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9,177,660 | 1. A method of operating a memory device having a plurality of memory cells, the method comprising: changing a first read voltage, for determining whether data stored in memory cells is a first voltage state or a second voltage state, to a voltage within a first range and determining the voltage within the first range as a first select read voltage; and changing a second read voltage, for determining whether the data stored in the plurality of memory cells is a third voltage state or a fourth voltage state, to a voltage within a second range which is different from the first range and determining the voltage within the second range as a second select read voltage, wherein the first and second voltage states are different from the third and fourth voltage states, the first voltage state and the second voltage overlap each other, the third voltage state and the fourth voltage state overlap each other, and a difference between a voltage at an intersection of the third and fourth voltage states and the second read voltage is greater than a difference between a voltage at an intersection of the first and second voltage states and the first read voltage. | 24,273 |
9,199,785 | 1. A method of discharging contents of a container comprising a substantially rigid outer container having a circular cross-section and an easily deformable inner bag having a circular cross-section, wherein the outer container and inner bag are made from respectively different thermoplastic materials that do not form a welded joint with one another; a bottom of the inner bag being closed by a bottom weld seam that is clamped in a likewise closed bottom weld seam of the outer container, a plane through the longitudinal center axis of the container being defined that extends through the bottom weld seams; wherein the inner bag has a wall thickness that continually decreases in each circumferential direction from an intersection line of said plane to a point that is offset by 90 degrees from the intersection line, and wherein the outer container includes at least two pressure compensating openings in a wall of the outer container for pressure compensation within a space between the outer container and the inner bag, at least one pressure compensating opening being formed on each side of the bottom weld seam where the inner bag has reduced wall thickness, the method comprising the steps of, initially positioning the inner bag with its whole circumference on the inside of the outer container, initiating discharge of the contents wherein the inner bag first detaches at both sides offset by 90 degrees from the intersection line where the inner bag has reduced wall thickness, symmetrically continuing to detach the inner bag from the outer container substantially in symmetry with the central plane as contents are discharged, wherein the inner bag remains in abutment with the outer container along the intersection lines, and detaching the inner bag on both sides to substantially the same extent until opposite sections of the inner bag come to rest on each other in the area of said plane such that only an extremely small residual amount of the contents remain in the inner bag. | 24,204 |
9,429,728 | 1. A telecommunications apparatus comprising: a frame defining a first area and a separate second area; a plurality of modules that mount at the first area of the frame, each of the modules including a module housing containing at least one splitter, each of the modules including a plurality of fiber optic adapters positioned at fronts of the module housings, the fiber optic adapters each including inner and outer aligned openings for receiving fiber optic connectors, the inner openings being accessible from inside the module housings and the outer openings being accessible from outside the module housings, the modules also including first optical fibers that extend from the splitters and having first connectorized ends positioned within the inner openings of the fiber optic adapters; a panel positioned at the second area of the frame, the panel being pivotally connected relative to the frame by a hinge, the panel having a major surface; and second optical fibers having second connectorized ends carried with the major surface of the panel, the second connectorized ends being defined by longitudinal axes that are generally perpendicular to the major surface of the panel. | 46,512 |
8,580,552 | 1. A recombinant polypeptide, wherein said polypeptide has cellobiohydrolase activity and comprises an amino acid sequence having at least 80% identity to: (i) the full-length polypeptide of SEQ ID NO: 12; (ii) a fragment comprising amino acids 19-478 of SEQ ID NO: 12; (iii) a fragment comprising amino acids 1-25 directly linked to amino acids 64-478 of SEQ ID NO: 12; or (iv) a fragment comprising amino acids 19-25 directly linked to amino acids 64-478 of SEQ ID NO: 12. | 35,190 |
9,100,579 | 1. A method comprising: obtaining a video signal of an object by a photosensitive sensor of a camera; obtaining an ambient light signal representing ambient light from an ambient light sensor; obtaining a display signal representing a measure of light emitted by a display; obtaining a distance signal representing a distance between the display and the object; segmenting the video signal into at least a near segment and a far segment based on the distance signal and the video signal; and modifying the video signal based on the ambient light signal, the display signal, and the distance signal, to obtain a modified video signal, wherein a color balance of a first portion of the video signal corresponding to the near segment is changed and the color balance of a second portion of the video signal corresponding to the far segment is maintained. | 23,533 |
9,061,722 | 1. A system for storing a cover for a motorcycle while providing back support for a rider, comprising: a backrest cushion housing to be mounted behind a motorcycle seat of the motorcycle, against a front side of a fixed backrest that faces forward toward the motorcycle seat, the backrest cushion housing sized to extend away from the motorcycle and above the motorcycle seat such that the backrest cushion housing can provide support for a rider when seated on the motorcycle seat, the backrest cushion housing defining an inner cavity and an opening on a top side or a front side of the backrest cushion housing; and a cover stowable in the backrest cushion housing, wherein in a stowed mode of operation the backrest cushion housing defines a backrest cushion with padding including the cover, and wherein in a deployed mode of operation the cover extends around a front of the motorcycle and a back of the motorcycle, covering the front of the motorcycle, the motorcycle seat and the backrest cushion. | 23,744 |
9,276,755 | 1. A method of reducing contention between independent basic service sets (IBSSs), the method comprising: setting, by at least one station, a priority of a beacon packet less than a priority of (a) at least one of DCF interframe space (DIFS) packets and extended interframe space (EIFS) packets, or (b) any other type of packet; and setting a beacon refresh period for each IBSS equal to at least a sum of beacon intervals for all IBSSs for (a), or a sum of data burst lengths for all IBSSs for (b). | 2,213 |
8,399,479 | 1. A compound of formula I: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein: Ar W is a bond or is an optionally substituted C R m is 0-5; k is 0-2; each of R X is a bond or is an optionally substituted C R R R R R′ is independently selected from hydrogen or an optionally substituted group selected from a C | 7,626 |
8,870,219 | 1. An interior panel having an integrated airbag door for a motor vehicle, the interior panel comprising: a substrate having an outer surface, an inner surface, and an opening extending therethrough; a skin covering extending over the substrate; a foam disposed between the skin covering and the substrate; and an airbag chute-door assembly mounted to the substrate and having a front side that faces towards the skin covering and the foam, wherein the airbag chute-door assembly comprises: | 42,455 |
8,789,322 | 1. A system for butt jointing photovoltaic modules, the system comprising first photovoltaic module and at least one second photovoltaic module for creating a roof-covering, each module comprising: a panel with photovoltaic cells; and a support frame having: wherein at least one longitudinal support profile is also provided at least for the longitudinal end profile of the support frame of the first module and for the longitudinal end profile of the support frame of the second module; and wherein in each module the at least one longitudinal end profile has: | 27,057 |
8,478,322 | 1. A base station device, comprising: a transmission and reception unit to transmit and receive user data to and from a mobile terminal; a no-communication time count unit to count no-communication time in which the transmission and the reception of the user data have been interrupted in the mobile terminal; an assignment unit to release a frequency band assigned to the mobile terminal when the no-communication time becomes longer than a duration in which the assignment of the frequency band to the mobile terminal is continued; and a duration adjustment unit to adjust the duration when the no-communication time is longer than the duration, and the no-communication time is shorter than a sum of the duration and a monitor time in which it is monitored whether or not the no-communication time is continued after releasing the frequency band. | 24,148 |
9,570,036 | 1. A method for processing a video image, comprising: receiving an original video image; adjusting a signal clock frequency of the original video image to acquire a processed video image; after a command signal input by a user is received, capturing the processed video image according to a preset size to acquire a video image corresponding to a display window of the preset size; and encoding the video image corresponding to the display window of the preset size to acquire an encoded video image, wherein the command signal comprises a preset abscissa and a preset ordinate, wherein after the command signal input by the user is received, the step of capturing the processed video image according to the preset size to acquire the video image corresponding to the display window of the preset size comprises: performing a pixel point computation according to a first formula to acquire the maximum number Ho of horizontal pixel points of the display window of the preset size, wherein the first formula is: wherein the Po is a fixed pixel clock frequency, the Pi is a pixel clock frequency of the original video image, the Hit is the total number of line cycle clocks of the original video image, and the Hos is a spacing of effective pixels between two lines of an output video; capturing the horizontal pixel points with the maximum number of the display window of the preset size according to the preset abscissa to acquire horizontal pixel points of the display window of the preset size; adopting vertical longitudinal points of a resolution of the original video image as vertical longitudinal pixel points of the display window of the preset size; and capturing the processed video image according to the horizontal pixel points and the vertical longitudinal pixel point of the display window of the preset size to acquire the video image corresponding to the display window of the preset size. | 25,549 |
9,018,516 | 1. An emitter region of a solar cell, the emitter region comprising: a portion of a substrate having a back surface opposite a front surface; a silicon oxynitride (SiO a semiconductor layer disposed on the silicon oxynitride dielectric layer. | 46,356 |
