat exchanger; wherein, the auxiliary heat exchanger is arranged at the external side of the base section. | 18,215 |
8,832,873 | 1. A multi-functional, multi-configurable furniture system for generally conversion to a cabinet during the day and for conversion to a bed during the night, the system comprising, in combination: a back plate ( a cabinet ( an inflatable mattress ( three similarly configured support panels including a lower panel ( a stacking assembly including four laterally extending projections ( | 33,752 |
9,738,674 | 1. A particulate composition comprising crystalline α-α-trehalose dihydrate, in which: (1) said particulate composition has an α-α-trehalose purity of 99.2% by weight or more but not more than 99.7% by weight, on a dry solid basis; (2) said particulate composition has a degree of crystallinity for crystalline α-α-trehalose dihydrate of 91.0% or higher but not higher than 96.8%, when calculated based on its powder X-ray diffraction profile; and (3) said particulate composition contains particles with a particle size of at least 53 μm but smaller than 425 μm in an amount of 70% by weight or more based on the particulate composition as a whole, and particles with a particle size of at least 53 μm but smaller than 300 μm in an amount of 50% by weight or more based on the particulate composition as a whole. | 49,782 |
9,107,178 | 1. A mobile device comprising: a location estimator configured to estimate a present location of the mobile device; a signal-fingerprint manager configured to determine one or more signal fingerprints about the mobile device at that present location, wherein the determined one or more signal fingerprints are based at least in part upon a signal strength and a corresponding identification of one or more ambient identifiable wireless signal (IWS) sources; a location manager configured to associate the estimated location with the determined one or more signal fingerprints; a communications unit configured to send the association between the estimated location and the determined one or more signal fingerprints to a remote location-fingerprint database. | 39,203 |
9,230,714 | 1. A high strength tether adapted for electrical conduction and tensile loading, said tether comprising: a central core, wherein the central core comprises a center layer, and wherein the center layer comprises an axial rod; a low bulk modulus strain relief layer concentrically surrounding the central core; and a plurality of electrical conductors, said plurality of conductors located along the exterior of the low bulk modulus strain relief layer. | 48,437 |
8,765,359 | 1. A method of functionalizing regions of a substrate with an organosilane, wherein the substrate comprises an organic layer and patterned regions of exposed substrate, comprising: exposing the substrate to an organosilane vapor at a pressure below a pressure that causes the organic layer to reflow; and using at least a minimum dose of the organosilane vapor sufficient to provide a useful density of functional groups on the patterned regions; wherein, the patterned regions have dimensions less than 1 μm; and the minimum dose is at least 1×10 | 41,617 |
9,406,703 | 1. A display device, comprising: a flexible substrate; a data line or a gate line on the flexible substrate; and a thin-film transistor (TFT) on the flexible substrate, wherein the TFT includes a semiconductor layer extending obliquely with respect to a direction of the data line or gate line, wherein the semiconductor layer has a rectangular shape with its length extended at an angle between 30° and 60° with respect to the direction of the data line or the gate line. | 37,258 |
8,585,370 | 1. A repair process for a rotor blade element of a wind power installation, the process comprising: providing a fiber material at the rotor blade element; covering the fiber material with a surface film; drawing gas out of the fiber material; acting on the fiber material with a hardenable resin; and reacting the hardenable resin with the surface film. | 49,929 |
9,000,614 | 1. A propulsion system comprising: an electric drive; a direct current (DC) link electrically coupled to the electric drive; a first energy storage system electrically coupled to the electric drive, the first energy storage system comprising a low specific-power energy storage device; a coupling device coupled to a first terminal of the low specific-power energy storage device; a second energy storage system, wherein a first terminal of the second energy storage system is electrically coupled to the electric drive through the DC link and a second terminal of the second energy storage system is coupled to the coupling device; and a boost converter assembly coupled to the first energy storage system and to the second energy storage system; wherein the coupling device is configured to couple the second terminal of the second energy storage system to the first terminal of the low specific-power energy storage device in a series connection; and wherein the series connection bypasses the boost converter assembly. | 38,065 |
8,649,911 | 1. A method for regulating power rating of a wind turbine generator of a wind turbine, the method comprising: calculating a baseline predicted life of the wind turbine based on an estimated wind turbulence; sensing a plurality of operating parameters of the wind turbine generator; assessing the plurality of operating parameters with respect to respective design ratings for the operating parameters by estimating fatigue in real time based on wind history using signal processing via generated transfer functions of power and damage rates; uprating a power set point of the wind turbine when the assessment indicates that a sensed wind turbulence is lower than the estimated wind turbulence; and adjusting at least one boundary of at least one command signal to modify torque, speed, blade pitch, current, reactive power, or combinations thereof for dynamically modifying a rated power output of the wind turbine generator based at least in part upon the power set point. | 29,879 |
