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9,168,508 | 1. A method for producing biodiesel fuel, comprising: impregnating a zeolite support with a solution containing a palladium(Pd) compound and a platinum(Pt) compound, and drying to provide a hydrogenation catalyst(I), and kneading the hydrogenation catalyst(I) with an alumina support to provide a hydrogenation catalyst composition comprising Pd and Pt, wherein the hydrogenation catalyst(I) has a Pd/Pt molar ratio of from 0.1/10 to 10/1, and a total amount of Pd and Pt in the hydrogenation catalyst(I) is from 0.1 to 10 weight %, and the Pd and Pt are supported with the zeolite support having a silica/alumina ratio of 40 or more, and hydrogenating (1) a fatty acid methyl ester prepared from fat and/or waste edible oil by a transesterification reaction, and/or (2) a fatty acid methyl ester prepared from a fatty acid by an esterification reaction in the presence of the hydrogenation catalyst composition under about 1 MPa or less of hydrogen pressure at a temperature from 80 ° C. to 120 ° C. to prepare a hydrogenated product containing a saturated fatty acid methyl ester, a di- or more-unsaturated fatty acid methyl ester, and a mono-unsaturated fatty acid methyl ester. | 38,836 |
8,697,192 | 1. A method of forming an abrasion resistant composite, comprising: i) providing a plurality of non-woven, coated fiber plies, each fiber ply comprising a plurality of fibers having a tenacity of about 7 g/denier or more and a tensile modulus of about 150 g/denier or more; the surfaces of each of said fibers of each fiber ply being substantially coated with a non-silicon-containing material; ii) applying an uncured, silicon-containing material onto at least a portion of at least one of said coated fiber plies; and thereafter iii) subjecting said plurality of non-woven, coated fiber plies and the uncured, silicon-containing material to heat under conditions sufficient to consolidate the plurality of non-woven, coated fiber plies into a monolithic structure, and whereby the uncured, silicon-containing material is cured and solidified on an outside surface of the monolithic structure, thereby forming the abrasion resistant composite; and wherein said abrasion resistant composite including the cured and solidified silicon-containing material has an areal density of from about 1000 g/m wherein the non-silicon-containing material is coated directly on substantially all the surface area of each individual fiber of said fibrous substrate and said silicon-containing material is applied on top of the non-silicon-containing material coating, and wherein said silicon-containing material comprises from about 0.01% to about 5.0% by weight of said composite. | 31,794 |
9,141,749 | 1. A method implemented in a computer-aided design system for generating a functional design model of an interconnect structure, the computer-aided design system comprising a computer device, said method comprising: generating, by the computer device, a functional representation of a sacrificial conductive material layer; generating, by the computer device, a functional representation of a trench in the sacrificial conductive material layer; generating, by the computer device, a functional representation of a conductive feature in the trench, wherein the conductive feature is over and contacting a lower conductive feature in a dielectric layer; and generating, by the computer device, a functional representation of an insulating layer around the conductive feature to embed the conductive feature in the insulating layer, wherein the method further comprises manufacturing the interconnect structure. | 8,532 |
8,835,598 | 1. A polymer having the formula: wherein: each Het is an optionally substituted 5-8 membered heteroaryl group or a covalent bond; each Het′ is an optionally substituted 5-8 membered heteroaryl group or a covalent bond; R π and π′ independently are selected from the group consisting of (a) an optionally substituted electron-rich 8-20 membered polycyclic heteroaryl group, (b) a linear conjugated linker, and (c) wherein p is 1, 2, 3 or 4; x and y are real numbers representing mole fractions, where 0.05≦x≦0.95, 0.05≦y≦0.95, and the sum of x and y is about 1; and n is an integer in the range of 2 to 10,000, provided that at least one of the following is true: (a) Het and Het′ are different; (b) R | 4,385 |
9,853,321 | 1. Compounds of Formula I: wherein R “Spacer” is selected from the group consisting of C Y is selected from the group consisting of —(O—CH wherein subscript “n” is an integer from 1 to 15, and subscript “x” is an integer from 1 to 15; and R | 8,890 |
9,510,284 | 1. A method, performed by a network device, for determining a set of power state parameters at least partly defining when a wireless terminal is to be in an active state or a power saving state, the method comprising the steps of: detecting a present traffic type of a traffic flow to or from a wireless terminal; obtaining, from a power state parameter repository, a set of power state parameters corresponding to a plurality of traffic types, including the present traffic type, wherein the plurality of traffic types is in the form of a sequence of traffic types, wherein an initial set of traffic types of the sequence of traffic types, comprises the present traffic type; transmitting the set of power state parameters to the wireless terminal; detecting a further traffic type of a traffic flow to or from the wireless terminal; modifying the power state parameters for the wireless terminal, only when the further traffic type does not comply with at least one expected future traffic type of the plurality of traffic types; and determining, for at least one initial set of traffic types, a sequence of most likely future traffic types, wherein the sequence of most likely future traffic types ends at a predetermined number of traffic types. | 15,143 |
8,633,821 | 1. A radio frequency identification (RFID) device comprising: an antenna; and a chip operatively coupled to the antenna; wherein the chip includes circuitry to selectively operate by automatically shifting the RFID device in any one of two modes based on characteristics of incoming signals: a relatively low sensitivity RFID mode used for communicating with RFID readers/detectors; and a relatively high sensitivity electronic article surveillance (EAS) mode for communicating as EAS readers/detectors; wherein the chip uses less power from a power storage block in the EAS mode than in the RFID mode; and wherein the chip is configured to reflect an incoming signal with less of an impedance change in the EAS mode than in the RFID mode, so that the chip can rectify power during the response period. | 28,290 |
9,282,076 | 1. A method for identifying questionable content in a proposed communication from a sender, wherein the proposed communication comprises initial content, the method comprising: receiving by a processor the initial content; receiving by the processor an identification of at least one proposed recipient; receiving, by the processor, private information associated with the proposed recipient from a source of private information about the proposed recipient; receiving, by the processor, public information associated with the proposed recipient from a source of public information about the proposed recipient; identifying by the processor, based upon the received initial content, the received private information and the received public information, at least a portion of the initial content as the questionable content; and indicating by the processor, to the sender, the identified questionable content. | 45,908 |
8,343,448 | 1. A method for operating a layered NOx reducing system coupled to an engine exhaust conducting exhaust gas, the method comprising: passing engine exhaust gas through the NOx reducing system; adding a reducing agent comprising ammonia to the exhaust gas just before the exhaust gas enters the NOx reducing system; filtering exhaust hydrocarbons from the exhaust gas via a first reducing agent storing layer of the NOx reducing system, the first layer having a first pore size, the first layer layered on top of a second layer of the NOx reducing system, the stored reducing agent including the added ammonia; and reducing NOx species in the exhaust gas by selective catalytic reduction at least in the second layer, the second layer including an iron-exchanged zeolite catalyst and having a second pore size, said first pore size being smaller than said second pore size so as to allow ammonia stored in the first layer to pass through the second layer but exclude hydrocarbons from the second layer; wherein an amount of reducing agent added to the NOx reducing system is adjusted responsive to a temperature of the NOx reducing system and an estimate of an amount of reducing agent stored in the first layer. | 49,133 |
8,755,313 | 1. A method of wireless communication, comprising: receiving wireless signalling including discontinuous reception (DRX) configuration parameters, the DRX configuration parameters defining a DRX configuration of a mobile device; implicitly activating the DRX configuration of the mobile device after receiving the DRX configuration parameters when the mobile device does not transmit and/or receive data for a configurable amount of time; cycling between a first discontinuous receive (DRX) cycle off period and a first DRX cycle on period in a first sleep mode of a mobile device; cycling between a first discontinuous transmit (DTX) cycle off period and a first DTX cycle on period in the first sleep mode; transitioning from the first sleep mode to a second sleep mode of the mobile device; cycling between a second DRX cycle off period and a second DRX cycle on period in the second sleep mode, the second DRX cycle on period having a different duration than the first DRX cycle on period; cycling between a second DTX cycle off period and a second DTX cycle on period in the second sleep mode, the second DTX cycle on period having a different duration than the first DTX cycle on period; monitoring transmission from a base station only during the DRX cycle on periods; and turning off radio frequency generation of the mobile device during the DTX cycle off periods. | 41,366 |
8,671,555 | 1. A method of forming a flat conductor wire for use in a cage-shaped distributed winding coil, the method comprising the steps of: a forming step of forming a flat conductor raw wire in a rectangular cross-section; a bending step of bending the flat conductor raw wire in a continuous meandering pattern in the same plane to include in-slot wire portions to be arranged to overlap one another in each slot of a stator core, coil-end wire portions to be arranged to overlap one another at each coil end outside the slots, and bent portions joining the in-slot wire portions and coil-end wire portions; a setting step of grasping the bent portions of the flat conductor raw wire formed in the continuous meandering pattern, the bent portions being located on both ends of the in-slot wire portion, by a pair of grasping tools and holding the in-slot wire portion by a twisting jig; and a processing step of rotating the twisting jig holding the in-slot wire portions about a predetermined axis line and displacing the axis line to twist and bend the bent portions in a crank shape, the setting step and the processing step being performed on all to the in-slot wire portions. | 35,858 |
9,201,791 | 1. An apparatus comprising: one or more queues, wherein each queue stores a plurality of outstanding transactions; and a dependency logic unit coupled to the one or more queues, wherein the dependency logic unit is configured to: | 46,656 |
9,327,971 | 1. A process for treating liquid and/or pasty hydrocarbon-based materials, the process comprising the following steps: bringing of said hydrocarbon-based materials to a temperature greater than or equal to the autoignition temperature of said hydrocarbon-based materials; gasification of said hydrocarbon-based materials by injection of a controlled amount of oxygen, said gasification producing: oxidation of said non-gaseous hydrocarbon-based molecules contained in said non-gaseous feedstock, by means of an oxidation gaseous stream consisting of O mixing of said first and said second gaseous streams, said mixing causing the oxidation of the gaseous-phase hydrocarbon-based molecules present in the first gaseous stream by CO | 29,294 |
8,661,817 | 1. A combined internal combustion and Rankine cycle engine for recovering waste combustion heat comprising, at least one cylinder having a combustion piston slidably and sealingly mounted therein between a combustion chamber and a steam expansion chamber, the combustion chamber being outward of the piston and including a combustion intake valve and a combustion exhaust valve communicating therewith, the steam expansion chamber being located in the cylinder inward of the piston, at least one steam inlet valve enclosed by the piston and connected to be operated in timed relationship to the piston movement for admitting steam produced by waste combustion heat into the steam expansion chamber through a fixed cylinder cap that is sealingly and slidingly mounted within the piston, at least one steam exhaust port communicating with the expansion chamber to exhaust steam therefrom, a cooling jacket at least partially surrounding the combustion chamber, a helical flow guide comprising a spiral flange in the cooling jacket for causing a coolant to flow therethrough in a circuitous pathway wherein the coolant flows in a convoluted or winding course within the cooling jacket while in thermal contact with the combustion chamber whereby a mass velocity of the coolant is increased through at least one flow channel to thereby increase a net heat transfer coefficient between the combustion chamber cooling jacket and the coolant, a pump for transferring coolant between a portion of the cooling jacket adjacent the cylinder and a cylinder head cooling jacket for cooling the combustion chamber, a heat exchange coupling between the coolant and the steam or a steam condensate to transfer heat thereto from the coolant, and a duct connected to transfer the condensate to a heater fired by exhaust gases from the combustion chamber for providing steam produced from the condensate to the steam expansion chamber. | 3,436 |
