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9,559,469 | 1. A connector comprising: at least one first terminal having conductivity; a housing having insulating property and holding the at least one first terminal; a she having conductivity and covering the housing; and a second terminal having conductivity and a third terminal having conductivity that are held by the housing so as to face each other via the at least one first terminal with a space left therebetween, wherein the second terminal comprises a contact portion being in contact with a contact inner surface of the shell. | 24,045 |
9,767,224 | 1. An article of manufacture comprising: a primary part comprising at least one substantially horizontal overhang portion, the overhang portion having a lower surface; and a secondary part comprising at least one substantially horizontal support portion, the substantially horizontal support portion having an upper surface, wherein the lower surface of the primary part and the upper surface of the secondary part are continuously spaced apart from each other and are fabricated during one process using the same metallic powder, and wherein the upper surface of the substantially horizontal support portion of the secondary part and the lower surface of the overhang portion of the primary part define an elongate gap therebetween, and un-melted metallic powder is disposed within the gap. | 38,844 |
9,175,908 | 1. A method of operating a process lamp, comprising: immersing the lamp in a recess within a lamp assembly, the recess having an operating atmosphere comprising between about 1% and about 25% of an oxidizing gas, wherein a line is configured to couple air into the recess though an opening in the lamp assembly, and wherein the immersing the lamp in an operating atmosphere comprises evacuating a chamber containing the lamp, pumping helium into the chamber to a first pressure of about 15 Torr or less, pumping the oxidizing gas into the chamber to a second pressure above the first pressure, and allowing air to leak into the chamber until the chamber pressure is between about 10 Torr and about 25 Torr; and oxidizing hydrocarbons in the thermally conductive atmosphere. | 41,281 |
8,694,172 | 1. A controller for an electrical generator comprising: a filter component configured to receive a power grid frequency signal and to output the frequency signal when the frequency signal is outside a frequency band; a frequency response schedule component configured to determine an ultimate target power contribution based at least partly on the filtered frequency signal, wherein the ultimate target power contribution represents an ultimate amount of power contribution that the electrical generator should provide in a primary frequency response; and a flexible rate limiter component configured to determine and provide an immediate target power contribution signal that varies over time and approaches the ultimate target power contribution based at least in part on a rate-limiting schedule, wherein the immediate target power contribution signal is configured to cause the electrical generator to increase or decrease a power output by the electrical generator by an amount corresponding to the immediate target power contribution signal, wherein the rate-limiting schedule comprises a lookup table that correlates the immediate target power contribution signal and the ultimate target power contribution, and wherein the frequency response schedule component or the rate limiter component, or both, are configured such that the immediate target power contribution signal causes the electrical generator to behave as another generator. | 46,424 |
9,279,602 | 1. A system for measuring a real world structure to be provisioned with solar panels using images including the real world structure, the system comprising: a display unit configured to display a first image and a second image including the real world structure; metadata for the first image representing a scale of the first image with respect to the real world; a displayable, user-adjustable measuring tool capable of providing measurements adequate for installing a solar panel, the measuring tool calibrated in accordance with the scale such that user adjustment of the measuring tool with respect to the displayed first and second images of the real world structure provides a measurement of the real world structure, wherein the user adjustment of the measuring tool includes at least one of positioning, rotating, and scaling the measuring tool to match at least a portion of the real world structure in both the displayed first and second images when the adjusted measuring tool is superimposed over the real world structure in the displayed first and second images, wherein the second image is of a different direction than the first image. | 23,342 |
9,167,417 | 1. A method, comprising: adjusting functionality of an application of a user equipment, based on a first network insight received from a network element, wherein the first network insight comprises an indication of availability of acceleration of the application; determining at least one environmental condition corresponding to the user equipment; monitoring the at least one environmental condition; readjusting the functionality of the application when the at least one environmental condition meets a predetermined condition, wherein the predetermined condition comprises at least one threshold being exceeded with respect to the at least one environmental condition, wherein the readjusting comprises discontinuing or reducing prefetching; further monitoring the at least one environmental condition; and further readjusting the functionality of the application when the at least one environmental condition meets a second predetermined condition. | 5,181 |
9,793,777 | 1. A disk armature generator for generating electrical energy from rotational energy of a wind power turbine installation, wherein the disk armature generator comprises at least two stator components mutually offset axially along a generally horizontal rotation axis of the disk armature generator, and a disk armature with at least one ring- or disk-shaped rotor component which is mounted between the at least two stator components via at least one ball bearing comprising a radially inner connection element and a radially outer connection element, so as to be rotatable around the rotation axis of the disk armature generator, wherein a first one of the at least two stator components comprises a gearbox-side stator winding, wherein a second one of the at least two stator components comprises a tower-side stator winding, wherein the at least one ring- or disk-shaped rotor component comprises magnets between the gearbox-side stator winding and the tower-side stator winding, and wherein the rotor comprises an input-side connection for a planetary gearbox, wherein an output shaft of a sun gear of the planetary gearbox extends coaxially with the rotation axis of the disk armature and is coupled to the at least one ring- or disk-shaped rotor component of the disk armature, wherein the at least one ball bearing associated with the at least one ring- or disk-shaped rotor component of the disk armature is configured as a double-row angular contact ball bearing with two rows of balls having a contact angle of between 40° and 50° relative to the rotation axis of the disk armature generator, which double row angular contact ball bearing is supported by a housing of the generator, wherein the balls in both rows of balls roll along a respective raceway for each row, which raceways are formed on a common ring of the double-row angular contact ball bearing, which common ring of the double-row angular contact ball bearing with its both raceways is penetrated by the output shaft of the sun gear of the planetary gearbox, wherein the output shaft of the sun gear of the planetary gearbox is coupled to the at least one ring- or disk-shaped rotor component of the disk armature at a place beyond the ball bearing, and the output shaft of the sun gear of the planetary gearbox extends through the ball bearing, wherein the coupling between the output shaft of the sun gear of the planetary gearbox and the at least one ring- or disk-shaped rotor component of the at least one disk armature is implemented by means of at least one device for elastic force transmission arranged inside the generator rotatably about the rotation axis of the disk armature generator, wherein the device for elastic force transmission comprises at least two rotating elements, at least one of which comprises a shaft ring or a coupling disc. | 44,753 |
8,647,071 | 1. A turbine blade extending radially between a blade root and a blade tip, comprising: an open cavity formed in the blade tip, which cavity is defined by a closed end wall and a side rim, the closed end wall being free of an orifice, wherein the side rim of the cavity carries at least one rib extending between a leading edge and a trailing edge of the blade, wherein the at least one rib is set back from the blade tip in a radial direction of the blade, wherein the at least one rib projects from the side rim so as to define a groove between the closed end wall and the at least one rib, and wherein the at least one rib causes, while working, a turbulent structure having three levels of gas flow in the radial direction. | 33,821 |
8,654,982 | 1. A method for transmitting data over a wireless Radio Frequency (RF) link, the method comprising: splitting a single multi-channel data block into multiple single-channel data blocks, each given single-channel data block of the multiple single-channel data blocks corresponding to a different respective channel; processing the multiple single-channel data blocks independently to generate corresponding single-channel data packets; and transmitting each given single-channel data packet over the wireless RF interface to a different respective sink device that corresponds to the respective channel corresponding to the given single-channel data block. | 31,007 |
8,525,363 | 1. A hydrokinetic water turbine system configured to be placed in a flowing stream of water, said water turbine system comprising, in combination: a frame structure; | 25,147 |
8,776,808 | 1. A dishwashing machine, comprising: a spray arm, a sump chamber positioned below the spray arm for collecting fluid and soil particles, a porous sheet enclosing a hollow interior and operable to rotate about an imaginary axis which extends substantially horizontal, a portion of the porous sheet extends into the sump chamber, an outlet positioned in a wall of the sump chamber and open to the hollow interior, a wash pump coupled to the outlet, wherein the wash pump is operable to recirculate fluid through the porous sheet into the hollow interior, and a scraper in contact with the porous sheet and configured to scrape soil particles from the porous sheet as the fluid is recirculated. | 12,115 |
8,465,746 | 1. A method for eliciting an immune response in an subject, comprising: administering a composition to a subject such that said subject manifests an immune response, wherein said composition comprises an isolated protein selected from the group consisting of: i) an isolated peptide comprising the amino acid sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NO: 17, or ii) an isolated protein comprising the amino acid sequence selected from SEQ ID NOs: 7-12. | 17,121 |
8,583,048 | 1. A method for reducing communication interference in a wireless network, said method comprising: identifying a plurality of neighbor nodes with respect to a central node; sending a first communication signal to said plurality of neighbor nodes, wherein said communication signal is only sent to nodes considered as said plurality of neighbor nodes by said central node; based on said first communication signal, when said central node is transmitting data with one of said plurality of nodes in a channel, the other nodes of said plurality of nodes do not send data in said channel, thereby reducing interference in said wireless network; and adjusting a transmission power for transmitting said first communication signal, wherein said transmission power is a sum of a maximum loss value between said central node and said plurality of neighbor nodes and a signal-to-noise ratio. | 44,113 |
9,555,418 | 1. A method for recovering a target material from an aqueous stream, comprising: providing an extractant formulation comprising naphtha and a high molecular weight hydrophobic polymer, wherein the high molecular weight hydrophobic polymer is dissolved in the naphtha; adding the extractant formulation to the aqueous stream to form an admixed fluid, wherein the admixed fluid separates by gravity separation alone into an aqueous layer and an extractant layer, wherein the extractant layer contains the target material and the naptha; separating the extractant layer from the aqueous layer; and recovering the target material from the extractant layer using solid-liquid separation. | 22,414 |