8,466,333 | 1. A process for manufacturing a mono-alkylaromatic compound, said process comprising contacting a feedstock comprising an alkylatable aromatic compound and an alkylating agent under alkylation reaction conditions with a catalyst comprising a molecular sieve to form said mono-alkylaromatic compound, said molecular sieve having, in its as-synthesized form and in calcined form, an X-ray diffraction pattern including peaks having a d-spacing maximum in the range of 14.17 to 12.57 Angstroms, a d-spacing maximum in the range of 12.1 to 12.56 Angstroms, and non-discrete scattering between about 8.85 to 11.05 Angstroms or exhibit a valley in between the peaks having a d-spacing maximum in the range of 10.14 to 12.0 Angstroms and a d-spacing maximum in the range from 8.66 to 10.13 Angstroms with measured intensity corrected for background at the lowest point being not less than 50% of the point at the same X-ray diffraction d-spacing on the line connecting maxima in the range of 10.14 to 12.0 Angstroms and in the range from 8.66 to 10.13 Angstroms. | 19,964 |
9,051,976 | 1. A driving force transmission device comprising: a motor configured to rotate around a rotor shaft; a dry clutch disposed at a position inner than the motor, and configured to connect or disconnect transmission of driving force; a housing provided to cover the motor and the dry clutch, and having an internal space wherein a space on the rotor shaft side serves as a clutch chamber to house a friction element of the dry clutch and a space on an outer side of the clutch chamber serves as a motor chamber to house a rotor and a stator of the motor; a dust seal member disposed at a position radially outside of a clutch chamber open surface that is an outer peripheral boundary of the friction element, and configured to seal between the rotor and an inner wall of the housing; and a dust collection structure forming a dust collection space in a region radially between a seal surface formed by the dust seal member and the clutch chamber open surface. | 23,215 |
9,687,497 | 1. A potassium salt of 2-((3R,6S)-2-hydroxy-3-(2-(thiophen-2-yl)acetamido)-1,2-oxaborinan-6-yl)acetic acid. | 33,234 |
8,889,276 | 1. A method for managing the operation of a hybrid continuous current supply, said supply comprising a fuel cell stack, a battery and a DC/DC converter including an input and an output, the converter input being connected to an output of the fuel cell stack and the converter output being connected to a variable load in parallel to the battery, the fuel cell stack being formed of a plurality of electrochemical cells adapted to produce electricity from a fuel and an oxidising gas, wherein said method includes the following operations a) supplying a flow of fuel and a flow of oxidising gas to each of the electrochemical cells; b) defining a set point representative of the variable load; c) monitoring the fuel pressure and the oxidising gas pressure in the fuel cell stack d) regulating the pressure in the fuel cell stack at a first reference value; e) distributing the variable load between the fuel cell stack and the battery as a function of the set point, by varying the output voltage of the DC/DC converter; f) monitoring a voltage representative of the voltage at the terminals of at least one of the electrochemical cells of the fuel cell stack; g) monitoring the set point representative of the variable load; if the voltage representative of the voltage at the terminals of at least one of the cells exceeds a first predetermined critical value and if the set point indicates a decrease in the variable load: h) interrupting operation (d) and interrupting operation (e); and i) regulating the voltage representative of the voltage at the terminals of at least one of the cells at a second reference value by adapting the input impedance of the DC/DC converter; j) distributing the variable load between fuel cell stack and the battery by varying pressure. | 3,551 |
9,476,704 | 1. A flexible display, comprising: a first sensor unit disposed in a first region of the flexible display and including different sensors that are operationally responsive to dissimilar stimulus; a second sensor unit disposed in a second region of the flexible display adjacent to the first region and including different sensors that are operationally responsive to dissimilar stimulus; and an angle-measuring unit measuring a folding angle between the first region and the second region in response to sensing signals outputted from both the first sensor unit and the second sensor unit, the sensing signals including respective azimuth angles outputted from the first sensor unit and the second sensor unit. | 6,042 |
8,362,171 | 1. A method of preparing a norbornene block copolymer, comprising: polymerizing a norbornene compound with epoxy groups, comprising a structure represented by formula (I), of: in the presence of RuCl reacting the polymer with side chains of epoxy groups comprising a structure represented by formula (II) with a norbornene monomer with phthalamide group represented by for preparing a norbornene block copolymer comprising a structure represented by formula (VIII), of: reacting the norbornene block copolymer comprising a structure represented by formula (VIII) with a norbornene monomer with HCl for preparing a norbornene block copolymer comprising a structure represented by formula (IX), of: reacting the norbornene block copolymer comprising a structure represented by formula (IX) with for preparing a norbornene block copolymer represented by formula (X), of: formula (XI), of: or formula (XII), of: wherein, R n is an integer between 2 to 10000; and m is an integer between 2 to 10000. | 6,241 |
8,501,667 | 1. A stable water-based herbicidal suspension, comprising: (1) a herbicidal sulfonylurea compound (excluding 1-[3-[(4,6-dimethoxypyrimidin-2-ylcarbamoyl)sulfamoyl]-2-pyridyl]-2-fluoropropyl methoxyacetate and N-[(4,6-dimethoxypyrimidin-2-yl)aminocarbonyl]-2-(2-fluoro-1-hydroxypropyl)-3-pyridinesulfonamide) or its salt; (2) an inorganic salt; (3) at least one sulfonate selected from the group consisting of an aryl sulfonate, an alkylaryl sulfonate, an aryl sulfonate formaldehyde condensate, and an alkylaryl sulfonate formaldehyde condensate; and (4) water, wherein a proportion of the inorganic salt in the water-based herbicidal suspension is from 1 to 20% by weight, and wherein the inorganic salt is an alkali metal phosphate. | 19,303 |
8,893,323 | 1. An improved sofa bed of the type having a frame with opposed arms, a back and a front, and, located between the arms, an assembly providing a head panel, a middle panel, and a foot panel of a bed when the assembly is in an unfolded position, each panel having a mattress section defining a face of the panel, and, when the assembly is in a folded position, the head panel is oriented in a generally vertical position at the back and faces the front, the middle panel is oriented in a generally horizontal position and faces downward, and the foot panel is stacked above the middle panel in a generally horizontal orientation and faces upward, and removable seat and back cushions are disposed on the folded assembly to form a sofa, each of the arms having a rearmost mounting point for pivotally attaching a rear swinging member and having a mid-mounting point for pivotally attaching a forward swinging member, wherein each of the rear and forward swinging members is pivotally attached to the head panel with the rear swinging member being attached to the head panel at a higher point of the head panel than the forward swinging member in the folded position, wherein the improvement comprises: the rear swinging member being rearward of the head panel in the folded position when viewed from the side, with the rear swinging member being substantially vertical and substantially adjacent to the head panel, the rearmost mounting point also being substantially adjacent to the head panel in the folded position. | 42,639 |
8,342,797 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a gas turbine engine airflow member disposed within an annulus and having an airfoil shape, the gas turbine engine airflow member having a first internal surface and an opposing second internal surface forming an airflow passage; a plurality of first flow obstructions disposed toward the first internal surface and a plurality of second flow obstructions disposed toward the second internal surface, the first flow obstructions and the second flow obstructions structured to alter a flow of cooling fluid through the airflow passage; and wherein in operation a flow of cooling fluid through the airflow passage is caused to move away from the first internal surface and along and over one of the first flow obstructions when encountering the one of the first flow obstructions and to move away from the second internal surface and along and under one of the second flow obstructions when encountering the one of the second flow obstructions, the flow of cooling fluid along the one of the first flow obstructions is in a different direction than a flow of cooling fluid along the one of the second flow obstructions. | 34,665 |
9,188,555 | 1. A method of performing energy-dispersive x-ray spectroscopy, comprising: creating, using a source instrument, library spectra by: creating, using a field instrument, calibration spectra, the calibration spectra having a lower resolution than the library spectra by: determining, using the field instrument, the elements in an unknown mineral sample, the unknown mineral sample comprising a sample of unknown mineral composition, by: | 26,289 |
9,851,263 | 1. A portable heating chamber system for pyrometric proficiency testing, comprising: an enclosing structure defining an interior zone and an exterior zone; within the interior zone, one or more air circulating means and one or more heat sources; a data acquisition device located in the exterior zone; multiple temperature sensors uniformly distributed within the interior zone, wherein each temperature sensor transmits sensor temperature data to the data acquisition device through a wired or wireless connection; a control sensor located at or near the center of the interior zone; in the exterior zone, a temperature controller which receives control temperature data from the control sensor and responds to the control temperature data by transmitting temperature control signals to the heat sources through one or more wired or wireless connections; wherein the temperature control signals are adapted and configured to achieve and maintain a constant and uniform control temperature in the interior zone; wherein the data acquisition device is adapted and configured to receive and record the sensor temperature data from each temperature sensor at regular intervals for a set test duration and to record a high and low temperature for each temperature sensor for the test duration; wherein the data acquisition device has multiple input channels, each of which is adapted and configured to receive the sensor temperature data from one of the temperature sensors; and wherein associated with each of the temperature sensors is a sensor correction factor, and wherein associated with each of the input channels is a channel correction factor. | 44,229 |
8,673,676 | 1. A surface processing method of a crystalline silicon substrate for a solar cell, the method comprising: a crystalline silicon substrate providing step for providing a substrate which comprises crystalline silicon; a first surface processing step for forming a plurality of first protrusions on surfaces of the substrate by etching the substrate by using an aqueous solution; a second surface processing step for forming a plurality of second protrusions smaller than the first protrusions by adhering etching residues onto an upper surface, a light receiving surface among the surfaces of the substrate, by using a first etching gas; and a residue removing step for removing the etching residues adhered onto the upper surface of the substrate having undergone the second surface processing step, wherein in an assumption that an area of a surface in a completely flat state where an anti-reflection film is to be formed, among the surfaces of the substrate having undergone the first surface processing step, is an ideal surface area, a ratio between a substantial surface area etched in the first surface processing step and the ideal surface area is in the range of 1.2˜3.2. | 45,117 |
