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8,926,772 | 1. A process for manufacturing a hot-rolled sheet made of iron/carbon/manganese steel, in which: providing a semifinished product cast from a steel whose chemical composition comprises, the contents being expressed by weight: and, optionally, one or more elements such that: the composition further comprising iron and inevitable impurities resulting from the smelting; heating the semifinished product to a temperature between 1100 and 1300° C.; hot rolling the semifinished product so an end-of-rolling temperature is 890° C. or higher and precipitation of AIN is prevented; observing a time delay between said end of rolling and a subsequent rapid cooling operation, in such a way that the point defined by said time delay and said end-of-rolling temperature lies within an area defined by the ABCD′E′F′A plot of coiling said sheet at a temperature below 580° C. to obtain a coiled hot-rolled sheet; cold deforming said coiled hot-rolled sheet with an equivalent deformation ratio of 30% or less, without further annealing. | 4,355 |
9,199,638 | 1. A control apparatus for a vehicular drive system provided with: a fluid-operated power transmitting device having an input rotary member configured to receive a drive force from an engine, an output rotary member from which the drive force is transmitted to drive wheels, and a lock-up clutch configured to mechanically connect the input rotary member and the output rotary member to each other; a first electric motor connected directly or indirectly to said input rotary member; and a second electric motor connected directly or indirectly to a power transmitting path between the output rotary member and said drive wheels, and further connected to the engine through the lock-up clutch configured to be placed in a selected one of at least an engaged state and a released state, the control apparatus comprising: a hybrid control portion configured to control said first electric motor and said second electric motor to generate an engine starting torque for starting said engine while a power transmitting path between said second electric motor and said drive wheels is placed in a power cutoff state or a restricted power transmitting state and while said lock-up clutch is given a torque capacity. | 41,491 |
8,695,281 | 1. A roof reflector for installation upon a roof, the roof having mutually opposed lateral eaves, the roof reflector comprising: a blanket of thermal insulation material, the blanket having a solar reflective upper surface, mutually opposed first and second lateral edges, and a roller attachment edge; a selectively operable roller, the roller attachment edge of the blanket being attached to the roller; mutually opposed upper L-shaped angles attached to a top surface of each of the lateral eaves; mutually opposed lower L-shaped angles attached to a bottom surface of each of the lateral eaves; a pair of C-shaped wheeled guides, each of the guides traveling along a corresponding one of the lateral eaves, each of the guides having a first wheel bearing against the corresponding upper angle, a second wheel bearing against the corresponding lower angle, a third wheel bearing against an edge of the corresponding lateral eave in a direction opposite the first and second wheels, a roof reflector attachment bracket extending from the guide, and an actuator cable clamp disposed upon the guide; an actuation system having a cable extending through the actuator cable clamp of the corresponding wheeled guides for selectively extending and retracting the blanket along the guide tracks; and a remotely disposed operator control communicating with the actuation system. | 37,753 |
9,295,632 | 1. An acidic hair pretreatment composition, comprising: a) from about 2.5% to about 10% by weight, based on a dry weight basis, of at least one film-forming latex polymer; b) at least one neutralizing agent; c) from about 1% to about 20% by weight, of at least one organic solvent; and d) water; wherein the pH of the composition is from about 2 to about 6; all weights being relative to the total weight of the composition; with the proviso that the composition does not include a dye. | 28,149 |
9,204,025 | 1. A camera module, comprising: a first substrate having an upper surface and an opposing lower surface; a plurality of contacts disposed on the lower surface of the first substrate; a molded enclosure enclosing a gyroscopic sensor and an image stabilization logic module, said molded enclosure having an upper side and a lower side, said lower side being coupled to the upper surface of the first substrate; a second substrate having an upper surface and an opposing lower surface, said lower surface of the second substrate being coupled to the molded enclosure; an image sensor die coupled to the upper surface of the second substrate; and a lens module comprising a lens housing and at least one lens contained in the lens housing, said lens module being coupled to the upper surface of the second substrate. | 25,834 |
9,029,345 | 1. A method of inhibiting P-glycoprotein activity in a cell expressing P-glycoprotein comprising: administering a pharmaceutical composition comprising a nucleoside analog having the formula (I): where R where R | 16,153 |
9,321,912 | 1. A flame-retardant polymer composition, comprising: A. greater than 20 to 40 wt % propylene polymer; B. 20-40 wt % thermoplastic elastomer (TPE); and C. at least 10 wt % intumescent flame retardant (FR) system comprising: | 26,245 |
8,857,416 | 1. A connection box for a cooler arrangement ( 1 , 1 A, 1 B) of an internal combustion engine ( 1000 ) with two-stage charging in combination with a charge air cooling arrangement for guiding charge air (LL), the connection box being in the form of a double connection box ( | 48,297 |
8,469,602 | 1. An optical fiber connecting part for a tape-like optical fiber, the optical fiber connecting part comprising: a ferrule; and a guide bore, which is formed to penetrate through the ferrule from an end face on a side of one end to another end face on a side of another end of the ferrule, and configured to guide the tape-like optical fiber to be inserted from the side of the one end of the ferrule toward the end face on the side of the another end of the ferrule, the guide bore comprising: wherein the shape of the shape-changing bore is changed such that a center position of the light input/output bore is shifted from a center position of the optical fiber insertion hole along a thickness direction and a width direction of the tape-like optical fiber. | 1,669 |
8,555,433 | 1. A device for assisting loading onto a loading ramp of an ambulance a stretcher provided with a chassis and front pivoting legs pivotally attached to the chassis, said front pivoting legs having idle wheels fit for moving the stretcher, said device comprises: at least one driving wheel fixed in a front lower portion of the chassis, in front of the front pivoting legs remote from said idle wheels, in order to engage the loading ramp of the ambulance during loading and unloading of the stretcher; said at least one driving wheel is operably connected to a driving member which is electrically powered and controlled to activate the at least one driving wheel at least during the loading of the stretcher into the ambulance, a transmission axle to which is fixed a pulley which is connected to the driving member and further connected to the transmission axle are two lateral wheels, at least one of which is the driving wheel, wherein the at least one driving wheel engages a further provided idle wheel via a caterpillar track, and wherein the two lateral wheels are each configured to free wheel at a higher speed than that provided by the driving member; and at least one sensor coupled to the chassis for detecting an operating position of the stretcher during an unloading phase out of the ambulance. | 42,250 |
8,621,246 | 1. A power management system comprising: a power delivery circuit to output power to a load; and a power manager to control the power delivery circuit, wherein the power manager is to determine a fixed load current that corresponds to a first performance state of the load and a supply voltage that corresponds to the fixed load current, the fixed load current different from an actual current drawn by the load, the power manager is to determine the fixed load current and the supply voltage based on first load current information for the first performance state of the load, the first load current information to identify a plurality of sub-bands within a current range of the load, wherein a different fixed current value is assigned to each sub-band and wherein the fixed load current determined by the power manager corresponds to the fixed current value assigned to a sub-band in which the actual load current is located, and wherein the power manager is to control the power delivery circuit to output the supply voltage to the load. | 48,795 |
9,378,804 | 1. A semiconductor device, comprising: a data receiving circuit coupled to a data input terminal receiving the data signal from a memory, and a data strobe receiving circuit coupled to a first and a second input terminal receiving the data strobe signal and the inverted data strobe signal from the memory, respectively, the data strobe receiving circuit including: wherein the control circuit sets the mask signal that instruct a unmasking state of the output signal of the first comparator after the start of the preamble, and wherein the data receiving circuit outputs the data signal as a read data from the memory based on an output signal of the gate circuit while the mask signal indicates the unmasking state. | 46,063 |
8,500,856 | 1. A method of capturing a carbon dioxide in a gas, the method comprising: adsorbing the carbon dioxide in the gas on a hybrid adsorbent in which a mixing amount of iron oxide nanoparticles is 0.1 to 30 mass %, the hybrid adsorbent containing an adsorbent that adsorbs carbon dioxide and the iron oxide nanoparticles that have an average particle diameter of 10 to 100 nm; irradiating microwaves to the hybrid adsorbent and desorbing the carbon dioxide adsorbed on the hybrid adsorbent, from the hybrid adsorbent; capturing the carbon dioxide desorbed from the hybrid adsorbent; and cooling the hybrid adsorbent. | 29,946 |
9,350,013 | 1. A method for producing an electrode assembly, comprising: obtaining a porous active material molded body by molding a constituent material containing a lithium multiple oxide in the form of particles by compression, and then performing a heat treatment at a temperature of 850° C. or higher and lower than the melting point of the lithium multiple oxide; forming a solid electrolyte layer by applying a liquid containing a constituent material of an inorganic solid electrolyte to the surface of the active material molded body including an inside of each pore of the active material molded body, and then performing a heat treatment; and bonding a current collector to the active material molded body exposed from the solid electrolyte layer, wherein | 43,191 |
8,853,876 | 1. A method for operating a power generation system that supplies power for application to a load, the method comprising: receiving, at a power converter, an alternating current power generated by a generator operating at a rotor speed that is substantially equal to its synchronous speed; converting, with the power converter, the alternating current power to an output power, the power convertor including at least one switching element; receiving a control command to control a switching frequency of the at least one switching element; and adjusting the switching frequency to a frequency that is substantially equal to a fundamental frequency of the load. | 41,567 |
9,311,579 | 1. A printing apparatus comprising: a medium accommodating section configured to be movable and accommodate a medium, the medium accommodating section having a section to be identified configured to identify a position of the medium accommodating section, the medium accommodating section being configured to move between a setting position where the medium accommodating section is set in a body of the printing apparatus and a supplying position where the medium which is accommodated in the medium accommodating section is supplied; a sensor configured to identify the section to be identified; a driving section configured to drive the medium accommodating section to move between the setting position and the supplying position; a regulating section configured to regulate further movement when the medium accommodating section reaches the supplying position; and a control section configured to detect that the medium accommodating section is at the setting position by the sensor identifying the section to be identified and detect that the medium accommodating section has reached the supplying position when the medium accommodating section hits the regulating section and a drive load on the driving section exceeds a threshold, when the driving section is not driving the medium accommodating section, the control section being further configured to detect taking out of the medium accommodating section when the sensor switches from an identifying state where the section to be identified is identified to a non-identifying state where the section to be identified is not identified, and detect mounting of the medium accommodating section when the sensor switches from the non-identifying state to the identifying state. | 35,032 |
