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8,369,575 | 1. A three-dimensional (3D) image processing method, comprising: determining a Region Of Interest (ROI) in an entire sensing region of a 3D image processing apparatus; modulating a pulse of an emitted light based on a depth from a reference point in relation to the 3D image processing apparatus to the ROI; and obtaining a depth image of the ROI using the pulse-modulated emitted light wherein the determining comprises: obtaining a depth image in the entire sensing region using the emitted light where an on-time period of the emitted light is T | 3,404 |
8,914,045 | 1. A method for feeding back location and weather information by a mobile communication terminal, comprising the following steps of: obtaining the location and weather information of a local machine; sending the obtained location and weather information to a feedback terminal preset in the local machine and requiring for feedback of the location and weather information of the local machine; and both the local machine and the feedback terminal being mobile communication terminals; wherein, obtaining the location and weather information of a local machine comprises: the local machine, according to a received feedback request, obtaining a number of a mobile communication terminal of an opposite end sending the request; judging whether the number is a number of the feedback terminal; if yes, then receiving a Global Positioning System GPS satellite signal, and obtaining the location information of the local machine according to the GPS satellite signal; and sending the location information to a mobile operator, and obtaining the weather information of a current location. | 41,723 |
9,219,507 | 1. A receiver front-end for receiving a radio-frequency (RF) signal represented by an RF voltage signal and an RF current signal from an antenna, the receiver front-end comprising: a main down-conversion path comprising: a first passive mixer configured to mix the RF current signal with a local-oscillator (LO) signal to provide a first down-converted signal, and a first transimpedance amplifier configured to apply a first gain to the first down-converted signal to provide a first output signal; and an auxiliary down-conversion path comprising: a transconductance cell configured to convert the RF voltage signal into a corresponding current signal, a second passive mixer configured to mix the corresponding current signal with the LO signal to provide a second down-converted signal, and a second transimpedance amplifier configured to apply a second gain to the second down-converted signal to provide a second output signal, wherein the RF voltage signal is a voltage between a source impedance of the antenna and an impedance matching resistor, and the RF current signal is a current flowing through the impedance matching resistor. | 34,380 |
8,489,454 | 1. A method, comprising: presenting to each of a first user, a second user, and a third user an advertisement including a plurality of alphanumeric codes in an offline media, each of the alphanumeric codes including a component representative of a good or service, and at least two of the alphanumeric codes including both the component representative of the good or service and a component representative of additional information, wherein the component representative of additional information is different for each of the at least two alphanumeric codes, such that each of the at least two alphanumeric codes including the different component representative of additional information are correlated with different additional information; receiving by an advertiser a first one of the alphanumeric codes from a first device of the first user, a second one of the alphanumeric codes from a second device of the second user, and a third one of the alphanumeric codes from a third device of the third user, wherein: identifying third user information in response to receiving the third one of the alphanumeric codes from the third device of the third user, the third user information including a payment method for purchasing the good or service associated with the advertisement, and further including a profile of the third user; parsing, utilizing a processor, the first received one of the alphanumeric codes into the component representative of the good or service and the first component representative of the first additional information including the hours of operation for the good or service; parsing the second received one of the alphanumeric codes into the component representative of the good or service and the second component representative of the second additional information including the driving directions for the good or service; identifying that the third received one of the alphanumeric codes does not include a component representative of additional information, and bypassing parsing of the third received one of the alphanumeric codes; for the first parsed one of the alphanumeric codes, first retrieving, utilizing the processor, a set of information associated with the component representative of the good or service, and subsequently retrieving the first additional information including the hours of operation for the good or service by querying a database utilizing the first component representative of the first additional information; for the second parsed one of the alphanumeric codes, first retrieving the set of information associated with the component representative of the good or service, and subsequently retrieving the second additional information including the driving directions for the good or service by querying the database utilizing the second component representative of the second additional information; for the third received one of the alphanumeric codes, querying the database utilizing the component representative of the good or service for retrieving all information on the good or service; customizing the information on the good or service retrieved for the third received one of the alphanumeric codes based on the profile of the third user by selecting a customized portion of the information on the good or service retrieved for the third received one of the alphanumeric codes to send to the third device of the third user based on the profile of the third user; sending the first additional information including the hours of operation for the good or service to the first device of the first user; sending the second additional information including the driving directions for the good or service to the second device of the second user; sending the customized portion of the information retrieved for the third received one of the alphanumeric codes to the third device of the third user; and tracking a purchase of the good or service by at least one of the first user, the second user, and the third user, the tracking performed by using the received alphanumeric codes from the devices of the users to correlate the purchase of the good or service by the at least one of the first user, the second user, and the third user with at least one of the first user information, the second user information, and the third user information; wherein the customized portion of the information retrieved for the third received one of the alphanumeric codes is formatted to match a format of the third one of the alphanumeric codes received from the third device of the third user. | 48,767 |