9,783,774 | 1. A cell culture control system comprising: a control unit configured to control a supply operation of supplying additives to a tank for containing a culture fluid in which cells are cultured, the additives being feed agents or augmenting agents; a controller configured to control the control unit to control parameters of the culture fluid which exists in the tank in accordance with a control value which is preliminarily set; a sensor configured to detect a cell density, a concentration value of metabolic substances, and a concentration value of nutrient sources in the culture fluid which exists in the tank by using near-infrared spectroscopy; a calculator configured to calculate a specific rate of the cell density, a specific rate of the concentration value of the metabolic substances, and a specific rate of the concentration value of the nutrient sources based on the cell density, the concentration value of the metabolic substances, and the concentration value of the nutrient sources detected by the sensor; a generator configured to generate time-series data in accordance with the specific rate of the cell density, the specific rate of the concentration value of the metabolic substances, and the specific rate of the concentration value of the nutrient sources calculated by the calculator; an extractor which comprises a simulator configured to calculate a predicted value of the time-series data in accordance with the time-series data generated by the generator, the extractor being configured to extract a characteristic point of the time-series data or a characteristic point of the predicted value, the characteristic point being a peak point or a shift point of the time-series data or the predicted value; and a control value setter configured to change the control value in accordance with the characteristic point extracted by the extractor, wherein the control value setter is configured to determine an adding amount of additives to be added to the tank based on an adding amount of additives stored in the control value setter at a timing of an output from the extractor, and wherein the controller is configured to control the control unit to supply the additives to the tank in accordance with the adding amount of the additives determined by the control value setter. | 47,493 |
9,848,127 | 1. A display system for creating virtual images, comprising: an image source configured to receive image data and generate a real display image therefrom; and an optical assembly coupled to the image source and comprising an exit surface, the optical assembly configured to create a virtual image of the real display image, such that, when viewed from a predetermined eye-pupil within a predetermined pupil that is separated a predetermined eye relief from the exit surface, the virtual image comprises optical qualities of wherein the display system has a display system depth behind the exit surface toward the predetermined CFOV that is less than or substantially equal to the predetermined eye relief. | 5,785 |
8,838,312 | 1. An electric vehicle comprising: a hydrocarbon engine coupled with a generator, the generator comprising a positive source connection and a neutral source connection; a plurality of interconnected electrical energy storage devices, each electrical energy storage device comprising a positive terminal and a neutral terminal; a switching subsystem configured to successively electrically connect each electrical energy storage device to the generator for a selected time interval in a repeating cycle by electrically connecting the positive source connection of the generator to the positive terminal of an electrical energy storage device and electrically connecting the neutral source connection of the generator to the neutral terminal of the electrical energy storage device; and a motor for propelling the vehicle, the motor connected to and drawing power from the plurality of interconnected electrical energy storage devices. | 46,820 |
8,640,439 | 1. A method for driving an aircraft comprising: generating a first drive energy using a gas turbine apparatus; generating a second drive energy using an electric motor; generating injection water and electrical energy by a fuel-cell system by using a hydrogen-containing fuel and an oxidant; providing the injection water to a condenser; providing the electrical energy to the electric motor; injecting the injection water from the condenser into a combustion process in a combustion chamber of the gas turbine apparatus; providing at least one of the first drive energy and the second drive energy to a drive unit via a first drive shaft of one of the gas turbine apparatus and the electric motor selectively coupled to the drive unit; selectively providing the other of the first drive energy and the second drive energy via a second drive shaft of the other of the gas turbine apparatus and the electric motor selectively coupled to the first drive shaft via a first clutch apparatus; and generating propulsion using the drive unit. | 36,236 |
8,694,697 | 1. A system for dispatching commands for execution by a processing engine, comprising: one or more target processing engines; a command FIFO memory configured to store one or more commands, wherein each of the one or more commands is associated with a channel and a target processing engine; an engine interface coupled to the one or more target processing engines; and a dispatcher coupled to the command FIFO memory and the engine interface and configured to: wherein the command FIFO memory maintains a first command pointer that indicates a location of the first command within the command FIFO memory and a second command pointer that indicates a location of a next command associated with the first channel within the command FIFO memory that is to be transmitted to the target processing engine associated with the next command for execution, and wherein the second command pointer is updated to indicate the location of the first command as indicated by the first command pointer when the first in-flight command is rescinded. | 15,757 |
9,187,254 | 1. A transport device for the return of empty packaging comprising: an input chamber; a plurality of rollers rotatably supported at each end by a chain drive, wherein the chain drive circulates the rollers around a support surface of the transport device, wherein the rollers project into a projection area on each side of a catching area of the transport device; a first set of two rails connected to the support surface, one rail in each projection area on each side of the catching area, wherein the first set of rails are located nearer to the input chamber than a second set of rails; a second set of two rails connected to the support surface, one rail in each projection area on each side of the catching area, wherein the second set of rails is separated by a space from the first set of rails and located in the area of the detection array; a third set of two rails located in the space between the first and second set of two rails and above the rollers, one rail in each projection area on each side of the catching area; wherein the rollers rotate in a first direction about their longitudinal axes due to frictional engagement or positive locking with the first set of rails and the second set of rails, and wherein the rollers rotate in a second direction about their longitudinal axes due to frictional engagement or positive locking with the third set of rails. | 20,201 |
9,192,030 | 1. A system for use in conjunction with a standardized electrical connector of a conventional light bulb or tube, comprising: a. one or more light emitting diodes (LEDs) electrically coupled to at least one electrical connector compatible with a conventional light connector, wherein the LEDs include at least one optical transmitter and receiver module optically coupled to a broadband optical network greater than 1 Mbps with a first mode to generate light and a second mode to bidirectionally transmit and receive broadband optical data transmissions over one or more optical channels using multiplexed bands; and b. a controller coupled to the LEDs, the controller adjusting LED light output and communicating with the optical network using the optical transmitter and receiver module. | 12,840 |
8,353,583 | 1. A liquid container comprising: a liquid container pouch constructed of flexible sheets; and a liquid outlet member held between the pair of flexible sheets to permit extraction of a liquid contained in the liquid container pouch to a liquid consuming apparatus; wherein the liquid container pouch includes: a pair of side portions; and a lower gusseted portion that defines a basal gusset and that includes first bilateral edge portions disposed overlapping individual lower border zones that are situated on the side constituting the lower borders of the pair of side portions during extraction of liquid for use by the liquid consuming apparatus; the individual lower border zones of the pair of side portions and the individual bilateral first side edge portions of the lower gusseted portion respectively overlap to define two first sealed portions; the lower gusseted portion has a first fold line extending parallel to the lower border between the first bilateral edge portions and is oriented in a folding direction so as to define a chevron shape pointing inwardly into the liquid container pouch, with the first fold line as the apical line thereof; and the two first sealed portions are furnished with regulating members adapted to restrain outward expansion thereof by a greater extent than faces other than the two first sealed portions, on the pair of side portions. | 48,972 |
9,098,935 | 1. An image displaying apparatus, comprising: a memory configured to store three-dimensional data associated with a first imaging area including a left breast of a subject to be examined, the three-dimensional data also associated with a second imaging area including a right breast of the subject, the left breast and the right breast being pressed between pressure plates; at least one processing circuit configured to implement a display configured to simultaneously display the left upper half image, the left lower half image, the right upper half image, and the right lower half image. | 39,269 |
9,054,680 | 1. A system on chip (SoC) comprising: a CPU; a graphics processing unit (GPU); a clock generator configured to generate a reference clock signal; a clock controller configured to, a display controller configured to control an operation of a display device; a read only memory (ROM); a random access memory (RAM); and a memory controller configured to control an external memory device, wherein the operating frequency of the at least one of the CPU and the GPU is greater than zero, and wherein the operating state of the at least one of the CPU and the GPU includes an active state, an idle state and a wakeup state. | 5,917 |
8,971,408 | 1. A method comprising: accessing a first image and a second image, each of the images comprising one or more color channels, each of the images comprising a plurality of pixels, each pixel having a respective pixel value for each of the one or more color channels, wherein the second image has a dynamic range that is higher than a dynamic range of the first image; segmenting at least one color channel of the first image into two or more non-overlapping color channel segments using a set of boundary points, wherein each color channel segment corresponds to two consecutive boundary points, and wherein the pixel values of the color channel which are between two consecutive boundary points are assigned to the corresponding color channel segment; and for a color channel segment of the first image: | 25,823 |