8,432,727 | 1. A Spin Transfer Torque Magnetoresistive Random Access Memory (STT-MRAM) comprising: a bit cell array having a first source line substantially parallel to a word line coupled to first bit cells, wherein the first source line is substantially perpendicular to bit lines coupled to the first bit cells; and a source line control unit coupled to the bit cell array, the source line control unit including a common source line driver coupled to a plurality of source lines including the first source line and a source line selector configured to select individual ones of the plurality of source lines, the source line driver and the source line selector coupled in multiplexed relation. | 27,456 |
9,783,504 | 1. A compound of formula I: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein Z Z Z R R X R R Y is NR or taken together Y—X R X each X Q is C n is 0, 1, 2, 3, or 4; X wherein said substituted aryl, heteroaryl, or alkyl is substituted with one or more R X | 39,363 |
8,552,307 | 1. A mounting structure comprising: an insulating substrate having a substrate electrode on which at least one space is provided and a resist surrounding the substrate electrode; an electronic component having an electronic component electrode to be electrically connected to the substrate electrode; and solder paste printed on a surface of the substrate electrode, the solder paste being used for soldering the substrate electrode and the electronic component electrode; wherein the space has a following relation where h (μm):width of the space the width of the space is defined as a dimension in a crosswise direction of the space, the space is formed from an end of an area of the substrate electrode, the area being located under the electronic component electrode, or from inside of the area of the substrate electrode to a peripheral side of the substrate electrode, and the space does not reach a peripheral side of the substrate electrode, the peripheral side being located under the electronic component. | 44,515 |
8,509,864 | 1. A case for an electronic device comprising: a first case portion comprising: a first base surface upon which a back of a housing of the electronic device will be placed against, wherein the base surface comprises a top edge; a lower sidewall, connected to the first base surface at an end opposite of the top edge, that will be positioned against a bottom side edge of the electronic device; a second case portion comprising: an upper sidewall that will be positioned against a top side edge of the electronic device when the second case portion is seated against the first case portion; and an open side end, opposite the upper sidewall, wherein the second case portion slides onto the first case portion through the open side end, wherein when the second case portion is seated against the first case portion, the first and second case portions meet at and form a seam which extends across a back of the case, and a camera-flash opening, comprising a hole through the back of the case, wherein the camera-flash opening has a length dimension greater than a width dimension, and an edging of the camera-flash opening comprises a first color that is darker than a second color of the back of the case; when the second case portion is seated against the first case portion, a first open-shaped opening for the first case portion merges with a second open-shaped opening for the second case portion to form a front opening of the case through which a screen of the electronic device will be visible, the front opening having a closed shape, and the back opening has a closed shape through which a camera flash and camera lens of the electronic device will be visible. | 7,280 |
9,421,927 | 1. A load transfer apparatus for a vehicle that has a longitudinally-extending frame rail, a bumper secured to the frame rail, and a body mount bracket extending laterally outward from the frame rail, the load transfer apparatus comprising: a first deflector member securable to the body mount bracket and to the frame rail so that a first portion of the frame rail is between the body mount bracket and the bumper, and a second portion of the frame rail is between the body mount bracket and the first deflector member and is spaced apart from both the body mount bracket and the first deflector member; and wherein the first deflector member at least partially forms a load path from the bumper to the frame rail under a sufficient offset load applied to the bumper. | 42,154 |
9,319,114 | 1. A method for preparing data for transmission on a plurality of transmission channels comprising: identifying a modulation scheme for information bits such that a determined number of information bits per modulation symbol is supported for a plurality of spatial channels; selecting a coding rate based at least on the determined number of information bits per modulation symbol; encoding a plurality of information bits in accordance with a particular encoding scheme to provide a plurality of coded bits, wherein the encoding is achieved via a Turbo code, and wherein the Turbo code includes two constituent codes operative to provide at least two streams of the parity bits; and puncturing at least one of the parity bits in accordance with a particular puncturing scheme to achieve the selected coding rate for the plurality of spatial channels, wherein the puncturing is performed such that approximately equal numbers of the parity bits are deleted from the at least two streams of the parity bits. | 32,978 |