9,683,610 | 1. A drive force transmission device comprising: a driving-side rotatable body; a driven-side rotatable body that is driven and is rotated by a drive force transmitted from the driving-side rotatable body; and a shock-absorbable body that is placed between the driving-side rotatable body and the driven-side rotatable body, wherein the shock-absorbable body absorbs a torque fluctuation or a shock exerted between the driving-side rotatable body and the driven-side rotatable body, wherein: the driving-side rotatable body and the driven-side rotatable body include a driving-side projection and a driven-side projection, respectively, and the driving-side projection and the driven-side projection are alternately arranged one after another in a circumferential direction of the shock-absorbable body; the shock-absorbable body is in a form of a ring and includes: | 27,510 |
9,263,947 | 1. A Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) controller of a DC-DC converter, comprising: a first comparator, receiving a compensated error signal and a ramp signal, wherein when the compensated error signal exceeds the ramp signal, the first comparator generates a trigger signal; a PWM generator coupled to the first comparator, providing a timing signal according to the trigger signal to control the operation of the DC-DC converter; and a compensation unit, compensating an error signal and causing an included angle between the compensated error signal and the ramp signal to increase. | 38,772 |
9,774,476 | 1. A method of transmitting a radio signal in a first wireless network element, the method comprising: signaling, to another wireless network element, information about an ability of the first network element to selectively perform a signal linearization technique; receiving, at an input of a radio transmitter, a signal for wireless transmission; selectively performing the signal linearization technique on the signal; amplifying the signal with a non-linear amplifier; and transmitting the amplified signal to a second wireless network element. | 13,064 |
8,694,425 | 1. A computer implemented payment method for facilitating online purchase transactions, the method comprising: storing in at least one computer memory information pertaining to an online merchant and a consumer and transactions between the online merchant and the consumer; using a computer processor for accessing the information from the computer memory and executing instructions to perform steps including: | 48,932 |
9,162,925 | 1. A process for treating a tailings stream comprising (a) contacting (1) a gelling agent and (2) an activator with said tailings stream, wherein the tailings stream comprises water and solids, which solids comprise sand and clay, and wherein 5% by volume to 100% by volume of the solids have a particle size less than 0.05 mm, based on the total volume of the solids; (b) entrapping the solids within a gel; and (c) allowing the gel to strengthen and solidify to produce a trafficable deposit; wherein the gelling agent is selected from the group consisting of colloidal silica, aluminum-modified colloidal silica, de-ionized colloidal silica, polysiloxane, siliconate, and combinations of two or more thereof. | 11,878 |
8,349,623 | 1. A method for manufacturing a thin film photoelectric conversion module comprising the steps of: (A) laminating a first electrode layer, a photoelectric conversion layer and a second electrode layer sequentially on the surface of an insulating substrate to form thin film photoelectric conversion elements and electrically connecting a plurality of the resulting thin film photoelectric conversion elements thereby forming a string; (B) dividing the string by dividing grooves into a plurality of divided strings, each first electrode layer and each second electrode layer of the divided strings being electrically insulated and separated, the divided strings extending in a serial connection direction; and (C) performing reverse biasing by applying a reverse bias voltage to each of thin film photoelectric conversion elements of at least one of the divided strings. | 14,491 |
8,615,782 | 1. A method for displaying information contextually related to a program, comprising: causing a currently tuned program to be displayed in full screen mode; based on a program identifier of the currently tuned program, searching over the Internet a remote database to identify a plurality of services that are contextually linked to the program identifier of the currently tuned program, wherein the identified plurality of services provides access to information of different types; receiving a user request to access one of the identified plurality of services; and receiving, over the Internet, information from the one of the identified plurality of services from the remote database in response to receiving the user request. | 9,255 |
9,028,385 | 1. An apparatus for providing rods formed from a continuous supply of filter material for use in the manufacture of cigarette filter elements, each rod having individual objects placed at predetermined spaced intervals along the length thereof, the apparatus comprising: a first hopper configured to provide a reservoir for objects; a second hopper positioned to receive objects from the first hopper; a reciprocating screen disposed between the first hopper and the second hopper, the reciprocating screen defining a plurality of passageways therein, and the reciprocating screen being configured to facilitate transfer of the objects from the first hopper to the second hopper; an object insertion unit in operable communication with the second hopper and configured to introduce a plurality of objects into engagement with the continuous supply of filter material, the object insertion unit comprising a rotatable insertion wheel having a peripheral face, the peripheral face comprising a plurality of spaced pockets for receiving individual objects therein; and a housing having an inner surface and disposed near the bottom portion of the rotatable insertion wheel, the inner surface of the housing in a relative close spacing of the peripheral face of the rotatable insertion wheel so that each individual object is maintained within the respective pocket during delivery of the objects to the location where the objects are to be introduced into the filter material. | 48,731 |
9,568,948 | 1. A display device comprising a touch screen panel folded based on a folding axis, wherein the touch screen panel includes at least one first touch electrode on the folding axis, each first touch electrode on the folding axis including: a first graphene layer formed along the folding axis in a display area of the display device and on a transparent substrate; a first metal mesh layer formed on the transparent substrate; and a first adhesion metal mesh layer on a boundary portion between the first graphene layer and the first metal mesh layer, wherein a lateral surface of the first metal mesh layer adheres to a lateral surface of the first graphene layer, and the boundary portion of the first graphene layer and the first metal mesh layer is between the first adhesion metal mesh layer and the transparent substrate. | 20,239 |
9,284,437 | 1. A rubber composition comprised of, based upon parts by weight per 100 parts by weight of rubber (phr): (A) at least one diene-based elastomer comprised of at least one of polymers comprised of at least one of isoprene and 1,3-butadiene and of styrene with at least one of isoprene and 1,3-butadiene, (B) about 30 to about 120 phr of particulate reinforcing filler comprised of: (C) about 1 to about 10 phr of short fiber reinforcement comprised of at least one of polyaramid, polyamide, polyester and cellulose filaments, and (D) resin product of methylene donor compound and methylene acceptor compound, wherein said resin product is provided as: | 42,005 |