9,641,335 | 1. A device including: a memory to store a user credential database (DB) for storing untransformed credentials, a first transformed credential DB for authenticating users for accessing a first service provided by the device, and a second transformed credential DB for authenticating users for accessing a second service provided by the device; a communication interface to receive an untransformed credential; a processor to: wherein the communication interface is configured to: | 12,171 |
9,376,733 | 1. A method of remediating an aluminum smelter waste for producing a nonhazardous, nontoxic slag and a metal alloy byproduct, the method comprising: obtaining the aluminum smelter waste through an aluminum smelter process, wherein the aluminum smelter waste comprises a carbon, an inorganic material, and an aluminum powder; reacting the aluminum smelter waste with an oxidizing agent, the oxidizing agent comprising a nickelferous iron ore; and producing a nontoxic slag and a metal alloy byproduct, the slag comprising a nonhazardous, nontoxic alumina slag, the metal alloy byproduct comprising a nickel-iron alloy. | 42,376 |
8,975,783 | 1. A control system for controlling a power converter configured to couple to a solar panel and provide an output voltage to a voltage bus, the control system comprising: input ports configured to receive a plurality of parameters comprising: an inner control loop configured to regulate one or more of the following, according to at least a reference value and at least one of the plurality of parameters: an outer control loop configured to perform Maximum-Power-Point-Tracking (MPPT) control of the power converter based on at least two of the plurality of parameters, and further configured to generate the reference value based on the plurality of parameters. | 24,628 |
9,284,871 | 1. A dosing module ( 10 ) for injecting a reduction agent into an exhaust pipe of an internal combustion engine, to reduce nitrogen oxides in an exhaust stream of the internal combustion engine, wherein the dosing module has a main cooling element ( 12 ), through which a cooling fluid flows for cooling an injection valve ( 64 ) for the reduction agent, characterized in that an additional cooling element ( 14 ), through which the cooling fluid passes for cooling in the region of an electrical plug connection ( 22 ) and of an electromagnet ( 80 ) for actuating the injection valve ( 64 ), is mounted on the main cooling element ( 12 ), wherein a guide insert ( 30 ) for the cooling fluid is arranged in the main cooling element ( 12 ). | 7,518 |
8,664,456 | 1. An integrated process for the production of trans-1-chloro-3,3,3-trifluoropropene (1233zd (E)), trans-1,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene (1234ze (E)), and 1,1,1,3,3-pentafluoro-propane (245fa) from a starting material comprising 1,1,3,3-tetrachloropropene, 1,3,3,3-tetrachloropropene, or a mixture thereof, comprising the steps of: (1) reacting the starting material with HF in a liquid-phase catalyzed reactor so as to co-produce at least about 40% 1233zd (E) and 244fa, plus by-product HCl; and (2) further reacting the 244fa product stream in the following reactions: (a) the 244fa stream is dehydrochlorinated to produce 1234ze (E); and (b) the 244fa stream is dehydrofluorinated to produce 1233zd (E); and (c) the 244fa stream is further fluorinated to produce 245fa. | 45,967 |
8,879,651 | 1. A digital transmission device to transmit a transport stream, comprising: a pre-processor which pre-processes additional data so that the additional data is processed robustly, and Reed-Solomon (RS) encodes information about characteristics of the additional data; a stuffer which multiplexes normal data and the pre-processed additional data including the RS-encoded information about characteristics of the additional data, to constitute the transport stream. | 36,036 |
8,810,146 | 1. A lighting device comprising: a power factor correction (PFC) circuit comprising an inductor, a power converter switch, and a PFC controller effective to provide driving signals for causing the power converter switch to turn on and off; a power converter activity detection circuit comprising wherein an output voltage for the power converter activity detection circuit referenced from a node between the first capacitor and the second capacitor is responsive to activity by the power converter switch. | 42,970 |
8,357,995 | 1. A semiconductor element, comprising: a semiconductor substrate; at least one shallow junction formed in the substrate, doping atoms being disposed in the shallow junction, wherein the at least one shallow junction is formed within an amorphous region of the semiconductor substrate positioned on top of a crystalline region of the semiconductor substrate; and a plurality of carbide precipitates and micro-cavities disposed in the semiconductor substrate below the at least one shallow junction so as to form at least two bands of a plurality of one of carbide precipitates and micro-cavities below first and second source/drain regions and laterally continuously extending, in different vertical depths and in parallel to each other, so that | 9,611 |
9,120,099 | 1. A shredder for producing particles from a sheet material, wherein the shredder comprises: a transverse cutting device positioned after a longitudinal cutting device, wherein the longitudinal cutting device comprises: a. a first cutting roller comprising a first saw-tooth profile with first longitudinal faces, wherein the first longitudinal faces are inclined to a direction of a longitudinal axis of the first cutting roller, wherein first abutting faces are located on the first cutting roller, and wherein the first abutting faces extend at least section-wise perpendicularly to the longitudinal axis of the first cutting roller; b. a second cutting roller comprising a second saw-tooth profile with second longitudinal faces, wherein the second longitudinal faces are inclined to a direction of a longitudinal axis of the second cutting roller, wherein second abutting faces are located on the second cutting roller, and wherein the second abutting faces extend at least section-wise perpendicularly to the longitudinal axis of the second cutting roller or at least section-wise inclined up to four degrees to a perpendicular of the longitudinal axis of the second cutting roll; and c. wherein the first saw-tooth profile and the second saw-tooth profile engage to a penetration depth such that in the direction of the longitudinal axes of the cutting rollers at least one of the first longitudinal faces and at least one of the first abutting faces abuts section-wise on at least one of the second abutting faces, wherein cutting edges extend parallel in the longitudinal direction of a sheet material, wherein at least three of four sides of cut strips of the sheet material are in contact between respective longitudinal faces of the saw-tooth profiles of the first cutting roller and second cutting roller and the second abutting faces of the saw-tooth profile of the second cutting roller and are guided at an angle to respective longitudinal axes of the first cutting roller and the second cutting roller according to inclinations of the respective longitudinal faces and are guided parallel in the longitudinal direction of the sheet material according to resultant cutting edges, and wherein the respective cut strips are supplied parallel in the longitudinal direction of the sheet material continuously to the transverse cutting device. | 8,601 |
9,501,857 | 1. A display control method comprising: inputting user's image including a drawing portion made by hand drawing and being a display target image; determining a deformation mode based on which the user's image is to be deformed continuously with lapse of time, according to a shape of the user's image; and performing image control including, | 25,514 |
8,533,881 | 1. A method of treating laundry in a laundry treating appliance having an air supply system and a heating system both operably coupled to and controlled by a controller to supply heated air to a treating chamber, the method comprising: pre-treating by adding moisture to the laundry in the treating chamber until a sensed moisture content of the laundry satisfies a first predetermined moisture content threshold; after the satisfying of the first predetermined moisture content threshold, applying a lipase solution to the laundry in the treating chamber until the sensed moisture content of the laundry is greater than a second predetermined moisture content threshold, which is greater than the first predetermined moisture content threshold; and after the application of the lipase solution, supplying the heated air to the treating chamber to reduce the sensed moisture content of the laundry. | 28,688 |
8,678,845 | 1. A charging connector, comprising: a housing having opposite front and rear ends and formed by fixing a cover and a base together, the cover and the base each having opposite inner and outer surfaces and opposite first and second edges extending between the inner and outer surfaces, the first and second edges of the cover and the base being disposed so that the first edges of the cover and base abut and so that the second edges of the cover and base abut; a connector connecting portion mounted at the front end of the housing and tightly held by the cover and the base; bolt fastening holes registered with one another at positions in proximity to the first edges of the cover and the base and at locations distant from the connector connecting portion; and at least one positioning projection provided at a position of the base substantially adjacent to and inward of the second edge and at a position substantially opposite the bolt fastening holes and distant from the connector connecting portion, the positioning projection contacting the inner surface of the cover substantially adjacent to and inward of the second edge of the cover when the cover and the base are assembled in proper postures for preventing the cover and the base from rotating upon receiving a force in a rotational direction produced as bolting is performed at the bolt fastening holes. | 34,242 |
8,405,005 | 1. A system for adjusting a temperature profile across the surface of a substrate, comprising: a pedestal support comprising a pedestal thermal control system adapted to provide a pedestal thermal zone, the pedestal thermal zone defining a substantially uniform temperature profile across the surface of the pedestal support, the pedestal thermal zone having thermal characteristics based on the output of the pedestal thermal control system; an electrostatic chuck supported by the pedestal support, the electrostatic chuck comprising a clamping electrode and a plurality of heating electrodes, the heating electrodes comprising an inner heating electrode and a peripheral heating electrode separated by a gap distance, the size of the gap distance being the distance of separation between energized heating electrodes, the inner heating electrode defining an inner heating zone having thermal characteristics based on the output of the inner heating electrode, the peripheral heating electrode defining a peripheral heating zone having thermal characteristics based on the output of the peripheral heating electrode; and a control system adapted to adjust the temperature profile across the surface of the substrate by varying at least one of the output of the pedestal thermal control system, inner heating electrode, or peripheral heating electrode. | 31,601 |