8,834,789 | 1. A fluid treatment system comprising; a housing with a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet for a process fluid; an irradiation zone disposed between the fluid inlet and fluid outlet; and at least one radiation source module comprising at least one radiation source comprising a discharge vessel with an outer wall and an inner wall, the inner wall enclosing an internal volume with at least one opening and at least one electrode for igniting and maintaining a discharge, the radiation source module also comprising a submersible frame with a cap having an inlet port and an outlet port for guiding the process fluid from an inlet port at a first side of the radiation source into the internal volume of the radiation source for flowing in a first direction towards a second side of the radiation source and for guiding the process fluid to flow in a second direction from the second side to an outlet port at the first side for exit out of the internal volume of the radiation source, wherein the second direction is different from the first direction. | 5,173 |
8,810,796 | 1. A method of processing light, comprising: a. receiving a first portion of light from a source of said light; b. masking a portion of said first portion of said light so as to form a masked first portion of said light so as to prevent said portion of said first portion of said light from propagating with a remainder of said first portion of said light in said masked first portion of said light; c. receiving at least one second portion of said light, wherein said at least one second portion of said light is subject to scattering by a medium from a corresponding at least one interaction region of said medium, said at least one second portion of said light is generated by said source of said light prior to being subject to said scattering by said medium, and said first portion of said light is not subject to said scattering by said medium from said at least one interaction region of said medium; d. combining said masked first portion of said light with said at least one second portion of said light along a substantially common direction of propagation; e. generating a first interference pattern from said masked first portion of said light; and f. generating at least one second interference pattern from said at least one second portion of said light, wherein said masked first portion of said light is configured so that said first and said at least one second interference patterns are substantially mutually exclusive, and said first interference pattern would otherwise overlap said at least one second interference pattern if the operation of combining was performed absent the operation of masking said portion of said first portion of said light. | 26,613 |
8,449,243 | 1. A method for axially displacing a turbine rotor relative to a corresponding turbine stator in a multistage axial turbine, comprising the steps of: determining an actual axial position of the turbine rotor; determining a displacement path; displacing the turbine rotor; and electronically regulating the displacement path via user-defined parameters with a closed control circuit. | 6,463 |
9,787,185 | 1. A boost converter, comprising: input terminals configured to receive an input voltage; output terminals configured to provide an output voltage; at least one electronic power switch; a voltage control circuit comprising: wherein said enablement signal comprises a plurality of pulses such that said voltage divider is periodically connected to said output terminals for a first time and disconnected from said output terminals for a second time; wherein said voltage control circuit comprises a storage element configured to: wherein said control unit comprises: wherein said storage element comprises a latch or flip-flop interposed between said detection unit and said driver circuit; and wherein said timer circuit is configured to generate a further enablement signal, and wherein said storage element is configured for storing said value indicative of said feedback voltage as a function of said further enablement signal. | 31,314 |
9,076,026 | 1. A biometric information processing apparatus comprising: a biometric information acquiring unit that generates a biometric image representing biometric information of a plurality of fingers of a user; and a processor adapted to extract a biometric region capturing biometric information of each of the plurality of fingers in the biometric image; obtain a first distance between the biometric regions corresponding to two adjacent fingers of the plurality of fingers; and estimate an angle of spread between the two adjacent fingers according to a ratio of a value obtained by subtracting a distance between bases of the two fingers from the first distance, to a length from a base of one of the two adjacent fingers to the biometric information. | 16,979 |
9,714,234 | 1. A compound of Formula (I): or a salt thereof, wherein: Q is: R R R R R R R | 41,716 |
9,546,245 | 1. A preparation method of a chlorinated poly(propylene carbonate), comprising: mixing a poly(propylene carbonate) with a first dispersant and a first initiator, wherein the first initiator is one or more selected from a peroxide, an azo compound, tert-butyl perbenzoate, potassium persulfate, sodium sulfite, N,N-dimethylaniline, N,N-dimethyl-p-toluidine, and N,N-di(2-hydroxyethyl) p-toluidine, and introducing chlorine for performing reaction to obtain a chlorinated poly(propylene carbonate) represented by formula (I): wherein x is an integer of 0-3; y is an integer of 0-2; and n is degree of polymerization. | 38,177 |
9,490,399 | 1. A light-emitting device incorporating a light-emitting element, wherein light emitted from the light-emitting device includes, in a main radiant direction thereof, light whose distance D if a spectral power distribution of light emitted from the light-emitting device in the radiant direction is denoted by φ if a normalized spectral power distribution S a wavelength that produces a longest wavelength local maximum value of S an index A | 35,449 |
8,375,875 | 1. An LNG carrier having an LNG loading and unloading system, comprising: a submerged turret loading (STL) system for introducing and discharging a natural gas; a liquefaction plant for liquefying the natural gas introduced through the submerged turret loading system into a cryogenic liquefied natural gas; at least one self-supporting storage tank installed in the LNG carrier for storing the liquefied natural gas, the self-supporting storage tank arranged in such a manner that the liquefied natural gas is loaded to and unloaded from the LNG carrier through the self-supporting storage tank; at least one membrane type storage tank arranged in a neighboring relationship with the self-supporting storage tank, the membrane type storage tank kept in fluid communication with the self-supporting storage tank; and a regasification plant for regasifying the liquefied natural gas stored in the self-supporting storage tank. | 31,261 |
8,756,335 | 1. A method implemented in a stream-based computing system with load shedding, the method comprising: receiving streaming data to be processed by a first operator within a first processing element of the stream-based computing system; processing, at the first operator, a plurality of tuples of the streaming data; upon determining at least one workload condition for load shedding tuples has been satisfied, discarding one or more tuples of the streaming data as they are received and before being processed at the first operator; for each of the one or more discarded tuples, generating one or more respective estimated values, based on the one or more discarded tuples and the plurality of processed tuples, wherein the one or more estimated values approximate output values for the one or more discarded tuples had the one or more discarded tuples been processed at the first operator; and transmitting the estimated values to a downstream operator in the stream-based computing system, wherein the downstream operator is a punctuation operation, comprising: | 13,272 |
9,032,755 | 1. Cooling apparatus comprising: a solar heat collection means; two or more absorption refrigeration modules, each module being arranged to receive heat from the heat collection means and to re-circulate refrigerant through an evaporator; and means for putting a fluid to be cooled into thermal contact with each of the evaporators, each module has: a. a generator containing a solution of refrigerant in a liquid, the generator configured to receive heat from the heat collector and to cause evaporation of the refrigerant; b. only a single bubble pump configured to pump the liquid from the generator to an absorber; c. a condenser configured to receive gaseous refrigerant from the generator and to condense the same; d. an evaporator; e. means for passing liquid refrigerant from the condenser to the evaporator; f. said absorber is configured to receive gaseous refrigerant from the evaporator, absorbing the received gaseous refrigerant from the evaporator into the liquid from the bubble pump and returning the liquid to the generator; and g. a casing enclosing elements a-f and further including means for attaching said modules together. | 44,520 |
9,072,868 | 1. A system for delivering an antimicrobial agent into the lumen of a trans-dermal catheter, the system comprising: a luer connector configured to sealingly fit over proximal end of a trans-dermal catheter and immediately seal the proximal end of the trans-dermal catheter, the luer connector having an outside diameter; an elongate member secured to the luer connector, the elongate member configured for insertion into a lumen of the trans-dermal catheter, the elongate member providing sufficient column strength to allow insertion into the lumen, and the elongate member having a diameter less than the outside diameter of the luer connector and less than the diameter of the lumen of the trans-dermal catheter, such that the depth of insertion of the elongate member into the lumen of the luer connector catheter is limited by the luer connector; the elongate member having first and second portions, the first portion intermediate the luer connector and the second portion, wherein the second portion comprises an expandable section having an initial diameter upon insertion into the lumen of less than the internal diameter of the lumen, and the second portion configured to increase in diameter upon exposure to an aqueous fluid such that the second portion has a diameter greater than the diameter of the first portion after increasing in diameter upon exposure to an aqueous fluid, and the second portion has a diameter substantially equal to the diameter of the lumen after the second portion increases in diameter; such that a contained volume is defined between the luer connector and second portion of the elongate member; and an antimicrobial agent positioned to be delivered into the contained volume defined between the luer connector and second portion of the elongate member; wherein the elongate member can be removed from the transdermal catheter by removing the luer connector configured to sealingly fit over the proximal end of the trans-dermal catheter; and wherein the length of the first portion of the elongate member is greater than the length of the second portion of the elongate member. | 33,025 |
9,297,021 | 1. A transgenic plant, or parts thereof, with increased biomass compared to a non-transformed plant of the same variety, or parts thereof wherein substantially all cells of the plant have been transformed with a construct comprising a heterologous, constitutive promoter operably linked to a nucleic acid encoding a protein comprising SEQ ID NO:8. | 27,722 |
9,336,082 | 1. A method for operating an electronic device comprising a persistent main memory, the method comprising: rebooting a processor that is configured to access the persistent main memory, wherein rebooting is performed in response to an occurrence of a disruptive event experienced by the processor; and subsequently determining validity of a base table maintained in the persistent main memory, wherein if the base table is invalid, the processor is rebooted so that the base table is reloaded from an external drive, and wherein if the base table is valid, an individual page referenced by the validated base page table is validated, and if the individual page is not valid, reload the individual page from the external drive. | 26,562 |