8,975,636 | 1. An organic light emitting display device comprising: a substrate comprising a switching device; a first electrode electrically connected to the switching device, the first electrode comprising a first side facing the substrate and a second side facing away from the substrate; a pixel defining layer defining a luminescent region and a nonluminescent region; an organic light emitting layer; and a second electrode disposed over the organic light emitting layer, wherein, in a cross-section, the first electrode is recessed on the second side to provide a recess bottom surface, a first recess side surface and a second recess side surface, wherein the organic light emitting layer contacts a central portion of the recess bottom surface and the pixel defining layer contacts a peripheral portion of the recess bottom surface such that the organic light emitting layer does not contact either the first recess side surface or the second recess side surface, wherein the first and second recess side surfaces of the first electrode are configured to reflect light beams directed thereto. | 25,792 |
8,857,146 | 1. A multistrand metal cord of K×(L+M) construction, which can notably be used for reinforcing tire belts for industrial vehicles, consisting of K elementary strands assembled in a helix, with a helix pitch P K , each elementary strand: comprising a cord having two layers of L+M construction, rubberized in situ, comprising an inner layer comprised of L wires of diameter d having the following characteristics (d 0.10<d 0.10<d 3<p wherein said inner layer of the elementary strand is sheathed with a rubber composition called a “filling rubber”; over any length of the elementary strand equal to K times P the amount of filling rubber in said elementary strand is between 5 and 40 mg per g of elementary strand. | 4,919 |
9,212,822 | 1. A fuel injection assembly for use in a turbine engine, said fuel injection assembly comprising: an end cover; an endcap assembly comprising an aft plate downstream from said end cover; a fluid supply chamber extending from said end cover to said endcap assembly; a plurality of tube assemblies positioned at said endcap assembly, each of said plurality of tube assemblies comprising: at least one fuel delivery pipe coupled to at least one of said plurality of tube assemblies for supplying fuel to said fuel plenum. | 7,132 |
8,355,824 | 1. A wind turbine generator, comprising: at least one wind turbine blade; a power generator connected to the wind turbine blade and configured to generate power from a rotational force of the wind turbine blade, the power generator being connected to a utility grid to output the power to the utility grid; and a control unit configured to perform an interconnected operation with the utility grid, the control unit including: | 31,593 |
9,735,294 | 1. A solar cell comprising: a substrate; a barrier layer on the substrate; a back electrode layer disposed on the barrier layer; a light absorbing layer disposed on the back electrode layer; a buffer layer disposed on the light absorbing layer; a high resistance buffer layer disposed on the buffer layer: and a window layer disposed on the buffer layer; wherein the barrier layer includes nano-rods, wherein a height of the nano-rods is in a range or 0.5 μm to 1 μm, wherein a width (a) of each of the nano-rods is greater than its length (b), wherein each of the nano-rods has a ratio of the width (a) to the length (b) of 20≦(a/b)≦1000 , wherein the length (b) of each of the nano-rods is in a range of from about 10 nm to about 100 nm, wherein the nano rods of the barrier layer are formed horizontally on the substrate of the solar cell, such that a side having the width (a) of each nano-rod is parallel to an upper surface of the substrate, wherein the barrier layer includes a first zinc oxide having a wurtzite crystal structure and having a band gap of 3.37 eV, and wherein the high resistance buffer layer includes a second zinc oxide having an energy band gap in a range 3.1 eV to 3.3 eV. | 13,082 |
9,184,861 | 1. A method of synchronising the frequency and time of a slave clock in a slave device to a master clock in a master device, wherein the master device and the slave device are connected by an Ethernet network, the method including the steps of: synchronising the frequency of the slave clock to that of the master clock using Synchronous Ethernet communications between the master device and the slave device; receiving in the slave device first and second timing messages sent from the master device and respective first and second timestamps being the time of sending of the first and second messages according to the master clock, and recording the time of receipt of the first and second messages according to the slave clock; calculating, via the slave device, forward variable delay encountered by the first and second messages in travelling from the master device to the slave device over the network by comparing the difference between the interval between the time of sending of said first and second messages and the interval between the time of receipt of said first and second messages; receiving in the master device third and fourth timing messages sent from the slave device and recording the time of receipt of the third and fourth messages according to the master clock; recording in the slave device the time of sending of the third and fourth messages according to the slave clock; sending the recorded time of receipt of the third and fourth messages to the slave device; calculating, via the slave device, reverse variable delay encountered by the third and fourth messages in travelling from the slave device to the master device over the network by comparing the difference between the interval between the time of sending said third and fourth messages and the interval between the time of receipt of said third and fourth messages; calculating, via the slave device, from the forward and reverse variable delays, a measure of noise associated with both the receipt of the first and second timing messages and receipt of third and fourth timing messages; estimating the variance of the measurement noise; and adjusting the actual time of the slave clock to synchronize it with the time of the master using the first and third timestamps, the recorded times of receipt of the first and third messages and the estimated variance. | 29,185 |
9,374,017 | 1. An AC/DC converter circuit comprising: an input terminal for receiving an AC supply voltage; a driver circuit adapted to supply a DC drive current or voltage to an output of the circuit based on a signal provided to a control terminal of the driver circuit; and an AC coupling network connected between the input terminal and the control terminal of the driver circuit, wherein the AC coupling network is adapted to derive a signal from an AC supply voltage received by the input terminal and to supply the derived signal to the control terminal of the driver circuit, and wherein the control terminal of the driver circuit is adapted to control at least one of: a peak inductor current; a switching frequency of the driver circuit; and a pulse interval, wherein the driver circuit comprises a driver integrated circuit and a switch circuit connected between two pins of the driver integrated circuit, and wherein the switch circuit is configured to modulate the peak inductor current and the switching frequency of the driver circuit based on a signal supplied to a base terminal of the switch circuit. | 29,781 |