9,215,698 | 1. A wireless communication system in which wireless communication between a base station and a communication terminal is carried out by use of a plurality of frequency bands, wherein: the plurality of frequency bands each include (i) a downlink sub-band that is a frequency band for use in downlink transmission from the base station to the communication terminal and (ii) an uplink sub-band that is a frequency band for use in uplink transmission from the communication terminal to the base station; the base station includes band allocation means that allocates, to the communication terminal, the downlink sub-band and the uplink sub-band in the plurality of frequency bands; the communication terminal includes quality measurement means that measures a communication quality of the downlink sub-band that has been allocated by the band allocation means of the base station; the base station includes communication control determination means that determines, in accordance with the communication quality of the downlink sub-band, communication control of the uplink sub-band that has been allocated by the band allocation means of the base station, the communication quality having been measured by the quality measurement means of the communication terminal, the uplink sub-band that has been allocated corresponding to the downlink sub-band that has been allocated; the communication terminal includes communication control means that controls, in accordance with the communication control of the uplink sub-band that has been allocated, the uplink transmission in the uplink sub-band that has been allocated, the communication control having been determined by the communication control determination means of the base station; and in a case where there exists a frequency band that includes (i) the uplink sub-band having been allocated to the communication terminal by the band allocation means of the base station but (ii) no downlink sub-band that has been allocated to the communication terminal by the band allocation means of the base station, the quality measurement means of the communication terminal further measures a communication quality of a downlink sub-band of another base station that is different from the base station; and the communication control determination means of the base station determines whether or not to carry out a handover of the uplink sub-band corresponding to the downlink sub-band, based on a comparison between (a) the communication quality of the downlink sub-band of the base station and (b) the communication quality of the downlink sub-band of the another base station, the communication qualities having been measured by the quality measurement means of the communication terminal. | 29,165 |
9,460,265 | 1. A data-enabled pharmaceutical container, comprising: a) a pharmaceutical container comprising b) an electronics module configured for sensing and tracking dose events coupled to the pharmaceutical container, wherein the electronics module comprises a housing, one or more indicators, one or more switches, and one or more sensors, and wherein one of the one or more sensors comprises a movable lever, and wherein the movable lever extends through an opening in the housing and toward the container neck, wherein the movable lever is part of a mechanism for sensing whether the container closure is present at or absent from the container neck, and wherein the movable lever is configured such that when the container closure is present on the container neck an edge of the container closure is in contact with a tip of the movable lever causing the movable lever to be in a first position, and when the container closure is not present on the container neck the edge of the container closure does not contact the tip of the movable lever causing the movable lever to be in a second position. | 9,180 |
9,133,601 | 1. A hydraulic excavator comprising: an engine; a revolving frame supporting the engine; a vehicle body frame disposed on the revolving frame, the vehicle body frame including a plurality of column members; a diesel particulate filter device configured to process exhaust from the engine, the diesel particulate filter device being supported by the vehicle body frame; a selective catalytic reduction device configured to process exhaust from the engine, the selective catalytic reduction device being supported by the vehicle body frame; and a first connecting pipe having an extendable bellows part in at least a portion thereof, the first connecting pipe connecting the engine and the diesel particulate filter device, the diesel particulate filter device being located further away from the engine than the selective catalytic reduction device, the first connecting pipe passing below the selective catalytic reduction device and being connected to the diesel particulate filter device, a top portion of the diesel particulate filter device being disposed above a top portion of the selective catalytic reduction device, and the diesel particulate filter device not overlapping the engine in a plan view, a connecting portion for the first connecting pipe and the diesel particulate filter device being disposed at a bottom portion of the diesel particulate filter device. | 38,703 |
8,611,257 | 1. A method for reducing power consumption in a network switch, comprising: detecting at the network switch a traffic load of network traffic passing through the network switch based on a fullness state of a plurality of queues for buffering packets in the network switch, the detecting at the network switch comprising calculating averaged counts of bytes being en-queued during different time periods; determining by a controller circuit whether the traffic load of network traffic passing through the network switch is lower than a first boundary threshold; counting bytes that are en-queued during a first time period using a first counter that roles as an active counter while a second counter roles as a history counter; keeping counts of bytes that are en-queued during a second time period that is previous to the first time period using the second counter; switching the roles of the first counter and the second counter; and averaging counts of the bytes in the first and second counters. | 33,302 |
9,065,569 | 1. A method comprising: detecting a first signal by a controller, the first signal being generated in response to a user input; switching, in response to detecting the first signal, a wireless transmitter circuitry from a first transmission mode to a second transmission mode, the second transmission mode having at least one of a transmit power and a transmit frequency selectively set by a user; receiving a second signal by the controller, the second signal being generated in response to a user input and includes an indication of a specific value selectively provided by the user for setting the at least one of transmit power and transmit frequency associated with the second transmission mode; and setting, in response to receiving the second signal, the at least one of transmit power and transmit frequency associated with the second transmission mode to the specific value selectively provided by the user. | 7,606 |
9,507,713 | 1. A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving, at a computing device, a set of software instructions for execution by the computing device; compiling the set of software instructions to generate a set of executable instructions, the compiling including identifying a first memory object allocation instruction; executing, by the computing device, the set of executable instructions, the executing including allocating, in a young garbage collection generation, a plurality of memory objects with the first memory object allocation instruction; determining a survival rate of the plurality of memory objects allocated by the first memory object allocation instruction; determining a count of a number of memory objects allocated by the first memory allocation instruction; and responsive to the survival rate being larger than a survival rate threshold and the count of the number of memory objects allocated by the first memory allocation instruction being larger than an activity rate threshold, replacing, in the set of executable instructions, the first memory object allocation instruction with a second memory object allocation instruction that is configured to directly allocate memory objects in an old garbage collection generation. | 10,749 |
9,831,836 | 1. An automatic gain control (AGC) circuit comprising: a peak detector coupled to receive a received signal and a threshold value, the peak detector being configured to detect an overload condition if the received signal exceeds the threshold value; an integrator coupled to the peak detector and configured to detect a duration of an overload condition detected by the peak detector; and a controller coupled to receive the detected duration from the integrator and configured to control a gain of one or more amplifiers coupled to the AGC circuit, and to control a gain step size, based on the detected duration of the overload condition. | 3,877 |
8,650,870 | 1. A wave actuated device for converting wave energy from waves passing through water into mechanical work, the wave actuated device comprising: a primary buoy floating in the water and configured to rise and fall with the waves as they pass through the water between a lower position and an upper position; a carriage coupled to the primary buoy by a linkage and moving between a first position and a second position, the carriage being in the first position when the primary buoy is in the lower position and the primary buoy pulling the carriage via the linkage to the second position when the primary buoy floats to the upper position; a carriage magnetically interactive material mounted to the carriage; a support structure extending from a support surface and including a pivot spaced from the support surface; and an arm pivotally supported on the pivot and extending from the pivot to a first end proximate the carriage magnetically interactive material mounted on the carriage, the arm being submerged in the water and including: wherein: | 45,702 |
8,373,061 | 1. A photovoltaic cell comprising: a first electrode disposed on a substrate; a light-absorption layer disposed on the electrode, wherein the light-absorption layer includes a nanowire-based intermediate layer, the nanowire-based intermediate layer comprising a plurality of nanowires sandwiched between an n-type semiconductor layer and a p-type semiconductor layer such that a number of the nanowires in the intermediate layer are in contact with the p-type layer at one end and in contact with the n-type layer at the other end, wherein one semiconductor layer is an upper layer and the other semiconductor layer is a lower layer; and a second electrode disposed on the light absorption layer, wherein the upper layer includes holes terminating at the nanowire-based intermediate layer to facilitate incident light reaching the nanowire-based intermediate layer. | 7,817 |
8,874,820 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a plurality of PHYs to be used as Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) ports and Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) ports; at least one pin to be strapped before power is applied to the apparatus; and logic to facilitate swapping of one or more of the plurality of PHYs between being the PCIe ports and the SATA ports based on the strapping of the at least one pin. | 5,886 |