9,702,588 | 1. An air conditioning apparatus, comprising: a casing having an intake port and a blow-out port; a partition member dividing an interior of the casing into a heat exchanger compartment located on an intake port side and a fan compartment located on a blow-out port side, the partition member having a fan entrance, the fan entrance being bored in opposition to the blow-out port and making the heat exchanger compartment and the fan compartment communicate with each other; a heat exchanger mounted in the heat exchanger compartment; a centrifugal fan including a bladed wheel having a plurality of rearward blades and being configured to suck air existing in the heat exchanger compartment into the fan compartment through the fan entrance, with the bladed wheel being mounted in the fan compartment such that a rotary shaft of the bladed wheel is oriented along a first axial direction perpendicular to a second lateral direction along which the partition member extends; a heat sink configured and arranged to cool an electric component, the heat sink being mounted in a blow-out port non-opposed space, the blow-out port non-opposed space being a region not opposed to the blow-out port within a fan downwind space, the fan downwind space being located on a downwind side of the bladed wheel within the fan compartment; and a blow-out port non-opposed surface part forming the blow-out port non-opposed space and being opposed to the fan entrance in a position on the downwind side of the bladed wheel, the rotary shaft of the bladed wheel being disposed in a position adjacent to a bladed wheel nearby lateral part, the bladed wheel nearby lateral part being one of multiple lateral parts of the casing that are disposed along the first axial direction, the blow-out port being at least partially disposed in a position adjacent to a blow-out port nearby lateral part, the blow-out port nearby lateral part being another one of the multiple lateral parts of the casing and being opposed to the bladed wheel nearby lateral part, the blow-out port non-opposed surface part forming a slope slanting so as to be extending gradually away from the bladed wheel from a region adjacent to the fan entrance to a region adjacent to the blow-out port, and the heat sink being disposed on the slope. | 25,295 |
9,835,136 | 1. A wind park control system for a wind park, the wind park comprising a plurality of wind turbines and an energy storage system connected to one another by means of a low voltage power network, wherein the low voltage power network is coupled to an electrical grid, and wherein each wind turbine of the plurality of wind turbines respectively comprises a drive train and a gear box connected between a rotor of the wind turbine and a generator of the wind turbine, and wherein each wind turbine of the plurality of wind turbines is assigned to a group selected from a plurality of groups, the wind park control system comprising: one or more environmental sensors located in at least a first wind turbine of the plurality of wind turbines, the one or more environmental sensors arranged to determine one or more operating parameters associated with the respective drive train or gear box of the first wind turbine; one or more power sensors arranged to determine a power mismatch indication between the generator of the first wind turbine and the low voltage power network; and a controller adapted to; | 32,066 |
8,377,339 | 1. An electrode comprising a powder for electric discharge surface treatment of the type wherein the electrode material forms a coat on a work, the electrode comprising a heat-treated green compact composed of compression-molded metallic powders or metallic compound powders, wherein the electrode contains a percentage of a metal that is not carbonized or is difficult to carbonize sufficient to meet a condition that the metal that is not carbonized or is difficult to carbonize in the coat after electric discharge surface treatment is higher than 30% in volume. | 46,144 |
8,464,850 | 1. An adjustable-volume gas-pressurized device for a two-wheeled vehicle, comprising: a main gas chamber and at least a first auxiliary gas chamber and a second auxiliary gas chamber; a first flow port allowing fluid communication between the main gas chamber and the first auxiliary gas chamber; a second flow port allowing fluid communication between the main gas chamber and the second auxiliary gas chamber; first and second valves for selectively controlling gas flow through the first and second flow ports and having open and closed positions, wherein the first valve comprises a first valve body and the second valve comprises a second valve body; and a rotor coupled to a cam, wherein rotation of the rotor rotates the cam into engagement with the first and second valve bodies to open or close different combinations of the first and second valves, including a combination permitting simultaneous fluid communication between the main and the first and second auxiliary gas chambers. | 33,228 |
9,241,370 | 1. A network device, comprising: a plurality of wireless network circuits, the network circuits operating on a same network technology and in a same radio frequency band, wherein each network circuit is assigned a priority; and a coexistence controller coupled to the network circuits and configured to: determine a plurality of operating criteria for based on the priority assigned to each network circuit; control operations among the network circuits by selectively adjusting one or more transmission operating parameters of a respective network circuit based on a plurality of operating criteria. | 35,643 |
8,654,024 | 1. An antenna, comprising: a feed portion; a ground portion; a first antenna portion perpendicularly connecting to the feed portion and the ground portion; a second antenna portion connecting to the first antenna portion; and a third antenna portion connecting to the feed portion; wherein the first antenna portion and the second antenna portion are both located on a plane perpendicular to the feed portion; wherein the feed portion, the ground portion, and the third antenna portion are coplanar; and the first antenna portion is a loop antenna and defines a first groove and a second groove; the first groove includes a first gap and a second gap, the first gap is between the feed portion and the ground portion and extends along a direction parallel to the feed portion and the ground portion, the second gap communicates with and is perpendicular to the first gap, the second groove communicates with and is perpendicular to the second gap; the third antenna portion comprises a main body, a capacitor, and an inductor; wherein the main body connects to the feed portion through the inductor, and connects to ground through the capacitor; the main body is a planar inverted-F antenna (PIFA); the third antenna portion further comprises: one end of the third radiating section perpendicularly connects to the first radiating section, and the other end of the third radiating section connects to ground through the capacitor. | 16,831 |
9,549,729 | 1. A system for implanting an implantable penile prosthetic, the system comprising: a tool including a tube extending between a handle portion and a distal end, a first suture attached to a proximal portion of a needle, with the needle inserted in the bore with a pointed distal end of the needle closer to the first opening than to the second opening of the tube, and with a segment of the first suture inserted in the bore and alongside the needle, the first suture in contact with the suture slide, and a proximal portion of the first suture extending out of the bore at the suture slide; wherein the suture slide is located distal of the proximal portion of the needle that is retained in the bore; wherein the system is configured such that tension applied to the first suture ejects the pointed distal end of the needle out of the distal end of the tube; wherein the suture slide is located between the proximal portion of the needle and the distal end of the bore, with the suture slide provided as an opening formed in a tube wall of the tube. | 28,088 |
9,527,628 | 1. An envelope that evolves into a reply envelope comprising a quadrilateral sheet with opposite sides of equal length, a portion fold line which divides the sheet into a rectangular first portion and a rectangular second portion, a margin zone bordering three sides of each portion, the fold line comprising a fourth side of each portion, the first portion including flaps having flap fold lines spaced inwardly of the first portion margin zones, the first portion having a first face with reply address indicia positioned thereon, the portions being folded together along the portion fold line with a separate sheet comprising a document being tucked between each flap and the first face of the first portion, the document overlying the reply address indicia, the document being covered by a first face of the second portion, the margin zones of one of the portions being coated with an adhesive covered by a release strip, the release strip being removed to adhere the margin zones of the first portion to the margin zones of the second portion for mailing to a recipient, recipient address indicia being positioned on a second face of the second portion, the adhered margin zones being removable to unfold the portions about the portion fold line and remove the document, the portions being foldable in the opposite direction about the portion fold line to expose the reply address indicia on the first face of the first portion and configure a reply envelope for enclosing a reply document, the flaps including an adhesive coating covered by a release strip, the flaps being foldable in the opposite direction about the flap fold lines, the reply envelope being sealed by removing the flap release strip and adhering the flaps over the first face of the second portion with the recipient address indicia on the second face of the second portion being exposed. | 14,531 |
8,914,312 | 1. A method of selectively predicting petroleum hydrocarbon concentration in an environmental sample of unknown hydrocarbon concentration (the unknown sample) without extraction of the petroleum hydrocarbon from the environmental sample, said method comprising the steps of: (i) separately subjecting two or more samples of known hydrocarbon concentration to infrared (IR) radiation using diffuse reflectance spectroscopy, at least two of the samples having different hydrocarbon concentrations; (ii) separately detecting an IR signal from the samples of known hydrocarbon concentration; (iii) analysing the IR signals using a multivariate chemometric technique to produce a training data set; (iv) generating a predictive model for hydrocarbon concentration based on the training data set; (v) subjecting the unknown sample to infrared (IR) radiation using diffuse reflectance spectroscopy; (vi) detecting an IR signal from the unknown sample; (vii) applying the predictive model to the IR signal from the unknown sample; and thereafter (viii) selectively predicting petroleum hydrocarbon concentration in the unknown sample. | 10,826 |
9,478,793 | 1. A process for preparing an electrode comprising an iron active material, which comprises: i) fabricating an electrode comprising an iron active material, and ii) treating the surface of the electrode with an oxidant solution to thereby create an oxidized surface prior to any charge-discharge cycle. | 4,970 |
8,808,678 | 1. A kit for cleaning a surface comprising: a nonwoven substrate; and a composition comprising from 0.005% to 0.03%, by weight of said composition, of a water-soluble or water-dispersible copolymer I comprising: (a) at least a monomer compound of general formula i: in which R R m is an integer from 0 to 10; n is an integer from 1 to 6; Z represents a —C(O)O— or —C(O)NH— group or an oxygen atom; A represents a (CH B represents a linear or branched C X, which are identical or different, represent counterions; and (b) at least one hydrophilic monomer carrying a functional acidic group which is copolymerizable with (a) and which is capable of being ionized in the application medium; (c) optionally at least one monomer compound with ethylenic unsaturation with a neutral charge which is copolymerizable with (a) and (b), preferably a hydrophilic monomer compound with ethylenic unsaturation with a neutral charge, carrying one or more hydrophilic groups, which is copolymerizable with (a) and (b). | 980 |
8,606,450 | 1. A hybrid powertrain comprising: an engine; a starter motor; a gear train operatively connecting the starter motor with the engine; a motor/generator; a belt drive train operatively connecting the motor/generator with the engine; a first energy storage device operable within a first range of operating voltage; a second energy storage device operable within a second range of operating voltage; wherein the first range of operating voltage is at least partially in common with the second range of operating voltage; a switching device selectively operable in an on-state and an off-state; wherein the first energy storage device and the second energy storage device are operatively connected with one another when the switching device is in the on-state and are operatively disconnected from one another when the switching device is in the off-state; a controller operatively connected to the switching device, the starter motor and the motor/generator; wherein the controller is operable to cause the switching device to be in the off-state and to power both the starter motor and the motor/generator with the first energy storage device during an automatic restart of the engine subsequent to a key start; and a selectively energizable solenoid; wherein the controller is operable to cause the solenoid to be energized to thereby operatively connect the starter motor with the engine through the gear train following cutoff of engine fuel occurring during an automatic shutdown prior to the restart so that the starter motor is operatively connected to the engine prior to the restart. | 18,258 |