9,505,831 | 1. An isolated cell comprising a nucleic acid encoding an antibody that specifically binds to amino acids 1-50 of the polypeptide of SEQ ID NO: 15, wherein the antibody reduces Growth and Differentiation Factor-8 (GDF-8) activity. | 20,003 |
9,689,200 | 1. A roller blind including a roller tube mounted for rotation; a fixed element located adjacent to the roller tube; and a sheet element which is secured at one end to the roller tube and at the opposite end to the fixed element such that the sheet element defines a return portion located between the two ends, wherein a roller blind bottom bar is located within the return portion, the roller blind bottom bar including a tubular body and an end cap at each end, the end caps including a proximal portion located adjacent to the tubular body, a distal portion spaced from the tubular body, and an outwardly flared portion located between the proximal and distal portions such that the end cap flares outwards from the proximal portion to the distal portion, said roller blind further including a bottom bar assembly comprising a housing body and a pair of opposed mounting elements forming respective end plates of the housing body, wherein said roller blind bottom bar is rotatably coupled to said mounting elements and disposed within the housing body, and wherein the housing body includes an axial slot through which the sheet element passes. | 24,561 |
8,562,112 | 1. A method of driving a piezoelectric actuator including: a piezoelectric element containing a piezoelectric body having a negative side coercive field point and a positive field side coercive field point, the piezoelectric body having asymmetrical bipolar polarization—electric field hysteresis characteristics in which an absolute value of the negative field side coercive field point and an absolute value of the positive field side coercive field point are different, a coercive field value being whichever of the negative side coercive field point and the positive side coercive field point has a larger absolute value, and a pair of electrodes for applying voltage to the piezoelectric body; and a diaphragm which externally transmits, as displacement, distortion produced in the piezoelectric body when the voltage is applied to the piezoelectric body, the method comprising the step of driving the piezoelectric actuator between a positive drive voltage and a negative drive voltage only in a range not exceeding the coercive field value. | 29,607 |
9,252,307 | 1. A support system for a solar panel comprising: a triangular truss with connection areas for mounting at least one photovoltaic module thereon; a two-sided cradle structure adapted to be non-rotatably supported on a foundation structure and supporting the triangular truss, said cradle structure connected to two side supports of the triangular truss, wherein the cradle structure is configured such that the side supports of the triangular truss meet at a point that is off-center relative the foundation structure, and the photovoltaic module is fixed at an angle relative to the ground level. | 26,046 |
9,548,911 | 1. A network arrangement, comprising: a plurality of low powered monitored devices; and a single, distinct control device; wherein said monitored devices are operable to communicate with said control device, each said device being closer to the control device than the preceding device and wherein each said device includes a memory device in which is stored data relating to the relative position of the device in said network arrangement to other devices of said network, to allow said devices to communicate signals to the control device over a maximum distance using a minimum number of devices, thus reducing power requirements of said network arrangement; wherein each device is operable to switch between two states, an activated state in which said device can communicate with the control device and/or another of said devices and in which the requirements for power are large and a de-activated state where the device is not able to communicate with the control device and/or other of said devices where the power requirements are small; wherein said devices are switched between said states at a predetermined rate and said switching between states is carried out in synchronization with all devices; and wherein the control device sets the predetermined rate and synchronizes the devices with each other. | 16,647 |
9,819,730 | 1. A system for network access based on application layer data, comprising: at least one client device, an access server, and a background server group; wherein the client device establishes a Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) connection with the access server and sends a data request to the access server through the TCP connection; wherein the access server obtains forwarding scheduling information from application layer contents of the data request sent by the client device, selects a background server serving the client device from the background server group according to the forwarding scheduling information, and sends TCP information negotiated in the TCP connection to the selected background server, wherein the forwarding scheduling information includes a domain name, cookie information, and an instant messaging number of a server; and wherein the selected background server directly sends data to the client device according to the TCP information, wherein the TCP information further comprises at least one piece of following information: a data order number of the client device, a data order number of which the access server informs the client device when handshaking with a proxy, Maximum Segment Size (MSS), flow window size of the client device, flow window size of which the access server informs the client device, supporting a time stamp or not, Selective Acknowledgement (SACK), Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) and window zoom. | 7,613 |
8,762,934 | 1. A method of defining a business object model comprising: defining a plurality of named logical types, field-sets, business objects and sub-objects, structures and enumerations that are referenced in the model by their names, wherein defining the business objects further comprises listing the plurality of their fields, each field having a type attribute referencing a logical type defined in the model, and field-sets, each field-set referencing a corresponding field-set defined in the model and the plurality of business object operations and sub-objects; wherein defining business objects and sub-objects further comprises marking a single field or a field-set with a key attribute, which indicates that the key is serial (for fields only), or is user-supplied, or is a reference to another object's key attribute; and wherein no two objects can both have their key fields marked as serial or marked as user-supplied with the same logical types, and wherein no two objects can both have their key field-sets marked as user-supplied and as referencing the same field-set defined in the business object model. | 32,709 |
8,711,710 | 1. A system, comprising: at least one memory for storing computer-executable instructions; and at least one processor in communication with the at least one memory, wherein the at least one processor is configured to execute the computer-executable instructions to: | 22,623 |
8,652,995 | 1. A method for producing an activated carbon material comprising: heating a non-lignocellulosic carbon precursor at a carbonization temperature effective to form a carbon material; and reacting the carbon material with steam at an activation temperature effective to form an activated carbon material, wherein the reacting comprises incorporating the carbon material into one or more channels of a honeycomb substrate and flowing steam down the carbon-containing channels. | 3,051 |
9,032,736 | 1. A method for operating a burner, comprising: providing a burner axis and a jet nozzle, wherein the jet nozzle includes a central axis, a jet nozzle outlet and a wall facing the burner axis in a radial direction starting from the central axis, and a fluid mass flow containing a fuel passes through the jet nozzle to the jet nozzle outlet, wherein the wall of the jet nozzle comprises a circular or elliptical cross-section; and injecting air along the wall facing the burner axis into the jet nozzle forming an air or inert gas film at the jet nozzle outlet between the fuel-containing fluid mass flow and the wall facing the burner axis, wherein the jet nozzle includes a circumferential direction running around the central axis, and the air or the inert gas is injected into the jet nozzle in the circumferential direction in an angular range from at least +/−15° about the central axis to an angular range of at most +/−135° about the central axis, wherein the zero angle of the angular range is defined at a radial connecting line between the burner axis and the central axis. | 38,288 |
9,346,017 | 1. An exhaust line for a motor vehicle, comprising: an upstream monolith and a downstream monolith to treat exhaust gases passing along an exhaust line, said upstream and downstream monoliths being positioned in series in the exhaust line, an injection portion positioned between an upstream face defined by the upstream monolith and a downstream face defined by the downstream monolith and comprising a duct through which a stream of exhaust gas flows, said duct extending from the upstream face to the downstream face, the duct having a central line with a set length between the upstream and downstream faces, an injection device comprising a reagent injector mounted on the injection portion and designed to inject reagent in gaseous form into the injection portion, and a store provided to supply the injector with reagent in gaseous form; and wherein the injection portion comprises at least one first cup positioned inside the duct in a path of the exhaust gas stream line so that a mean path of the exhaust gas stream line is at least 20% longer than the set length, the injection portion includes a second cup positioned inside the duct between the upstream face and the first cup, and the injection of the reagent is done between the first cup and the second cup. | 22,587 |
8,852,992 | 1. A method of manufacturing a solar cell, the method comprising: forming a first electrode on a substrate; forming a precursor on the first electrode, wherein the precursor includes: heating the precursor while adding selenium to form a preliminary light absorption layer including a Cu, In, Ga, Se compound and liquid CuSe; continuing the heating while adding selenium and while adjusting the composition ratio of copper/(gallium+indium) to be about 1 or less by providing a compound including at least one of gallium and indium to the liquid CuSe in the preliminary light absorption layer to form a light absorption layer; and forming a second electrode on the light absorption layer. | 37,250 |
9,207,591 | 1. A fixing device comprising: a rotatable fixing member configured to heat and fix, onto a recording material, a toner image formed on the recording material; a pressure member configured to form a nip portion pinching and conveying the recording material with the rotatable fixing member; a restriction member configured to restrict movement of the rotatable fixing member in a generatrix direction of the rotatable fixing member; a pressure application mechanism configured to apply pressure to the nip portion via the restriction member; a pressure release mechanism configured to release the pressure applied to the nip portion, and a capture member configured to capture a component vaporized by heat, wherein the capture member is arranged to face a curved surface portion of the rotatable fixing member and is positioned by the restriction member, and wherein when the pressure release mechanism releases the pressure applied to the nip portion, the restriction member is moved and the capture member is also moved along with the movement of the restriction member. | 22,331 |