8,468,814 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a chamber in selective fluid communication with a compressed gas storage unit through valving; a member moveable within the chamber to transmit a power of expanding gas, out of the chamber via a mechanical linkage; a liquid sprayer configured to effect gas-liquid heat exchange with gas expanding within the chamber in an absence of combustion; and a pump in fluid communication between a liquid source and the liquid sprayer, the pump configured to maintain a differential pressure between the liquid sprayer and the chamber. | 9,574 |
9,265,387 | 1. An electric incinerating toilet bowl comprising: a housing having an insulating portion on a bottom face thereof; a flushing bowl provided below a toilet seat and having a bottom which can be opened and closed; an incineration chamber provided below the flushing bowl; an incinerating heater for heating and incinerating excrement with a paper liner dropped from the flushing bowl into the incineration chamber; an exhaust blower for exhausting burning exhaust gas generated in the incineration chamber outside from the incineration chamber through an exhaust route; a biasing member operatively disposed between the insulating portion and a bottom face of the incineration chamber and configured to bias the incineration chamber away from the insulating portion; and a control means that controls an operation of the electric incinerating toilet bowl, including a plurality of temperature detectors disposed in or around the electric incinerating toilet bowl, wherein | 45,805 |
8,614,349 | 1. A method for oxidizing a hydrocarbon, an alcohol or an aldehyde, the method comprising: oxidizing a hydrocarbon, an alcohol or an aldehyde to an alcohol, an aldehyde, a carboxylic acid or a carboxylate ester corresponding thereto, in a liquid phase having: in the presence of a catalyst containing a palladium, the region where oxygen being substantially absent being 0.1 to 10% by volume with respect to a total of the region where oxygen being substantially present and the region where oxygen being substantially absent. | 39,683 |
9,535,486 | 1. A method, in a data processing system, for optimizing energy efficiency in a set of processor cores while maintaining application performance for a set of applications, the method comprising: receiving a quality of service (QoS) level for one or more active applications in the set of applications; identifying state information associated with each processor core n the set of processor cores; and responsive to the QoS level and the state information indicating an action to be implemented, implementing the action to reduce power utilization by one or more processor cores in the set of processor cores in the data processing system, wherein the action is selected from the group consisting of a first action, a second action, a third action, a fourth action, a fifth action, a sixth action, and a seventh action, and wherein: | 6,942 |
9,437,763 | 1. A solar cell, comprising: a solar cell substrate having a front side configured to face the sun during normal operation and a backside opposite the front side; a P-type doped region and an N-type doped region of the solar cell over the solar cell substrate; a first dielectric between the solar cell substrate and the P-type and N-type doped regions; a trench separating the P-type doped region and the N-type doped region and at least partially dividing the first dielectric, wherein a surface of the trench is textured; and a second dielectric formed over the surface of the trench. | 42,042 |
9,764,658 | 1. An electric vehicle, comprising: an electric motor configured to provide traction for the vehicle; a control unit configured to: an inverter operatively coupled to the control unit and the electric motor, the inverter being configured to receive a signal indicative of the calculated requested torque and control the electric motor to produce the requested torque. | 28,404 |
9,692,158 | 1. A connector assembly for electrically connecting one or more cables to a planar electrical device, the assembly comprising: (a) a connector having a flat connector face and a Z axis perpendicular to the connector face; (b) a pair of latches pivotally mounted to the connector, each latch having an arm with an end that extends beyond the connector face, the ends being biased toward each other to a closed position and being pivotable away from each other to an open position; (c) a hook at the arm end and having a hook face that is offset from the arm and aligned with the connector face when the latches are in the closed position; and (d) a bias mechanism for biasing the hook faces and the connector face together on the Z axis; (e) whereby, when the assembly is connected to the planar electrical device, the bias mechanism forces the hook faces and the connector face together with the planar electrical device therebetween. | 10,985 |
9,246,680 | 1. A method, comprising: transmitting, using a hardware processor, a first message by a first node to a second node, wherein the first message is generated by applying a first transformation α receiving a second message by the first node in which the second message is generated by applying a second transformation β transmitting a third message by the first node to the second node, wherein the third message is generated by applying a transpose complex conjugate of α | 43,206 |
9,269,846 | 1. A phototransistor (PT) comprising an emitter, a collector and a floating base, wherein the PT is configured to detect a photon flux incident on the PT and the photon flux being lower than one single photon within an electrical bandwidth of the PT. | 28,545 |
8,818,688 | 1. A method for operating an internal combustion engine, wherein the internal combustion engine is operated with a gas as fuel and a lambda value of an air-to-fuel mixture is regulated by means of lambda control as a function of a signal from a lambda probe, the method comprising: detecting, by the lambda probe, a rich-to-lean jump of the lambda value; varying, by a control apparatus, upon detection of the rich-to-lean jump, a mixture control factor, for at least a first predetermined time, to cause a shift of the lambda value toward rich, wherein the mixture control factor sets the air-to-fuel mixture; detecting, by the lambda probe, a lean-to-rich jump of the lambda value; and varying, by the control apparatus, upon detection of the lean-to-rich jump, the mixture control factor to cause an additional defined shift of the lambda value toward rich. | 12,147 |
9,505,548 | 1. An absorbent sheet product dispenser comprising: a dispenser body having a housing for holding a stack of absorbent sheet products, the housing having a dispensing opening defined in a lower portion thereof through which the absorbent sheet products are withdrawable; and a stand comprising a base and dispenser body support, wherein the base comprises a support surface superposable to a supporting surface, wherein the dispenser body support is securable to the dispenser body in a single configuration, wherein the base and dispenser body support are engageable together in at least two configurations, wherein the base comprises a plurality of grooves on a platform that correspond to the at least two configurations, wherein the dispenser body support comprises at least one flange selectively positionable within at least one of the plurality of grooves on the platform, wherein the dispenser body support pivots about the base at a pivot point comprising a flange extending from an upper portion of the base and mates with a groove in the dispenser body support. | 17,275 |
9,090,191 | 1. A beam end assembly, comprising: (a) a body configured to be slidably disposed within an end of a beam member; and (b) a foot section pivotally coupled to the body, wherein the foot section further comprises: | 12,943 |