8,536,505 | 1. A system comprising a first movable appliance including: a first sensor subsystem configured to provide first illuminance data based on an amount of light incident to said first sensor subsystem; and a first data-transmission subsystem for transmitting first feedback data including said first illuminance data from said first movable appliance to a first lighting controller. | 14,874 |
9,321,919 | 1. A nanocomposite, comprising; a continuous organic phase comprising at least one selected from the group consisting of an epoxy resin, a urethane resin, and an acrylic resin; and a plurality of oligomer-modified nanoplatelets forming a smectic phase of mesomorphic layers in the continuous organic phase, the mesomorphic layers having a d-spacing of from 2 nm to 50 nm; wherein the oligomer-modified nanoplatelets are modified by an oligomer having a molecular weight of at least 850 g/mol, and the oligomer-modified nanoplatelets comprise at least one inorganic material selected from the group consisting of montmorillonite, bentonite, laponite, a phosphate, a metal oxide, a metal hydroxide, graphene, and graphene oxide. | 10,339 |
9,652,294 | 1. A method for cross-platform workload processing, comprising: receiving a request to process a workload by a scheduler executing on a processing unit, the workload including data to be processed by different workload processes at various processing stages of the workload; determining a type of the workload; determining types of workload processes needed at the various processing stages for the determined type of workload; accessing historical processing data to determine historical execution statistics associated with previous processing requests for the determined type of the workload; determining, by accessing a data input location, whether the data of the type of workload is available for processing; in response to determining that the data is available for processing, determining, by accessing a process input location, whether a type of workload process associated with the data is available; in response to determining that the type of workload process associated with the data is available, identifying available resources on each of a plurality of computing platforms based on observation of current workload processing levels of the plurality of computing platforms; determining whether the identified available resources on at least one of the plurality of computing platforms are sufficient to process the workload based on the historical execution statistics; accessing a set of rules to determine a priority of the workload relative to other workloads based on the type of workload and predicted resource requirement of the workload based on the historical execution statistics for processing on the computing platform; in response to determining the priority and that the identified available resources on the at least one of the plurality of computing platforms are sufficient to process the type of workload based on the historical execution statistics, selecting the at least one of the plurality of computing platforms; and initiating processing of the workload on the selected computing platform. | 8,422 |
9,817,596 | 1. A non-volatile memory system comprising: a first memory; a second memory; a non-volatile memory configured to store a first mapping table; and a controller configured to load the first mapping table from the non-volatile memory to the first memory, the second memory configured to receive a first voltage independently of the controller, and the non-volatile memory system configured to provide power to the second memory after loading the first mapping table to the first memory. | 19,851 |
8,762,939 | 1. A method for displaying key statistics for a designed application in a user interface for an application design tool, the method comprising: providing a graphical user interface for a design tool via which a designer can design an application, wherein the design tool enables a designer to graphically create an application flow using a sequence of nodes that represent functions in the application; receiving an application design from a designer that is designed using the design tool; generating application code for the designed application, wherein generating the application code includes inserting a set of markers in the application code that demarks boundaries between nodes in the designed application; executing the application, wherein, for each instance of the application executed, a log is created in accordance with the markers such that data is logged for nodes traversed during the execution of the application; calculating statistics, based on the logged data, for one or more of the nodes; displaying the nodes in the graphical user interface to display the application flow; prompting the designer to enter threshold values for one or more statistics; identifying the nodes associated with statistics that satisfy the threshold requirements; and displaying statistical information, based on the calculated statistics, for only nodes associated with statistics that satisfy one or more threshold requirements, wherein the statistical information comprises at least one of (i) traffic at the node being greater than or equal to a specified amount or percentage of total traffic, (ii) disconnects at the node being greater than or equal to a specified amount or percentage of executions of the node, (iii) errors at the node being greater than or equal to a specified amount or percentage of executions of the node, and (iv) agent requests at the node being greater than or equal to a specified amount or percentage of executions of the node, and wherein nodes associated with statistics that do not satisfy the one or more threshold requirements are displayed without statistical information. | 32,310 |
9,762,119 | 1. A switch driving circuit to operate a field effect transistor, the switch driving circuit comprising: a first Zener diode having an anode connected to a gate of the field effect transistor; a capacitor connected in parallel with the first Zener diode; and second and third Zener diodes configured to provide a negative offset to fix a voltage applied between the gate and a source of the field effect transistor to a negative value. | 32,931 |
9,125,197 | 1. A method, comprising: receiving an upper layer configuration, wherein a first UE-ID is associated with a first group of downlink (DL) and uplink (UL) component carriers and a second UE-ID is associated with a second group of DL and UL component carriers; receiving downlink control information via one or more downlink control channels on one or more DL component carriers, wherein a first component carrier connecting to a first base station with the first UE-ID is scheduled by a second DL component carrier connecting to a second base station with the second UE-ID; and decoding the downlink control information using the first UE-ID and the second UE-ID. | 21,595 |
9,356,842 | 1. A computer-implemented method for monitoring performance of an application being executed by a web browser residing on a computing device and rendering content received from a web server, comprising: detecting, by a sensor, a user interaction with the web browser and a content update request caused by the user interaction, where the sensor is instrumented in the content displayed by the web browser and executed by a processor of the computing device; sending, by the sensor, an update notification to a browser agent in response to detecting the user interaction and the content update request caused by the user interaction, where the update notification indicates a possible update to a document object model which represents content displayed by the web browser; receiving, by the browser agent, the update notification pertaining to the document object model, where the browser agent is injected into the content displayed by the web browser and executed by the processor of the computing device; periodically determining, by the browser agent, whether an update of the document object model has occurred, the determination being performed in response to receiving the update notification pertaining to the document object model; identifying, by the browser agent, elements added to the document object model according to the update notification, where the identified elements contain resource load directives which are serviced by data source other than the web server and were not previously instrumented; and instrumenting, by the browser agent, an identified element with a resource sensor, where the resource sensor is comprised of instructions that are executed by the processor upon occurrence of a resource load event and generates an event message regarding the resource load event associated with the identified element. | 47,740 |
8,889,882 | 1. A process for preparing a compound of formula III: or a salt thereof; where R 1 is —C 1-6 alkyl; R 2 is —O—C 1-5 alkyl; R 3 is —C 1-6 alkyl, —C 0-3 alkylenearyl, —C 0-3 alkyleneheteroaryl, or —C 0-3 alkylene-C 3-7 cycloalkyl; and R 4 is —C 1-6 alkyl, —C 0-6 alkylene-C 3-7 cycloalkyl, —C 0-6 alkylenearyl, or —C 0-6 alkylenemorpholine; the process comprising the steps of: (a) reacting a compound of formula I: with a potassium-C 1-6 alkyl-trifluoroborate reagent in the presence of a palladium-phosphine catalyst to form a compound of formula 3: where P is a carboxylic acid protecting group; (b) reacting the compound of formula 3 with hydroxylamine or a salt thereof to form a compound of formula 4: (c) reacting the compound of formula 4 with a reducing agent to form a compound of formula II: or a salt thereof; (d) reacting the compound of formula II or a salt thereof with a compound of formula 5: or a salt thereof, in the presence of an amine-carboxylic acid coupling reagent to form a compound of formula 6: or a salt thereof; and (e) removing the carboxylic acid protecting group, P, from the compound of formula 6 or a salt thereof, to form a compound of formula III or a salt thereof. | 31,158 |
8,517,618 | 1. A cassette device arranged to be removably mounted to or inserted into an opening of an associated weighing scale housing of a weighing scale for cooperation with a printing device, the weighing scale housing having a print-head mechanism and a drive roller, the cassette device comprising; a wall, the wall forming at least a part of an exterior wall of the weigh scale housing; and a feed hub and a take-up hub rotatably mounted to the wall for cooperating with the drive roller when the cassette device is inserted into the weighing scale, the feed hub and the take-up hub being cantilevered to the wall of the cassette device, and wherein the wall forms a closure for the opening for the weighing scale housing, and wherein the cassette device includes a releasable locking mechanism for releasably locking the cassette device to the weighing scale. | 12,486 |
8,532,054 | 1. A method of providing communication services to a user equipment, comprising: communicatively coupling a plurality of femtocell systems with a packet-switched backhaul, wherein the packet-switched backhaul communicates with a core network via an internet connection and wherein the plurality of femtocell systems are communicatively coupled with one another via the packet-switched backhaul to enable the plurality of femtocell systems to communicate with one another and wherein one or more of the plurality of femtocell systems periodically transmits one or more link quality metrics to one or more others of the plurality of femtocell systems; registering the user equipment with a first femtocell system of the plurality of femtocell systems; measuring a first radio interface quality between the user equipment and the first femtocell system; measuring a second radio interface quality between the user equipment and a second femtocell system of the plurality of femtocell systems; transmitting an indication of the second radio interface quality from the second femtocell system to the first femtocell system; and invoking a handoff procedure from the first femtocell system to the second femtocell system. | 45,301 |
9,780,690 | 1. A switched-mode power supply (SMPS) circuit connected to an input power source and an output load, the SMPS circuit comprising: an SMPS controller configured to generate an output control signal; a first switch device that is controlled by the output control signal and configured to provide output power to the output load; and a resonant energy capturing and filtering circuit configured to supply power to the SMPS controller at a power supply input of the SMPS controller or of other auxiliary circuitry or of both, wherein the resonant energy capturing and filtering circuit is electrically connected to an output of the first switch device and is configured to capture and store energy from the input power source upon a transition of the first switch device from a conducting to a non-conducting state, or from a non-conducting to a conducting state, or both. | 15,866 |