9,641,287 | 1. A method for performing high-integrity data transmission, the method comprising: obtaining a first set of data at a first transmitter and a second set of data at a second transmitter; developing a first key for the obtained first set of data and a second key for the obtained second set of data; and when the first key matches the second key, permitting one or more receivers to access at least one of the first set of data and the second set of data, by: | 2,160 |
9,399,909 | 1. A method of analyzing one or more downhole properties, comprising: receiving a plurality of measurements selected from the group consisting of force measurements, pressure measurements, acceleration measurements, and temperature measurements, wherein each of the measurements corresponds to a location along a drillstring, the drillstring comprising a drillpipe, and where at least one measurement corresponds to a location along the drillpipe; determining whether an influx has occurred, based, at least in part, on the plurality of measurements. | 40,924 |
8,349,701 | 1. A combination of a stable substrate, a wafer and a film, wherein the stable substrate and the wafer are arranged parallel to one another and an adhesive layer is situated between the stable substrate and the wafer to bond the stable substrate to the wafer, said adhesive layer disposed in the annular edge region of the wafer and wherein said film is arranged between the substrate and the wafer in a region enclosed by the annular adhesive layer. | 22,796 |
9,193,886 | 1. A multi-phase stratified coating, the coating comprising: a bottom epoxy phase predominant in an epoxy component derived from an epoxy resin having (i) epoxide end groups or (ii) having an epoxide end group and a phosphate end group or (iii) having an epoxide end group and an ester end group; a top fluorinated polymer phase predominant in a fluorinated polymer derived from fluorinated vinyl-based monomers, a middle diffuse interface phase including both the fluorinated polymer of the top fluorinated polymer phase and the epoxy component of the bottom epoxy phase, the middle diffuse interface phase separating said epoxy phase and said fluorinated polymer phase and exhibiting the attributes of either the fluorinated polymer or the epoxy component according to which makes up the most of its composition. | 31,960 |
8,783,541 | 1. A surgical tool for use with a robotic system that has a tool drive assembly that is operatively coupled to a control unit of the robotic system that is operable by inputs from an operator and is configured to provide at least one rotary output motion to at least one rotatable body portion supported on the tool drive assembly, said surgical tool comprising: a surgical end effector comprising at least one component portion that is selectively movable between first and second positions relative to at least one other component portion thereof in response to control motions applied at least to said selectively movable component portion; an elongated shaft assembly operably coupled to said surgical end effector, said elongated shaft assembly comprising: an axially movable portion in operable communication with said at least one selectively movable component portion of said surgical end effector; a rotatable member operably coupled with said axially movable portion such that rotation of said rotatable member causes said axially movable portion to move axially relative thereto; and a closure clutch assembly selectively movable between a neutral disengaged position and an engaged first closure drive position wherein said closure clutch assembly is in driving engagement with said rotatable member and wherein the surgical tool further comprises: a transmission arrangement in operable engagement with at least one of said at least one rotatable body portions supported on the tool drive assembly and in operable engagement with said closure clutch assembly to selectively move said closure clutch assembly between said neutral disengaged position and said engaged first closure drive position and apply rotary actuation motions thereto when in said engaged first closure drive position; and a sensor arrangement communicating with said control unit for providing a signal thereto when said selectively movable component portion is in said second position. | 23,270 |
9,028,404 | 1. A physiological monitoring system comprising: a garment; a band integrated with the garment including respiration sensing conductors and one or more additional conductors; a heart rate sensor integral with the garment and electrically connected to a said additional conductor; a dock attached to the garment, the dock including: an elongate housing attached to the garment and housing the receptacle in one end thereof; and a portable transmitting unit configured to be removably slid in the elongate housing and including a second connector component mateable with the first connector component, the portable transmitting unit configured to wirelessly transmit respiration, heart rate, and accelerometer data to a base unit. | 24,535 |
9,518,357 | 1. A mark-fabric material, comprising, in the following sequence: a mark-fabric comprising microfibers having a fiber diameter of 10 μm or less; an adhesive layer including a thermoplastic resin having a melt flow rate of 100 g/10 min or less; and a release sheet. | 41,315 |