9,448,570 | 1. A voltage fluctuation suppressing apparatus comprising: a power storage device configured to be connected to an electric power system; a basic control unit configured to control an output of the power storage device; a voltage detector configured to measure a voltage of a connection point to the electric power system; and an output control unit configured to receive an output of the voltage detector as an input, to divide a control amount to be outputted to the basic control unit into a reactive power command value and an active power command value, and to output the reactive power command value and the active power command value; the output control unit including, a reactive power upper limit value calculation unit to calculate an upper limit value of the reactive power command value, based on an inputted optional power factor command value, a reactive power calculation/output unit to calculate and output the reactive power command value, based on an inputted optional voltage command value, and an active power calculation/output unit to calculate and output the active power command value, which outputs 0 as the active power command value, when an absolute value of a control value to be outputted to the basic control unit is not more than an absolute value of the upper limit value of the reactive power command value, and outputs a value that is calculated from a prescribed expression and is not 0 as the active power command value, when the absolute value of the control value exceeds the absolute value of the upper limit value of the reactive power command value. | 44,875 |
8,781,752 | 1. A method for controlling a measurement process of blood glucose of a patient, comprising: selecting a repeatedly occurring event, a glucose meter obtaining a first measurement value of blood glucose, the first measurement value being associated with a first occurrence of the event, the glucose meter obtaining a second measurement value of blood glucose, the second measurement value being obtained after the first measurement value, the first and second measurement values forming a first pair of measurements associated with the first occurrence of the event, the glucose meter obtaining a second pair of measurement values associated with a second occurrence of the event, the second pair of measurement values occurring after the first pair of measurement values, the glucose meter sending the first and second pair of measurement values to a software program, the software program obtaining a first single difference value by determining a first difference between the first pair of measurement values, the software program obtaining a second single difference value by determining a second difference between the second pair of measurement values, the software program calculating trend data by comparing the first single difference value with the second single difference value, and software program controlling the measurement process using the trend data by sending a report message to a communication device of the patient. | 40,648 |
8,695,930 | 1. A versatile support apparatus, comprising in combination: a first assembly including a plurality of substantially rigid rod-like longitudinal members; multiple flexible transverse securing members coupled transversally to a portion of each of said plurality of longitudinal members and adapted to bind each of said plurality of longitudinal members to an adjacent one of said plurality of longitudinal members, wherein each longitudinal member of said plurality of longitudinal members is repositionable about a longitudinal axis of said longitudinal member allowing said support apparatus to be rolled; a first-assembly first-end coupling portion disposed on a first end of a longitudinal side of said first assembly; and a first-assembly complementary second-end coupling portion disposed on an opposing second end of a longitudinal side of said first assembly, wherein said first-assembly first-end coupling portion and said first-assembly second-end coupling portion are configured to be coupled, and wherein the coupling of said first-assembly first-end coupling portion to said first-assembly second-end coupling portion forms a cylinder, wherein said cylinder defines an interior cylindrical cavity, and wherein said support apparatus is configured to receive an object within said cylindrical cavity. | 22,869 |
9,475,898 | 1. A polymerization process comprising: contacting a catalyst composition with ethylene and an olefin comonomer in a polymerization reactor system under polymerization conditions to produce an ethylene polymer; wherein the ethylene polymer comprises a higher molecular weight component and a lower molecular weight component, and wherein the ethylene polymer is characterized by: a density in a range from about 0.95 to about 0.965 g/cm a melt index (MI) in a range from about 0.05 to about 1.5 g/10 min; a ratio of high load melt index to melt index (HLMI/MI) in a range from about 40 to about 175; a bimodal molecular weight distribution; less than about 0.008 long chain branches per 1000 total carbon atoms; a number of short chain branches per 1000 total carbon atoms at Mz that is greater than or equal to the number at Mn; and a slope of a plot of the viscosity (Pa-sec) versus shear rate (sec | 32,152 |
8,653,543 | 1. A deposition substrate comprising: a first region including: a second region including: wherein the first heat-insulating layer is spatially separated from the second heat-insulating layer. | 20,482 |
9,435,265 | 1. A gas combustor, including: a casing unit, a surface thereof being formed with an insertion slot, the interior of said insertion slot being installed with an electric conductive wire being in contact with a combustion device; and a detachable ignition module, having an enveloping member installed with an igniter therein, a push rod, a cathode connecting joint and an anode connecting joint of said igniter being respectively protruded from a front, a rear and aside opening formed on said enveloping member, and a push button being connected to said push rod, thereby allowing said push button to push said push rod; through said detachable ignition module being inserted in or removed from said insertion slot, said cathode connecting joint and said anode connecting joint of said detachable ignition module being respectively in contact with or separated from said electric conductive wire installed in said insertion slot, thereby establishing or terminating an electric connection; wherein the top and the bottom surface at the front of said enveloping member are oppositely and protrudingly formed with a pair of positioning tenons protruding from the top surface and the bottom surface, one lateral surface thereof is formed with an accommodating hole allowing said anode connecting joint to be positioned and protruded, the top and the bottom surface at the rear of said push button are horizontally and oppositely formed with a pair of elongated buckle racks connected to said pair of positioning tenons, said positioning tenons are inserted into said pair of elongated buckle racks. | 46,672 |
8,455,693 | 1. A process for preparing 2-(2-tert-butylaminoethoxy)ethanol (tert-butylamino-diglycol, TBADG) by reacting diethylene glycol (DG) with tert-butylamine (TBA) in the presence of hydrogen and of a copper catalyst, which comprises effecting the reaction at a temperature in the range from 160 to 220° C. in the presence of a copper- and aluminum oxide-containing catalyst, where the catalytically active material of the catalyst, before the reduction thereof with hydrogen, comprises 20 to 75% by weight of aluminum oxide (Al 20 to 75% by weight of oxygen compounds of copper, calculated as CuO, and ≦5% by weight of oxygen compounds of nickel, calculated as NiO. | 3,167 |