8,967,806 | 1. A method for recording images using a fundus camera having a strip-shaped pupil division, comprising: illuminating the eye by an illumination source via illumination optics, a deflecting mirror, and an ophthalmoscope lens; imaging light reflected from the eye, via the ophthalmoscope lens and detection optics, on a detector; reading out, recording, and evaluating imaging light reflected from the eye by a central control and evaluation unit; scanning coherent or incoherent radiation emitted from the illumination source which is limited to a slit shape over the ocular fundus; structuring the illumination slit such that the resulting slit image on the detector is much wider than the resolution in the detector image to be achieved in a direction of the slit image, wherein the light reflected from the eye, as an image of the slit, strikes corresponding sectors of a spatially resolving detector; and reading out the data with the control and evaluation unit from the detector sector by sector and synchronizing with the moving illumination pattern in such a way that a bright image and a dark image are recorded, and both images are offset with respect to one another to form a resulting fundus image. | 8,031 |
9,134,094 | 1. A dual laser module for a firearm, comprising: a mounting member; a first diode coupled to the mounting member, the first diode having a first diode end extending along a first diode axis a first distance away from a first side of the mounting member; a second diode coupled to the mounting member proximally to the first diode, the second diode having a second diode end extending along a second diode axis a second distance away from the first side of the mounting member, wherein the first distance is greater than the second distance, wherein the first diode end is shaped to act as an adjustment pivot to allow simultaneous adjustment of the first and second diode axes, and wherein the second diode couples to the mounting member via a yieldable connector. | 6,742 |
9,532,518 | 1. A hydroponic growing system comprising: a plurality of parallel horizontal pipes each having opposite first and second ends and a plurality of openings along a length between said first and second ends through which crops grow; a plurality of pipe segments extending from an outer surface of the plurality of parallel horizontal pipes on a side opposite the plurality of openings; a vertical drain pipe having a plurality of pipe extensions along a length thereof, said pipe extensions mating with one of said first and second ends of said plurality of parallel horizontal pipes; and a plurality of nutrient-delivering tubes having openings along a length thereof, said nutrient delivering tubes extending from a source of nutrient-enriched water and branching through said plurality of pipe segments in a parallel arrangement so as to supply the nutrient-enriched water to each of said plurality of pipe segments individually, wherein each of said horizontal pipes is adapted to support crops that receive said nutrient-enriched water from said nutrient-delivering tubes, thereby producing crops in high density. | 48,772 |
8,940,337 | 1. A transparent nanocomposite hydrogel comprising a hydrophilic polymer network derived from poly(2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate) (PHEMA) and having nanosized cellulose fiber dispersed therein, wherein a concentration of said nanosized cellulose fiber is between 0.005% and 0.1% by weight, and wherein a concentration of PHEMA is approximately 60% by weight. | 37,491 |
9,054,240 | 1. A solar cell comprising: a semiconductor layer containing first impurities; a first portion positioned in and directly contacting a back surface of the semiconductor layer, the first portion being more heavily doped with second impurities different from the first impurities than the semiconductor layer, and forms a p-n junction with the semiconductor layer; a second portion positioned in and directly contacting the back surface of the semiconductor layer, the second portion being more heavily doped with the first impurities than the semiconductor layer; a third portion positioned in and directly contacting the back surface of the semiconductor layer between the first portion and the second portion, the third portion having an impurity concentration lower than an impurity concentration of the first portion and an impurity concentration of the second portion and substantially equal to or higher than an impurity concentration of the semiconductor layer; a first electrode which is positioned on the back surface of the semiconductor layer and is connected to the first portion; a second electrode which is positioned on the back surface of the semiconductor layer and is connected to the second portion; a passivation layer formed on the back surface of the semiconductor layer including the first portion, the second portion and the third portion, and having contact holes corresponding to the first portion and the second portion; and a double-layered anti-reflection layer formed on a front surface of the substrate, and including silicon nitride and silicon dioxide, wherein the back surface of the semiconductor layer directly contacts the first portion and the second portion, and the first portion and the second are spaced apart from each other by the third portion in a horizontal direction and a vertical direction, wherein the first portion is disconnected with the second portion, and wherein the first portion is parallel with the second portion along an extending direction perpendicular to the vertical and horizontal directions. | 22,710 |
8,482,549 | 1. A multiple image projection apparatus comprising: at least a first light source for providing light; an integrated cubic multi-prism beam splitter, having four sides and first and second diagonal interfaces including a beam splitter element positioned on at least a portion of the first diagonal interface; at least first and second spatial light modulators; at least first and second projection optics systems; the first and second spatial light modulators and the first light source being configured such that the first spatial light modulator and the first light source are positioned adjacent one side of the cubic multi-prism beam splitter and the second spatial light modulator and the second projection optics system are positioned adjacent an opposite-facing side of the cubic multi-prism beam splitter such that light from the first light source is divided into first and second polarized beams and directed in different directions by the polarization beam splitter such that the first polarized beam is directed into the first spatial light modulator and the second polarized beam is directed into the second spatial light modulator; a first image source for modulating the first spatial light modulator; a second image source, for producing images which may be the same or different from images produced using the first image source, for modulating the second spatial light modulator; the first and second spatial light modulators and the first and second projection optics systems configured such that a first modulated reflected output image from the first spatial light modulator is output from the first projection optics system and a second modulated reflected output image from the second spatial light modulator is output from the second projection optics system. | 29,130 |
9,269,044 | 1. A method for event delivery in a neural network including multiple core circuits, wherein each core circuit comprises an electronic synapse array comprising multiple digital synapses interconnecting a plurality of digital electronic neurons such that each synapse interconnects an axon of a pre-synaptic neuron with a dendrite of a post-synaptic neuron, the method comprising: in each core circuit: | 31,008 |
9,410,651 | 1. A method of collecting crude oil from a water body surface or below comprising the steps of: providing a refrigerated crude oil recover system including: | 32,576 |
9,049,517 | 1. A loudspeaker comprising an acoustic waveguide comprising: an enclosure; an acoustic transmission line formed within the enclosure; and a plurality of acoustic transducers contained within the enclosure and disposed along a length of the acoustic transmission line, each acoustic transducer configured to emit acoustic energy directly into the acoustic transmission line at two separated locations along the length of the acoustic transmission line, wherein the acoustic transmission line is a folded acoustic transmission line, the enclosure includes an internal wall with each side of the internal wall forming at least some of a boundary of the folded acoustic transmission line, and the plurality of acoustic transducers are disposed along the internal wall, wherein the internal wall is corrugated, wherein the plurality of acoustic transducers are disposed through the internal wall such that they emit acoustic pressure waves in a direction substantially parallel to a direction of extension of the internal wall, and wherein the plurality of acoustic transducers are installed in the internal wall such that the front sides of the acoustic transducers facing into a first corrugation groove face one another and the back sides of the of the acoustic transducers facing into a second corrugation groove face one another. | 26,256 |
8,469,691 | 1. An apparatus for producing a three-dimensional shaped product, comprising: a shaping tank, a vertically movable table in the shaping tank, the vertically movable table having an upper surface, a frame body installed upright on the table, a base plate which supports a metallic or non-metallic powder material, the base plate positioned above the upper side of the vertically movable table, the base plate having a lower surface supported on top of at least one of: a projected part which extends upwardly from each said support and contacts an outer circumferential wall of the base plate, wherein any angle at an intersection of crossing lines formed by lines normal to at least three contact points of the respective ones of said at least one projected part and at least one step portion is smaller than 180 degrees, thereby preventing the base plate from moving horizontally, wherein the following steps are sequentially repeated: spraying one of the metallic and non-metallic powder on a surface of the base plate, with the surface of the base plate having at least a material which can be adhered to the metallic or non-metallic powder upon solidification of the powder, subjecting an upper surface of the thus sprayed powder to planarization, irradiating one of electromagnetic waves and electron beams along a layer of the powder having a predetermined thickness to a region to be shaped which is located at an uppermost position, thereby forming a sintered layer, and cutting at least one of an end part and upper surface where sintering has been performed to effect molding. | 34,493 |
8,357,395 | 1. A method of manufacturing a tablet comprising a pharmaceutically active agent, said method comprising the steps of: (a) adding a powder comprising a pharmaceutically-acceptable carrier to a die cavity; (b) injecting a liquid drug composition comprising said pharmaceutically active agent into said die cavity such that said liquid drug composition contacts said powder; (c) adding additional powder comprising a pharmaceutically-acceptable carrier to a die cavity containing said liquid drug composition; (d) compressing the combination of said powder and said liquid drug composition within said die cavity to form said tablet; and (e) removing said tablet from said die cavity. | 6,818 |
9,348,529 | 1. A hard disk drive, comprising: rotating storage media configured to store data; one or more read/write heads positioned over the storage media and configured to write the data to the storage media and read the data from the storage media; a storage control system configured to identify acceleration characteristics associated with the read/write heads; and the storage control system configured to execute storage operations using the read/write heads when the acceleration characteristics indicate a power consumption for the hard disk drive outside of a peak power consumption range, and cache the storage operations when the acceleration characteristics indicate the power consumption for the hard disk drive within the peak power consumption range. | 29,441 |
8,576,038 | 1. In combination: a regulating transformer having a main winding having an end and a tap winding having a start, an end, and a plurality of taps; a tap changer connected to a load shunt and selectably connectable to the taps; a preselector connected to the start and end of the tap winding and to the end of the main winding; a first polarity resistor connected between the start of the tap winding and the load shunt; and a second polarity resistor connected between the end of the tap winding and the load shunt. | 21,786 |
8,353,285 | 1. An apparatus which collects solar energy comprising: a receiver operable to receive a heat transfer fluid; a concave minor mounted at least partially around said receiver; a concave optical lens which extends from the concave mirror, said concave optical lens mounted at least partially around said receiver, said concave optical lens rigidly attached to at least one end section of said concave mirror to define a rigid structure; and a motor operable to position said rigid structure between at least a first position and a second position, said first position operable to reflect solar radiation from said concave mirror toward said receiver to heat said heat transfer fluid at a first rate, said second position operable to direct solar radiation through said concave optical lens toward said receiver to heat said heat transfer fluid at a second rate. | 39,209 |