9,033,133 | 1. An apparatus for use in preparing a cellulosic feedstock for ethanol production, comprising: (a) one or more sidewalls defining a passage extending in a downward direction having an upper portion and a lower portion; (b) at least one inlet adjacent the upper portion, the inlet having a cross sectional area; (c) at least one outlet adjacent the lower portion, the outlet having a cross sectional area wherein the cross sectional area of the outlet is greater than the cross sectional area of the inlet, and wherein one or more sidewalls diverge in the downward direction; (d) at least a first conveyor proximate the at least one outlet configured to convey a first portion of the cellulosic feedstock laterally across the at least one outlet in a first direction to a first conduit that is upstream of a first hydrolysis reactor; and, (e) at least a second conveyor proximate the at least one outlet configured to convey a second portion of the cellulosic feedstock laterally across the at least one outlet in a second direction to a second conduit that is upstream of a second hydrolysis reactor. | 28,528 |
9,689,270 | 1. A process for producing a coating for protecting a component against high temperatures and aggressive media, the component being formed by an alloy having one or more metallic main constituents which make up the largest proportion of the alloy, wherein the process comprises chromizing a surface to be coated and subsequently aluminizing a chromium-rich layer produced during chromizing, the chromizing being carried out with a chemical chromium activity of at least 0.4, and wherein the process affords a coating that has an outer zone and an inner zone, the outer zone comprising α-chromium phases in a matrix of a mixture of mixed crystals comprising essentially chromium, aluminum, and the one or more metallic main constituents of the alloy, and the inner zone comprising a mixed crystal zone comprising essentially chromium, aluminum, and the one or more metallic main constituents of the alloy, the proportion of chromium in a total coating being greater than 30% by weight and a proportion of aluminum in a total coating being at least 5% by weight, and wherein at least one of: (i) a proportion of chromium in the outer zone is from 30% by weight to 95% by weight of chromium; (ii) a proportion of chromium in the α-chromium phases is at least 70% by weight; (iii) a proportion of aluminum in the outer zone is from 10% to 40% by weight of aluminum; (iv) the one or more metallic main constituents in the outer zone are present in a proportion of not higher than 40% by weight; (v) in the inner zone a proportion of chromium is not higher than 30% by weight, a proportion of aluminum is not higher than 30% by weight, and a proportion of the one or more main constituents is at least 30% by weight; (vi) a proportion of chromium in the total coating is from greater than 30% by weight to 90% by weight; (vii) a proportion of aluminum in the total coating is from 10% to 40% by weight; (viii) the outer zone of the coating makes up a proportion of at least 50% of the total coating; (ix) the coating has up to 10% by volume of pores having average diameters of from 2 μm to 20 μm; (x) the coating comprises from 1% to 15% by weight of oxides; (xi) the one or more metallic main constituents of the alloy are one or more of nickel, iron and cobalt; (xii) the chromizing is carried out using a Cr-rich slip containing a liquid phase. | 49,647 |
9,174,625 | 1. A method for operating a hybrid drive having an internal combustion engine and having an electric machine that can be coupled in terms of drive to the internal combustion engine, and having a heatable catalytic converter through which exhaust gas of the internal combustion engine flows, the method comprising: starting the electric machine; measuring a temperature at the catalytic converter; using the electric machine to operate an electric heater upstream of the catalytic converter while operating the electric machine to drive the internal combustion engine without fuel injection and without combustion in a catalytic converter cold phase in which the catalytic converter has not yet reached a desired operating temperature so that the electric machine causes the internal combustion engine to pump a flow of air without fuel through the internal combustion engine without having the internal combustion engine heat the air; directing the flow of air from the internal combustion engine to the electric heater; heating the air at the electric heater and pumping a flow of heated air to the catalytic converter for heating the catalytic converter before the internal combustion engine is started; using the electric machine in a driving phase and simultaneously stopping operation of the electric heater upstream of the catalytic converter and stopping operation of the electric machine to drive the internal combustion engine without combustion in the electric machine driving phase; again using the electric machine for driving the internal combustion engine without fuel injection and without combustion and heating the catalytic converter during each subsequent standstill phase or during any recuperation phase if the catalytic converter is not at the desired operating temperature; and stopping operation of the electric heater and stopping operation of the electric machine to drive the internal combustion engine without combustion during each subsequent electric machine driving phase. | 48,820 |
8,723,016 | 1. A low profile light concentrator array comprising: a pliable sheet capable of being folded or rolled up; a plurality of concentrator units formed in the sheet; and a solar cell arrangement for receiving light from the plurality of concentrator units; and wherein: each concentrator unit comprises: a light conveyance mechanism; a light collection lens for focusing light impinging a first surface of the lens onto a first end of the light conveyance mechanism which reflects the light through the light conveyance mechanism; and a second end of the light conveyance mechanism is proximate to the solar cell arrangement for receiving the light from the light conveyance mechanism; and wherein the lens has a focal length and the pliable sheet is capable of being folded or rolled up without affecting the focal length of the light collection lens. | 14,336 |