9,812,972 | 1. A control circuit for a switching converter, comprising: a first sensing circuit configured to detect a change in voltage at a secondary winding of a transformer; a second sensing circuit configured to detect current flow in a primary winding of the transformer; a third sensing circuit configured to detect a voltage in an auxiliary winding of the transformer; a pulse width modulation (PWM) drive circuit configured to control said current flow in the primary winding of the transformer in response to the detected current flow and a control signal indicating a desired current flow; a comparator circuit configured to compare the detected voltage in the auxiliary winding to a reference voltage and generate a compare signal; a wakeup circuit responsive to the detected change in voltage at the secondary winding and configured to generate a reference signal; and a multiplexing circuit configured to select between the compare signal and the reference signal for application as the control signal to the PWM drive circuit; wherein said wakeup circuit further responds to the detected change in voltage at the secondary winding by causing the multiplexing circuit to select the reference signal. | 47,467 |
9,430,842 | 1. A method comprising: acquiring data of an image; processing the data including identifying a candidate location of an edge between two materials in the image, the data having neighboring pixels defining a portion of the candidate location, wherein processing the data including identifying the candidate location of an edge includes defining an edge signature between the two materials using a ratio of spectral bands that maximize spectral contrast between the two materials in the data of the image; applying a classifier to the neighboring pixels to determine, based on material changes, if the neighboring pixels are correlated to two different materials with respect to the candidate location, providing a modifier for a spatio-spectral mask; applying the spatio-spectral mask using the modifier to accept or reject the candidate location as an edge; and generating an image to a device, the candidate location in the image correlated to the application of the spatio-spectral mask using the modifier, wherein applying the spatio-spectral mask using the modifier includes using the modifier in an indicator matrix, each element of the indicator matrix correlated to a comparison of a difference of the spatio-spectral mask and the edge signature for a respective neighborhood of the candidate location with respect to a product of a respective modifier and a tolerance parameter. | 47,504 |
8,454,795 | 1. A method of producing both loose cellulose insulation and bonded fiber/cellulose insulation products utilizing shredded paper particles comprising: making shredded paper particles in a shredded paper particle line that includes a steam operation, said making shredded paper particles including shredding paper to form shredded paper particles, adding fire retardant material in the shredded paper particle line, and applying heated steam to the shredded paper particles at the steam operation whereby the shredded paper particles are moistened; diverting a portion of the shredded paper particles that have been moistened from the shredded paper particle line after the steam operation to a bonded fiber/cellulose product line wherein the portion of the shredded paper particles being diverted comprises less than all of the shredded paper particles being produced at the shredded paper particle line such that the shredded paper particle line forms an in-process production and delivery of the shredded paper particles to the bonded fiber/cellulose product line; and producing bonded fiber/cellulose insulation products, which contains fire retardant, with the bonded fiber/cellulose product line from the diverted portion of shredded paper particles; said shredded paper particles that are not diverted to the bonded fiber/cellulose product line comprising loose cellulose insulation, which contains fire retardant, produced by the shredded paper particle line. | 31,509 |
9,082,796 | 1. A processing device for processing stacked processed goods in the form of planar substrates for the production of conducting, semiconducting, or insulating thin layers, the processing device comprising: an evacuatable process chamber that receives a process gas, wherein the process gas, when received in the evacuatable process chamber, reacts with stacked processed goods inside the evacuatable process chamber; a tempering device that is, at least in sections: wherein the tempering device keeps at least a partial region of the wall of the evacuatable process chamber at a predetermined first temperature during at least part of the processing of the stacked processed goods, wherein the first temperature is not below a second temperature that is room temperature, wherein the first temperature is below a third temperature that is generated in the evacuatable process chamber, the third temperature being above room temperature, and wherein an inner surface of the wall is covered at least in sections with a thermal insulating material that is resistant to corrosion from the process gas received in the evacuatable process chamber; a gas conveying device disposed inside the evacuatable process chamber, wherein the gas conveying device includes a corrosion-resistant material and creates a circulating gas flow within the evacuatable process chamber such that the process gas received in the evacuatable process chamber flows along a looped path and at least a part of the circulating gas flow provides a forced convection; a heating device that heats the process gas, wherein the heating device is disposed inside the evacuatable process chamber with the gas conveying device, in the circulating gas flow created by the gas conveying device; a gas guiding device that receives the stacked processed goods, wherein the gas guiding device is disposed inside the evacuatable process chamber with the gas conveying device and the heating device such that at least part of the circulating gas flow that is created extends through the gas guiding device and a surface of the gas guiding device helps direct the circulating gas flow; a first loading opening that is lockable with a first locking device that is gas and/or vacuum tight, wherein the stacked processed goods are insertable through the first loading opening into the gas guiding device; and a gas inlet device that feeds the process gas into the circulating gas flow, wherein the gas conveying device comprises a fan that has a corrosion-resistant material, and wherein the wall of the evacuatable process chamber comprises a metal or metal alloy. | 11,377 |
9,293,609 | 1. A system for improving the operation, utility, and exploitation conditions of solar cell fields, said system comprising: (a) a solar cells array including: (b) The system further comprising | 6,809 |