9,099,923 | 1. A hybrid power supply architecture for converting an input power into an output power supplied to an external load, comprising: a microcontroller; a linear regulator for receiving the input power and performing linear regulation under control of the microcontroller to convert the input power into a linear output power; a first current sensing unit for sensing a loading current related to the linear output power so as to generate a first sensing signal representative of a loading state corresponding to the linear output power; a switching regulator for receiving the input power and performing switching regulation under control of the microcontroller to convert the input power into a switching output power; a second current sensing unit for sensing a loading current related to the switching output power so as to generate a second sensing signal representative of a loading state corresponding to the switching output power; and a hybrid output stage for receiving and combining the linear output power and the switching output power into the output power and providing a current isolation effect to prevent respective currents of the linear output power and the switching output power from interfering with each other, wherein the microcontroller receives the first and second sensing signals so as to determine the loading state of the linear output power is light or heavy, and the loading state of the switching output power is light or heavy such that the linear regulator and/or the switching regulator is turned on or turned off. | 29,153 |
8,434,447 | 1. A double-plenum or double-chamber inlet manifold or splitter, made up of a structural unit comprising two distinct coupled plenums with a common wall therebetween, an inlet opening for each of the two plenums and several pipes through each of the said plenums, the said superimposed plenums extending in a longitudinal direction of the manifold and having substantially flattened general structures and forming, with their respectively connected inlet openings and pipes, two independent circulation circuits running from the entrance at the inlet openings to the outlet at the external openings of the pipes, the the said external or outlet openings of the pipes being grouped in pairs, with each pair having an opening of each of the two types of pipes, the manifold comprising two one-piece parts assembled together, in a gas-tight manner, at continuous assembly areas, a first part including at least the two inlet openings and first portions of the said common wall and walls of the two plenums, contiguous to the said openings and the second part including the pipes and second portions of the said common wall and walls of the two plenums, contiguous to the said pipes and complementary to the first portions, the respective assembly interfaces of the two consecutive parts being formed on mutually in-contact complementary edge configurations of the said two parts, and in that the two parts each comprise a thermoplastic material, of the same type or compatible with each other, and in that they are assembled together by welding, for example by vibration- or infrared-welding. | 36,261 |
9,306,491 | 1. An electrical test apparatus for testing a photovoltaic component, comprising: an enclosure comprising a lid configured to be placed in an open position and a closed position and wherein the closed position applies force to the photovoltaic component positioned within the enclosure; a first conducting layer disposed within the enclosure; and a second conducting layer attached to the lid and disposed within the enclosure at least when the lid is in the closed position; wherein when the lid is in the closed position and electrical power is applied to the photovoltaic component positioned between and in contact with the first and second conducting layers, the first and second conducting layers are configured to conduct any leakage current from the photovoltaic component to a current measuring device. | 17,040 |
9,768,330 | 1. An integrated structure comprising: a first photonic device formed of a first polysilicon material; a second photonic device formed of a second polysilicon material, different from the first polysilicon material, wherein the first polysilicon material and second polysilicon material are coplanar in the integrated structure and have different optical properties, wherein the first and second polysilicon materials reside on a common physical layer of the integrated structure; and an electronic circuit comprising at least one transistor, wherein a gate of the at least one transistor is formed of the first polysilicon material. | 32,861 |
8,513,383 | 1. A method of selectively extracting algal proteins from a saltwater algal biomass comprising intact algal cells or saltwater algal culture comprising intact algal cells, the method comprising: a. providing a saltwater algal biomass comprising intact algal cells or saltwater algal culture comprising intact algal cells that comprise globulin proteins, albumin proteins, glutelin proteins, and prolamin proteins; b. heating and mixing the saltwater algal biomass comprising the intact algal cells or saltwater algal culture comprising the intact algal cells to generate a first heated extraction mixture comprised of a first liquid fraction comprising globulin proteins, and a first algal biomass fraction comprising the intact algal cells comprising albumin proteins, glutelin proteins, and prolamin proteins; c. separating the first liquid fraction comprising globulin proteins, from the first algal biomass fraction comprising the intact algal cells; d. mixing the first algal biomass fraction comprising intact algal cells with water and heating to generate a second heated extraction mixture comprised of a second liquid fraction comprising albumin proteins, and a second algal biomass fraction comprising the intact algal cells comprising glutelin proteins and prolamin proteins; e. separating the second liquid fraction comprising albumin proteins, from the second algal biomass fraction comprising the intact algal cells; f. mixing the second algal biomass fraction comprising the intact algal cells with water and heating to generate a third heated extraction mixture comprised of a third liquid fraction and a third algal biomass fraction comprising the intact algal cells; g. raising the pH of the third heated extraction mixture; h. separating the third liquid fraction, comprising glutelin proteins, from the third algal biomass fraction comprising the intact algal cells comprising prolamin proteins; i. mixing the third biomass fraction comprising the intact algal cells with a solvent set to generate a fourth extraction mixture comprised of a fourth liquid fraction comprising prolamin proteins and a fourth algal biomass fraction comprising the intact algal cells; j. heating the fourth extraction mixture; k. separating at the fourth liquid fraction comprising prolamin proteins, from the fourth algal biomass fraction comprising the intact algal cells, wherein the first liquid fraction has a higher concentration of globulin proteins than the second, third and fourth liquid fractions, and the second liquid fraction has a higher concentration of albumin proteins than the first, third, and fourth liquid fractions, and the third liquid fraction has a higher concentration of glutelin proteins than the first, second, and fourth liquid fractions, and the fourth liquid fraction has a higher concentration of prolamin proteins than the first, second, and third liquid fractions. | 20,866 |
9,430,025 | 1. A method for operating an automated analysis device in a standby mode, the automated analysis device comprising a central control unit and a standby control unit, the method having the following method steps: providing AC power from an AC hub to the central control unit, operating a cooling unit for reagents with the central control unit, providing the AC power from the AC hub to a DC hub comprising a power supply unit, providing DC power from the power supply unit to the standby control unit, starting up the standby control unit, operating the cooling unit with the standby control unit, storing at least one established system state of the automated analysis device in the central control unit, and shutting down the central control unit. | 28,302 |
9,371,379 | 1. A method for treating a symptom of cerebral malaria, the method comprising administering to a patient in need thereof a pharmaceutical composition comprising a therapeutically effective amount of an isolated antibody or antigen-binding fragment thereof that specifically binds human angiopoietin-2 (hAng-2) but does not substantially bind hAng-1, and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, wherein the antibody or antigen-binding fragment thereof comprises a heavy chain CDR-1 (HCDR1) having the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:4, an HCDR-2 having the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:6, an HCDR-3 having the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:8, a light chain CDR-1 (LCDR-1) having the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:12, an LCDR-2 having the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:14, and an LCDR-3 having the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:16. | 27,285 |
9,215,426 | 1. An imaging apparatus comprising: an imaging unit to collect light input through a lens and sensing an image continuously; a storage unit to store an acquisition condition and the continuously sensed images; a control unit to designate a plurality of objects in one of the continuously stored images, to analyze respective motion of the plurality of objects in the continuously stored images, and to predict a moment of acquisition at which the motion corresponds to the acquisition condition; and a shutter control unit to control the imaging unit to perform imaging at the predicted moment of acquisition, wherein the acquisition condition is a condition set to perform the acquisition at a time point where collision occurs between the plurality of objects, and wherein the control unit calculates moving traces and moving speeds of the plurality of objects and determines the time point where it is predicted that the collision occurs between the plurality of objects as the moment of acquisition. | 7,133 |
9,350,943 | 1. A method comprising: receiving a video at a first device; receiving at the first device an indication that the video was selected by a user of a second device from a set of pre-recorded videos; and causing the video to be displayed, via a display, in conjunction with an indication that the video was selected by the user of the second device from a set of pre-recorded videos. | 42,809 |
9,805,121 | 1. A method, implemented at least partly by a device, for processing one or more database requests in a database environment that includes multiple database systems that differ with respect to at least one of: one or more database capabilities, one or more representations of data, and one or more interfaces provided for accessing the database systems, the method comprising: receiving at least one database request associated with data of one or more of the multiple database systems; and processing the at least one database request by at least one of the database systems in consideration of at least one of the differences between the multiple database systems by performing at least the following: determining whether the at least one database request can be independently processed by at least one the database systems; and creating a link between two or more of the database systems in order to process the least one database request when the determining determines that none of the database systems can independently process the at least one database request. | 8,330 |
9,134,432 | 1. A radiation imaging apparatus comprising: a sensor array in which a plurality of sensors configured to output signals corresponding to irradiated radiation are arranged to form a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns; a driving unit configured to drive the sensor array; a detection unit configured to detect radiation; and a processing unit configured to process signals from the sensor array, wherein the driving unit is configured to drive the sensor array, so as to initialize the plurality of sensors for each row repeatedly at least until the detection unit detects irradiation of radiation, and so as to read out, from the plurality of sensors for each row sequentially, signals each of which corresponds to an amount of charges accumulated after final initialization of the corresponding sensor, and wherein the processing unit is configured | 12,762 |
8,492,592 | 1. A method for transaminating a reactant compound comprising the step of contacting the reactant compound with a catalyst composition comprising: (a) a support portion comprising an acidic mixed metal oxide comprising a transitional alumina and a second metal oxide wherein the second metal oxide has a weight percentage that is less than the weight percentage of alumina; and (b) a catalyst portion comprising nickel and rhenium, wherein (i) the catalyst portion is 25 weight percent or less of the catalyst composition, (ii) the catalyst portion comprises nickel in an amount in the range of 2 to 20 weight percent, based upon total catalyst composition weight, and (iii) there is no boron in the catalyst portion, and (iv) the catalyst portion is deposited as a shell structure on the support portion in a manner effective to provide a localized concentration of nickel and rhenium on an outer surface of the catalyst composition, wherein the reactant compound becomes transaminated to an aminated product. | 6,204 |