9,744,856 | 1. A power conversion apparatus supplying a power to an auxiliary device provided in a vehicle, the power conversion apparatus comprising: a primary side circuit including a primary side port; a secondary side circuit including a plurality of secondary side ports and magnetically coupled with the primary side circuit via a transformer; a control unit configured to control a transmitted power that is transmitted between the primary side circuit and the secondary side circuit by changing a phase difference between a switching of the primary side circuit and a switching of the secondary side circuit; an inverter connected to a first secondary side port of the plurality of secondary side ports and supplying the power to the auxiliary device via the primary side port; and a charger connected to a second secondary side port of the plurality of secondary side ports and supplying the power to the auxiliary device via the primary side port. | 38,967 |
8,551,321 | 1. A process for verifying an electrochemical substance in a gas sample, the process comprising the steps of: in an electrochemical sensor generating a measured electric value changing over time with a characteristic rising from a reference line to a maximum and again dropping to the reference line; determining, from measured electric value, a percentage of the electrochemical substance in the gas sample in an analysis circuit by the following steps: | 25,109 |
8,840,523 | 1. A power transmission device for a hybrid vehicle, including an internal combustion engine, a first electric motor and a second electric motor, comprising: a flywheel, disposed between an engine shaft of the internal combustion engine and a driven by the engine shaft, the flywheel being connected with the engine shaft; a first disconnecting and connecting unit, disposed at an internal combustion engine side of the flywheel, configured to disconnect and connect power transmission between the internal combustion engine and the first electric motor; a second disconnecting and connecting unit, disposed at a driven shaft side of the flywheel, configured to disconnect and connect power transmission between the internal combustion engine and the driven shaft; and a connection changing unit configured to disconnect and connect power transmission between the second electric motor and the driven shaft. | 15,249 |
9,121,545 | 1. A mounting system for attaching an object to a support structure, the mounting system comprising: an elastic membrane attached to the support structure; a mounting plate thermally bonded to the elastic membrane; and an adjustable riser, having: a base member configured to couple the riser to the mounting plate, the base member having: an attachment member configured to couple the object to the riser; and an attachment means configured to adjustably secure the attachment member to the base member, the attachment means providing height adjustment of the attachment member relative to the base member; wherein the adjustable riser provides selective height adjustment of the object relative to the support structure; and wherein the elastic membrane provides the adjustable riser elastic movement relative to the support structure as a force is exerted on the object. | 15,983 |
8,884,896 | 1. A computing device comprising: a plurality of computing device components; a trackpad comprising a plurality of conductive plates; and a processor configured to: | 35,540 |
8,683,520 | 1. A receiving device connected with an information providing device for providing information concerning a program through a communication network, comprising: a channel selecting portion to select a channel of a program to be received; a program listing information receiving portion to receive program listing information indicating a plurality of currently viewable programs from the information providing device; a selection determining portion to select a program based on the program listing information and determine selection of the program; a program designation information transmitting portion to transmit program designation information designating a selected channel or a program selected or determined based on the program listing information to the information providing device; a related information receiving portion to receive related information including a plurality of pieces of information concerning a program edited and associated with the program and corresponding to a program designated by the program designation information from the information providing device; and a display control portion to perform display control to display a video of a selected channel or a determined program and the program listing information, and continuously cyclically sequentially display a plurality of pieces of visual information items included in the received related information until a user enters a command or the related information is updated such that the plurality of pieces of visual information items are continuously displayed one after another with a first visual information item redisplayed after a last visual information is item is displayed, the display control portion simultaneously displaying the selected channel or the determined program and the plurality of pieces of visual information items. | 30,781 |
8,634,524 | 1. A method comprising: establishing, by a modem, a modem connection; receiving, by a processor, an on-hold request over the modem connection; comparing, by the processor, a cumulative time that the modem connection has been on hold to a threshold value; and resolving, by the processor, the on-hold request based upon the comparison; wherein resolving the on-hold request comprises denying the on-hold request when the cumulative time is at least as large as the threshold value. | 24,627 |