8,850,589 | 1. A method for training a classifier, comprising: running an initial security analysis on a training codebase to generate a set of vulnerabilities associated with the training codebase; analyzing a program with a feature set that limits a number of detected vulnerabilities to generate a limited set of vulnerabilities associated with the feature set; comparing the limited set of vulnerabilities to a known vulnerability distribution to generate an accuracy score using a processor; and iterating said steps of analyzing and comparing using different feature sets to find a feature set having a highest accuracy score. | 20,416 |
9,834,618 | 1. A process of removing volatile compounds from a concentrated fluid containing at least one non-volatile polymer and at least one volatile compound, the process comprising: feeding a concentrated fluid comprising 10 wt % to 80 wt % of at least one synthetic rubber and 20 wt % to 90 wt % of at least one volatile compound into at least one drying unit, wherein: removing the at least one volatile compound via the vent ports and vapor lines to dry the concentrated fluid and obtain, at the outlet section of the main extruder, a product substantially free of volatile compounds. | 1,922 |
9,655,051 | 1. A method of power saving in a wireless local area network, the method comprising: receiving, by a wireless device, a frame including a signal field from a transmitting device, wherein the signal field includes a number indicator and a power saving indicator, the number indicator indicates a number of spatial streams for a corresponding recipient, and the power saving indicator indicates that the transmitting device allows the wireless device to enter a doze state during a transmission opportunity (TXOP); and entering, by the wireless device, the doze state until the end of the TXOP if: | 3,928 |
9,095,105 | 1. A method of identifying a corn plant comprising at least one allele associated with diplodia ear rot resistance or with diplodia ear rot tolerance in a corn plant comprising: (a) genotyping a population of corn plants with at least one corn genomic nucleic acid marker associated with an allele for diplodia ear rot resistance or diplodia ear rot tolerance, wherein said allele comprises a marker selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NO: 18, SEQ ID NO: 19, and SEQ ID NO: 20; and (b) selecting based upon said genotyping at least one corn plant comprising the allele associated with resistance or tolerance to diplodia ear rot. | 21,260 |
8,995,808 | 1. An optical component in that a first planar lightwave circuit having a first refractive index and a second planar lightwave circuit having a second refractive index different from the first refractive index are butt jointed, wherein: each of the first and second planar lightwave circuits includes first to n-th optical waveguides (where n is an integer greater than 2), a position of an i-th optical waveguide (where i is an integer greater than or equal to 1 and less than or equal to n) of the first planar lightwave circuit and a position of an i-th optical waveguide of the second planar lightwave circuit are matched on a joint interface between the first planar lightwave circuit and the second planar lightwave circuit, and an angle formed by the i-th optical waveguide of the first or second planar lightwave circuit together with a normal of the joint interface varies in accordance with a value of i within a range satisfying the Snell's law, the angle being set to be larger when the i-th optical waveguide is positioned closer to a vicinity of a middle between a first optical waveguide and an n-th optical waveguide on the joint interface, the angle being set to be smaller when the i-th optical waveguide is positioned away from the vicinity of the middle. | 23,480 |
8,465,623 | 1. A method of papermaking comprising filler, the method comprising the steps of: providing a blend of filler particles, at least one drainage additive or wet web strength additive or wet strength aid, and cellulose fiber stock, treating the filler particles with a composition of matter in the absence of cellulose fiber stock, combining the filler particles with the cellulose fiber stock, treating the combination with at least one wet strength aid or wet web strength additive or drainage additive, and forming a paper mat from the combination, wherein at least 10% of the filler particles are precipitated calcium carbonate and at least 10% of the filler particles are ground calcium carbonate, the cellulose fiber stock comprises a plurality of cellulose fibers and water, and the composition of matter enhances the performance of the wet strength aid or wet web strength additive or drainage additive in the paper mat. | 4,077 |
8,526,091 | 1. An aberration-correcting method for a laser irradiation device, which focuses a laser beam on the inside of a transparent medium, including a focusing means for focusing a laser beam on the inside of a medium and a spatial light modulator for correcting aberration of laser beam, comprising: setting a focal position inside the medium; setting a relative movement distance of the medium so that a focal point of the laser beam is positioned in an aberration range generated inside the medium; calculating a correction wavefront so that the laser beam is focused on the focal position, and displaying the correction wavefront on the spatial light modulator; relatively moving the focal position so that the distance between the medium and the focusing means becomes the relative movement distance; and irradiating the laser beam onto the focal position in the medium. | 36,027 |
8,824,330 | 1. A communications controller comprising: a processor; a non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing programming for execution by the processor, the programming including instructions to a transmit/receive circuit coupled to the processor and configured to | 30,513 |
8,404,249 | 1. A composition comprising a botulinum toxin and a positively charged carrier comprising a positively charged polymeric backbone having attached positively charged efficiency groups, wherein the positively charged carrier and the botulinum toxin non-covalently and directly associate. | 26,424 |
8,585,579 | 1. An implantable anatomical support comprising: a non-rectangular support body with a plurality of arms extending from the support body; an interconnecting member having a first end portion and a second end portion, the first end portion of the interconnecting member being coupled to one of the plurality of arms; and an adjustable anchor defining a longitudinal axis, the adjustable anchor including a body and a collar, the collar including a sidewall having a first aperture in the sidewall and a second aperture in the sidewall, the collar being received over the body such that the body defines a first internal surface and the collar defines a second internal surface, the first and second internal surfaces defining an internal pathway between the first and second apertures that extends about the longitudinal axis of the adjustable anchor, the adjustable anchor being slidably coupled to the interconnecting member to permit bi-directional movement along the interconnecting member, the interconnecting member entering the adjustable anchor at the first aperture and exiting at the second aperture such that the interconnecting member extends through the internal pathway within the adjustable anchor and the internal surfaces exert a compressive force on the interconnecting member generating frictional interference between the adjustable anchor and the interconnecting member to inhibit the bi-directional movement of the adjustable anchor along the interconnecting member unless sufficient force is applied to overcome the frictional interference. | 39,882 |
8,522,456 | 1. A method of adjusting an automatic lacing system for an article of footwear, the automatic lacing system comprising a strap moving mechanism and at least one strap attached to the strap moving mechanism, the at least one strap being configured to adjust an upper of the article of footwear, the method comprising the steps of: receiving information from a user controlled device at a control system disposed in the article of footwear, the information being associated with an input from the user controlled device to tighten or loosen the upper of the article of footwear; activating the strap moving mechanism to move the automatic lacing system between an open position and a closed position based on the information received at the control system; moving a portion of the at least one strap through a rigid hollow plate associated with a sidewall portion of the upper when the control system activates the automatic lacing system to move between the open position and the closed position; wherein the strap mechanism further comprises a motor including a driveshaft, the driveshaft including a gear, and a belt configured to engage the gear; and wherein the step of moving the portion of the at least one strap through the rigid hollow plate further comprises using the belt to supply power to move the at least one strap. | 36,621 |
8,379,790 | 1. A shift register circuit comprising: an input terminal, first and second output terminals, and first and second clock terminals; a first transistor that supplies said first output terminal with a first clock signal inputted to said first clock terminal; a second transistor that supplies said second output terminal with a second clock signal inputted to said second clock terminal; a third transistor that charges a first node to which a control electrode of said first transistor connects or a second node to which a control electrode of said second transistor connects, in response to activation of an input signal inputted to said input terminal; and a fourth transistor connected between said first node and said second node, wherein said first clock signal and said second clock signal have a same phase, and a setting is possible such that only said second clock signal is activated and the first clock signal is kept at an inactive level in a particular period. | 43,573 |
9,153,313 | 1. A memory circuit comprising: a first circuit configured to retain data in a first period during which a power supply voltage is supplied; a second circuit configured to save the data retained in the first circuit in the first period and retain the data in a second period during which the power supply voltage is not supplied, the second circuit comprising: a third circuit configured to save the data retained in the second circuit in the second period and retain the data in a third period during which the power supply voltage is not supplied, the third circuit comprising: a fourth circuit operationally connected to each of the first circuit, the second circuit, and the third circuit, wherein the fourth circuit is capable of reading the data retained in the second circuit based on the potential of the first node before the third circuit completes retaining the data in the third circuit. | 20,966 |
8,849,898 | 1. A data deduplication client apparatus, comprising: a processor; a memory; and an interface to connect the processor, the memory, and a set of logics, the set of logics comprising: a conditions logic configured to control the data deduplication client apparatus to identify a current condition in a collaborative data deduplication environment, where the current condition concerns a current condition in a first deduplication server with which the client apparatus is performing collaborative deduplication, a current condition in a second deduplication server with which the client apparatus is considering performing collaborative deduplication, a current condition in a first communication path between the client apparatus and the first server, a current condition in a second communication path between the client apparatus and the second server, and randomness of data being received at the client apparatus; a performance logic configured to control the client apparatus to identify a data deduplication performance criterion for the client apparatus; and an adaptation logic configured to selectively reconfigure one or more of, collaborative data deduplication processing performed by the client apparatus, and deduplication related storage performed by the client apparatus, where the selective reconfiguring occurs upon determining that the current condition and the performance criterion do not match a desired deduplication performance profile for the client apparatus. | 38,452 |