9,260,024 | 1. A method comprising: receiving a first input comprising a distance; enabling a switch of a charging cable to permit power to be drawn from a first electric vehicle coupled to the charging cable for a second electric vehicle coupled to the charging cable; monitoring an amount of power drawn from the first electric vehicle; determining that the amount of power drawn from the first electric vehicle is sufficient for the distance; upon the determination, disabling the switch; and displaying on an electric screen of the charging cable an estimated amount of time to draw an amount of power from the first vehicle that is sufficient for the distance. | 993 |
9,397,582 | 1. A power converter, comprising: first and second switching elements, to each of which a diode is connected in anti-parallel, connected in series to either end of a direct current power supply; and a bidirectional switch, configured by first and second switch elements being connected in anti-series or anti-parallel, of which one end is connected to a connection point of the first and second switching elements, wherein, in an operating mode wherein alternating current voltage is output using positive voltage of the direct current power supply input via the first switching element, negative voltage of the direct current power supply input via the second switching element, and voltage input via the bidirectional switch, a period in which polarities of output voltage and output current differ is such that, by the first and second switching elements being turned off, one switch element of the bidirectional switch being turned on in accordance with the polarities of the output voltage and output current, and the other switch element of the bidirectional switch being turned on and off based on an inverted signal of a signal pulse width modulated in accordance with an output voltage command, alternating current voltage obtained by synthesizing voltage input into the other end of the bidirectional switch and a pulse train voltage, which is voltage generated in accordance with the pulse width modulated signal whose amplitude corresponds to the positive voltage or negative voltage of the direct current power supply, is output. | 41,902 |
9,411,158 | 1. A moth-eye film comprising: a cured resin made of a resin composition containing a surfactant and polyethylene glycol, wherein the surfactant constitutes 0.1% to 10% by mass of the resin composition, and the resin composition is in the form of a flat film and has a contact angle with water of larger than 5° but 31.3° or smaller, the contact angle being measured between a surface of the flat film formed of the resin composition and a droplet of water dropped onto the surface of the flat film, after 100 msec from contact of the droplet and the surface. | 12,027 |
9,075,603 | 1. A method for switching a second device from a power save mode to an active mode by a first device, the method comprising: transmitting, by the first device, a magic packet through a predetermined channel to the second device, which operates in the power save mode by repeating a doze state and an awake state periodically according to a predetermined period of time, for notifying the second device to switch to the active mode, wherein the magic packet includes contents of a command for switching a value of a power management field which is a subfield of a frame control field of the second device receiving the magic packet; and retransmitting the magic packet to the second device through the predetermined channel if a response to the magic packet has not been received from the second device and a predetermined time has not elapsed after transmitting the magic packet through the predetermined channel. | 45,732 |
9,475,211 | 1. A mold assembly for a high productivity injection molding machine, the mold assembly comprising: a first mold side and a second mold side, the first mold side and the second mold side defining a mold cavity therebetween; a first support plate connected to the first mold side; a second support plate connected to the second mold side; and a cooling system for removing heat from the mold assembly during an injection molding process, wherein the cooling system is a simplified cooling system that includes one or more cooling lines disposed in the first support plate, wherein each cooling line has a single machining axis, and there are no cooling lines in the first mold side. | 34,240 |
9,664,144 | 1. An intake housing ( 1 ) for an internal combustion engine, capable of receiving a heat exchanger ( 31 ) for exchanging heat between a feed gas stream circulating in the housing and a coolant, wherein said intake housing ( 1 ) includes a feed gas circulation space ( 3 ) for the circulation of the feed gas and a receiving space ( 2 ) receiving the heat exchanger ( 31 ), said receiving space ( 2 ) being defined by at least a first metal component ( 4 , 5 ) including at least one extension ( 16 , 17 ) that is in one piece with the first metal component ( 4 , 5 ), said extension ( 16 , 17 ) at least partially defining the feed gas circulation space ( 3 ) for the circulation of the feed gas, wherein the extension ( 16 , 17 ) includes at least one mechanical reinforcement ( 28 ) and wherein the mechanical reinforcement ( 28 ) takes the form of multiple deformations ( 29 ) produced by deformation of a portion of the first metal component ( 4 , 5 ) constituting said extension ( 16 , 17 ), wherein the mechanical reinforcement ( 28 ) is limited only to said extension ( 16 , 17 ) and is in the form of one or more ribs, and wherein one of the extension ( 16 ) lies in a plane coinciding with a plane in which one of the first metal component ( 4 ) lies and wherein another of the extension ( 17 ) lies in a plane coinciding with a plane in which another of the first metal component ( 5 ) lies, and wherein the plane in which said one of the first metal component ( 4 ) lies is parallel to the plane in which said another of the first metal component ( 5 ) lies. | 37,342 |
9,108,081 | 1. An exercise device comprising: a foot support arranged on a frame for supporting a user standing in an upright position on the foot support, the foot support being supported on a rear linkage that is supported on a curved surface of a ramp having a selected curved path of travel, the rear linkage being drivable by the user back and forth along the curved surface of the ramp between a rearwardmost position and a forwardmost position; the foot support travelling in a path together with the rear linkage along the selected curved path of travel of the ramp from the rearwardmost to the forwardmost position and back along the same path to the rearwardmost position from the forwardmost position, movement of the foot support from the rearwardmost position to the forwardmost position and back to the rearwardmost position along the selected curved path of travel of the curved surface of the ramp defining a complete cycle of exercise movement of the foot support, wherein the rear linkage is pivotally interconnected to an arm mounted to the frame at a selected pivot point for pivoting in a back and forth direction around the selected pivot point, the arm being readily manually graspable by the user on one side of the pivot point for exerting force in a forward or backward direction to forcibly cause the arm to pivot, the interconnection between the arm and the rear linkage being arranged such that the user's exertion of force on the arm in a forward or backward direction drives the rear linkage to travel along the ramp wherein the arm has a handle disposed on the one side of the select pivot point for manual pivoting of the arm around the select pivot point by the user grasping and exerting forward or backward force on the handle; and, the arm is linked to the rear linkage through an arm linkage pivotably connected to the arm on the one side of the select pivot point. | 49,501 |
9,690,652 | 1. A search device comprising: a first comparison unit which compares a received first key with a second key read from a nonvolatile memory; a determination unit which determines, based on a first comparison result obtained by the first comparison unit, whether or not a difference between the first key and the second key is within a range of an error correction capability of an error correction process; a correction unit which generates a third key by applying the error correction process to the second key if the determination unit determines that the difference is within the range; a second comparison unit which compares the first key with the third key; and a search unit which reads data associated with the second key in the nonvolatile memory if a second comparison result obtained by the second comparison unit shows a match. | 10,465 |
8,798,223 | 1. A clock and data recovery device, comprising: reference clock generator circuitry configured to receive a serial data signal and to produce a first clock signal oscillating at a frequency substantially a sub-harmonic of a data rate of the serial data signal without utilizing an external reference clock signal; and clock and data recovery circuitry configured to receive the serial data signal and the first clock signal and produce the data output signal representing data recovered from the serial data signal and the second clock signal that is synchronous with the data output signal, wherein the reference clock generator circuitry comprises: | 15,103 |
9,509,546 | 1. A modulation processor comprising a first processing stage and a second processing stage; wherein the first processing stage comprises: wherein the second processing stage is arranged to generate an integral of the first output signal, retard the phase of the modulation signal by an angle equal to the integral, and generate a second output signal proportional to the modulation signal with its phase retarded. | 32,099 |
9,809,960 | 1. A vault for storing water underground, the vault comprising: a sump formed of flexible, water impermeable membrane material that has been joined together at weld seams to form a box having an internal volume that defines a reservoir for water, said box including a base with a perimeter, a plurality of sidewalls extending upwardly from the perimeter of the base, said internal volume being sized to receive a predetermined amount of structural support matrices; and a lid configured to cover an opening at a top of the sump, said lid comprising a plurality of flaps that extend from a perimeter of a top portion of the lid, said plurality of flaps not being attached directly to each other; wherein fasteners are provided on the sump and corresponding fasteners are provided on the flaps of the lid for releasably securing the flaps to the sump, wherein at least one of the sump or the lid includes at least one aperture that provides fluid communication between the internal volume reservoir and an exterior of the sump, and wherein the sump and lid are in a folded or rolled condition and contained within a container for shipment. | 26,203 |
8,419,010 | 1. A recording unit comprising: a restricting member, structured so as to be rotatable around an axial portion, that is brought into contact with a target to restrict movement of the target; and a damper member that causes the restricting member to rotate after a delay in time from a restricting position, at which the restricting member restricts the movement of the target, to a releasing position, at which restriction on the movement of the target is released; wherein the damper member includes: | 14,222 |
9,127,772 | 1. An end sealing assembly of a rotary kiln that comprises: a first flange attached to the outside of the end of a rotating drum of the rotary kiln and to which a rotating casing ring is attached, rotating with the rotating drum; a second flange attached to the outside end of a fixed input/output unit of the rotary kiln and onto which a first fixed casing ring is attached and a second fixed casing ring is attached with fixing devices; whereas the fixing devices include a spring, a fixing bolt and a fixed flange onto which the second fixed casing ring is attached, wherein the first fixed casing ring and the second fixed casing ring are both made out of at least four segments coupled together to arrange respectively the first fixed casing ring and the second fixed casing ring arranged on opposite circumferential sides of the rotating casing ring attached to the rotating drum whereas hollows for lubricant are onto both sides of the rotating casing ring; and correspondingly, a hollow with a trapezoidal cross section for lubricant is formed onto the side of the first fixed casing ring and the second casing ring to be assembled with while composing the rotating casing ring with the first and second casing ring; and such that when forming the end sealing assembly, a first lubricant channel is made out of the hollows between the rotating casing ring and the first fixed casing ring, and a second lubricant channel is made out of the hollows between the rotating casing ring and the second fixed casing ring. | 26,317 |