9,721,124 | 1. A magnetic stripe reader comprising: a base element defining a first spring seat; a magnetic module support element arranged for limited pivotable motion relative to said base element and defining a second spring seat, the magnetic module support element comprising: a truncated conical spring having a first, relatively large diameter end seated in said first spring seat and a second, relatively small diameter end seated in said second spring seat, said truncated conical spring enabling said limited pivotable motion of said magnetic module support element relative to said base element; and a magnetic module fixedly mounted onto said magnetic module support element. | 32,911 |
9,482,962 | 1. A lithographic projection apparatus, comprising: a substrate table configured to hold a substrate; a projection system configured to project a patterned beam of radiation onto a target portion of the substrate, the projection system comprising an optical element; and a liquid supply system configured to at least partly fill a space between the projection system and the substrate with a liquid, the liquid supply system comprising a liquid confinement structure extending along at least a part of the boundary of the space, the liquid confinement structure comprising an inlet configured to provide liquid to the space, an opening of the inlet being adjacent to an inner periphery of the liquid confinement structure, being below a bottom surface of the optical element, and being arranged to simultaneously direct liquid in a generally horizontal direction to the space from opposite sides of a path of the radiation through the space, the opening being one continuous aperture around the path or comprising a plurality of apertures. | 29,078 |
9,347,197 | 1. A foundation comprising, a concrete support slab having horizontal rebar therein, a concrete pedestal integral with the support slab having vertical rebar therein, a plurality of concrete ribs on top of and integral with the support slab and integral with the pedestal, the ribs having connection elements extending from the ribs into the pedestal and from the ribs into the slab. | 2,820 |
9,783,292 | 1. A drive system for an aircraft having an airframe, the drive system comprising: a first gearbox coupled to the airframe and having an input gear; a second gearbox having an output gear; a common shaft configured to transfer torque from the output gear of the second gearbox to the input gear of the first gearbox, the common shaft rotatable about a longitudinal axis; and a support assembly coupling the second gearbox to the airframe, the support assembly including a fixed joint proximate the longitudinal axis, a first directional reacting joint remote from the longitudinal axis providing a first radial growth degree of freedom to the second gearbox relative to the longitudinal axis and a second directional reacting joint remote from the longitudinal axis providing a second radial growth degree of freedom to the second gearbox relative to the longitudinal axis; wherein, the first radial growth degree of freedom is not parallel with the second radial growth degree of freedom; and wherein, the support assembly maintains the output gear of the second gearbox in substantial collinear alignment with the input gear of the first gearbox. | 48,729 |
9,341,246 | 1. A continuously variable transmission for integrating within a frame of a bicycle, comprising: a planetary gear set comprising a variator, comprising | 13,411 |
8,567,471 | 1. A tire working apparatus comprising: a tire iron for selectively working a bead of a tire adjacent to a rim flange of a wheel; a rotating member selectively receiving said tire iron, said rotating member further comprises a main cylindrical wall, said main cylindrical wall having an lateral aperture positioned substantially perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of said rotating member, said tire iron being positionable through said lateral aperture; wherein said lateral aperture further comprises: said first cross-sectional shape being substantially circular, and said second cross-sectional shape being substantially elliptical; said tire iron further comprises a tire working end and a handle portion, said handle portion having a substantially circular cross-section; said tire working end has a flattened portion for engaging the bead and the rim flange of the wheel, said flattened portion having a somewhat elliptical cross-section; said rotating member further comprises a tool coupling portion positioned at a first end of said rotating member; and said tool coupling portion further comprises a socket for receiving a square drive of a ratchet wrench. | 23,459 |
9,021,127 | 1. A computer-implemented method comprising: obtaining a first DNS query from a client computing device at a first DNS server, wherein the first DNS query corresponds to a first requested resource and wherein the first DNS server corresponds to a content delivery network service; obtaining a query IP address associated with the first DNS query at the first DNS server, wherein the query IP address is associated with the client computing device; obtaining, at the first DNS server from a routing data store, a location-based identifier at least based on a portion of the obtained query IP address, wherein the routing data store includes IP address to location-based identifier mappings, and wherein individual IP address to location-based identifier mappings have a corresponding confidence factor; and resolving the first DNS query based on the location-based identifier. | 39,635 |