9,726,078 | 1. An apparatus with variable compression ratio and variable expansion ratio for an internal combustion engine, mounted on an engine crankshaft having a first main journal and a plurality of other orderly placed main journals and a first crankpin and a plurality of other orderly placed crankpins and an assembly of a piston-connecting rod having a bearing bush on a big end of the piston-connecting rod, comprising a first supporting cylindrical hole in a first main journal, having an angle between an axis of the first supporting cylindrical hole and the crankshaft, each of the plurality of the other orderly placed main journals is provided respectively with a supporting cylindrical hole, an axis of each supporting cylindrical hole is either coaxial with or parallel to without overlapping an axis of the crankshaft or forms a non-zero angle between the axis of each supporting cylindrical hole and the axis of the crankshaft, an actuating motor fixed on a cylinder block of an engine, a worm connected fixedly coaxially together with the actuating motor, a worm gear meshed with the worm, a sun gear fixed coaxially on the worm gear and mounted pivotally on a crankshaft, a first transmission shaft being rotatably put into the first supporting cylindrical hole, and both ends of the first transmission shaft extending out of the first support cylindrical hole, a plurality of transmission shafts, each corresponding to each of the plurality of the other orderly placed main journals, respectively being rotatably positioned one-to-one in the supporting cylindrical holes, and both ends of each of the plurality of transmission shafts extending out of the support cylindrical holes, a first eccentric sleeve being rotatably sleeved between a first crankpin of the crankshaft and the corresponding bearing bush of the big end of the piston-connecting rod, having an inner cylindrical surface and an outer cylindrical surface, and a center line of the inner cylindrical surface and a center line of the external cylindrical surface not coinciding but having an eccentricity e, a plurality of eccentric sleeves, each corresponding to each of the plurality of the crankpins, respectively rotatably sleeved between the plurality of crankpins and the corresponding bearing bushes of the big end of the piston-connecting rods, having an inner cylindrical surface and an outer cylindrical surface, a center line of the inner cylindrical surface and a center line of the external cylindrical surface not coinciding but having an eccentricity e, a front gear of the first eccentric sleeve fixed on a front end of the first eccentric sleeve and having a pitch circle center that coincides with the center of the inner cylindrical surface of the first eccentric sleeve, a plurality of front gears of the eccentric sleeves, respectively fixed on front ends of the corresponding eccentric sleeves and each having a pitch circle center that coincides with the center of the inner cylindrical surface of the corresponding eccentric sleeve, a plurality of rear gears of the eccentric sleeves, respectively fixed on a rear end of each of the corresponding eccentric sleeves and each having a pitch circle center that coincides with the center of the inner cylindrical surface of the corresponding eccentric sleeve, a planetary gear fixedly mounted on the front end of the first transmission shaft and engaged with the sun gear, a rear gear of the first transmission shaft fixedly mounted on the rear end of the first transmission shaft and engaged with the front gear of the first eccentric sleeve, a plurality of the front gear of the transmission shafts respectively fixed on the front end of each of the corresponding transmission shafts and engaged with the adjacent rear gear of the eccentric sleeves, and a plurality of the rear gear of the transmission shafts respectively fixed on the rear end of each of the corresponding transmission shafts and engaged with the adjacent front gear of the eccentric sleeves. | 2,142 |
8,961,019 | 1. A bearing assembly comprising: a frame; a first disc disposed in the frame, the first disc including a first face having a first wear resistant surface; and a second disc disposed in the frame, the second disc including a second face having a second wear resistant surface, wherein the second wear resistant surface is configured to interact with the first wear resistant surface, and wherein the first face includes a lip protruding from the first face at a lip angle, the lip angle defined between the lip and a line perpendicular to the first face and being in the range between about 5 degrees and about 80 degrees. | 33,056 |
9,489,222 | 1. A method for workload balancing among a plurality of physical machines hosting a plurality of virtual machines (VMs), comprising: periodically measuring a utilization of each hardware resource in each of the plurality of physical machines that host VMs that can execute an application to be load balanced; computing a resource utilization score for each hardware resource based on its type, respective measured utilization, weight factor and load threshold; wherein the load threshold is a predefined threshold set for a specific hardware resource type; wherein the weight factor is determined based on the relevancy of the measured resource utilization for a proper execution of the application; computing a total physical machine utilization score for each physical machine based on the computed resource utilization scores of its respective resources; upon reception of a client request corresponding to a software application, selecting one physical machine of the plurality of physical machines to serve the client request, wherein the selection is based on the computed total physical machine utilization; and forwarding the client request to a VM hosted on the selected physical machine, wherein all of the plurality of VMs hosted on the plurality of physical machines run an instance of the software application. | 30,315 |
9,636,770 | 1. Method for controlling an irradiation system for use in an apparatus for producing a three-dimensional work piece and comprising a first and a second irradiation unit, the method comprising the steps of: defining a first irradiation area on a surface of a carrier adapted to receive a layer of raw material powder, irradiating a layer of raw material powder applied onto the carrier in the first irradiation area by the first irradiation unit of the irradiation system, wherein the operation of the first irradiation unit is controlled in such a manner that the raw material powder is pre-heated, and thereafter irradiating the layer of raw material powder applied onto the carrier in the first irradiation area by means of the second irradiation unit of the irradiation system, wherein the operation of the second irradiation unit is controlled in such a manner that the raw material powder is heated to a temperature which allows sintering and/or melting of the raw material powder in order to generate a layer of the three-dimensional work piece. | 23,314 |
9,830,753 | 1. A system for providing locations of collection, charging and distribution machines for collection, charging and distribution of portable electrical energy storage devices comprising: at least one processor of the system for providing locations of collection, charging and distribution machines; and at least one processor-readable memory of the system for providing locations of collection, charging and distribution machines that stores instructions executable by the at least one processor to cause the at least one processor to: receive user input at a collection, charging and distribution machine; determine, by the at least one processor, whether a portable electrical energy storage device is available at the collection, charging and distribution machine; and if it is determined, by the at least one processor, that a portable electrical energy storage device is not available at the collection, charging and distribution machine, instruct the collection, charging and distribution machine to output an indication, of one or more other collection, charging and distribution machines at which a portable electrical energy storage device is available. | 20,880 |
8,917,719 | 1. A method for realizing explicit call transfer, comprising: receiving, by a service centralization & continuity application server (SCC AS), a call request sent by a second user equipment (UE), sending, by the SCC AS, the call request to a third UE, wherein an instruction for replacing a call between a first UE and the third UE is carried in the call request; and receiving, by the SCC AS, a message returned by the third UE according to the call request, controlling, by the SCC AS, the third UE to establish a connection with the second UE, and controlling, by the SCC AS, the third UE to break a connection with the first UE; wherein the third UE is an IP multimedia subsystem centralized service UE (ICS UE); wherein a communication with the third UE is carried out through a circuit switched service control signaling channel; wherein the receiving, by the SCC AS, of the call request sent by the second UE, and sending, by the SCC AS, of the call request to the third UE comprises: converting, by the SCC AS, the call request message sent by the second UE into a circuit switched service call request message, and sending, by the SCC AS, the circuit switched service call request message to the third UE; wherein a session identifier and a replacement indication identifier are carried in the circuit switched service call request message, the session identifier is a session identifier between the first UE and the third UE, and the replacement indication identifier is used to indicate replacing a session between the first UE and the third UE by a session between the second UE and a third UE. | 10,194 |
8,474,514 | 1. Carrier structure for partitioning and/or inner partitioning with integrated heating and/or cooling, wherein the structure includes: at least first and second mounts, each of said mounts having (i) a rear face for fixing the mounts to a building or for fixing a rear cladding to the mounts, (ii) a front face oriented in a direction opposed to a direction of the rear face for fixing a front cladding to the mounts, and (iii) two lateral faces between the rear and the front faces, said lateral faces being oriented in directions opposed to each other; at least first and second gutters disposed between said first and second mounts, wherein each of said gutters passes through the first and second mounts from a respective lateral face to the other lateral face of each of said mounts; and a network of heating and/or cooling elements extending in at least part of said first and second gutters, wherein each of said gutters has a general U-shape and includes a rear wall, a front wall, and a bottom wall connecting the rear and front walls, said front wall being folded onto itself so as to define an interlocking slit oriented in a plane parallel to the front wall and opening toward a bottom of the respective gutter, the slit being fitted onto corresponding protrusions on the front faces of the mounts, wherein the protrusions are oriented in a plane parallel to the front faces of the mounts. | 48,621 |
9,816,407 | 1. A variable valve timing control device of an internal combustion engine, comprising: a hydraulic drive type variable valve timing device that changes a rotation phase of a camshaft, which is referred to as a camshaft phase, with respect to a crankshaft of an internal combustion engine and adjusts a valve timing; a lock mechanism that includes a lock pin movable between a lock position for locking the camshaft phase at a predetermined lock phase and a lock release position for releasing lock of the camshaft phase and includes a lock pin storing hole wherein a back space is formed between a circumference of the lock pin and the lock pin storing hole when the pin is in the lock position; a hydraulic control valve that controls an oil pressure that drives the variable valve timing device and the lock mechanism; and a control unit that is configured to switch a control mode of the hydraulic control valve among: the control unit is configured to execute a locking time filling control of that switches the control mode to the filling mode to fill the back space with the hydraulic oil after the control mode is switched to the locking mode and while the lock pin is in the lock position, and thereafter returning the control mode to the locking mode when a lock demand of the camshaft phase occurs. | 3,727 |
9,621,069 | 1. A rectifier comprising: two input paths configured to receive an alternating input voltage; two output paths configured to provide a direct output voltage; a switched-mode rectifying path that is connected between one of the input paths and one of the output paths and that comprises at least two semiconductor elements with controllable paths, the controllable paths being series-connected with each other; an auxiliary output node that is disposed between the controllable paths of the two semiconductor elements in the rectifying path and that provides an auxiliary node voltage; a controllable output path that is connected downstream of one of the two output paths and that comprises a semiconductor element with a controllable path, wherein the controllable path of the semiconductor element of the controllable output path is controlled by a signal representing the auxiliary node voltage, at least one additional rectifying path that is connected between one of the input paths and one of the output paths, wherein at least one of the additional rectifying path is a switched-mode rectifying path that comprises at least two semiconductor elements with controllable paths, the controllable paths being series-connected with each other, wherein the one switched-mode rectifying path and at least one additional switched-mode rectifying path are connected to the one same output path, and are configured to connect one output path to one input path during one half wave of the input voltage and to connect the one output path to the other input path during the other half wave of the input voltage; and an additional auxiliary output node that is disposed between the controllable paths of two semiconductor elements in the additional rectifying path and that provides an additional auxiliary node voltage, wherein the controllable path of the semiconductor element of the controllable output path is further controlled by a signal representing the additional auxiliary node voltage. | 8,590 |