9,425,472 | 1. An apparatus that diagnoses a failure in a fuel cell stack, the apparatus comprising: an alternating current (AC) absorption unit connected to the fuel cell stack and switched based on an applied AC signal to enable a current from the fuel cell stack to flow; an AC signal generator configured to generate the AC signal and supply the generated AC signal to the AC absorption unit; and a processor configured to: | 24,582 |
9,077,586 | 1. A vehicle control module within a vehicle, comprises: a plurality of vehicle devices, each operable to perform a respective vehicle function; a plurality of vehicle network interfaces, each operably coupled to a respective one of the plurality of vehicle devices and to Ethernet network fabric within the vehicle, wherein the vehicle network interfaces facilitate communication regarding the vehicle functions between the vehicle devices and the Ethernet network fabric in accordance with an Ethernet communication protocol; a switching circuit module coupled between the plurality of vehicle network interfaces and the Ethernet network fabric, the switching circuit module operable to arbitrate access to the Ethernet network fabric among the plurality of vehicle network interfaces in accordance with a local network management function; and a network port coupled between the switching circuit module and an Ethernet link of the Ethernet network fabric. | 36,563 |
9,130,430 | 1. An electric machine comprising: a core with a plurality of slots; a plurality of electric conductors positioned in the slots, each of the plurality of electric conductors including a U-turn portion extending between two in-slot portions and connection ends extending from the in-slot portions, the connection ends extending from an opposite end of the core from the U-turn portion, each of the plurality of electric conductors including a resin material providing an electrically insulating coating over the entire conductor extending along the U-turn portion and the in-slot portions but not included on tips of the connection ends, the plurality of electric conductors forming a multi-phase winding on the core; a plurality of insulation tubes positioned in each of the plurality of slots, each of the plurality of insulation tubes defining a single channel, the in-slot portions of the electric conductors extending through the insulation tubes with at least two in-slot portions of the plurality of electric conductors extending through each insulation tube, wherein each insulation tube in each slot separates a first group of electric conductors from a second group of electric conductors in the slot, the first group of electric conductors associated with a different phase of the multi-phase winding from the second group of electric conductors; and an inner layer lining the single channel of each insulation tube such that the inner layer is positioned in between the insulation tube and the at least two in-slot portions extending through the insulation tube, each inner layer comprised of a filler paper material, and each inner layer in contact with the at least two in-slot portions of the plurality of electric conductors extending through the insulation tube. | 22,313 |
8,790,152 | 1. A ramp for a ride-on toy comprising: a. a base adapted to be positioned on a surface, said base having a top, sidewalls and an interior space; b. an end ramp section adapted to be positioned on the surface; c. a middle ramp section removably connected between the base and the end ramp section; d. a ride-on toy sized to be ridden by a child; e. said end ramp section and said middle ramp section sized to allow the ride-on toy to be ridden down the middle and end ramp sections, and said ride-on toy, said middle ramp section and said end ramp section each sized to be removably positioned and stored together within the interior space of the base; and f. a step pivotally attached to the base, the step sized to provide a child access to the top of the base in a use position, the step configured to pivot from the use position to a storage position where the step assists in retaining the ride-on toy within the interior space of the base. | 18,156 |
8,508,964 | 1. A power converter comprising: a switching circuit, the switching circuit having a first switch with an associated antiparallel diode, a second switch with an associated antiparallel diode, a third switch with an associated antiparallel diode, and a fourth switch with an associated antiparallel diode, a comparator circuit, a switch logic device configured to receive input from the comparator circuit and a logic signal, and to send gate drive signals to each of the four switches, wherein the variable commanded current defines a duty-cycle boundary that introduces delay in switching a switch in the switching circuit for a duration that provides for the dissipation of charge in the antiparallel diode associated with the switch being switched, before the switch is switched. | 12,912 |
8,499,006 | 1. A data migration system for migrating data managed in a folder having a hierarchical structure from a source document management application to a destination document management application, which differs in an upper limit on the number of hierarchies from the source document management application, the data migration system comprising at least one processor communicatively-coupled to a memory, which functions as: a setting unit configured to change, when an inheritance setting of an access right set in a folder to be migrated in the source document management application is an inheritance setting for inheriting an access right to a parent folder, the inheritance setting in the folder to be migrated to an inheritance setting for setting an access right exclusively for the folder while setting a similar access right to the access right to the parent folder in the folder to be migrated; an export unit configured to export the folder to be migrated, data included in the folder, and information relating to an access right to the folder; an import unit configured to import, when a hierarchy including the folder to be migrated, which has been exported by the export unit, exceeds the upper limit on the number of hierarchies in the destination document management application, a folder under the hierarchy exceeding the upper limit and data included in the folder to a hierarchy shallower than the upper limit in the destination document management application; and a change unit configured to change, when an access right to the folder imported by the import unit, which has been analyzed based on the access right information, and an access right to a parent folder of the folder are equal to each other, an inheritance setting of the access right to the folder imported by the import unit to an inheritance setting for inheriting the access right to the parent folder. | 22,511 |
8,456,827 | 1. A computer, comprising: a base including an opening formed therein; a first hard disk drive (HDD) positioned in a housing of the base through the opening in a direction substantially perpendicular to a bottom surface of the base; a first door that encloses the first HDD inside the housing of the base; a second HDD separately positioned in the housing of the base through the opening in the direction substantially perpendicular to the bottom surface of the base after the first HDD is positioned in the housing of the base such that the computer includes both the first HDD and the second HDD; and a second door that encloses the first and second HDDs inside the housing of the base, wherein the first door connects to the housing when the computer includes the first HDD without the second HDD, wherein the second door replaces the first door and connects to the housing when the computer includes both the first HDD and the second HDD, and wherein the second door has a cavity shaped to receive the second HDD. | 43,150 |
8,854,336 | 1. A light guide module, applied in an optical touch module, the optical touch module having a touch area, a sensor, and a lighting component, the sensor located on a first corner of the touch area, the lighting component utilized for providing a light, the light guide module and the lighting component disposed on a first side of the touch area for evenly distributing the light provided by the lighting component to the touch area, the light guide module comprising: a light guide component, for guiding the light to diffuse along the light guide component, comprising: a focusing component, for focusing the light emitted from the light-emitting surface so as to urge the light evenly distributed in the touch area; and a holder, coupled to the focusing component for covering and fixing the light guide component; wherein the holder and the focusing component are integrated together. | 47,181 |
9,793,516 | 1. A light extraction substrate disposed on one surface of an organic light-emitting diode through which light from the organic light-emitting diode is emitted, comprising: a base substrate; a photonic crystal pattern disposed on the base substrate; and a planarization layer disposed on the photonic crystal pattern, one surface of the planarization layer adjoining an organic light-emitting diode, wherein a number of air voids having random shapes and sizes are irregularly distributed between the photonic crystal and the planarization layer. | 18,246 |
8,708,043 | 1. An apparatus to fluidly couple to a casing string, the apparatus comprising: a fill-up and circulating tool having a flow path extending therethrough, the fill-up and circulating tool configured to fluidly seal internally within an upper end of the casing string, wherein at least one of a torque sub and a rotational sub is connected to the fill-up and circulating tool. | 2,911 |
9,771,736 | 1. A barricade comprising: a frame having a top edge, a left edge, a right edge, and a bottom edge; the bottom edge having a front side and a back side opposite the front side, the bottom edge being generally disposed along an axis; and a first support and a second support, each support proximate to the bottom edge and positioned generally perpendicular to the bottom edge, each support being non-removably and non-rotatably attached to the frame, each support comprising: the first support and the second support being in a generally parallel orientation to each other. | 20,825 |
8,657,700 | 1. A club head set comprising: two or more club heads, each comprising: wherein: | 13,241 |
8,764,000 | 1. An apparatus for aligning a pressure tapping tool, the apparatus comprising: a base; an engagement portion of said base, said engagement portion for engaging a component to limit relative movement between said base and the component; at least one guide mounted adjacent said base, wherein positioning a pressure tapping tool against said at least one guide aligns the pressure tapping tool for pressure tapping the component; and a compressible material for positioning between said engagement portion and the component, said compressible material at least partially compressed when said engagement portion engages the component, wherein said engagement portion includes an edge portion defining an aperture, said edge portion surrounding an extension of said compressible material, and said extension contacts said edge portion to limit relative movement between said compressible material and said engagement portion. | 5,234 |
9,301,464 | 1. Hybrid pepper seed designated as ‘E20S12779’, representative samples of seeds having been deposited under ATCC Accession Number PTA-121387. | 44,951 |
9,101,898 | 1. A gas generator for nitrous oxide decomposition comprising: a reaction chamber for accepting nitrous oxide at a first port and for releasing gas from the nitrous oxide decomposition at a second port, the reaction chamber having an interior and an exterior chamber wall, the interior chamber wall for constraining the nitrous oxide decomposition reaction and the exterior chamber wall defining a jacket between it and the interior chamber wall; and the jacket at least partially enveloping the reaction chamber, an interior surface of the exterior chamber wall and an exterior surface of the interior chamber wall defining one or more channels between the interior chamber wall and the exterior chamber wall, the one or more channels for transporting the nitrous oxide within the jacket from the first port of the reaction chamber and for facilitating the transfer of heat generated during the nitrous oxide decomposition to an incoming source of nitrous oxide, wherein the size and shape of the one or more channels are configured to provide a residence time of the nitrous oxide in the jacket that is shorter than the reaction time of nitrous oxide in the jacket, the incoming source of nitrous oxide being preheated to more efficiently decompose within the gas generator; and a catalyst configured to reduce the temperature required for the nitrous oxide decomposition; wherein the reaction chamber is regeneratively cooled by the incoming source of nitrous oxide. | 5,413 |