8,604,712 | 1. A power supply comprising: a first connector to receive line power; a plurality of supply and control circuits associated with a plurality of LED luminaires, wherein each of the plurality of LED luminaires has a power profile associated therewith, and wherein each of the plurality of supply and control circuits is to individually convert the line power to power necessary to drive an associated LED luminaire based on the power profile associated therewith; and a plurality of second connectors to provide the necessary power to the associated ones of the plurality of LED luminaires. | 9,141 |
8,680,618 | 1. An integrated circuit, comprising: a replacement HiK metal gate transistor having a metal gate and source/drain regions; a front end SiCr resistor; a first level of interconnect located over the replacement HiK metal gate transistor and the front end SiCr resistor; first contacts connected to said source/drain regions; and second contacts, wherein a first subset of said second contacts are connected between the first level of interconnect and the front end SiCr resistor and a second subset of said second contacts is connected between the first level of interconnect and the metal gate. | 7,192 |
9,668,218 | 1. A vehicle-mounted communication device comprising: a controlling unit; a modem connected to the controlling unit to receive control data and performing wireless communication; and a power source switching unit connected to the modem and the controlling unit, and performing a supply of electric power, wherein the controlling unit includes a communication part, a judgment part, and a judging timing determination part, the communication part performs wireless communication through the modem, the judgment part controls the modem and judges whether the communication part is in a wireless communicable state in accordance with communication propriety information transmitted from the modem, the judging timing determination part controls the power source switching unit to shift to a first low power consumption mode for limiting the supply of the electric power when the judging timing determination part receives the communication propriety information showing a communicable state in the wireless communication from the judgment part while a driving source of a vehicle is stopped, and the judging timing determination part controls the power source switching unit to shift to a second low power consumption mode when the judging timing determination part receives the communication propriety information showing an incommunicable state in the wireless communication from the judgment part while the driving source of the vehicle is stopped, and stops the judgment part from operating of judging whether the communication part is in the wireless communicable state by operating the communication part, until a condition predetermined based on a change in a reception electric field intensity of a portable communication network before the driving source of the vehicle is stopped is satisfied. | 24,795 |
8,784,619 | 1. A portable hydrogen supplemental system for supplying hydrogen gas to an internal combustion engine comprising: a housing unit; a fuel cell mounted inside the housing unit that converts water into hydrogen and oxygen gas; a water tank mounted inside the housing unit and positioned to supply water to the fuel cell; a power supply for supplying electrical power to the fuel cell; an engine sensor for detecting operation of the internal combustion engine and; an operator control switch, wherein the water tank includes at least one tank divider which separates the water tank into at least two sections that are both filled with water when water is placed into the water tank; wherein the water tank includes at least first and second gas collection cavities at a top portion thereof for collecting hydrogen and oxygen gas respectively, the gas collection cavities being formed by a top surface of the water tank, the tank divider and the water level in the water tank; wherein each gas collection cavity includes a fitting at the top thereof for distributing one of the hydrogen and oxygen gas out of the water tank; wherein the power supply supplies electrical power to the fuel cell when the engine sensor detects that the internal combustion engine is in operation and the operator control switch is activated; wherein the fuel cell, when supplied with electrical power, produces hydrogen and oxygen gases from the water being supplied to the fuel cell, said hydrogen and oxygen gases being directed through the water tank into the gas collection cavities at the top thereof for proper distribution of the gases such that the hydrogen gas is supplied to the internal combustion engine for combustion therein; wherein the water tank includes first and second dividers provided at opposite ends of the tank to divide the tank into a hydrogen section and an oxygen section; and wherein each divider is formed along an inner wall of the water tank and extends to a predetermined position from the bottom surface of the water tank such that when water is placed into the water tank, the water tank fills evenly on both sides of each of the dividers. | 44,812 |
9,465,018 | 1. A method for examining wear of a connector contact using atom transfer radical polymerization, the method comprising: placing the connector contact into a reactor, wherein the connector contact has a gold layer, a copper layer, and a nickel layer; adding to the reactor chemicals for the atom transfer radical polymerization; deoxygenating the reactor; stirring the reactor for a predetermined time period at a predetermined temperature; determining a polydispersity index of polymers in a sample withdrawn from the reactor; determining whether an underlying metal layer of the connector contact is exposed, based on the polydispersity index; determining that the copper layer and the nickel layer are not exposed, in response to determining that no atom transfer radical polymerization occurs; determining that the nickel layer of the connector contact is exposed, in response to determining that the polydispersity index is greater than a predetermined number; and determining that the copper layer of the connector contact is exposed, in response to determining that the polydispersity index is less than the predetermined number. | 1,189 |
9,655,219 | 1. An on line method for detecting a time phase of a threshold voltage of a lighting load connecting to an AC voltage comprising: a search algorithm, using iteration calculations to gradually approach and identify the time phase of the threshold voltage of the lighting load in each half-cycle of an AC power source; a hardware setup coupling to the lighting load, generating a status signal to indicate a conduction or a cutoff electric state of the lighting load; and a microcontroller with program codes, controlling a conductive phase angle of the lighting load and executing program codes to perform the search algorithm in response to the status signal generated by the hardware setup; wherein the microcontroller successively generates a trigger signal with a time delay counted from the zero-crossing point of the AC voltage in each AC half-cycle; wherein, at the time of generating the trigger signal, the hardware setup generates the status signal to the microcontroller to indicate the electric conduction or the cutoff state of the lighting load; wherein the microcontroller processes the status signal delivered from the hardware setup and executes program codes to perform the search algorithm accordingly, wherein the microcontroller generates the trigger signal with a time delay, such that the time delay of the trigger signal is adjusted by the search algorithm performed following the status signal in an iterative manner to approach the time location or the time phase of the threshold voltage of the lighting load along the time axis in each AC half-cycle; wherein the search algorithm is an iteration process based on one of two schemes which are respectively an incremental scheme and a lower bound—upper bound domain shrinking scheme, wherein for the incremental scheme the iteration process ends at a point when the status signal is changed from the cutoff state to the conduction state, wherein for the lower bound-upper bound domain shrinking scheme the iteration process ends at a point when the domain formed by the lower bound and upper bound shrinks to a value equal to or less than a preset minimum value. | 3,657 |
9,776,448 | 1. An image erasing apparatus, comprising: a sheet supply section configured to supply a sheet; at least one discharge tray configured to receive the sheet; a first conveying path configured to convey the sheet from the sheet supply section toward the at least one discharge tray; a reader arranged on the first conveying path and configured to read a surface of the sheet; a second conveying path that branches from the first conveying path at a first position downstream of the reader in a sheet conveying direction and that merges with the first conveying path at a second position between the sheet supply section and the reader; an erasing unit arranged on the second conveying path and configured to erase an image formed on the sheet with image erasable material; a switching section arranged on the first conveying path at the first position and configured to switch a conveyance path of the sheet between the first conveying path towards the at least one discharge tray and the second conveying path towards the erasing unit; and a controller configured to control the first conveying path, the reader, the second conveying path, the erasing unit and the switching section depending on a selected mode so that: when the selected mode is an erasing mode, the sheet is conveyed on the first conveying path without being read by the reader, conveyed on the second conveying path where the image is erased by the erasing unit, and then conveyed to the at least one discharge tray, and when the selected mode is a reading mode, the sheet is conveyed on the first conveying path where the surface of the sheet is read by the reader, and then conveyed to the at least one discharge tray without being conveyed on the second conveying path. | 18,006 |
8,548,513 | 1. A method for transmitting control information in a wireless communication system using two or more Component Carriers (CCs), the method comprising: generating identification information of 0 bit or m (m is an integer larger than 0) bits indicating a CC to which particular control information corresponds from among the CCs; adding the generated identification information to the particular control information; and transmitting the particular control information through a control channel, wherein generating of the identification information comprises: | 13,575 |
9,502,176 | 1. A contactless power transfer transformer comprising: a coil main body including: the coil main body is fixed to a fixing plate having a magnetic shield function and a heat dissipation function, a connecting position of the winding wire core member with respect to the magnetic pole core members is located toward one side from a center in the longitudinal direction of the magnetic pole core members, and at least a space between the pair of the magnetic coil core members each containing an end portion longer in a distance to the connecting position is used as an arrangement space of a component electrically connected to the electric wire. | 12,451 |
8,832,474 | 1. A method, comprising: monitoring a bus voltage on a Local Interconnect Network (LIN) bus by a slave circuit; detecting by the slave circuit when the bus voltage falls below a first threshold value and a wake-up detection phase is thereby started; evaluating a time duration of a drop of the bus voltage falling below a second threshold value by the slave circuit in the wake-up detection phase; awakening the slave circuit from a sleep mode into a normal mode when the time duration of the drop below the second threshold during the wake-up detection phase is associated with a wake-up command; and continuing the sleep mode of the slave circuit if the time duration of the drop below the second threshold value during the wake-up detection phase is not associated with the wake-up command. | 12,288 |