9,290,178 | 1. A driving support system comprising: an object detecting unit for detecting a position of an object existing around an own vehicle; a determining unit for determining whether or not a probability that the own vehicle will collide with one or more objects is equal to or more than a certain level based on the position of the object; a starting unit for starting a driving support for avoiding collision when an affirmative determination is made by the determining unit; an area detecting unit for detecting a target area on which the own vehicle is expected to travel; and an adjusting unit for adjusting a sensitivity of a determination of a collision probability based on a positional relationship between the object and the target area wherein the object detecting unit further detects a moving direction of the object; the adjusting unit adjusts the sensitivity by further considering the moving direction of the object; the adjusting unit determines whether an object existing outside the target area is moving towards the target area or not based on the positional relationship between the object and the target area and the moving direction of the object; the sensitivity is enhanced when an affirmative determination is obtained. | 20,266 |
8,508,614 | 1. A system comprising, a computing device configured by code and operable to generate interactive media content to be displayed on a display, the generated interactive media content comprising content curated by a user for interaction at one or more remote devices; a camera for capturing images of a user; a display coupled to the computing device that displays a first arrangement of all of the generated interactive media content; a touch-screen interface having a transparency positioned intermediate to the user and the camera and positioned such that the camera captures one or more images of the user through the transparency, the touch screen interface being coupled to the computing device and operable to enable selection and manipulation of a portion of the generated interactive media content that is displayed on the display, wherein the portion is less than all of the generated interactive media content; and a video mixer coupled to the camera and operative to integrate the one or more images of the user together with the portion of the generated-interactive media content as selected by the user via the touch-screen interface, thereby generating a coordinated presentation, the coordinated presentation comprising (a) a second arrangement comprising the portion of the generated interactive media content that is different from the first arrangement and integrated with the images captured by the camera by the video mixer module and (b) one or more hyperlinks, the one or more hyperlinks comprising at least one of (a) one or more hyperlinks that enable manipulation of the generated interactive media content at one or more remote devices, and (b) one or more hyperlinks that enable selection, at the one or more remote devices, of content other than the generated interactive media content; wherein the coordinated presentation is capable of transmission to and receipt by the one or more remote devices; and wherein the coordinated presentation is configured to enable interaction with the second arrangement including at least the portion of the generated interactive media content within the second arrangement at each of the remote devices such that results of a respective interaction at a particular remote device are viewable at the particular remote device but are not viewable at (a) other of the remote devices and (b) the display. | 9,852 |
9,771,596 | 1. A method for increasing plant yield in a plant of interest, said method comprising transforming said plant with a DNA construct comprising a promoter that drives expression in a plant shoot meristem and inflorescence operably linked to an auxin synthase coding sequence wherein said auxin synthase coding sequence is selected from the group consisting of: i) the sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO:11, 12, or 13; ii) a sequence having at least 60% sequence identity to the sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO:11, 12, or 13; iii) a nucleotide sequence that encodes the amino acid sequence set forth in any one of SEQ ID NOs:14-18; and, iv) a nucleotide sequence that encodes an amino acid sequence having at least 40% sequence identity to any one of SEQ ID NOs:14-18, wherein said promoter is a promoter from a plant Mei2-like gene. | 8,853 |
8,756,163 | 1. A system for ranking a set of relevant users based on relevancy scores associated with a particular user in an online social network, the system, comprising: a processor; an interaction manager module that works in coordination with the processor to identify a set of social interactions that occur among multiple users in the online social network, the set of social interactions being initiated by the multiple users via user devices; a representation generator that works in coordination with the processor to generate a representation of the set of social interactions, the representation including an origin node that corresponds to the particular user, the origin node corresponding to a set of origin node-connecting edges, intermediary nodes that correspond to the multiple users, each intermediary node having a frequency counter, and node-connecting edges that correspond to the set of social interactions; a node traversing module that works in coordination with the processor to: a score generator module that works in coordination with the processor to generate a relevancy score for each of the multiple users based on the frequency counter associated with each of the multiple users; a selection module that works in coordination with the processor to select a set of relevant users based on the relevancy score; and a presentation module that works in coordination with the processor to send one or more of the set of relevant users to a user device for presentation to the particular user. | 42,175 |
8,785,356 | 1. A method for the production of a lightweight magnesium silicate proppant, the method comprising heat processing of a magnesium-containing component—a source of magnesium oxide, its co-grinding with a silica-containing component, pelletizing of the batch prepared, sintering and sieving of the pellets prepared, wherein the batch comprises (in terms of calcined substance), in % by weight: wherein the heat processing is carried out at temperature not more than 1080 degrees C. | 39,793 |
8,370,014 | 1. A control apparatus of a hybrid vehicle including an engine, a motor/generator used for vehicle propulsion and power generation, a clutch interleaved between the engine and the motor/generator for enabling and disabling torque transmission by engagement and disengagement of the clutch and an acceleration demand detection device configured to detect a driving force demand from a driver, the control apparatus comprising: a controller configured to: selectively switch between an EV mode, in which the vehicle travels by only a driving force produced by the motor/generator with the clutch disengaged when the driving force demand is less than or equal to an engine-stop criterion value, and an HEV mode, in which the vehicle travels by at least a driving force produced by the engine with the clutch engaged when the driving force demand is greater than the engine-stop criterion value; set a delay time at a time when the driving force demand becomes less than or equal to the engine-stop criterion value during the HEV mode, wherein the delay time is variable and set based at least in part on a change rate of the driving force demand at the time when the driving force demand becomes less than or equal to the engine-stop criterion, such that the delay time takes a lower value for lower driving force demand change rates; and execute a transition from the HEV mode to the EV mode if the driving force demand is less than or equal to the engine-stop criterion value during the HEV mode and after the delay time has expired. | 1,707 |
8,363,126 | 1. An imaging apparatus comprising: an imaging unit; a zoom unit for changing a zoom magnification by optical zoom during imaging by the imaging unit; a display unit for displaying an image imaged by the imaging unit in real time; a wide-angle image acquisition unit for acquiring and holding a wide-angle image that is an image imaged by the imaging unit when the zoom magnification by optical zoom is a low magnification; and a display control unit for displaying, on the display unit, the wide-angle image held by the wide-angle image acquiring unit and a telephoto image, which is an image imaged by the imaging unit when the zoom magnification by optical zoom is changed to a magnification higher than the low magnification, wherein when a new telephoto image is imaged, the display of the telephoto image is updated, and the display of the wide-angle image is maintained without being updated. | 33,119 |
8,927,068 | 1. A method for forming a graded cathode structure, comprising: forming a patterned layer of cathodically active material on a conductive metallic current collector by spraying the cathodically active material through openings of a patterned mask positioned above the conductive metallic current collector, wherein the patterned layer comprises a plurality of cathodically active features having one or more channels disposed therebetween; forming a blanket layer of the cathodically active material over the patterned layer of cathodically active material; compressing the as-deposited patterned layer and blanket layer to form a plurality of first regions comprising the plurality of cathodically active features with the cathodically active material of the blanket layer deposited thereon and one or more second regions comprising the cathodically active material of the blanket layer deposited in the one or more channels disposed between the cathodically active features, wherein the plurality of first regions has an average first porosity and the one or more second regions has an average second porosity that is greater than the average first porosity; and depositing a separator layer directly on the compressed as-deposited patterned layer and blanket layer, wherein the separator layer is a dielectric, porous, fluid-permeable layer. | 22,501 |
9,278,346 | 1. A hydrodeoxygenation catalyst comprising a metal catalyst, an acid promoter, and a support; wherein the metal catalyst is selected from platinum, palladium, or mixtures thereof; wherein the acid promoter comprises niobium; and wherein the support is a chromium-promoted zirconium material. | 42,942 |
8,970,341 | 1. An electric vehicle battery exchange reservation system comprising: an electric vehicle comprising: the one or more battery charging stations each comprising: wherein the battery charging station communicating with the communication unit exists along the travel route of the electric vehicle, transmits the message including the battery exchange reservation information, the information regarding whether the battery exchange is possible or not, and the battery exchange information of the battery charging station from the battery charging station on the travel route when the battery exchange request message is received from the electric vehicle, and updates information in the database unit when the battery exchange reservation command is received from the electric vehicle. | 9,762 |
8,398,385 | 1. A refrigerant compressor for a hermetically encapsulated small refrigerator, which has a piston ( 20 ) guided in a piston bore ( 3 ) of a cylinder housing ( 1 ), the cylinder housing being frontally terminated using a valve plate ( 7 ) having a pressure opening ( 17 ) and a suction opening ( 16 ) and also being frontally provided with holes ( 5 ) each having a thread, wherein a first clamping element ( 11 ), which is screwed into the holes ( 5 ), is provided, which contacts the valve plate ( 7 ) and presses it against the cylinder housing ( 1 ) in the area of at least a section of the piston bore wall ( 14 ) and has a pre-tension in the direction of the valve plate ( 7 ) in the screwed-on state, the first clamping element ( 11 ) having a clamping section ( 13 ), which is located above the piston bore wall ( 14 ) in the installed position and has the shape of an imaginary projection of the piston bore wall ( 14 ) on the first clamping element ( 11 ). | 29,517 |