9,731,453 | 1. A method of fabricating a composite assembly, including: providing a first laminate and a second laminate respectively formed of first and second composite plies and having a respective first and second cured section and a respective first and second uncured section; interleaving at least one of the first composite plies in the first uncured section with the second composite plies in the second uncured section to form an interfacial region, the interleaving of the at least one of the first composite plies with the second composite plies forming an interleaved ply; laying up one or more splice plies over the interleaved ply in the interfacial region, the splice plies being different plies from those of the first laminate and the second laminate; and curing the interfacial region to join the first laminate to the second laminate and form a unitized composite assembly. | 3,072 |
8,623,692 | 1. A method for manufacturing a solar cell, comprising: forming an amorphous silicon layer on a first surface of a light absorbing layer, the light absorbing layer being made of crystalline silicon; forming a dopant on the amorphous silicon layer; forming a dopant layer by diffusing the dopant into the amorphous silicon layer with a laser; removing the dopant that remains on the amorphous silicon layer outside the dopant layer; etching to remove a portion of a surface of the amorphous silicon layer by using an etchant, a remaining portion of the amorphous silicon layer corresponding to a semiconductor layer; forming a first electrode on the semiconductor layer; and forming a second electrode on a second surface of the light absorbing layer. | 11,612 |
8,410,745 | 1. A controller for a motor which is powered by a direct-current power source via a multi-phase inverter circuit composed of switch portions having switch elements and feedback diodes connected in parallel to the switch elements disposed at a positive polarity side and a negative polarity side of an arm of each phase, comprising: a short-circuit failure detecting member configured to detect an occurrence of a short-circuit failure which causes any switch portion in the inverter circuit to be in a continual conducted state during the operation of the motor; a short circuit failure polarity determining member configured to determine whether a short-circuit failure switch portion in which an occurrence of a short-circuit failure has been detected by the short-circuit failure detecting member is on the positive polarity side or on the negative polarity side; a short-circuit failure controlling member configured to control each of other switch element of the other switch portions except at least the short-circuit failure switch portion among the switch portions in the inverter circuit in such a way that a first group of the switch portions among the switch portions on the same polarity side as the short-circuit failure switch portion determined by the short-circuit failure polarity determining member are in a conducted state and the switch elements of a second group of the switch portions among the other switch portions on the different polarity side from the short-circuit failure switch portion are in a disconnected state; and a phase current detecting member configured to detect a phase current of each phase of the motor, wherein the short-circuit failure polarity determining member determines whether the short-circuit failure switch portion is on the positive polarity side or on the negative polarity side according to a direction of each phase current detected by the phase current detecting member after short-circuit failure polarity determining member has set a power source switch disposed in a power distribution path between the direct-current power source and the inverter circuit in the disconnected state and has output a control signal to all the switch elements in the inverter circuit to set the switch element in the disconnected state. | 35,450 |
9,270,648 | 1. A method of operating an electronic device, the method comprising: enabling, by a processor of the electronic device, a shared secret to be sent to a contact to initiate a key exchange to protect messages exchanged in an instant messaging conversation, the shared secret being sent using a communication medium other than instant messaging; after the shared secret has been sent, displaying, on a display of the electronic device, a pending protected instant messaging conversation user interface prior to receiving a confirmation associated with receipt of the shared secret by the contact, the pending protected instant messaging conversation user interface comprising an option to resend the shared secret; and displaying, on the display of the electronic device, at least one notification in the pending protected instant messaging conversation user interface, the at least one notification comprising a status associated with the confirmation of the shared secret. | 4,776 |
8,923,534 | 1. An earphone comprising: a thermoacoustic device comprising a substrate comprising a first surface defining a plurality of grooves, a second surface opposite to the first surface, and a sound wave generator on the first surface, wherein the sound wave generator is partially suspended over the plurality of grooves a loudspeaker, the loudspeaker comprising a housing configured to accommodate the thermoacoustic device; a signal processor electrically connected to the loudspeaker and configured to provide signals to the loudspeaker; an audio input port electrically connected to the signal processor and configured to provide audio signals; a power supply device electrically connected to the signal processor and configured to provide driving currents. | 42,007 |
8,692,171 | 1. A system for controlling an aerial vehicle to a target, the system comprising: an acquisition sensor including an optical receiver for detecting a target; a navigation system including an inertial measurement system for detecting pitch, roll, and yaw of the aerial vehicle, and an inertial navigational system to determine position, orientation, and velocity of the aerial vehicle, said navigation system further comprises an autopilot system storing a flight path for said aerial vehicle, said autopilot is adapted to utilize said position, orientation, and velocity to navigate said aerial vehicle along a flight path to a search area; a trigger sensor comprising a plurality of signal emitters adapted to emit a plurality of target detection signals in a plurality of directions over a portion of a spherical area forward of said aerial vehicle and a plurality of signal receivers adapted to receive one or more of said plurality of target detection signals upon reflection from the target, said trigger sensor is configured to generate a signal in response to a predefined stimulus comprising detection of at least one of said plurality of target detection signals reflected from said target that are above a predetermined signal strength threshold that is detected by at least one of said plurality of signal receivers; a video processor coupled to an output of said acquisition sensor, wherein said acquisition sensor is further adapted to capture and route a plurality of images to said video processor, wherein said video processor is further adapted to autonomously select said target based on a first and second target comparison and substantial match determination, wherein said first target comparison and substantial match determination is based on a comparison and substantial match of said output of said plurality of images with one of a plurality of first filter data by said video processor, said plurality of first filter data comprises a plurality of images respectively associated with a plurality of desired targets, said second filter data library comprises a plurality of mask forms and pattern recognition elements associated with each of said plurality of desired targets, said plurality of mask forms or pattern recognition elements including a plurality of heat mask data associated with one or more said desired targets; and a controller including a flight control system for adjusting flight control surfaces and guiding the aerial vehicle, the controller is in communication with a plurality of systems comprising the acquisition sensor, the video processor, the navigation system, and the trigger sensor, wherein the controller activates a search mode directing the acquisition sensor to commence said detecting the target upon reaching said search area as determined by the navigation system, the controller causes the aerial vehicle to navigate according to a search route upon activation of the search mode, the controller further adjusts the flight control surfaces to reposition the detected and selected target within the center of the collector grid of the acquisition sensor after detection and selection of the target. | 47,592 |
9,366,007 | 1. A construction machine comprising: an automotive lower traveling structure; an upper revolving structure which is revolvably loaded on said lower traveling structure; and a working mechanism which is tiltably provided on the front side of said upper revolving structure at an intermediate position in a left-right direction, wherein: said upper revolving structure is equipped with a revolving frame located on the front side and provided with mounting brackets adapted to mount said working mechanism to the intermediate position in the left-right direction via a connecting pin, and an oil storage tank a front end of which is located more rearward than said mounting brackets of said revolving frame and which is arranged by being put aside to one side in the left-right direction of said revolving frame, a first accommodating case which is located more forward than said storage tank and is small in a height dimension of an upper surface is provided on one side in the left-right direction of said revolving frame, a second accommodating case the position of an upper surface of which is higher than said upper surface of said first accommodating case and lower than an upper surface of said oil storage tank is provided on the rear side of said upper surface of said first accommodating case or between said first accommodating case and said oil storage tank, an article accommodating space for accommodating articles is defined in one accommodating case of said first accommodating case and said second accommodating case, and a reducing agent tank which is located in a tank accommodating space and stores a liquid reducing agent is provided in the other accommodating case of said first accommodating case and said second accommodating case. | 7,638 |
9,018,784 | 1. A wind turbine control method comprising: a rotor that in turn comprises a plurality of blades, an electricity generator connected to the grid, a power train, a nacelle, at least one control unit, and a blade pitch system configured to control the pitch angle of each blade, wherein the method comprises capturing at least one signal indicative of the state of the grid wherein said signal may be indicative of a voltage dip, said method being characterised in that it comprises: calculating a minimum dip pitch rate limit (Δβ/Δt)min lower than a maximum design pitch rate limit (Δβ/Δt)max, and in that it comprises, in the event that the signal indicative of the state of the grid indicates the presence of a voltage dip: calculating at least one signal indicative of a forward/backward oscillation of the nacelle, calculating a tower damping pitch rate signal in accordance with the signal indicative of the forward/backward acceleration of the nacelle, and calculating a pitch rate command based on the tower damping pitch rate command and on the minimum dip pitch rate limit (Δβ/Δt)min. | 27,542 |
9,095,271 | 1. Apparatus for monitoring at least one electrical property of an organ of a subject, comprising: an input unit for receiving input radiofrequency signals sensed from the organ; a signal processing unit for processing said input radiofrequency signals to provide processed input signals, said processing unit comprising a phase shift determinator configured for determining a phase shift of said input signal relative to an output radiofrequency signal transmitted to the organ; a filtering unit configured for filtering said processed signals using dynamically variable band pass filter having a lower frequency bound and an upper frequency bound, wherein at least one of said frequency bounds is adapted in response to a change in a physiological condition of the subject, to thereby provide filtered signals, wherein said physiological condition is a heart rate of the subject and wherein at least one of said lower frequency bound and said upper frequency bound is a linear function of said heart rate; and a data processor for calculating at least one quantity based on said phase shift, wherein said at least one quantity is selected from the group consisting of a stroke volume, a cardiac output, a brain intra luminal blood volume and blood flow. | 35,702 |