9,570,737 | 1. A conductive bipolar battery plate, comprising: an electrically conductive silicon wafer; a first battery electrode located on a first surface of the conductive silicon wafer; a second battery electrode located on a surface of the electrically conductive silicon wafer opposite the first surface, the second electrode having a polarity opposite the first battery electrode; and an active material disposed on the first surface of the conductive silicon wafer; wherein the first surface of the conductive silicon wafer comprises a silicide. | 38,912 |
8,519,514 | 1. A semiconductor device comprising: a substrate including first and second surfaces and a via hole, the via hole being elongated in a first direction to penetrate the substrate from the first surface to the second surface; and an electrode provided in the via hole and including a first portion that comprises first and second end parts and a center part sandwiched between the first and second end parts, the first and second end parts and the center part being arranged along the first direction, and the first and second end parts being different in diameter from the center part, wherein the electrode further includes a second portion located between the first portion and the first surface of the substrate, the second portion includes a third end part exposed from the first surface of the substrate and a fourth end part connected to the first end part of the first portion, the third end part is larger in diameter than the first and fourth end parts, and the first and second end parts of the first portion of the electrode are smaller in diameter than the center part of the first portion of the electrode. | 25,356 |
9,375,454 | 1. An infant feeding formula to be administered to infants as an only nutrition source or as a complementary nutrition source in addition to breastfeeding, to provide complete nutrition to the infant and also comprising non-replicating probiotic micro-organisms rendered non-replicating by a heat treatment at 120 to 140° C. for 5-15 seconds, the non-replicating probiotic micro-organisms selected from the group consisting of Bifidobacterium longum NCC 2705, Bifidobacterium breve NCC 2950, Lactobacillus johnsonii La1 , Lactobacillus reuteri DSM17938, Lactobacillus reuteri ATCC55730, Streptococcus thermophilus NCC 2019, Streptococcus thermophilus NCC 2059, Lactobacillus casei NCC 4006, Lactobacillus acidophilus NCC 3009, Lactobacillus casei ACA-DC 6002 (NCC 1825), Escherichia coli Nissle, Lactobacillus bulgaricus NCC 15, Lactococcus lactis NCC 2287, and combinations thereof, wherein the non-replicating probiotic micro-organisms induce less pro-inflammatory cytokines while maintaining or inducing additional Interleukin 10 (IL-10) production relative to live counterpart. | 15,659 |
9,720,324 | 1. A resist composition comprising as base resin a polymer comprising recurring units represented by the formula (a) and recurring units having a carboxyl group substituted with an acid labile group and/or recurring units having a phenolic hydroxyl group substituted with an acid labile group, the polymer having a weight average molecular weight of 1,000 to 500,000, wherein R 1 is hydrogen or methyl, R 2 and R 3 are each independently hydrogen or a straight, branched or cyclic C 1 -C 6 alkyl group, X 1 is a single bond, a C 1 -C 12 linking group containing an ester moiety, ether moiety or lactone ring, phenylene or naphthylene group, X 2 and X 3 are each independently oxygen or sulfur, and a is a positive number in the range: 0<a<1.0. | 27,649 |
9,156,035 | 1. A method of progressively separating and extracting raw materials from residential roofing products, the method comprising: a) mechanically shredding residential roofing products to dislodge granules to produce shredded strip products, b) screening the dislodged granules and shredded strip products from step (a) with a sizing shaker to harvest dislodged granules by size, c) mechanically reducing the size of the shredded strip products to produce chip products; d) screening the chip products from step (c) to separate the chip products from granules by size, resulting in chip products and small products, wherein the chip products are comprised of asphalt-coated fiberglass chips and middle sized asphalt coated limestone powder, and the small products are comprised of small sized granules and small sized asphalt coated limestone powder; e) mechanically reducing the size of the asphalt coated fiberglass chips and middle sized asphalt coated limestone powder from step (d) to produce small sized powder products, f) separating both the small sized granules and small sized powder product by density separation in a dry medium using air fluidization, comprising the following steps: g) screening the asphalt coated limestone powder chip products by size into medium aggregate and small aggregate products, wherein the medium aggregate products are comprised of asphalt-coated fiberglass chips and powder and the small aggregate products are comprised of asphalt coated limestone powder; h) mechanically reducing the size of the medium asphalt-coated limestone and fiberglass chips to produce small sized powder products, and i) finishing the resulting product by further size screening producing small aggregate products comprised of asphalt coated limestone powder. | 3,431 |
8,892,235 | 1. A method for producing a dental implant surgical guide, the method comprising: receiving image data specific to a patient, wherein the image data comprises a plurality of two-dimensional images; identifying a first set of two-dimensional anatomical landmarks from the plurality of two- dimensional images of the image data; generating a virtual model specific to the patient; identifying a second set of three-dimensional anatomical landmarks of the patient from the virtual model; aligning the image data and the virtual model in a three-dimensional space by matching the first set of two-dimensional anatomical landmarks rendered in the three-dimensional space and the second set of three-dimensional anatomical landmarks; placing a virtual dental implant in the virtual model according to a virtual implant plan; generating a virtual mold based on the virtual model; generating a physical mold from the virtual mold; generating a thermoformed piece by covering the physical mold with a thermoplastic sheet via a thermoforming process; and generating a dental implant surgical guide that comprises the thermoformed piece. | 34,725 |
9,348,736 | 1. A method for software testing and validation comprising the steps of: identifying a software application under test (SAUT); generating, from the SAUT, an abstract model of at least one region of the SAUT, the abstract model including data that facilitates adaptation of a test script to the SAUT when changes are made to the SAUT; testing at least one object in the at least one region of the SAUT with the test script, the test script utilizing the abstract model to conduct the testing; altering the SAUT, the altering comprising one or more of the following: relocating the at least one region of the SAUT and redefining the at least one region of the SAUT; and re-executing the test script to test the at least one object in the at least one region by navigating the abstract model, the re-executing performed without regeneration of the abstract model. | 16,197 |
9,130,787 | 1. A method comprising: storing, in a memory, a first plurality of channel frequency responses and a plurality of corresponding predictor coefficients, wherein at least one of the plurality of corresponding predictor coefficients is a direct function of one or more particular frequencies; updating, using a processor, at least one of the plurality of corresponding predictor coefficients based on an error value to obtain an updated predictor coefficient for an updated plurality of corresponding predictor coefficients, wherein the error value is computed based on a difference value between an estimated current channel frequency response for a first frequency and a predicted current channel frequency response for the first frequency, wherein the predicted current channel frequency response is computed based on a weighted sum of a plurality of estimated past channel frequency responses for the first frequency; and computing, using the processor, a new channel frequency response comprising performing a linear operation on the first plurality of channel frequency responses and the updated plurality of corresponding predictor coefficients. | 14,717 |
9,678,282 | 1. An optical adapter for optically coupling first and second ruggedized optical connectors, the optical adapter comprising: an adapter body defining a channel extending along a longitudinal axis that extends between first and second oppositely facing ports, the first port defining a first attachment structure to receive the first ruggedized optical connector so that the first ruggedized optical connector is environmentally sealed to the optical adapter and the second port defining a second attachment structure to receive the second ruggedized optical connector so that the second ruggedized optical connector is environmentally sealed to the optical adapter; internal structure disposed within the adapter body and configured to align the first and second ruggedized optical connectors; and first and second end caps configured to be removably disposed in the first and second ports, respectively, each end cap being secured at the respective port by the respective attachment structure, and each end cap having at least one closed end to block access to the respective port. | 30,665 |
8,660,122 | 1. An apparatus comprising; a network interface; and logic in communication with the network interface, the logic configured to: | 1,538 |
9,397,983 | 1. A method by a data sharing system (DSS) server, which is operably connected to a data distribution network (DDN) that includes a first client of a first user, a second client of a second user and a third client of a third user, of facilitating the private sharing of data between the first, second and third client, the method comprising: receiving via the DDN a first obfuscated data packet (ODP) from the first client; transmitting via the DDN the first ODP, or a copy thereof, to the second client; transmitting via the DDN the first ODP, or a copy thereof, to the third client; receiving via the DDN a second ODP from the second client; transmitting via the DDN the second ODP, or a copy thereof, to the first client; transmitting via the DDN the second ODP, or a copy thereof, to the third client; receiving via the DDN a third ODP from the third client; transmitting via the DDN the third ODP, or a copy thereof, to the first client; transmitting via the DDN the third ODP, or a copy thereof, to the second client; wherein the server lacks the “value, method and/or program or portion of a program” (VMP) needed to de-obfuscate the first ODP; wherein the server lacks the VMP needed to de-obfuscate the second ODP; and wherein the server lacks the VMP needed to de-obfuscate the third ODP. | 27,679 |