9,079,966 | 1. A process of chemically synthesizing a Poly-ubiquitin chain Ub n , comprising n ubiquitin monomers linked by isopeptide bonds, n being an integer larger than 1, said process, which is devoid of any enzymatic synthesis of the Poly-ubiquitin chain Ub a) ligating a first Ubiquitin (Ub) thioester unit Ub said first Ubiquitin (Ub) thioester unit Ub said Ub thioester unit Ub at least one of said monomers is a chemically synthesized monomer containing p protected 1,2-thioamine-containing amino acids, p being an integer ranging from 1 to 7, R being selected from alkyl and aryl, and substituted or unsubstituted derivatives thereof; said ubiquitin unit Ub said Ub with the proviso that (m+q) is smaller or equal to n, to obtain a ligation product Ub b) when (m+q)<n, de-masking at least one of said protected 1,2-thioamine-containing amino acids in said ligation product Ub c) for (m+q)<n, repeating (a) and (b), x times, to obtain a ligation product Ub d) desulfurization of said ligation product Ub | 7,262 |
9,640,578 | 1. An imaging device, comprising: a pixel array comprising a plurality of pixels, each pixel including a photodiode; an optical inner filter layer disposed between a wiring layer and a color filter; a light-blocking side wall formed on a lateral wall of the optical inner filter layer, wherein the plurality of pixels are configured to share at least one transistor, and the light blocking side wall is formed of a metal film. | 35,151 |
8,409,333 | 1. An apparatus for recovery of ethylene oxide (EO) from fat absorbent (FA), which comprises an EO Stripper comprising: an inlet for FA, an inlet for stripping gas, an outlet for stripped lean absorbent (LA), an outlet for EO, and an inlet for an external process stream located about the inlet for FA, wherein the inlet for the external process stream comprises a FA inlet connected via a connector line to: (a) an outlet for FA from an EO Absorber for forming FA by contacting EO-containing gas and vapors with aqueous liquid phase LA; (b) an outlet for FA from a residual gas absorber (RA) for forming FA by contacting residual EO-containing light ends (LE) with aqueous liquid phase LA; or (c) a combination thereof. | 3,097 |
9,625,443 | 1. A method for measuring ammonia in a blood sample, the method comprising: positioning the blood sample in proximity with an ammonia gas sensor; mixing the blood sample with an alkaline substance; generating a current with the ammonia gas sensor in response to ammonia gas released from the blood sample; and measuring the current generated by the ammonia gas sensor, using a current measurement member coupled with the ammonia gas sensor. | 11,889 |
8,852,526 | 1. A method of fabricating a flexible microfluidic device having microfluidic channels on a surface of a flexible hydrophilic substrate formed of cellulosic material, the method including the steps of: (a) hydrophobizing the flexible hydrophilic substrate surface by absorbing or adsorbing a hydrophobic substance on or within the substrate; (b) locating a mask defining the substrate surface, the mask having open areas defining the periphery of the microfluidic channels; and (c) applying an irradiation treatment to areas of the substrate surface exposed by the open areas of the mask, said exposed areas becoming hydrophilic to therefore form said microfluidic channels while retaining flexibility of the flexible hydrophilic substrate. | 5,885 |
8,788,077 | 1. A control device configurable to couple to a plurality of devices having different control functions comprising: a touch sensitive display reconfigurable for the different control functions of the plurality of devices; and a processor coupled to the touch sensitive display, the processor including a plurality of processing algorithms, the processor configured to receive at least one of the control functions and additional information from among the plurality of devices, the processor configured to selectably process the additional information using at least one of the processing algorithms based on the respective device and to control the touch sensitive display such that the at least one control function and the selectably processed additional information peculiar to the respective device of the plurality of devices are presented on the touch sensitive display, where the processor, responsive to an indication by the touch sensitive display, generates at least one control signal, where the processor sends the at least one control signal to the corresponding device among the plurality of devices being controlled and sends the selectably processed additional information to at least one of the plurality of devices, and where the additional information received from among the plurality of devices includes a signal generated from at least one of the plurality of processing algorithms including an audio signal processing algorithm to analyze an audio signal to determine a sound pressure level dosage as a percentage of an accumulated dose or as a time remaining value before a threshold shift occurs. | 33,822 |
8,734,521 | 1. An asymmetric inter-vertebral cage, consisting of: a singular, asymmetric frame having anterior and posterior portions, superior and inferior surfaces, and two opposing sides; the thickness of the frame between the superior and inferior surfaces in the anterior portion defining an anterior height; the anterior portion having first longitudinal axis; the thickness of the frame between the superior and inferior surfaces in the posterior portion defining a posterior height; the posterior portion having a second longitudinal axis; the anterior portion comprising a leading edge extending in a convex arc from the inferior surface upwards toward the superior surface, the convex arc terminating at a transition point located at a distance less than half of the posterior height as measured from the inferior surface, and the leading edge continuing from the transition point in a concave arc to the superior surface; wherein the anterior height is less than the posterior height; and wherein the first longitudinal axis is dis-planar in relation to the second longitudinal axis thus making the device asymmetrical along its combined longitudinal axis. | 40,527 |
9,347,245 | 1. A sliding arm for use with a docking station having a connector block with a plurality of plugs, the sliding arm comprising: a block-side portion of the arm having a first end connected to the connector block; a follower portion of the arm; and a linear clutch connecting a second end of the block-side portion to the follower portion; wherein the linear clutch is operable to constrain the block-side portion and the follower portion to move together and, when a force on the linear clutch exceeds a limit, allow the block-side portion to move independently of the follower portion. | 5,720 |
8,637,762 | 1. A photovoltaic device comprising: a glass substrate, a front electrode, and a semiconductor photoelectric film, where the front electrode is provided between at least the glass substrate and the photoelectric film; the glass substrate having first and second major surfaces, with at least part of the first major surface of the glass substrate being patterned and located at a light-incident side of the glass substrate so that light incident on the photovoltaic device hits the first major surface of the glass substrate before hitting the second major surface of the glass substrate; wherein at least a central portion of the first major surface of the glass substrate is patterned so as to define a plurality of peaks and valleys in a patterned portion having a surface roughness of from about 0.1 to 5 μm; a frame encapsulating at least part of an edge of the photovoltaic device so as to protect at least part of the edge of the photovoltaic device from damage; and wherein a substantially flat ground portion where peaks have been ground off is provided only proximate an edge of the glass substrate so that the ground portion where peaks have been ground off is not provided in a central area of the glass substrate, the substantially flat ground portion comprising a ground edge portion of the first major surface of the glass substrate, immediately adjacent the edge of the glass substrate, is substantially flat such that the peaks have been ground off in the ground edge portion, and is located immediately adjacent the peaks and/or valleys of the patterned portion on the same first major surface, and wherein part of the frame is located over at least part of the substantially flat ground edge portion but not over the patterned portion of the first major surface of the glass substrate, and wherein the substantially flat ground edge portion is located at an elevation below an elevation of a top portion of a plurality of the peaks of the patterned portion. | 7,036 |
9,404,011 | 1. A coating composition based on aprotic solvents, comprising at least one hydroxyl-containing compound (A), at least one isocyanato-containing compound (B), and at least one urea-group containing compound (H) different from the compound (B), wherein (i) the urea-group-containing compound (H) comprises at least one structural unit of the formula (I): and at least one other structural unit, said other structural unit being selected from the group consisting of (a) at least one structural unit (II) of the following formula (II) (b) at least one structural unit (III) of the following formula (III) and (c) at least one structural unit (II) of the formula (II) and at least one structural unit (III) of the formula (III), and (ii) the urea-group-containing compound (H) is obtained by reacting an isocyanato-containing compound (H (iii) in the urea-group-containing compound (H) more than 90 mol % of the isocyanate groups originally present in the isocyanato-containing compound (H wherein, in the formulae (I), (II), and (III) R′″=hydrogen, alkyl, cycloalkyl, aryl or aralkyl, it being possible for the carbon chain to be interrupted by nonadjacent oxygen, sulfur or NRa groups, with Ra=alkyl, cycloalkyl, aryl or aralkyl, R,R″=alkyl, cycloalkyl, aryl or aralkyl, it being possible for the carbon chain to be interrupted by nonadjacent oxygen, sulfur or NRa groups, with Ra=alkyl, cycloalkyl, aryl or aralkyl, R′=hydrogen, alkyl or cycloalkyl, it being possible for the carbon chain to be interrupted by nonadjacent oxygen, sulfur or NRa groups, X, X′=linear and/or branched alkyl or cycloalkyl radical having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, x=0 to 2, y=0 to 2, and n=0 to 2, m=0 to 2, and m+n=2. | 43,461 |
9,378,693 | 1. A single display panel of a flat panel display device, the display panel comprising: a plurality of left pixel circuits arranged in a left region of the display panel; a plurality of right pixel circuits arranged in a right region of the display panel, wherein none of the left pixel circuits are directly connected to any of the right pixel circuits; a plurality of left scan-lines coupled to the left pixel circuits, the left scan-lines configured to transmit a first scan signal to the left pixel circuits; a plurality of right scan-lines coupled to the right pixel circuits, the right scan-lines configured to transmit a second scan signal to the right pixel circuits; and a plurality of data-lines coupled to the left pixel circuits and the right pixel circuits, the data-lines configured to transmit a data signal to the left pixel circuits and the right pixel circuits with at least one predetermined delay, wherein the left and right scan lines are configured to respectively transmit the first scan signal and the second scan signal to the left pixel circuits and the right pixel circuits constituting each horizontal-line with the at least one predetermined time delay, wherein the predetermined time delay corresponds to a time delay of ½ horizontal period, wherein the first and second scan signals are respectively sequentially applied to the left and right scan-lines at a time interval of one horizontal period, and wherein the second scan signal has a time delay of ½ horizontal period with respect to the first scan signal in each left scan-line and the corresponding right scan-line. | 14,546 |
9,450,502 | 1. A direct power conversion device, comprising: a first power supply line; a second power supply line applied with a potential lower than that of said first power supply line; a diode rectifier which has an input side connected with a single-phase AC power supply and an output side connected with said first power supply line and said second power supply line, and performs a single-phase full-wave rectification; a first capacitor provided between said first power supply line and said second power supply line; a charge/discharge circuit provided between said first power supply line and said second power supply line on a side opposite to said diode rectifier with respect to said first capacitor; and an inverter inputted with a DC voltage as a voltage between said first power supply line and said second power supply line, wherein said charge/discharge circuit has a buffer circuit including a second capacitor provided between said first power supply line and said second power supply line and a first switch connected in series to said second capacitor on a side of said first power supply line between said first power supply line and said second power supply line, a booster circuit which boosts a rectified voltage from said diode rectifier to charge said second capacitor, and a current blocking part provided on said first power supply line or said second power supply line between said first capacitor and said second capacitor and blocks flowing of a current from said second capacitor to said first capacitor. | 30,821 |