9,736,490 | 1. An image compression apparatus, comprising: a processor configured to: generate a reduced image with a reduced resolution by sampling an input image, divide the reduced image into blocks, calculate pixel value errors for each of the blocks, a first pixel value error of a first bock being calculated between the first block and the rest of the blocks, and the pixel value errors comprising the first pixel value error, select, as a representative block, a block of the blocks having a smallest pixel value error among the pixel value errors, determine filter information comprising an interpolation coefficient with respect to the representative block based on the input image and the reduced image, and generate a bitstream by coding the reduced image and the determined filter information. | 22,575 |
8,651,268 | 1. A method, relating to manufacturing and apparatus for hydrogen storage, comprising the steps of: a) precipitating at least one hydrogen storer material adapted to store hydrogen; b) cutting said at least one hydrogen storer material into at least one geometric shape; c) perforating said at least one hydrogen storer material; d) etching at least one surface of said at least one hydrogen storer material with at least one chemical; e) washing said at least one surface to remove said at least one chemical; f) embedding, in said at least one surface, at least one catalyst structured and arranged to assist hydrogenation of said at least one surface; and g) coating said at least one surface with at least one surface reaction preventer; | 27,067 |
9,477,065 | 1. A heliostat array comprising: a modular grid comprising a plurality of grid members; a plurality of stanchions, each stanchion directly connected to six of the plurality of the grid members; a plurality of heliostats, each heliostat mounted on: | 14,569 |
9,416,708 | 1. A method to determine an HC-conversion efficiency of a catalyst, wherein said catalyst is situated in an exhaust gas flow path of an internal combustion engine and is configured to convert hydrocarbons (HC) in exhaust gas, said efficiency being determined via a first oxygen-sensitive sensor having a cross sensitivity to hydrocarbons and being installed downstream from the catalyst in the exhaust gas flow path, and a second such oxygen-sensitive sensor installed upstream from the catalyst, said method comprising the steps of: using the downstream sensor, detecting a first signal (λ using the downstream sensor, detecting a second signal (λ using the upstream sensor, detecting a first signal (λ forming a first differential signal (Δλ(t forming a second differential signal (Δλ(t determining the HC-conversion efficiency of the catalyst as a function of the first and second differential signals (Δλ(t providing an indication if the HC-conversion efficiency is below a predetermined value. | 25,220 |
8,441,812 | 1. A series resonant converter, comprising: an inverter circuit including at least a first switching device and a second switching device, each of the first and second switching devices being directly connected between two input terminals connecting DC power supply, the inverter circuit including a first feedback diode arranged in parallel with the first switching device and having a reversed polarity opposite to that of the first switching device and a second feedback diode arranged in parallel with the second switching device and having a reversed polarity opposite to that of the second switching device; a transformer, having a primary winding and a secondary winding, connected to the inverter circuit; a first resonant capacitor and a second resonant capacitor connected in series to each other between two output terminals, a connection point of the first resonant capacitor and the second resonant capacitor being connected to one end of the secondary winding of the transformer; a first unidirectional device and a second unidirectional device connected in series to each other between the two output terminals, a connection point of the first unidirectional device and the second unidirectional device being connected to a second end of the secondary winding of the transformer; and a resonant induction device that is placed between the inverter circuit and the first and second resonant capacitors, wherein the first switching device and the second switching device are configured to be turned on and off alternately with a conversion frequency, and the inverter circuit being configured to convert DC power inputted from the two input terminals and supply a DC output voltage to the two output terminals via the transformer, a length of the on durations of the first switching device and the second switching device are fixed to about one half cycle of a series resonance frequency with which inductance of the resonant induction device and an additive capacitance which adds capacitance of the first resonant capacitor and the second resonant capacitor are resonated in series, the conversion frequency used for the inverter circuit being below the series resonance frequency, and the DC output voltage being set equal to double the voltage of the DC power supply, and a resonance impedance (L/C) | 25,718 |
8,936,677 | 1. A method for beneficiation of fly ash particles, the method comprising: determining the heat value of the fly ash particles; comparing the heat value of the fly ash particles with a minimum heat value K; feeding an inlet of a combustor with a feed material comprising the fly ash particles and, in case the heat value is lower than the minimum heat value K, fuel in sufficient quantity to assure that the heat value of the feed material is greater than or equal to the minimum heat value K; supplying an upstream airflow to the combustor so as to carry the feed material in suspension from the inlet to an outlet of the combustor; operating the combustor at a temperature of at least 700° C.; and collecting beneficiated fly ash particles from the airflow at the outlet of the combustor. | 43,731 |