8,495,548 | 1. A computer implemented method for multi-patterning lithography (MPL) aware cell placement in integrated circuit (IC) design, the method comprising: performing, using an application executing using a processor and a memory in a data processing system, a global phase of cell movement of a color instance of a cell, wherein the color instance of the cell is used in the IC design from a plurality of different color instances available of the cell, wherein the global phase comprises moving the color instance of a cell from any first location in a first region the IC design to any second location in a second region the IC design, the first region having a first cost which is higher than a threshold cost and the second region having a second cost which is lower than the threshold cost, wherein the first cost is an indicator of a cumulative level of coloring conflicts between pairs of cells in the first region and the second cost is an indicator of a cumulative level of coloring conflicts between pairs of cells in the second region before moving the color instance of the cell; and performing a local phase cell movement, wherein the local phase comprises moving the color instance of the cell from a first location within a row of cells in the IC design to a second location within the row such that removing the color instance of the cell from the first location within the row and placing one of the plurality of different color instances available for the cell in the second location within the row removes a first coloring conflict between a first pair in the row without introducing a second coloring conflict between a second pair in the row, the first pair comprising the color instance of the cell and a second cell in the row, the second pair comprising the one of the plurality of different color instances available for the cell and a third cell in the row, wherein the global phase and the local phase are each performed before a final placement is produced for the IC design. | 29,242 |
8,989,989 | 1. A system comprising: a temperature estimation module that estimates a piston temperature associated with a cylinder based on engine operating conditions; and a fuel control module that controls at least one of an injection pressure associated with the cylinder, an injection location associated with the cylinder, and a number of injections per engine cycle associated with the cylinder based on the piston temperature. | 46,018 |
9,312,546 | 1. A stainless steel member for a separator of a solid polymer fuel cell, the member comprising: a stainless steel base metal; an oxide film located on a surface of the stainless steel base metal; an electroconductive layer located on a surface of the oxide film opposite to the oxide film surface located on the stainless steel base metal, and comprising a nonmetallic electroconductive material, wherein the nonmetallic electroconductive material comprises graphite and the value of a lattice spacing of d002 of the graphite is at most 3.390 angstroms; and an electroconductive material which is located so as to penetrate the oxide film and which electrically contacts the stainless steel base metal and the electroconductive layer; wherein when comparing peak intensities of diffraction lines of atomic planes of a crystal of the graphite located on the surface of the oxide film as measured by wide-angle X-ray diffraction, the ratio of a peak intensity of a diffraction line of a (110) atomic plane to a peak intensity of a diffraction line of a (004) atomic plane is less than 0.1, wherein the electroconductive material is formed of a boride-type metallic inclusion which has a M | 39,290 |
9,407,262 | 1. An integrated circuit comprising: a logic circuit; and a self calibration unit within the integrated circuit and configured to execute a test on the logic circuit, wherein the self calibration unit is configured to: | 7,440 |
9,389,923 | 1. An information processing device comprising: a plurality of computing units that executes a plurality of threads including a communication control thread to which a receiving process by polling is assigned, the communication control thread has operational states of the computing unit executing the communication control thread, that is, a stopped state, a reception waiting state in which polling in a memory region indicating notification of arrival of data is performed and execution of the receiving process is waited for until arrival of data, and a process executing state in which data has arrived and the receiving process is performed, an application thread to which an application executing process other than the receiving process is assigned has operational states of the computing unit executing the application thread, that is, a waiting state and an application executing state in which an assigned process is performed, and when the computing unit executing the communication control thread is in the process executing state and the computing unit executing the application thread is not in the application executing state, the computing unit executing the application thread moves to a resource-saving mode from which a recovery time for move to a normal mode is shortest in a plurality of predetermined resource-saving modes in which the use of physical resources is suppressed, when the computing unit executing the application thread is in the application executing state and the computing unit executing the communication control thread is not in the process executing state, the computing unit executing the communication control thread moves to the resource-saving mode, when the computing unit executing the application thread is in the waiting state and the computing unit executing the communication control thread is in the stopped state, the computing unit executing the communication control thread moves to the resource-saving mode, and when the computing unit executing the application thread is in the waiting state and the computing unit executing the communication control thread is in the reception waiting state, the computing unit executing the application thread moves to the resource-saving mode. | 17,581 |
9,124,202 | 1. A method of configuring a rotating electric machine stator, comprising: employing the rotating electric machine stator having a carcass on which electrical conductors are coiled to form N coils, N being greater than or equal to four and; electrically connecting the N coils to an electrical power supply device so that each coil is traversed by a specific electric current delivered by the electrical power supply device, | 20,705 |
8,965,721 | 1. A method for real-time characterization of a propulsion battery providing an operational current to an electric propulsion motor of an electric vehicle, the method comprising: (a) measuring a DC impedance of the propulsion battery after a recharging sequence of the propulsion battery wherein said recharging sequence includes an intermediate depolarizing relaxation period in which a charging current of the propulsion battery is set to zero amperes for a predetermined length of time and establishes a relaxed parameter for the propulsion battery used in determining said measured DC impedance; (b) determining a ratio of said measured DC impedance to a reference DC impedance for the propulsion battery to establish an impedance degradation factor; (c) obtaining, during use of the propulsion battery providing the operational current to the electric propulsion motor after a lapse of a sustained peak power period of provision of the operational current to the electric propulsion motor and responsive to a set of operational attributes of the propulsion battery, an operational reference impedance for the propulsion battery; and (d) applying said impedance degradation factor to said operational reference impedance to obtain a real-time effective impedance for the propulsion battery during provision of the operational current to the electric propulsion motor and wherein the propulsion battery includes lithium-ion energy storage elements. | 37,045 |
9,815,024 | 1. An electrically heated catalyst device comprising: a catalyst support supporting a catalyst; a surface electrode disposed on an outer surface of the catalyst support, the surface electrode extending in an axis direction of the catalyst support; a wiring line member comprising a root section extending in the axis direction of the catalyst support and comb teeth-like wiring lines extending from the root section in a circumferential direction of the catalyst support, the comb teeth-like wiring lines being fixed to the surface electrode, wherein the root section is not fixed to the surface electrode, and the root section and the comb teeth-like wiring lines are integrally formed; an outer cylinder covering the outer surface of the catalyst support; and a holding member holding the catalyst support, the holding member being packed between the catalyst support and the outer cylinder, wherein the catalyst support is heated by feeding a current through the surface electrode and the wiring line member, the holding member comprises an opening for allowing the wiring line member to be pulled out, the opening of the holding member is located at a central part of the root section in a longitudinal direction thereof, other parts than the central part of the root section in the longitudinal direction thereof are pressed onto the catalyst support by the holding member, the central part of the root section in the longitudinal direction thereof is not pressed onto the catalyst support by the holding member, at least a plurality of through-holes or a plurality of protrusions are formed in the root section of the wiring line member covered with the holding member. | 19,192 |
9,371,201 | 1. A material loader for loading material into a freight container borne by a vehicle, the material loader comprising: a bin having an open or openable first end, the bin, in use, being able to be positioned such that the first end extends into the freight container; a material transfer member having a part thereof operable to move along the inside of the bin in a longitudinal direction towards the first end; and one or more connectors adapted to connect the material transfer member to the freight container and/or the vehicle so that: movement of the material transfer member in the longitudinal direction towards the first end causes movement of the freight container and/or the vehicle in the longitudinal direction; and movement of the freight container and/or the vehicle in the longitudinal direction causes movement of the material transfer member in the longitudinal direction towards the first end, wherein the material loader is configured such that, in use, when the material transfer member is pulled in the longitudinal direction towards the first end, material in the bin is loaded into the freight container; wherein the material loader further comprises a release mechanism adapted to release the one or more connectors when the material transfer member reaches a point proximate the first end of the bin; and wherein the release mechanism is configured to only release the one or more connectors when one or more foldable legs of the material loader are not in a folded configuration. | 18,766 |
8,754,922 | 1. A method for videoconferencing supporting a plurality of videoconferencing streams, the method comprising: in a videoconferencing device having a single decoder, utilizing the videoconferencing device to perform: | 33,552 |
9,375,730 | 1. A centrifuge comprising: a rotor configured to be driven by a motor and to hold a sample; a centrifuge inverter configured to supply power to drive the motor; a chamber accommodating the rotor; a temperature sensor configured to detect the temperature of the chamber; a cooling machine configured to cool the chamber and including a compressor; a compressor inverter configured to supply power to the compressor; a compressor motor incorporated to the compressor and configured to be controlled in a variable speed by the power supplied from the compressor inverter; and a control device configured to control the centrifuge inverter and the compressor inverter based on set centrifuging operation conditions, wherein the control device carries out a feedback control of the compressor motor based on a preset temperature and a detected temperature of the temperature sensor when a rotation number of the compressor motor is larger than a predetermined rotation number, and the control device carries out an intermittent control for turning ON-OFF the cooling function of the compressor when the rotation number of the compressor motor is smaller than the predetermined rotation number. | 32,950 |
9,041,373 | 1. A controller used in a constant on-time switching converter, wherein the switching converter comprises a switching circuit having a first switch and configured to provide an output voltage to a load, the controller comprises: an on-time control circuit configured to generate an on-time control signal; a comparing circuit coupled to the switching circuit, wherein the comparing circuit compares the output voltage of the switching circuit with a reference signal and generates a comparison signal; and a logic circuit coupled to the on-time control circuit and the comparing circuit, wherein based on the on-time control signal and the comparison signal, the logic circuit generates a control signal to control the first switch in the switching circuit; wherein when a switching frequency of the switching circuit approaches an audible range, the switching converter enters into a sleep mode, the on-time control signal is reduced by the on-time control circuit to increase the switching frequency of the switching circuit. | 41,814 |