9,327,601 | 1. A high-voltage (“HV”) system for a vehicle, comprising: a HV source providing HV power; a low-voltage source providing a low-voltage power on a low-voltage signal line, wherein the low-voltage power is less than the HV power; a high-voltage interlock loop (“HVIL”) switch in communication with the low voltage source via the low-voltage signal line, comprising: a reed relay including a pair of elongated magnetic reeds and that is contained and generally hermetically sealed within an envelope; and a magnetic element that is selectively positioned within an actuation distance from the reed relay, wherein the HVIL switch is in a closed circuit condition if the magnetic element is positioned within the actuation distance from the reed relay and in an open circuit condition if the magnetic element is positioned outside of the actuation distance from the reed relay; at least one control module in communication with the HVIL switch, the at least one control module monitoring the HVIL switch and sending a signal on the low-voltage signal line to deactivate supply of HV power if the open circuit condition is detected, wherein the magnetic element is located within a removable cover affixed to a housing, wherein the housing includes the envelope, wherein the magnetic element is automatically positioned outside of the actuation distance from the reed relay to create the open circuit condition when the removable cover is removed from the housing, and wherein the at least one control module includes first and second resistive elements configured to determine a short circuit condition. | 27,641 |
9,634,343 | 1. An electrochemical generating unit comprising a hydrogen cell and a stocking tank adapted to stock hydrogen into a hydride for destocking the hydrogen toward the hydrogen cell, said unit comprising: a condenser having an air intake inlet for admitting water vapor from ambient air; a heat exchanger disposed in the condenser and being in contact with the hydride in the stocking tank and the water vapour in the condensor; a convection means disposed in the condenser; and, means for cooperating with the stocking tank to simultaneously transfer heat of the water vapour to an endothermic reaction of the hydride into an alloy and into hydrogen utilizing the convection means to force the water vapour onto the heat exchanger, and to condense using the condensor, steam of the water vapour into condensation water. | 45,377 |
8,854,840 | 1. A synchronous rectifying circuit for a switching power converter comprises: a power transistor and a diode coupled to a transformer and an output of the power converter for rectification; and a control circuit generating a drive signal to switch on the power transistor once the diode is forward biased, wherein the control circuit comprises: a monitor circuit generating a monitor signal in response to a pulse width of the drive signal for generating an off signal to switch off the power transistor; wherein the monitor circuit generates a threshold and further enables the monitor signal when a change of a feedback signal is over the threshold to reduce the pulse width of the drive signal; and wherein the feedback signal is correlated to an output load of the power converter; and wherein the wherein the monitor circuit comprises: a charge circuit generating a ramp signal when the drive signal is enabled; a sample circuit generating a hold signal in accordance with the level of the ramp signal; an amplifier generating a threshold signal in accordance with the level of the hold signal; and a comparator generating the monitor signal in response to comparison of the ramp signal and the threshold signal; wherein the level of the hold signal is correlated to the level of the feedback signal. | 7,683 |
8,856,522 | 1. A system that implements safety within an industrial environment, comprising: a processor; and a memory communicatively coupled to the processor, the memory having stored therein computer-executable instructions configured to implement the system, comprising: | 21,670 |
8,745,827 | 1. A touch fastening strip comprising: a corrugated strip defining an undulating surface and forming a plurality of channels and a base portion between adjacent channels, the corrugated strip defining a plane, the corrugated strip constructed and arranged to be bendable within the plane and out of the plane, and such that when the corrugated strip is bendable within the plane, the corrugated strip can remain in the plane; fastening elements formed on and projecting from at least portions of a top of said undulating surface; and one or more openings formed through said strip in the base portion. | 39,364 |
9,324,925 | 1. A light emitting device comprising: a light emitting element that comprises a phosphor layer covering the substrate of the light emitting element; and a resin layer covering side faces of the light emitting element. | 45,986 |
9,601,753 | 1. A method for the preparation of a negative active material comprising: mixing a carbon material, an organic polymer, a Sn-containing compound with water to obtain a mixed solution system; adding a complexing agent to the mixed solution system, optionally while stirring, to form an intermediate solution; adding a reducing agent to the intermediate solution to form a reaction product; and filtering, washing, and drying the reaction product to form the negative active material, wherein the negative active material has a core-shell structure, a core of the core- shell structure comprising carbon and a shell of the core-shell structure comprising Sn, wherein the mixed solution system further comprises: a first water soluble aiding compound additive, the first water soluble aiding compound additive comprises one or more aiding elements selected from group consisting of: Ag, Zn, Al, and Sb; wherein a weight ratio of the first water soluble aiding compound additive and the Sn-containing compound ranges from about 0.04 to about 0.2: about 1. | 13,297 |
8,931,196 | 1. A firearm having the capability for assembly and disassembly under field conditions, comprising: upper and lower receivers being secured in releasable pivotal assembly by a pivot pin and being locked in assembly by a locking pin; a barrel mount and a handguard mount being defined by said upper receiver, said handguard mount having a first handguard mounting face; a barrel assembly being releasably secured to said barrel mount; a generally tubular handguard member being releasably positioned about said barrel assembly and defining a second handguard mounting face and being releasably positioned with said second handguard mounting face in face-to-face engagement with said first handguard mounting face; and a manually actuated clamp mechanism having a clamping condition releasably securing said handguard to said upper receiver and having a releasing condition permitting separation of said handguard from said upper receiver and permitting removal of said handguard from said upper receiver. | 23,589 |
8,395,007 | 1. A process for conversion of 1-butene to butene oligomers comprising: activating a bis(cyclopentadienyl)zirconium dichloride pre-catalyst with methylaluminoxane in one or more aromatic solvents without heteroatoms; removing the one or more solvents to form an activated catalyst; mixing one or more linear or branched hydrocarbon alkanes having from 4 to about 20 carbons with the activated catalyst to form a slurry; adding dried 1-butene to the slurry to form a mixture; stirring the mixture to allow contact of reactants at ambient temperature in a gas tight vessel until reaction is complete to form a first mixture of butene oligomers; hydrogenating the first mixture of butene oligomers to forms a second mixture of hydrogenated oligomers; and formulating said second mixture of hydrogenated oligomers with 3-methyl heptane to form a fuel having a viscosity at −20° C. from about 6.0 cSt to about 12.5 cSt and a density from about 0.75 g/mL to about 0.80 g/mL. | 30,738 |