8,459,014 | 1. A mounting structure for an NOx reduction system from a construction machine, comprising: the construction machine, said construction machine having an engine, a hydraulic pump drivable by the engine, a hydraulic actuator drivable by pressure oil delivered from the hydraulic pump, a hydraulic pressure control valve unit for controlling a flow of pressure oil to be fed from the hydraulic pump to the hydraulic actuator, a body frame holding the engine, the hydraulic pump and the hydraulic pressure control valve unit in place thereon, and a counterweight fixedly secured on the body frame at a rear position of a body to maintain stability of the body, and the NOx reduction system, said NOx reduction system including a reduction catalyst to be arranged in an exhaust passage of the engine to reduce and purify nitrogen oxides emitted from the engine, a reducing agent spray device or spraying a reducing agent into the exhaust passage of the engine, a reducing agent feeder for feeding the reducing agent to the reducing agent spray device, a reducing agent storage tank having a fill opening to fill the reducing agent and to store therein the reducing agent to be guided to the reducing agent feeder, and a controller for controlling drive of the reducing agent spray device and reducing agent feeder, and said NOx reduction system mounted on the body frame, wherein: | 31,162 |
9,313,738 | 1. A method comprising: receiving at a telecommunication device a radio transmission from a remote telecommunication device in a radio communication network; extracting from the radio transmission data defining a system reliability parameter established for radio communication by telecommunication devices communicating on the radio communication network, the data defining a system reliability parameter defining a maximum time duration during which the telecommunication device may be out of communication with the remote communication device on the radio communication network; using the system reliability parameter to determine a sleep interval duration for a power saving state; entering the power saving state; upon expiration of the sleep interval duration, exiting the power saving state; at the telecommunication device, detecting a time-varying channel characteristic for a signal transmission; and adjusting the sleep interval duration based on the channel characteristic. | 12,058 |
8,476,884 | 1. A method for controlling a converter of the multiphase interleaving type, the converter including a plurality of phases, the method comprising the steps of: detecting when a change of a load applied to an output terminal of the converter occurs; in response to detecting a change of the load applied to the output terminal of the converter, simultaneously turning off all of the phases of the converter; and recovering a driving interleaving phase shift so as to restart a normal operation of the converter, wherein the simultaneously turning off step comprises generating a turn-off control signal that is applied to the phases by comparing one of a control voltage signal of the phases and an inner voltage signal of the converter with a control signal, the control signal being brought to a determined voltage value in correspondence with a detection impulse signal, and the detecting step comprises providing a controller, the controller including: | 2,276 |
8,602,401 | 1. A jig used for manufacturing a composite material structure, the jig being inserted into a channel portion of a hat stringer and used, when the composite material structure is manufactured by attaching prepreg to a frame structure including the hat stringer as a frame member, the channel portion extending in a lengthwise direction of the hat stringer; the jig comprising: a body having a pipe shape and made of an elastic material, the body having a transverse cross-section of a trapezoidal shape which is a cross-section perpendicular to a lengthwise direction of the body; and a terminal metal member attached to one end portion of the body and having a pressurization hole for pressurizing an interior of the body; wherein the terminal metal member has an insertion portion inserted into a hollow space of the body; the insertion portion has a columnar shape having a transverse cross-section conforming in shape to a contour shape of the hollow space of the body; the insertion portion is provided on an outer peripheral surface thereof with a band-shaped groove portion wound around the outer peripheral surface; and the insertion portion is inserted into the hollow space of the body in a state where an adhesive is filled in the band-shaped groove portion. | 8,267 |
9,336,983 | 1. A scanning particle microscope comprising: a. at least one reference object which is fixedly arranged at an output of the scanning particle microscope for a particle beam so that the reference object can at least partially be imaged by the particle beam; b. at least one scanning unit operable to scan the particle beam of the scanning particle microscope across at least one portion of the reference object; and c. at least one setting unit operable to change at least one setting of the scanning particle microscope. | 42,453 |
9,132,985 | 1. A line conveying machine comprising: a gripper; a carriage, said gripper being mounted on said carriage; a guide, said carriage being displaceable on said guide along a first path between a first position and second position; a carriage drive operatively connected to said carriage to controllably displace said carriage with said gripper along said first path; an actuating mechanism configured to actuate said gripper, said actuating mechanism being mounted on said carriage to travel between said first and second positions; a first active interface situated proximate to said first position, said first active interface communicating motive energy to said gripper in a region of said first position to bring said gripper into closed position; a second active interface situated proximate to said second position, said second active interface communicating motive energy to said gripper in a region of said second position to bring said gripper into open position; a base, said base having a first part, said base having a second part, said second part being controllably displaceable relative to said first part along a second path substantially parallel to said first path; said guide, said carriage, said first active interface, and said gripper being situated on said first part of said base; and, said second active interface being situated on said second part of said base so that said gripper controllably drives said second part of said base relative to said first part of said base via said second active interface. | 258 |
9,385,364 | 1. A process for the synthesis of phosphosilicate cathode material particles having a deposit of carbon on at least a portion of the surface thereof, said phosphosilicate material comprising lithium and Fe, said Fe being doped with a 4+ valence state metal M′, said process comprising: a first dry high-energy milling step performed on precursors of said cathode material; a first solid-state thermal reaction; a second dry high-energy milling step; and a second solid-state thermal reaction. | 31,072 |
8,629,071 | 1. A quartz glass member co-doped with titania and sulfur, wherein a sulfur concentration is at least 100 ppm, and wherein a sulfur concentration distribution (maximum sulfur concentration−minimum sulfur concentration) is 10 to 29 ppm. | 39,419 |
8,551,000 | 1. A hand portable 3D medical ultrasound imaging system comprising: a two dimensional array of transducer elements in a transducer probe housing, the transducer probe housing having a programmable delay selection circuit and a first beamformer device generating coarse image data; a second beamformer device and a subarray processor in a second processor housing, the second beamformer device being in communication with the probe housing, the second beamformer device receiving coarse image data from a first subarray and having a first plurality of fine delay lines that receive first coarse image data, the second beamformer device receiving coarse image data from a second subarray with a second plurality of fine delay lines, the first subarray and the second subarray operating in parallel to provide three dimensional image data in response to the subarray processor, the second processor housing having a system controller and a data processor that performs scan conversion and Doppler processing operations, the second processor housing being connected to the transducer probe housing with a cable, such that the system weighs less than 15 lbs. | 5,939 |
8,555,705 | 1. A system for monitoring fluid inventory during dispensing and to an end-point dispensing condition of at least one fluid supply vessel in a gas box, wherein the at least one fluid supply vessel is arranged to supply fluid to an ion implanter tool, said system comprising: a monitoring assembly adapted to monitor at least one characteristic of the fluid supply vessel in the gas box when in dispensing operation or at least one characteristic of fluid supplied by said fluid supply vessel in the gas box when in dispensing operation, and to transmit a monitoring output corresponding to the at least one characteristic being monitored, wherein said at least one characteristic is correlative to fluid inventory in the fluid supply vessel in dispensing operation; and an output assembly coupled in transmission relationship to the monitoring assembly, to receive the monitoring output corresponding to the at least one characteristic being monitored and to provide an inventory output indicative of volume of fluid remaining in the fluid supply vessel during said dispensing operation and to the endpoint dispensing condition, wherein the output assembly in approach to the endpoint dispensing condition provides an algorithmically determined inventory output indicative of volume of fluid remaining in the fluid supply vessel in a regime in which volume of fluid remaining in the fluid supply vessel is non-linearly related to pressure. | 11,854 |
8,868,319 | 1. A control system for a homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI) engine, the control system comprising: a first module that determines an adjusted intake valve opening (IVO) timing based on a base IVO timing and an IVO timing adjustment, wherein the IVO timing adjustment is calculated based on a number of sparks per cycle, air charge loss, and air charge cooling; and a second module that controls intake valves of the HCCI engine based on the adjusted IVO timing. | 19,880 |
8,450,219 | 1. A method of fabricating an Al 2 O 3 thin film layer, comprising steps of: (a) obtaining a silicon wafer in a reaction chamber with nitrogen gas flown in and turning on a power source to heat up to a temperature and stop heating to obtain a native oxide layer of SiO (b) flowing a first gas and a second gas into said reaction chamber through an inlet manifold and another inlet manifold, respectively, to grow and obtain an Al (c) cooling down said Al | 49,326 |
9,338,975 | 1. A plant of soybean variety 01046439, wherein a sample of seed of said variety has been deposited under ATCC Accession No. PTA-122387. | 42,623 |
8,679,943 | 1. A spalling method comprising: depositing a stressor layer on an upper surface of a base substrate; contacting a sidewall surface of the stressor layer directly with a planar transfer surface at a first edge of the base substrate; and traversing the planar transfer surface along a plane that is parallel to and having a vertical offset from the upper surface of the base substrate in a direction from the first edge of the base substrate to an opposing second edge of the base substrate to cleave the base substrate and transfer a spalled portion of the base substrate to the planar transfer surface, wherein during said transfer a surface of the spalled portion of the base substrate directly contacts a portion of the planar transfer surface, the vertical offset between the plane along which the planar transfer surface is traversed and the upper surface of the base substrate is a fixed distance from the first edge of the base substrate to the second edge of the base substrate, wherein the fixed distance of the vertical offset provides a uniform spalling force. | 30,421 |