9,539,701 | 1. An abrasive article comprising: a bonded abrasive body having abrasive particles comprising microcrystalline alumina (MCA) contained within a single phase vitreous bond material; wherein the bonded abrasive body comprises: wherein the single phase vitreous bond material comprises: | 42,702 |
8,849,438 | 1. A computer-implemented method comprising: storing, by a factory control server including a processing device, module configuration data for a plurality of modules, wherein the plurality of modules comprises processes for producing a final product, and the plurality of modules has corresponding module requirements; analyzing in real-time, by the factory control server, actual product output data that is generated by a final product tester after a factory produces at least one final product to determine whether the actual product output data meets an expected product output; analyzing, by the factory control server, actual module data in real-time to determine a new module requirement to cause new actual product output data for a subsequent final product to meet the expected product output in response to a determination that the actual product output data does not meet the expected product output; and notifying, by the factory control server, a module controller in real-time of the new module requirement, wherein the module controller changes parameters in real-time to manufacture the subsequent final product using the new module requirement. | 12,181 |
9,445,627 | 1. An apparatus for forming tobacco rod portions of a smoking article from tobacco material, the apparatus comprising: a conveyor unit configured to receive a continuous stream of the tobacco material and to transport the continuous tobacco material stream along an elongate path for formation of the continuous tobacco material stream into a continuous tobacco rod; a conveyor housing configured to house the conveyor unit, the conveyor housing defining a tobacco material inlet duct configured to receive the continuous tobacco material stream; a suction system in fluid communication with the conveyor housing through a suction port, the suction system being configured to apply suction to the conveyor housing via the suction port, wherein the conveyor unit is disposed between the suction port and the tobacco material inlet duct, so as to draw the continuous tobacco material stream into engagement with the conveyor unit; and a wear resistant member operably engaged with a wall of the conveyor housing and defining the suction port, the wear resistant member being configured to resist wear from interaction with particles, associated with the continuous tobacco material stream, drawn through the suction port by the suction system. | 15,640 |
9,088,992 | 1. A method for controlling in-device coexistence interference (IDC) through a User Equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system, comprising: transmitting IDC indication information including an unusable frequency band that is a frequency band in which performing communication is interfered by IDC interference to an evolved NodeB (eNB); receiving, from the eNB, Radio Resource Control (RRC) connection reconfiguration including IDC Discontinuous Reception (DRX) configuration reconfiguring DRX relating to the unusable frequency band based on the IDC indication information; and performing autonomous denial of Industrial Scientific Medical (ISM) transmission in the unusable frequency band by reconfiguring DRX based on the IDC DRX configuration, wherein the IDC DRX configuration includes information configuring a DRX retransmission timer and information configuring a DRX short cycle to a predetermined cycle for avoiding the IDC interference. | 12,911 |
9,468,190 | 1. A distributor device for distributing treatment fluid to the teat cups of a milking cluster, the distributor device having a body comprising: a distributer inlet for treatment fluid; four distributor outlets for connection to four respective teat cups; a bleed port venting to atmosphere; a first passageway interconnecting the distributor inlet and the bleed port; a second passageway connecting with the four distributor outlets for delivering treatment fluid thereto; and a safety valve, wherein: | 31,250 |
9,096,859 | 1. A method for producing butanol from a biomass polymer, comprising: a) providing a host cell, wherein the host cell does not naturally produce butanol and comprises one or more heterologous recombinant nucleic acids encoding a crotonase, a butyryl-coA dehydrogenase, an electron transport flavoprotein B, an electron transport flavoprotein A, a 3-hydroxybutyryl-coA dehydrogenase, an acetyl-coA acetyltransferase, or an aldehyde/alcohol dehydrogenase, and one or more biomass polymer-degrading enzymes, wherein at least one of the one or more biomass polymer-degrading enzymes is secreted from the host cell, b) culturing the host cell in a medium to form a culture such that the one or more recombinant nucleic acids are expressed in the cell, wherein the medium comprises a biomass polymer as a carbon source for the host cell, and c) extracting butanol from the culture. | 6,993 |
8,576,337 | 1. A video image processing apparatus that converts an interlaced video image signal to a progressive video image signal, by interpolation, the video image processing apparatus comprising: a determination unit that determines whether an interpolation pixel generation position is an edge portion in an oblique direction, and when the interpolation pixel generation position is an edge portion in an oblique direction, determines a direction of the edge; and a generation unit that generates an interpolation pixel by interlaced-to-progressive conversion, this generation unit being unit that generates an interpolation pixel at an interpolation pixel generation position which has been determined, by the determination unit, to be an edge portion in an oblique direction, in use of a pixel that is present in the edge direction, wherein the determination unit determines whether the interpolation pixel generation position is an edge portion in an oblique direction on the basis of signs of slopes of changes in the pixel values in a horizontal direction at one line above and one line below the interpolation pixel generation position when pixel values one line above and one line below the interpolation pixel generation position neither increase nor decrease locally at positions that are adjacent, in a vertical direction, to the interpolation pixel generation position, and a difference between two pixel values adjacent above and below the interpolation pixel generation position is smaller than a predefined threshold value. | 662 |
9,546,574 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a vehicle having an internal combustion engine and a fluid flow path leading from an intake to a combustion chamber and to an exhaust; an extraction flow passage structured to withdraw working fluid from a location upstream of the combustion chamber and downstream a compressor; a cooling system having a heat exchange member structured to cool the extracted working fluid, the extracted working fluid including a vapor; and a liquid flow path in communication with the fluid flow path of the internal combustion engine and structured to convey a liquid condensed from the extracted working fluid via the heat exchange member and route the liquid into the compressor; wherein the working fluid is cooled by the heat exchange member and is routed subsequent to the heat exchange member to a turbine thereby cooling the turbine. | 37,611 |
8,607,927 | 1. A multilayer laminate for use as a flame barrier comprising (i) a first polymeric film layer capable of withstanding a temperature of at least 200 C for at least 10 min, (ii) a first adhesive layer having an areal weight of from 2 to 40 gsm capable of activation at a temperature of from 75 to 200 degrees C., (iii) an inorganic refractory layer, (iv) a second adhesive layer having an areal weight of from 2 to 40 gsm capable of activation at a temperature of from 75 to 200 degrees C., and (v) a second polymeric film layer capable of withstanding a temperature of at least 200 C for at least 10 min, wherein at least one of the first or second polymeric film layers is thermoplastic; | 42,324 |
9,754,751 | 1. A molded case circuit breaker comprising: a case configured to accommodate an element for trip; an upper cover detachably attached to the case; a dial configured to include a fixing plate, which is provided to protrude along an outer circumference surface thereof, and a first stopper disposed under the fixing plate; a crossbar moved by the dial; a first dial fitting hole provided in the upper cover for the dial to be fitted into the first dial fitting hole; a dial rotation adjusting unit provided in the first dial fitting hole and fitted between the fixing plate and the first stopper to guide a rotation of the dial, the dial rotation adjusting unit including a plurality of fitting grooves arranged at certain intervals; a moving bar disposed under the first stopper to move the crossbar according to the rotation of the dial; a moving bar fitting hole provided in the first dial fitting hole for the moving bar to be fitted into the moving bar fitting hole as one body; and a first stopper moving space provided between the first stopper and the moving bar, wherein the first stopper is fitted into and fixed to at least one fitting groove of the plurality of fitting grooves according to the rotation of the dial; and wherein a rotation guide plate is fitted between the fixing plate and the first stopper, and when the dial rotates, the first stopper is bent in a direction toward the moving bar. | 4,527 |
8,494,697 | 1. A water vessel motion prediction system comprising: a plurality of surface platforms, said platforms each comprising: a central computer comprising a communications interface, said processing device programmed to transmit the sensor data to said central computer via said transceiver and said communications interface, said central computer programmed to transmit commands for operation of said propulsion system to said processing device via said communications interface and said transceiver, said central computer further programmed to predict an effect the environment proximate said platforms has on a water vessel operating within a vicinity of said plurality of surface platforms, at least one of said processing device and said central computer further programmed to: determine a future motion of the water vessel based at least in part on the gathered sensor data, a first hull configuration associated with at least one of said plurality of surface platforms, and a second hull configuration associated with the water vessel; compare a predetermined motion constraint of a specific operation to the determined future motion of the water vessel: and determine at least one of a start, delayed start, continuation, preparation to stop, and immediate stop of the specific operation based on the comparison of the predetermined motion constraint of the specific operation to the determined future motion of the water vessel. | 45,816 |
9,017,455 | 1. A method for the removal of CO 2 from a gaseous mixture, comprising (a) contacting the gaseous mixture with one or more compounds represented by the structure of the following Formula I, Formula II, or Formula III: wherein R i) H, ii) halogen, iii) —CH iv) —CH v) a C vi) a C vii) —(CH wherein any of R (b) removing CO 2 from the mixture; wherein the gaseous mixture is contacted with one or more compounds represented by the structure of Formula I, Formula II, or Formula III in the presence of an anionic liquid selected from the group consisting of (1) ionic liquids that comprise a thiazolium, isothiazolium or sulfonium cation; and (2) an ionic liquid that comprises a cation selected from the group consisting of pyridinium, pyridazinium, pyrimidinium, pyrazinium, imidazolium, pyrazolium, oxazolium, triazolium, tetrazolium, isoxazolium, quinolinium, isoquinolinium, indazolium, benzoimidazolium, benzotriazolium, ammonium, phosphonium, and guanidinium cations and that are represented by the structure of a formula as follows: wherein: (K) R (viii) —CH (ix) —CH (x) a C (xi) a C (xii) —(CH (L) optionally, at least two of R (M) provided that at least one of R | 1,977 |
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