9,722,272 | 1. An energy storage device comprising at least one electrochemical cell and an electrolyte recirculation system, wherein the at least one electrochemical cell contains spaced apart zinc and bromine electrodes, mounted in parallel with one another, wherein the space between the electrodes is devoid of a membrane or separator, where the energy storage device further comprises a recirculating electrolyte suitable for use in a zinc bromine membraneless flow cell, said electrolyte comprising aqueous zinc bromide solution and a liquid complex composed of bromine-complexing agent combined with one or more bromine molecules, wherein the bromine-complexing agent is selected from the group consisting of: (i) N-alkyl pyridinium halide; (ii) N-alkyl-2-alkyl pyridinium halide; (iii)1-alkyl-3-alkyl imidazolium halide; and mixtures thereof, wherein the alkyl groups in each of compounds (ii) and (iii) may be the same or different. | 12,898 |
9,700,614 | 1. An immunogenic composition comprising: a) a prime dose comprising a first immunogenic composition formulated for parenteral administration and further a second immunogenic composition formulated for intranasal administration in a first set of one or more containers, wherein the first immunogenic composition formulated for parenteral administration and the second immunogenic composition formulated for intranasal administration contain one or more antigens from inactivated whole influenza A, influenza B or parts thereof, and b) a boost dose comprising a third immunogenic composition formulated for intranasal administration in a second set of one or more containers, wherein said third immunogenic composition formulated for intranasal administration contains one or more antigens from inactivated whole influenza A, influenza B or parts thereof, and wherein each of the second and third immunogenic compositions contain a total volume of the immunogenic composition from 5 microliters to 400 microliters. | 28,308 |
8,826,638 | 1. A geothermal energy system comprising a first geothermal power generator having an extraction well, an injection well, at least one thermodynamic cycle having a first working fluid containing at least carbon dioxide, the at least one thermodynamic cycle having an expander, a condenser, a high-pressure side, a low-pressure side, and a cycle efficiency; and a heat exchanger to superheat the first working fluid containing at least carbon dioxide, a phase separator operable to isolate at least one hydrocarbon from the first working fluid containing at least carbon dioxide upstream of the extraction well, an external combustor operable to combust the at least one hydrocarbon whereby the combusted hydrocarbon superheats the first working fluid containing at least carbon dioxide, and the superheated first working fluid containing at least carbon dioxide is operable to increase the cycle efficiency by at least 5 percent greater than the first geothermal power generator. | 47,829 |
9,689,880 | 1. A method for treating an asymptomatic cardiovascular subject or a previously undiagnosed cardiovascular subject determine to be at risk for a future arteriovascular event or disease comprising: providing a blood sample isolated from an asymptomatic cardiovascular subject or a previously undiagnosed cardiovascular subject; measuring at least four component ARTERIORISKMARKERS in the blood sample selected from one or more groups consisting of Core Markers I, Core Markers II, Traditional Laboratory Risk Factors, Supplemental Markers I, Supplemental Markers II, Additional Markers I, and Additional Markers II, wherein at least one component ARTERIORISKMARKER is adiponectin; calculating an index value from an output of a Support Vector Machine (SVM) model, wherein inputs to the model comprise the measurements, and further wherein the model was developed by fitting data from a longitudinal study of a selected population of individuals and the fitted data comprises levels of the biomarkers and an end point in the selected population of individuals, wherein a calculated area under the curve (AUC) of the model is greater than or equal to 0.70, and wherein the end point is the risk of the cardiovascular event or the cardiovascular event; and administering to the subject a therapeutic or prophylactic agent. | 41,338 |
8,347,336 | 1. A method of processing a digital television (DTV) signal in a DTV receiver, the method comprising: receiving a digital television signal including a plurality of extended text table (ETT) instances that appear in transport stream packets with common PID values, the ETT instances having common table ID values, each ETT instance comprising a section header and a message body, the section header containing a table identification (ID) extension field that serves to establish uniqueness of each ETT instance, the message body containing an extended text message (ETM) which provides detailed descriptions of a virtual channel or an event associated with each ETT instance, wherein the header further contains a field indicating a section number; demodulating the digital television signal; and identifying at least one pertinent ETT instance from the plurality of ETT instances. | 23,676 |
9,721,738 | 1. Hand-actuated transmitter unit for vehicles, in particular for handlebar-controlled vehicles, comprising a housing, an actuating lever which is movable relative to the housing and is coupled to a transmission element such that an actuation of the actuating lever is transmitted by means of the transmission element to a slave unit, the transmitter unit being associated with a detector unit which detects with at least one detector a transition of the actuating lever from a non-actuated state into an actuated state and vice versa; wherein the at least one detector is arranged on the actuating lever; and wherein the actuating lever comprises a first lever arm and a second lever arm and that the lever arms are movable relative to one another between an actuation starting position existing in a non-actuated state of the actuating lever and an actuation position existing in an actuated state. | 15,425 |
9,653,152 | 1. A memory controller, comprising: a logic circuit configured to generate a select signal for selecting between a first port and a second port of a memory as a function of a first port signal and a second port signal; and a switch configured to connect and disconnect the first port signal from the second port signal. | 23,816 |
8,567,192 | 1. An air handling system for an internal combustion engine, comprising: a dual stage turbocharger including a high-pressure turbine having an exhaust gas inlet fluidly coupled to an exhaust manifold of the engine and an exhaust gas outlet, and a low-pressure turbine having an exhaust gas inlet fluidly coupled to the exhaust gas outlet of the high-pressure turbine and an exhaust gas outlet fluidly coupled to ambient, a turbine bypass passageway having one end fluidly coupled to the exhaust gas inlet of the high-pressure turbine and an opposite end fluidly coupled to the exhaust gas outlet of the high-pressure turbine, a turbine bypass throttle disposed in-line with the turbine bypass passageway, the turbine bypass throttle controllable between fully closed and fully open positions to control a flow of exhaust gas through the turbine bypass passageway, and a control circuit including a memory having instructions stored therein that are executable by the control circuit to determine a turbine bypass control signal as a function of a target flow rate of exhaust gas through the turbine bypass throttle, a target temperature of the exhaust manifold and a target outlet temperature of the high pressure turbine, and to control a position of the turbine bypass throttle between the fully closed and fully open positions using the turbine bypass control signal to selectively divert exhaust gas flow from the exhaust manifold away from the exhaust gas inlet of the high-pressure turbine. | 11,476 |
8,674,212 | 1. A solar cell comprising: a photovoltaic element having an upper surface for receiving and absorbing radiation, a lower surface for coupling to an article, a first end and a second end, wherein the upper surface extends between the first and the second ends, and wherein the lower surface extends between the first and the second ends; and at least one magnet attached to the first end of the photovoltaic element. | 17,343 |
8,740,723 | 1. A golf club head that, when oriented in a reference position, comprises: a striking face including a face center and a center apex; a bottom portion and a top portion opposite the bottom portion, the top portion including an exterior surface; a hosel including an imaginary centerline and an imaginary vertical hosel plane containing the imaginary centerline; a forwardmost point and a rearwardmost point opposite the forwardmost point; and an overall width, W wherein, in an imaginary vertical plane perpendicular to the imaginary vertical hosel plane and spaced from the face center by a lateral distance no greater than 0.25*W | 46,615 |
9,823,764 | 1. In a compute system operatively coupled to a machine vision system and to a display, a method comprising: receiving, from the machine vision system, prior and subsequent video imaging a head and pointer of a user; computing, based on the prior video, a prior geometric line of sight of the user partly occluded by the pointer; assigning spatial coordinates to one or more non-display objects situated along the prior geometric line of sight, the spatial coordinates defining a position of each of the non-display objects within a field of view of the machine vision system; computing, based on the subsequent video, a subsequent geometric line of sight of the user partly occluded by the pointer; identifying, by reference to the spatial coordinates of the one or more non-display objects, a targeted display object situated on the display and along the subsequent geometric line of sight; identifying in the subsequent video movement of the pointer along the subsequent geometric line of sight; and executing code for a process associated with the targeted display object in response to the movement. | 36,606 |
9,130,242 | 1. A gel polymer electrolyte composition, comprising: i) a compound acting as a monomer for forming gel polymer by polymerization and having at least three double bonds at an end thereof; ii) an electrolyte solvent containing carbonate and linear saturated ester, wherein the carbonate consists of ring carbonate; iii) an electrolyte salt; and iv) a polymerization initiator, wherein the linear saturated ester is included in the content of 10 to 90 parts by weight, based on 100 parts by weight of the carbonate, wherein the ring carbonate is one or more selected from the group consisting of ethylene carbonate (EC) and propylene carbonate (PC), and wherein the linear saturated ester is one or more selected from the group consisting methyl propionate, and ethyl propionate. | 39,981 |
8,949,454 | 1. A method for a wireless communication network comprising: receiving, by a driver module on a mobile station, DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) information generated by a remote DHCP gateway and transmitted to the mobile station via a base station prior to the mobile station sending a DHCP discovery message; storing, by a driver module, the DHCP information; redirecting the DHCP discovery message from an operating system DHCP process to the driver module; performing DHCP hand-shaking in response to the DHCP discovery message, the driver module to intercept Internet Protocol (IP) configuration received from the wireless communication network to obtain an IP address instead of the operating system DHCP process and the driver module to receive the IP configuration from the wireless communication network during a registration phase of initial network entry via a registration response (REG-RSP) media access control (MAC) management message; wherein said performing DHCP hand-shaking comprises generating, by the driver module, a response to the DHCP discovery message without sending out a request to the remote DHCP gateway, communicating the DHCP information to the operating system DHCP process, and communicating a DHCP acknowledgment to the operating system DHCP process; and sending the IP configuration to the operating system DHCP process to allow the operating system to communicate with the wireless communication network using the IP address obtained by the driver module. | 22,927 |