9,631,974 | 1. A photoarray, comprising: a plurality of cells ( each of said cells ( each of said cells ( the photoarray ( each cell ( | 7,629 |
8,704,273 | 1. A semiconductor device comprising: a plurality of transistor regions formed over a common substrate and being isolated from each other by an isolation region; each of the plurality of transistor regions including: a hole extracting electrode provided on the nitride semiconductor layer having the (000-1) face. | 13,145 |
9,719,700 | 1. A method for controlling operation of a refrigeration system, the refrigeration system comprising one or more compressors, one or more condensers, and one or more refrigeration entities, each refrigeration entity comprising one or more evaporators, an expansion device arranged to provide a flow of refrigerant into the one or more evaporators, an entity controller for controlling the expansion device, and a refrigerated volume for storing refrigerated goods, the refrigeration system further comprising a compressor controller for controlling operation of the compressor(s), the method comprising the steps of: defining a setpoint value for a compressor control parameter, said compressor control parameter at least contributing to controlling, by means of the compressor controller, a cooling capacity provided by the compressor(s), measuring a value of the compressor control parameter, and the compressor controller controlling the compressor(s) on the basis of the value of the compressor control parameter and the defined setpoint value for the compressor control parameter, each entity controller obtaining a measure for an error value between the measured value of the compressor control parameter and the defined setpoint value for the compressor control parameter, and each entity controller adjusting a refrigeration load of the corresponding refrigeration entity to correspond to a cooling capacity of the compressor(s), and in accordance with the obtained measure for an error value. | 10,846 |
8,513,257 | 1. A compound of the following formula and/or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof wherein n is one, two, or three; R R R R R each R R | 10,297 |
8,569,709 | 1. A digital radiographic area detector comprising: an insulating substrate; an imaging device mounted to the insulating substrate, the imaging device comprising a plurality of pixels, each pixel comprising at least one electrically chargeable photosensor and at least one thin-film transistor; a bias control circuit to provide a bias voltage to the photosensors for a portion of the imaging array; an address control circuit to control scan lines, where each of the scan lines is configured to extend in a first direction and is coupled to a plurality of pixels in the portion of the imaging array; and a signal sensing circuit connected to data lines, where each of the data lines is configured to extend in a second direction and is coupled to at least two pixels in the portion of the imaging array; where power supplied to the bias control circuit for the bias line, power supplied to the address control circuit for the scan lines, and power supplied to the signal sensing circuit for the data lines are not removed simultaneously, the imagining device to operate in a first mode to detect radiation, the imaging device to remove power from the bias control circuit, the address control circuit, and the signal sensing circuit in a second mode, where conductivity of the photosensor is reversed in the first mode and the second mode. | 490 |
9,661,098 | 1. A communication method of a node in a content centric network, the communication method comprising: overhearing a content transmitted from another node; verifying whether an entry comprising a name of the overheard content is present in a management table configured to store entries comprising names of contents; dropping the overheard content in response to the entry comprising the name of the overheard content being verified to be present in the management table; forwarding the overheard content to a pre-caching filter in response to the entry comprising the name of the overheard content being verified to be absent in the management table; and caching the overheard content. | 15,665 |
9,814,058 | 1. A method of wireless communication in a synchronous network for a scheduling entity to communicate with a set of one or more subordinate entities utilizing a time division duplex (TDD) carrier, wherein the TDD carrier comprises a subframe, the method comprising: transmitting control information in a control portion of the subframe, the control information corresponding to data information within the subframe; transmitting the data information in a data portion of the subframe; receiving a pilot signal from the set of subordinate entities in a pilot portion of the subframe; and receiving an acknowledged (ACK)/not acknowledged (NACK) signal from the set of subordinate entities in an ACK portion of the subframe, the ACK portion being subsequent to the pilot portion of the subframe, the ACK/NACK signal comprising acknowledgment information corresponding to the data information, wherein the control portion, the data portion, the pilot portion, and the ACK portion are contained in the same subframe. | 4,283 |
8,738,138 | 1. A tissue stimulation system, comprising: at least one implantable neurostimulation lead; and an implantable neurostimulator comprising a header having at least one connector assembly configured for respectively receiving the at least one neurostimulation lead, a circuit board having programming circuitry, a flex circuit coupled between the at least one connector assembly and the circuit board, and a case to which the header is coupled, the case including a hermetically sealed compartment enclosing the circuit board and the flex circuit. | 509 |
9,102,436 | 1. A merchandise display package; comprising: a front main wall having an upper end and a lower end; a rear main wall having an upper end and a lower end; the rear main wall having an inner surface; a folding locking end wall assembly disposed at the lower ends of the main walls; the folding locking end wall assembly including an end wall connected to the front main wall; the end wall defining a slot; the folding locking end wall assembly also including a lock tab connected to the rear main wall; the lock tab being disposed along the inner surface of the rear main wall with a portion of the lock tab disposed in the slot; and the end wall having a first portion connected to a second portion with a pair of spaced living hinges; the slot being defined between the spaced living hinges; the second portion of the end wall being disposed parallel to the rear main wall inside the package directly between the front main wall and the rear main wall; wherein the merchandise display package is configured to be hung with the upper end disposed above the lower end with the folding locking end wall assembly configured to receive a majority of the weight of merchandise disposed within the display package. | 14,343 |
8,732,102 | 1. A computer-implemented method for modifying a characteristic of an actor with an atomic agent, the method comprising: initiating a modification of the characteristic of the actor presented to users of an interactive virtual environment, wherein a first set of program code defines the actor and a second set of program code defines the atomic agent; determining a compatibility between the atomic agent and each existing atomic agent already attached to the actor based on at least a compatibility match defined by the atomic agent; updating state data associated with the actor based on the compatibility to indicate that the atomic agent is attached to the actor; and modifying the characteristic of the actor according to at least one modifier defined by the atomic agent, wherein the second set of program code modifies the characteristic of the actor independently from and without interaction with the first set of program code. | 49,445 |
9,221,056 | 1. A method for controlling the temperature of a heater electrode associated with a microfluidic channel of a microfluidic device, wherein power applied to the heater electrode is regulated by varying the duty cycle of a pulse width modulation (PWM), and wherein the method comprises: a. applying a fixed voltage across a circuit including the heater electrode, a switching element for selectively opening or closing the circuit to define the duty cycle, and a high resistance shunt around the switching element; b. closing the circuit with the switching element for a period time corresponding to a power-on portion of a desired duty cycle and passing current to the heater electrode through the closed switch; c. while the circuit is closed, measuring a power-on voltage drop across the heater electrode; d. computing a power-on resistance of the heater electrode based on the fixed voltage, the measured power-on voltage drop, and the known resistance of the circuit including the resistance of the shunt and the resistance of a branch of the circuit including the switch; e. deriving a power-on temperature of the heater electrode from the computed power-on resistance; f. opening the circuit with the switching element for period of time corresponding to a power-off portion of the desired duty cycle, and passing current to the heater electrode exclusively through the shunt; g. while the circuit is opened, measuring a power-off voltage drop across the heater electrode; h. computing a power-off resistance of the heater electrode based on the fixed voltage, the measured power-off voltage drop, and the known resistance of the circuit including the resistance of the shunt but not the resistance of the branch of the circuit including the switch; i. deriving a power-off temperature of the heater electrode from the computed power-off resistance; and j. comparing at least one of the power-on temperature and the power-off temperature to a desired temperature of the heater electrode and adjusting the duty cycle if necessary to reduce the difference between the power-on or power-off temperature and the desired temperature. | 9,789 |
8,816,804 | 1. A switch assembly comprising: a printed circuit board having first and second sides and first and second ends; a U-shaped magnet secured to the printed circuit board proximate the first end, wherein the magnet has opposed posts connected by a cross beam, wherein the opposed posts and the cross beam define an internal gap; a first Hall device secured proximate the first end of the printed circuit board within the internal gap, wherein the first Hall device is configured to switch in response to a magnetic field emitted from the magnet having a first magnetic field strength that exceeds a first magnetic field threshold; and a second Hall device secured proximate the first end of the primed circuit board within the internal gap in from of or behind the first Hall device, wherein the second Hall device is configured to switch in response to the magnetic field emitted from the magnet having a second magnetic field strength that exceeds a second magnetic field threshold, and wherein the first magnetic field threshold differs from the second magnetic field threshold. | 29,010 |
9,228,050 | 1. A polylactic acid-backbone graft copolymer represented by the following formula: wherein variables x, y, z and n each denotes a degree of polymerization of a respective repeating unit, wherein the value of the variable n is sufficient to provide the repeating unit associated with the variable y with a number-average molecular weight M n between about 1000 and about 10,000, and wherein x, y, and z are equal to 1 or greater. | 28,658 |
9,625,804 | 1. A projector clustering method, comprising the steps of: (a) arranging projection areas of a plurality of projectors to partially overlap each other in series; (b) setting a reference projector among the plurality of projectors; (c) calculating first relative transformation information between adjacent projectors in the plurality of projectors; (d) calculating second relative transformation information between the reference projector and other projector based on the calculated first relative transformation information; (e) calculating third relative transformation information between the reference projector and an image area to be projected by the plurality of projectors; and (f) calculating fourth relative transformation information between the image area and the other projectors based on the second relative transformation information between the reference projector and the other projectors and the third relative transformation information, wherein the first and second relative transformation information are calculated for transforming the projection area of one projector to the projection area of another projector in series, wherein a correspondence relation between a pixel included in the image area and a pixel included in the projection area of a specific projector is calculated based on relative transformation information between the image area and the specific projector, and wherein when the projection area of the specific projector is not in a rectangular shape, | 43,234 |