9,655,347 | 1. A system for growing aquatic resources to be maintained in an approximate geostationary position including relative to the water surface comprising: a plurality of autonomous submersible structures each such structure further comprising: (a) a cage for growing aquatic resources within a cage volume contained therein; (b) a topside buoy tethered to said cage enclosure by at least one main tether; (c) a remote controlled dynamic positioning system capable of maintaining the structure in an approximate geostationary position on or at a given depth below the water surface; (d) a buoyancy control system coupled to the remote controlled dynamic positioning system; and (e) a cage propulsion system coupled to the remote controlled dynamic positioning system configured to propel the aquatic structure within the ocean environment; wherein said remote controlled dynamic positioning system of each structure of the system communicates with the buoyancy control system and the cage propulsion system of said same structure to position said structure within the ocean environment and to maintain said structure in an approximate geostationary position on or at a given depth below the water surface; and wherein each said structure of the system has a further communication system for communicating its position relative to the positions of at least one other aquatic structure of said system in order to maintain each such submersible structure in a group pattern relative to the other submersible structures in approximate correspondence with a target geostationary position on or at a given depth below the water surface. | 35,359 |
9,533,360 | 1. A method to roughen an inner surface ( 8 ) of a cylindrical bore ( 9 ), comprising: introducing into the cylindrical bore or leading through this, without removal of material, a rotating tool ( positioning the tool ( removing material by lifting off shavings ( wherein a finishing processing of the inner surface ( wherein a flushing medium for flushing and/or cooling is supplied with a directional component, against the feed direction (V), in the region of the radial cutting head ( | 24,347 |
9,389,280 | 1. A measurement device for measuring voltages of cells in a fuel cell that includes N electrochemical cells separated by bipolar plates, with N being a natural number, the device comprising: a plurality of voltage measurement modules, each module being capable of measuring M voltages on a group of adjoining cells of the fuel cell, with M being a natural number, and with M≦N/2, wherein a group of cells measured by a first module is adjacent to a group of cells measured by a second module; and a wired communication bus connecting in series the modules to an electronic computer, wherein each module includes: wherein each module is shaped to cooperate with an adjacent module in such a way that a last bipolar plate connected to the first module also is connected to the second module. | 34,438 |
9,680,370 | 1. A power converting system comprising: first and second power converters electrically connected to each other; a current controller configured to i) determine first and second efficiencies of the power converting system, ii) modify an amount of a first current configured to flow into the first power converter and an amount of a second current configured to flow into the second power converter in one of a first mode and a second mode, iii) compare the first efficiency to the second efficiency, and iv) determine the first mode or the second mode as a current adjustment mode based at least in part on the comparison result; and a current distributor configured to distribute the amounts of the first and second currents based at least in part on the determined current adjustment mode. | 16,895 |
8,375,156 | 1. A method of routing data units in a read-data transfer transaction, the read-data transfer transaction involving a host device, the method comprising the steps of: preparing a read request data packet for requesting read-data from the host device, the read request data packet including a tag field defining at least one tag value, the at least one tag value corresponding to at least one transaction parameter; transmitting the read request data packet for receipt at the host device; receiving at least one completion data packet from the host device, the at least one completion data packet including the read-data and the tag field defining the at least one tag value; recovering the at least one transaction parameter from at least one first multi-bit storage location using the at least one tag value defined by the tag field included in the at least one completion data packet; identifying, using the at least one transaction parameter, at least one second multi-bit storage location where the read-data are to be transmitted; and transmitting the read-data to the at least one second multi-bit storage location. | 42,674 |
9,362,113 | 1. A method of fabricating a semiconductor device, the method comprising: assembling an array of discrete seed structures on a surface of a target substrate such that respective crystal lattices of the discrete seed structures of the array have substantially identical orientations by transferring the discrete seed structures from a source substrate to the surface of the target substrate; and selectively growing respective semiconductor layers on the discrete seed structures that collectively define a continuous layer having a surface area of at least 100 square centimeters (cm wherein the discrete seed structures of the array comprise ones of a plurality of discrete seed structures formed on the source substrate from a seed layer grown thereon. | 40,317 |
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