9,081,767 | 1. A method for browsing a datastore of data objects, the method comprising: providing a first sentence for display in a first region of a user interface, the first sentence having a subject, verb and object, the object of the first sentence representing a first data object from the datastore of data objects, the datastore associating the first data object with a plurality of attributes describing characteristics of the first data object; providing a second sentence for display in the first region of a user interface, the second sentence having a subject, verb and object, the subject of the second sentence representing the first data object from the datastore of data objects and the object of the second sentence representing at least a second data object from the datastore of data objects that is related to the first data object, the datastore associating the second data object with a plurality of attributes describing characteristics of the second data object, the first sentence and the second sentence organized in the user interface as a hierarchy that includes a plurality of levels and the first sentence is in a superior level of the hierarchy and the second sentence is in a subordinate level of the hierarchy; receiving, by a computer, a user input selecting the second sentence displayed in the subordinate level of the hierarchy in the first region of the user interface; and responsive to receiving the user input selecting the second sentence displayed in the subordinate level of the hierarchy in the first region of the user interface: | 39,523 |
9,710,137 | 1. A method comprising: receiving information via a touch-sensitive user interface that comprises an axis; based at least in part on the information, determining a first line associated with a first human digit, determining a second line associated with a second human digit and comparing orientations of the first and second lines to the axis of the touch-sensitive user interface to determine a hand preference; and wherein the hand preference is left handed, rendering a user interface to a display that comprises a control that changes one or more input mechanism settings of at least the touch-sensitive user interface. | 48,386 |
9,550,245 | 1. An electric discharge machining apparatus comprising: a plurality of electrodes, whose total quantity is equal to N (where N is an integer), each of the electrodes is arranged adjacent to a workpiece and separated from the workpiece by an electric discharge gap; either one of an alternating-current power source and a pulse generator that applies an alternating voltage or a voltage pulse to each discharge gap; a plurality of capacitors, whose total quantity is equal to N, a first end of each capacitor being connected to a first end of the alternating-current power source or the pulse generator, and a second end of each capacitor being connected to a different one of the electrodes; and a plurality of diodes, whose total quantity is equal to N, a cathode of each diode is connected to a second end of the alternating-current power source or the pulse generator, and an anode of each diode is connected to a corresponding one of the electrodes and a corresponding one of the capacitors, wherein the workpiece comprises a semiconductor, each of the N capacitors, a corresponding one of the N electrodes, and a corresponding one of the N discharge gaps are connected in series to form N first serial circuits, the N capacitors and respectively corresponding N diodes form N second serial circuits that are parallel connected to the alternating-current power source or the pulse generator, and when charging, the alternating-current power source or the pulse generator applies the alternating voltage or the voltage pulse simultaneously to each of the N first serial circuits, and when discharging, an electric discharge to any one of the N discharge gaps occurs while electric discharges to the others of the N discharge gaps are sustained. | 27,245 |
9,483,175 | 1. A multifunction device, comprising: a display; one or more processors; memory; and one or more programs, wherein the one or more programs are stored in the memory and configured to be executed by the one or more processors, the one or more programs including instructions for: | 20,119 |
9,805,277 | 1. An apparatus for detecting a bar-type sign in a traffic sign recognition system, the apparatus comprising: a traffic sign detection unit for receiving image information including a traffic sign from a camera module, and detecting a traffic sign from the image information; a recognition region setting unit for setting a recognition region for detection of a bar- type sign on the traffic sign detected by the traffic sign detection unit; a principal component analysis PCA operation processing unit for applying a PCA algorithm to all pixels in the recognition region set by the recognition region setting unit, and determining an eigenvector; and a sign determination unit for determining a deviation of an angle from the angle of the eigenvector, comparing the deviation with a threshold value, and determining whether the traffic sign corresponds to a bar-type sign. | 1,017 |
9,064,515 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a heat sink region; and a near field transducer region thermally coupled to the heat sink region, wherein at least one of the heat sink region and the near field transducer region includes both: | 40,189 |
9,099,418 | 1. A display panel comprising: a plurality of pixels, wherein each pixel of the plurality of pixels includes a light emitting device; a pixel circuit configured to drive the light emitting device, wherein the pixel circuit includes a retention capacitor, a first transistor configured to write a voltage corresponding to a video signal to the retention capacitor, a second transistor configured to drive the light emitting device based on the voltage of the retention capacitor, and a gate line connected to the gate of the first transistor and formed to extend in a row direction; a light exit face configured to discharge a light emitted from the light emitting device; and a plurality of light blocking layers, each light blocking layer of the plurality of light blocking layers formed as a strip extending parallel with the gate line and across the display panel, wherein at least one light blocking layer of the plurality of light blocking layers is configured to block an external light, introduced from the light exit face, from reaching a channel layer of the first transistor, and wherein a gate of the first transistor is located between the channel layer and the at least one light blocking layer. | 35,148 |
9,837,251 | 1. A plasma etching method comprising: a first step of attracting a substrate onto a monopolar electrostatic chuck in a first plasma, which is a plasma of a noble gas, and stopping generation of the first plasma after the attracting of the substrate; and a second step of etching the substrate in a second plasma, which is a plasma of a halogen-based etching gas, and stopping generation of the second plasma after the etching of the substrate, wherein in the first step, the generation of the first plasma is stopped when a positive voltage is applied from the monopolar electrostatic chuck to the substrate, and in the second step, the generation of the second plasma is stopped when a negative voltage is applied from the monopolar electrostatic chuck to the substrate. | 17,888 |
8,815,342 | 1. A process for forming a protective coating comprising aluminum and zirconium on a surface of a metal part, the process comprising: gradually heating the metal part, a cement that comprises an aluminum alloy, and zirconium salt granules from an ambient temperature up to a treatment temperature while maintaining at an over-pressure in a treatment chamber, thereby dissociating zirconium salt granules to obtain a zirconium salt as an activator and depositing Zr metal at the surface of the metal part and contacting the metal part and the cement with a gas comprising a carrier gas and an activator at a treatment temperature thereby reacting the activator with the cement and generating a gaseous aluminum halide, which is capable of decomposing at the surface of the metal part and depositing metallic aluminum thereon, wherein the gradually heating does not comprise circulating a carrier gas through the treatment chamber over a temperature interval corresponding to a dissociation reaction of the zirconium salt and wherein the carrier gas is circulated after a temperature of the treatment chamber has exceeded said temperature interval, so that a diffused aluminization layer is formed on the surface, so that an additional aluminization layer forms on the diffused aluminization layer, and so that a majority of the zirconium is deposited at the interface of the diffused aluminization layer and the additional aluminization layer. | 37,199 |
9,821,750 | 1. An airbag inflatable with inflation gas and adapted to be housed in a housing in a folded-up configuration, the airbag comprising: a mounting region adapted to be attached to the housing; a protection inflatable region disposed at a leading end of the airbag apart from the mounting region and being deployable towards an object of protection; an intermediate region disposed between the mounting region and the protection inflatable region, the intermediate region including a seam region that partially connects two panels and brings the two panels into contact with each other; the two panels form at least an area of the airbag from the protection inflatable region to the intermediate region, each of the two panels having a two-fold arrangement providing two layers of base material, and the two panels being continuous with each other at leading end regions of the panels apart from the mounting region; a joint that connects opposite edges of the two panels in an overlapping state together in the area of the airbag from the protection inflatable region to the intermediate region; and a folded region disposed at a leading end of the protection inflatable region, the folded region including the two panels being flattened together in a folded and overlapped arrangement where each of the two panels provides at least four layers of base material, the folded and overlapped panels including at least two inflatable spaces between the layers of base material and a crease that is continuous with the joint, a length of the folded region extending along an overlapping direction of the layers from a root end closest to the mounting region to a leading end furthest from the mounting region, and the leading end regions of the folded and overlapped panels extending toward the mounting region and the length of the folded region becoming smaller as a distance from the leading end regions to the mounting region becomes smaller, wherein: the folded region includes an infold region which is formed by invaginating the leading end regions of the two panels before forming the folded region between the two panels; and the seam region includes an extended region that connects a part of the infold region to the two panels opposed to each other. | 22,101 |
8,394,588 | 1. A method for fixing a nucleic acid in a biological sample, said method comprising a) contacting the biological sample with an aldehyde-containing fixative; and b) subsequently contacting the sample with a water-soluble carbodiimide. | 37,292 |
9,623,757 | 1. An electric power supply device for a vehicle, the electric power supply device comprising: an electric storage device; a boost converter configured to boost voltage of the electric storage device and supply the boosted voltage to an electric load of the vehicle; and a controller configured to the controller is configured to obtain the charge/discharge demand of the electric storage device based on power required for traveling of the vehicle, and the controller is configured to restrict the charge/discharge demand such that a range of the power required for the traveling of the vehicle in which the charge/discharge demand at a time when the boost converter is operated in the intermittent boost mode becomes zero is wider than a range of the power required for the traveling of the vehicle in which the charge/discharge demand at a time when the boost converter is operated in the continuous boost mode becomes zero. | 43,092 |
8,408,197 | 1. A burner apparatus, comprising: a first tube having a first longitudinal bore; a second tube having a second longitudinal bore, said second tube being disposed within said first longitudinal bore such that an annular space is defined between the second tube and the first tube; a nozzle formed at a tip of the second tube, said nozzle having an inlet face facing the second longitudinal bore and an outlet face in opposing relation to the inlet face, said nozzle comprising a plurality of side holes formed therein, said side holes extending from the inlet face to the outlet face, said side holes being slanted outwardly relative to a longitudinal axis of the nozzle and being in communication with the second longitudinal bore; and a plurality of protuberances protruding laterally from an exterior of the nozzle, each of the protuberances corresponding laterally in position to one of the side holes, wherein the plurality of protuberances is provided by corners of a polygonal flange attached to the exterior of the nozzle, wherein the corners of the polygonal flange are radially oriented relative to a center of the polygonal flange. | 23,668 |
8,581,751 | 1. A method of encoding vehicle data comprising a first voltage pertaining to a first battery cell and a second voltage pertaining to a second battery cell, the method comprising the steps of: determining whether the first voltage is valid; determining whether the second voltage is valid; and assigning one of a plurality of values to a validity measure based at least in part on whether the first voltage or the second voltage, or both, are valid; wherein the plurality of values, in binary form, are at least two bit errors removed from one another. | 31,360 |
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