9,398,150 | 1. A method of controlling an apparatus that replaces on-hold music in a telephone connection with other content from a content source, including: receiving a dialed telephone number; comparing the dialed telephone number with telephone numbers stored in a database; if the dialed telephone number is found in the database, retrieving one or more of at least one detection parameter and a detection software associated with the telephone number from the database, wherein the at least one detection parameter and the detection software is optimized for detecting properties of the on-hold music expected to be received from the dialed telephone number, thereby reducing the processing power required for performing on-hold music detection; providing the one or more of the at least one retrieved detection parameter and the detection software to an on-hold music detection unit; performing on-hold music detection in the on-hold music detection unit; and replacing on-hold music with other content provided by the content source. | 6,792 |
9,574,823 | 1. A method comprising: receiving a carbon dioxide recycle stream, wherein the carbon dioxide recycle stream comprises carbon dioxide, methane, and natural gas liquids, wherein the natural gas liquids comprise C cooling the carbon dioxide recycle stream in a first heat exchanger to produce a cooled carbon dioxide recycle stream; separating the cooled carbon dioxide recycle stream into a purified carbon dioxide recycle stream and a natural gas liquids stream in a separation column, wherein the purified carbon dioxide recycle stream is suitable for reinjection into a subterranean formation in an enhanced oil recovery process, wherein the purified carbon dioxide recycle stream comprises substantially all of the carbon dioxide and substantially all of the methane from the carbon dioxide recycle stream, wherein the natural gas liquids stream comprises substantially none of the carbon dioxide and less than about 70 mole % of the natural gas liquids from the carbon dioxide recycle stream; heating the purified carbon dioxide recycle stream in the first heat exchanger to produce a heated purified carbon dioxide recycle stream; transferring the heated purified carbon dioxide recycle stream to a facility that is configured to reinject the heated purified carbon dioxide recycle stream into the subterranean formation in the enhanced oil recovery process; cooling the natural gas liquids stream in a second heat exchanger to produce a cooled natural gas liquids stream; expanding the cooled natural gas liquids stream in an expansion valve to produce an expanded natural gas liquids stream; and transferring the expanded natural gas liquids stream from the expansion valve directly to a sweetener that is configured to remove all H | 1,595 |
8,358,667 | 1. A method for networking to provide reliable data communications over one or more channels, the method comprising: in an Ethernet link comprising one or more link partners communicatively coupled via one or more active channels and one or more silent channels; receiving one or more distinct physical patterns of IDLE symbols from a link partner via said one or more silent channels for adjusting a plurality of parameters according to link statistics, wherein said one or more distinct patterns of IDLE symbols comprise a modification in one or more of signal constellation, pulse amplitude modulation levels, and a length of time between frames; adjusting said plurality of parameters according to said modification, wherein said adjusting occurs after one or both of initialization of said circuitry and initial configuration of said plurality of parameters. | 27,056 |
9,523,926 | 1. An exposure apparatus that irradiates a pattern formed on an original with light emitted from an illumination system, projects an image of the pattern on a substrate via a projection optical system, and exposes the substrate, the exposure apparatus comprising: an original holding unit including a holding frame and configured to move in a first direction and a second direction opposite to the first direction; and a measuring device configured to measure a position of the original holding unit, wherein the holding frame has a first penetrating portion provided at a front lateral side of the holding frame and a second penetrating portion provided at a back lateral side of the holding frame, each of the first and second penetrating portions being configured to allow gas present in a space defined by the original and the holding frame to flow into and out from the space while the original holding unit is being moved in the first and second directions, wherein both the first and second penetrating portions are configured to allow a pressure loss in the flow of the gas in the first direction caused by moving the original holding unit in the second direction to be less than the pressure loss in the flow of the gas in the second direction caused by moving the original holding unit in the first direction, and wherein the measuring device is arranged at a side toward the second direction of the original holding unit. | 26,513 |
8,562,350 | 1. A set of artificial teeth comprising: a plurality of artificial anterior teeth, at least a first artificial anterior tooth of the plurality of artificial anterior teeth being positioned adjacent at least a second artificial anterior tooth of the plurality of artificial anterior teeth when arranged on a denture plate, wherein the first artificial anterior tooth of the artificial anterior teeth includes an abutting face, the abutting face being an integral area of an outer surface of the first artificial anterior tooth, and the abutting face contacting the second artificial anterior tooth so as to form a contact line on the abutting face when the first and second artificial anterior teeth are arranged on the denture plate and the first and second artificial anterior teeth being capable of being moved relative to each other such that the position of the contact line is moved along the abutting face, so as to determine a position of a dental axis of the first artificial anterior tooth relative to the second artificial anterior tooth when arranging the plurality of artificial teeth on the denture plate, and wherein the abutting face is formed so as to be a predetermined distance from a cutting edge of the first artificial anterior tooth, the predetermined distance being at least 5% of the height of the first artificial anterior tooth in the dental axial direction. | 15,671 |
9,598,296 | 1. A wastewater treatment system comprising: a reactor having an inlet end, an outlet end, a left side, a right side and a floor; an inlet proximate said reactor inlet end for introducing wastewater to said reactor; an aeration system adapted for mixing and aerating said wastewater; a bio medium generally submerged and extending substantially between said reactor left and right sides and extending substantially between a bottom water level and said reactor floor such that a top of said bio medium is located at a height at or near said bottom water level, said bio medium being a permeable hydraulic barrier and filtration device adapted for allowing said wastewater to flow therethrough while generally preventing solids from passing therethrough; and an outlet proximate said reactor outlet end for discharging treated wastewater from said reactor, said outlet including an orifice positioned at a height generally equal to said height of said top of said bio medium and said height of said bottom water level such that said orifice is positioned for withdrawing treated wastewater from an upper-portion of said reactor clarified layer located above said top of said bio medium; wherein at least a portion of treated wastewater passes above said bio medium prior to being discharged from said reactor. | 40,396 |
9,682,557 | 1. A liquid ejecting head, comprising: a first nozzle row in which nozzles which eject a liquid are juxtaposed along a first direction; first drive elements which cause the liquid to be ejected from each nozzle of the first nozzle row; a plurality of first individual wirings which are connected to the first drive elements; a first common wiring which is connected in common to the first drive elements; a second nozzle row in which nozzles are juxtaposed along the first direction; second drive elements which cause the liquid to be ejected from each nozzle of the second nozzle row; a plurality of second individual wirings which are connected to the second drive elements; and a second common wiring which is connected in common to the second drive elements and is not connected to the first common wiring, wherein the first common wiring are arranged along a plane where the second common wiring are arranged, and wherein the plurality of first individual wirings, the first common wiring, the second individual wirings, and the second common wiring are connected to a common flexible cable. | 27,412 |
9,554,258 | 1. A method comprising: retrieving social network data associated with a user; extracting one or more of a keyword and a key phrase from the social network data; determining a preference model that includes a frequency analysis associated with the one or more of the keyword and the key phrase, the frequency analysis indicating how often the one or more of the keyword and the key phrase are observed in the social network data; receiving a request for content data; searching a content database to retrieve one or more content items based on the frequency analysis associated with the preference model; generating one or more recommended items for the user or for a vehicle system from the one or more content items; and providing the one or more recommended items for presentation to the user or for processing by the vehicle system. | 754 |
9,464,818 | 1. A method for controlling ventilation of an indoor area of a building, comprising the steps of: ventilating the indoor area by means of mechanical ventilation and natural ventilation according to a ventilation mode selected among a plurality of ventilation modes, a set of adjustable control parameters, and at least one measurement value from a sensor, wherein: controlling the mechanical ventilation and the natural ventilation by comparing the measurement value from the sensor with a corresponding value of the control parameters of the ventilation mode such that a desired indoor climate defined by the ventilation is obtained and wherein the ventilation modes define different indoor temperature set points. | 44,218 |
9,660,569 | 1. A mounting rail for a solar array support structure comprising: a main body having a top and a bottom, the main body extending from a first end to a second end, wherein the main body further includes a dual web having a first vertical element and a second vertical element; a solar panel mounting portion extending along the top of the main body, the solar panel mounting portion configured to secure a solar panel to the mounting rail, wherein the solar panel mounting portion comprises a channel extending along the top of the main body, the channel configured to retainably receive an attachment mechanism for attaching the solar panel to the mounting rail; a first flange extending from a bottom of the first vertical element, the first flange including a first pair of holes configured to receive two ends of a first U-bolt, the first pair of holes spaced apart substantially equal to a width of a first horizontal rail, wherein the first flange includes a second pair of holes configured to receive two ends of a second U-bolt, the second pair of holes spaced substantially equal to a width of a second horizontal rail, wherein the first pair of holes is located proximate a first end of the mounting rail and where the second pair of holes is located proximate a second end of the mounting rail; and a second flange extending from a bottom of the second vertical element, wherein the second flange includes a third pair of holes configured to receive two ends of a third U-bolt, the third pair of holes spaced apart substantially equal to the width of the first horizontal rail of the solar array support structure, wherein the second flange includes a fourth pair of holes configured to receive two ends of a fourth U-bolt, the fourth pair of holes spaced apart substantially equal to the width of the second horizontal rail of the solar array support structure, wherein the third pair of holes is located proximate the first end of the mounting rail and where the fourth pair of holes is located proximate the second end of the mounting rail, wherein the second flange extends from the second vertical element to an upward bend. | 17,152 |