9,024,095 | 1. A method for preparing fuel components from crude tall oil, the method comprising: purifying crude tall oil by washing the crude tall oil with washing liquid, separating the purified crude tall oil from the washing liquid, introducing the purified crude tall oil as a purified crude tall oil feedstock directly to a catalytic hydrodeoxygenation comprising ring-opening of components of the purified tall oil feedstock, to convert unsaturated fatty acids, rosin acids and sterols to fuel components, supplying a product stream of the hydrodeoxygenation from the catalytic hydrodeoxygenation to a separation, where various usable fuel components are separated to various liquid hydrocarbon fractions issuing from the separation as various product streams separately from gases discharged from the separation, and leading only a product stream corresponding to a diesel fraction through an isomerizing for producing a hydrocarbon fraction usable as a diesel fuel or a diesel fuel component. | 3,804 |
9,538,626 | 1. A lighting control system comprising: a smart device comprising a client app installed thereon and a light sensor disposed thereon; at least one luminaire assembly comprising a plurality of luminaires set into at least one luminaire group via the client app to be controlled in groups; and a server communicatively connected to the smart device and the at least one luminaire assembly, the server comprising: | 29,650 |
9,450,139 | 1. A manufacturing method of a photoelectric conversion device, comprising the steps of: forming a first electrode over a substrate; forming a first semiconductor film over the first electrode, the first semiconductor film having a first conductivity type; forming a second semiconductor film over the first semiconductor film, the second semiconductor film having a function of photoelectric conversion; forming a third semiconductor film over the second semiconductor film, the third semiconductor film having a second conductivity type; and forming a second electrode over the third semiconductor film, wherein at least one of the first semiconductor film and the third semiconductor film comprises an amorphous semiconductor film formed by a method comprising the steps of: | 37,279 |
9,145,041 | 1. A vehicle HVAC system comprising: a housing for the system, wherein the housing includes a wall; an evaporator; a heater core; an air mixing door between the evaporator and the heater core, the air mixing door being configured to selectively direct a portion of an airflow to the either bypass or pass over the heater core; and a baffle formed as a cutout of the wall of the housing forming a vertical indentation projecting into an area available to the bypass airflow; wherein the baffle is configured to gradually change the area available to the bypass airflow as the air mixing door is moved such that a change in a pressure upstream of the air mixing door and a restriction in the airflow path result wherein the baffle further includes a spoiler and a projection; wherein the baffle is separate from the air mixing door such that, when the air mixing door moves, the baffle does not move relative to the wall of the housing; wherein the spoiler is connected to the vertical indentation downstream of the vertical indentation, wherein the spoiler has a curved surface having a concave side facing an interior of the housing and a convex side facing an exterior of the housing; and wherein the projection is connected to the spoiler downstream of the spoiler, the projection having a convex side facing the interior of the housing and a convex side facing the exterior of the housing. | 26,431 |
9,725,085 | 1. A hybrid vehicle comprising: an internal combustion engine having a variable valve actuation device for controlling an actuation characteristic of an intake valve, the actuation characteristic being at least one of an amount of lifting the intake valve and a working angle on the intake valve; a detector configured to detect the actuation characteristic controlled by the variable valve actuation device; a rotating electric machine configured to generate vehicular driving force; a power storage device configured to store electric power therein for driving the rotating electric machine; and a control device configured such that when the actuation characteristic detected by the detector is fixed, the control device sets a range that is applied to set therewithin an output that the internal combustion engine is required to provide to be narrower than when the actuation characteristic is not fixed, and the control device controls an state of charge of the power storage device to be higher than when the actuation characteristic is not fixed. | 12,516 |
8,352,164 | 1. A method for operating a vehicle engine having a combustion chamber, comprising: controlling vehicle stability in response to acceleration sensors sensing yaw and lateral acceleration of the vehicle; and adjusting spark timing in the combustion chamber of the engine in response to a knock indication, and further in response to a longitudinal acceleration component to reduce surge, the longitudinal acceleration component based on the acceleration sensors. | 27,942 |
8,980,672 | 1. A method for manufacturing a photovoltaic cell, comprising: forming a structure comprising a pair of electrodes which are arranged apart from each other, and a hetero junction type photoelectric conversion layer interposed between the electrodes and including a p-type semiconductor and a n-type semiconductor; and annealing the photoelectric conversion layer thermally while applying an AC voltage having a frequency of 0.01 kHz or more and less than 1 kHz to control a mixed state of the p-type semiconductor and n-type semiconductor in the photoelectric conversion layer. | 16,169 |
8,922,379 | 1. A water leak detection system deployed within a multistory building, the water leak detection system comprising: a central control unit; a plurality of address modules provided in electrical communication with said central control unit, wherein said electrical communication is provided through a central control data line spanning therebetween; a plurality of sensors, each of said plurality of sensors provided in electrical communication with a respective address module of said plurality of address modules, wherein said electrical communication is provided through an address module data line spanning therebetween, wherein each of said plurality of address modules associates an identifier with each respective sensor; and a multistory building comprising a plurality of floors, wherein at least one sensor is deployed on each of said plurality of floors; a water alarm annunciator provided in signal communication with said central control unit, said water alarm annunciator displaying point identification data of each of said plurality of sensors; wherein said central control unit stored machine-executable instructions to perform the operations of: | 6,502 |
8,754,558 | 1. A kinetic energy converter for converting linear motion into electrical energy, said kinetic energy converter comprising: an outer body; an inner cylindrical body, said outer body and said inner body defining a common central axis wherein said outer body is movable along said central axis with respect to said inner cylindrical body; a stator winding of a plurality of turns of at least one electrically conductive wire disposed about an inner periphery of said inner body; a rotor having a central shaft and a plurality of magnets radially extending therefrom, said rotor rotatably disposed within said inner body and rotatable about said central axis; and a helical blade extending from said outer body to said rotor and interengaged therewith wherein axial translation of said blade rotates said rotor about said central axis. | 31,981 |
8,582,246 | 1. A tape storage device comprising: a head assembly having a plurality of access head elements to access data on respective data tracks on a storage tape; and a controller, responsive to information contained in at least one of the data tracks, to individually adjust a lateral position of at least one of the access head elements independently of at least one other head element. | 13,906 |
9,321,060 | 1. A device for applying a plurality of threads of a fluid, such as adhesive or lotion, to a moving web-like substrate, having a plurality of outlet openings for the threads of fluid, wherein each outlet opening is disposed between a pair of flow openings, through which a flow of fluid flows in order to oscillate the threads, thereby applying the fluid on the moving web-like substrate in an oscillatory pattern, wherein the outlet openings are disposed along a curved path, and in that two directly adjacent flow openings are disposed outside at least one outer outlet opening. | 37,382 |
9,011,998 | 1. A binary phase separated polymer blend comprising a mixture of: a) a first resin component comprising one or more polyaryl ether ketones; with, b) a second resin component comprising one or more polysulfone etherimides having greater than or equal to 50 mole% of the polymer linkages containing at least one aryl sulfone group and comprising the reaction product of a dianhydride monomer and a diamine monomer and: wherein the ratio of the first component to the second component, in parts by weight is from 99:1 to 60:40. | 4,175 |
8,970,214 | 1. A current sensor comprising: a magnetic sensor configured to change characteristics thereof by an induced magnetic field applied thereto from a current to be measured flowing through a current line; a shunt resistor connected in series to the current line; and a switching unit configured to switch to magnetic detection if the current to be measured is smaller than a predetermined current value such that the current sensor outputs an output voltage of the magnetic sensor as a sensor output, and to shunt resistance detection if the current to be measured is equal to or greater than the predetermined current value such that the current sensor outputs a voltage difference of the shunt resistor as the sensor output. | 12,725 |
8,889,461 | 1. A method comprising: performing a first epitaxy to grow a first epitaxy layer of a first conductivity type; performing a second epitaxy to grow a second epitaxy layer over the first epitaxy layer, wherein the second epitaxy layer is of a second conductivity type opposite the first conductivity type, and wherein the first and the second epitaxy layers form a diode; implanting the first epitaxy layer and the second epitaxy layer to form a semiconductor isolation region extending into the first epitaxy layer and the second epitaxy layer, wherein the semiconductor isolation region is of the second conductivity type; forming a gate dielectric over the first epitaxy layer; forming a gate electrode over the gate dielectric; and implanting a top portion of the first epitaxy layer and the second epitaxy layer to form a source/drain region adjacent to the gate dielectric, wherein the source/drain region is located in the semiconductor isolation region. | 19,035 |
9,793,989 | 1. A method, comprising: transmitting an optical beacon from an optical beacon transmitter of a first device, wherein the optical beacon is modulated with information identifying the first device as an optical narrowcasting hotspot; receiving, at an optical signal receiver of the first device, a first optical signal from a second device, wherein the first optical signal is modulated with information to be transmitted over a radio frequency network; extracting the information from the received first optical signal; transmitting the information over a radio frequency network using a radio frequency connection interface of the first device; in response to transmitting the information over the radio frequency network, receiving a response signal over the radio frequency network modulated with information; modulating the information from the response signal onto a second optical signal; and transmitting the second optical signal to an optical signal receiver of the second device. | 3,418 |
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