9,616,372 | 1. A plugged honeycomb structure comprising a honeycomb structure having porous partition walls defining and forming a plurality of cells communicating between two end faces, and a circumferential wall formed integrally with the partition walls, wherein the cells comprise partial cells positioned in an outermost circumferential portion of the honeycomb structure and being partially in contact with the circumferential wall, and normal cells other than the partial cells, the partial cells comprising both partial cells each having an area ratio obtained by Equation (1) of smaller than 80% and partial cells each having an area ratio obtained by Equation (1) of 80% or more, as to the normal cells, a plugging portion is formed in one end portion of each normal cell in such a plugging pattern that the two end faces of the honeycomb structure show complementary checkered patterns, and as to the partial cells, in the partial cells in which the plugging portion is to be formed in one end portion thereof to follow the plugging pattern, the plugging portion is not formed in at least some of the partial cells each having an area ratio obtained by Equation (1) of smaller than 80%, and in the partial cells each having an area ratio of 80% or more obtained by Equation (1) and at which the plugging portion is to be formed in the one end portion to follow the plugging pattern, 95% or more, with respect to the total number of such partial cells each having an area ratio of 80% or more at which the plugging portion is to be formed in the one end portion to follow the plugging pattern, are provided with the plugging portions formed therein: | 27,965 |
9,789,329 | 1. In a system for improving neural communication impairment of a vertebrate being, configured for application of cortical stimulation, the system comprising: a) a first signal providing component configured to provide pulsed peripheral stimulation signals at a peripheral body part for inducing a pulsed peripheral stimulation signal on a neural pathway for stimulation of a neural spinal junction on said pathway of said being; b) a communication link for triggering a stimulation source for application of a pulsed cortical stimulation signal to a cortical area of the being for inducing a cortical stimulation signal on the neural pathway at the spinal junction; and c) a DC signal providing component configured to provide a constant-level direct current spinal stimulation signal to the neural spinal junction; and d) a synchronization controller component configured to control timing of the pulsed peripheral stimulation signals, the pulsed cortical stimulation signal, and the constant-level direct current spinal stimulation signal, for stimulation of the neural spinal junction by the pulsed induced peripheral stimulation signals and the pulsed induced cortical stimulation signal in the presence of the constant-level direct current spinal stimulation signal at the spinal junction. | 38,638 |
8,795,375 | 1. An endoprosthesis for insertion into the annulus of a spinal disc comprising: a generally discoid assembly having latitudinal and longitudinal axes, said discoid assembly comprised of biocompatible materials and formed by a plurality of complimentary teardrop shaped bodies, each of said bodies having a curving pointed tip end and a blunt end opposite said pointed tip end mateably arranged along a common “s” shaped border in a congruent manner, said discoid assembly having upper and lower convex surfaces, said upper and lower convex surfaces having a curvature that generally corresponds with a pair of a human vertebral segments. | 18,999 |
8,651,309 | 1. A collapsible container of unitary construction having rigid wall portions comprising: a base; two opposing end walls that are pivotably attached to the base, wherein the height of the end walls are at least more than one-half the length of the base to allow a top portion of the end walls to overlap and lock when both end walls are collapsed onto the base; and two opposing side walls that are pivotably attached to the base and to the end walls, each of the sidewalls including a flap extending from a top portion thereof, the flap portions including a tab extending therefrom, wherein when the collapsible container is in an open position, the flap may be folded inwardly of the collapsible container such that the tab extends into the side wall to which the tab is pivotably attached, and wherein when the collapsible container is in a collapsed configuration, the tabs extend into an end wall. | 36,426 |
8,766,500 | 1. A system for power purification, the system comprising: a power source; a motor connected to the power source; a plurality of rotating elements, each rotatable about a primary axis, wherein each of the plurality of rotating elements supports at least one magnet, wherein each of the magnets is located along a common plane; a first rotating element of the plurality of rotating elements mechanically connected to the motor; at least one flywheel element mechanically connected to each of the plurality of rotating elements; at least one output device mechanically connected to at least one of the plurality of rotating elements; and a clutch gear connected to at least one of the plurality of rotating elements, wherein the clutch gear is connected to at least one of the plurality of rotating elements and permits a rotation of the plurality of rotating elements in a first rotational direction and prevents rotation of the plurality of rotating elements in a second rotational direction, wherein the first rotational direction is opposite to the second rotational direction. | 49,829 |
8,761,986 | 1. A hybrid vehicle including an engine, a generator which is driven by the engine to generate electric power, a battery for supplying electric power to an electric motor, the electric motor which is connected to a drive wheel and which is driven by electric power supplied from at least one of the battery and the generator, a power transmission engaging/disengaging unit which is disposed between the generator and the drive wheel for engaging and disengaging a power transmission line from the engine to the drive wheel via the generator, a transmission ratio changing unit for changing a ratio of electrical transmission to mechanical transmission of an output of the engine, and an engaging/disengaging control unit for controlling the power transmission engaging/disengaging unit, when the hybrid vehicle is shifted from an engine-directly-connected drive mode in which the power transmission engaging/disengaging unit is engaged and at least the engine works as a drive source to a series drive mode in which the power transmission engaging/disengaging unit is disengaged and the electric motor being driven by the electric power generated from the generator driven by the engine works as a drive source, so that the power transmission engaging/disengaging unit is released after the transmission ratio changing unit gradually increases the ratio of electrical transmission to mechanical transmission of the output of the engine. | 3,947 |
8,960,812 | 1. A method of derating a retarding grid assembly of a machine, comprising the steps of: determining temperatures of resistive elements and insulators associated with the retarding grid assembly; generating a trigger if any one of the temperatures of the resistive elements and insulators exceeds a respective temperature threshold; and determining a magnitude of deration to be applied to a drivetrain associated with the machine in response to the trigger, the magnitude of deration being based at least partially on feedback and feedforward analyses of the temperatures of the resistive elements and insulators, the magnitude of deration corresponding to a reduction in retarding capacity of the drivetrain. | 13,634 |
9,407,991 | 1. A device comprising: a speaker for generating sound; a capacitive microphone configured to generate a second signal induced by sound incident on the capacitive microphone; and a controller, communicatively coupled to the speaker, and configured to: | 22,721 |
8,513,837 | 1. An electrical interlock system including: a power takeoff device operable in a first state to transfer mechanical energy from an associated combustible engine to an associated electric motor and/or generator and operative in a second state to prevent the transfer of mechanical energy from the associated combustible engine to the associated electric motor and/or generator; a relay coupled to the power takeoff device, the associated electric motor and/or generator and an associated power source, wherein the relay includes a first switch and an energizable portion, such that when the energizable portion is receiving electrical power from the associated power source, the power takeoff device is in the first state and when the energizable portion is not receiving electrical power from the associated power source, the power takeoff device is in the second state; and an interlock mechanism serially coupled to an associated low voltage source, the power takeoff device and the relay, such that when the serial coupling is disrupted a fault condition is automatically created and the power takeoff device is operative in the second state to prevent the transfer of mechanical energy to any components in the system. | 26,119 |
8,345,229 | 1. A long-distance monitoring system comprising: a first optical fiber; a sensing unit comprising: an analyzer remote from the sensing unit and configured to receive a first signal via the first optical fiber representative of the first optical return signal from the remote sensing unit and determine a location of a disturbance based on the first signal using a multi-dimensional layout, wherein the analyzer determines the location of the disturbance using the acoustic signal, wherein if a source of the disturbance moves, the location of the disturbance is determined at various times, and wherein the optical energy injected into the first optical fiber has a wavelength that is different from a wavelength of the first signal; a communication unit configured to transmit one of: a power source remote from the sensing unit and configured to provide power over a second metallic wire; and a power subsystem configured to receive the power via the second metallic wire. | 45,285 |
9,321,690 | 1. A method comprising: (A) providing a refractory shaped product based on silicon carbide (SiC) and reactively sintered between 1,100° C. and 1,700° C. to form a silicon nitride binder Si performing in oxidizing conditions a step (B) selected from the group consisting of: (i) submitting at least one device selected from the group consisting of kiln furniture and other firing supports to a temperature that reaches 1750° C. and to cycling variations of temperature, each of the cycles lasting less than 24 hours and the temperature varying by at least 1000° C. in any of the cycles; (ii) submitting at least one device selected from the group consisting of a block and a tube of a muffle to a temperature that reaches 1500° C.; (iii) submitting at least one device selected from the group consisting of a block, a tile and a tube of a domestic incineration furnace to a temperature that reaches 1300° C.; (iv) submitting at least one device selected from the group consisting of a block, a tile and a tube of a furnace of a glass making factory to a temperature that reaches 1500° C.; (v) submitting at least one device selected from the group consisting of a block, a tile and a tube of a metallurgical furnace to a temperature that reaches 1500° C.; (vi) submitting at least one device selected from the group consisting of a block of a skid rail of a metallurgical furnace to a temperature that reaches 1500° C.; (vii) submitting at least one device selected from the group consisting of a block and a tube of an immersion heater to a temperature that reaches 1500° C.; and (viii) submitting at least one device selected from the group consisting of a heater tube, a thermocouple protective tube, and a tube for transporting molten metal to a temperature that reaches 1500° C., wherein at step (B), the at least one device comprises the refractory shaped product. | 5,587 |
8,504,129 | 1. A system, comprising: circuitry configured to generate a multiplexed dark-field interrogation stimulus having a spatial distribution including at least a first region and a second region different from the first region, the second region having a peak emission wavelength different from the first region; circuitry configured to generate a magnetic field; circuitry configured to detect scattering information associated with a plurality of hemozoin nanoparticles interrogated by the multiplexed dark-field interrogation stimulus in the presence of the magnetic field; and circuitry configured to | 11,501 |
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