8,443,537 | 1. A firearm comprising: a hammer type firing mechanism having a hammer; and a trigger being in mechanical communication with the hammer type firing mechanism; a firing pin being positioned to be actuated by the hammer upon actuation of the trigger; a roller portion being rotatably positioned to block a forward reciprocation of the firing pin in a first position and rotatably positioned to allow a forward reciprocation of the firing pin in a second position, the roller portion having an outer circumferential surface being releasably engageable with a surface of the firing pin. | 29,040 |
9,215,689 | 1. A method for resolving call collisions in a direct mode communication system among a plurality of direct mode radios, the method comprising, at a first direct mode radio out of the plurality of direct mode radios: transmitting, on a time slot of a direct mode Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) communication channel, one or more transmissions during a first direct mode call to the other direct mode radios in the plurality of direct mode radios, the transmissions including an identifier identifying the first direct mode radio; after making the last transmission of the first direct mode call, transitioning to an arbitrating mode for the time slot; receiving, from a second direct mode radio out of the plurality of direct mode radios, a first new direct mode call request; monitoring the time slot for any additional new direct mode call requests from other direct mode radios in the plurality of direct mode radios; and responsive to determining that one of (i) no other new direct mode call requests have been received and (ii) other new direct mode call requests have been received but the first new direct mode call request is entitled to priority over the other new call requests: | 12,967 |
9,043,664 | 1. An integrated circuit comprising: A. a TDI input lead, a TDO output lead, a TCK input lead, and a TMS input lead; B. plural first TAP domains each having a TDI input coupled to the TDI input lead, a TDO output selectively coupled to the TDO output lead, a TCK input coupled to the TCK input lead, and a TMS input selectively coupled to the TMS input lead; C. input linking circuitry coupled to the TDI input lead, the TCK input lead, and the TMS input lead and coupled to the TDI input, TCK input, and the TMS input of each TAP domain, the input linking circuitry having control inputs; D. output linking circuitry coupled to the TDO output of each TAP domain and having a TDO output selectively coupled to the TDO output lead, the output linking circuitry having control inputs; and E. second TAP domain circuitry including: | 4,820 |
8,445,445 | 1. A method of promoting hair growth or growing hair, comprising administering a Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptor 4 Extra-Cellular Domain (FGFR4 ECD) to a subject suffering from hair loss in an amount sufficient to promote hair growth or grow hair. | 33,002 |
9,087,470 | 1. A 3D image display apparatus, comprising: a first display panel which alternately displays a left eye image and a right eye image; a second display panel which comprises a plurality of pixels including a left eye pixel and a right eye pixel; a backlight unit which is disposed at a back side of the second display panel; a lens array which is disposed at a front side of the second display panel and comprises a plurality of lenticular lenses dividing light emitted from the backlight unit into a left eye visual field and a right eye visual field and emitting the divided light; and a control unit which controls turning on and off of the left eye pixel and the right eye pixel, constituting the second display panel, based on when the left eye image and the right eye image are displayed; wherein the control unit receives a sync signal, corresponding to the left eye image and the right eye image, from the first display panel and controls turning on and off of the left eye pixel and the right eye pixel, constituting the second display panel, according to the sync signal provided from the first display panel. | 15,752 |
9,382,001 | 1. A torque transfer system for a rotorcraft, the system comprising: a first rotational joint connected to a rotorcraft rotary shaft, the first rotational joint to receive a portion of a torque generated by rotation of the rotorcraft rotary shaft and to transfer the portion of the torque to a rotorcraft rotating component; and a second rotational joint separate from and transferring torque using a different mechanism than the first rotational joint, wherein the second rotational joint is connected to the rotorcraft rotary shaft, the second rotational joint to receive a remainder of the torque generated by the rotation of the rotorcraft rotary shaft and to transfer the remainder of the torque to the rotorcraft rotating component. | 35,689 |
8,988,317 | 1. A method for determining depth in a light field image comprising (x,y,u,v) four-dimensional data for pixels, comprising: at a processor, obtaining a light field image; at the processor, identifying a subset of light field samples in the light field image for generating epipolar images; at the processor, re-sampling the light field image to generate at least one epipolar image from the identified subset of light field samples, wherein each epipolar image comprises at least one selected from the group consisting of: a two-dimensional (x,u) slice for a fixed value of y; and a two-dimensional (y,v) slice for a fixed value of x; at the processor, determining at least one gradient for at least a portion of at least one generated epipolar image; at the processor, determining a slope for the at least one gradient; at the processor, based on the determined slope, determining a depth for at least one element of the light field image; at an output device, generating output representing the determined depth; wherein identifying a subset of light field samples in the light field image comprises identifying samples corresponding to approximate centers of microlenses used in capturing the light field image; and wherein identifying samples corresponding to approximate centers of microlenses used in capturing the light field image comprises, for each of a plurality of microlenses: determining offset vectors indicating a distance between a desired coordinate of a sample and a center of a corresponding microlens; determining a location of the microlens center; and based on the determined offset vector, identifying a plurality of pixel locations to sample. | 18,946 |
9,414,253 | 1. A method of discarding logged measurements of a User Equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: receiving, by the UE, a first measurement configuration; upon receiving the first measurement configuration, starting a timer based on a first value set by the first measurement configuration; logging, by the UE in a Radio Resource Control (RRC) idle mode, measurements based on the first measurement configuration; receiving, by the UE, a second measurement configuration; and upon receiving the second measurement configuration, discarding the first measurement configuration and the logged measurements measured by the first measurement configuration. | 46,183 |
8,786,541 | 1. A light emission control device for controlling light emission units irradiating respective ones of partial regions formed by dividing a display screen of an optical modulation unit for displaying an image by optically modulating illuminating light responsive to image data, such that light emission luminance of each of the partial regions can be controlled; | 36,853 |
8,935,022 | 1. A router transceiver unit, comprising: a network adapter module configured for electrical connection to a network interface unit, wherein the network adapter module is configured to receive high bandwidth network data from the network interface unit; and a signal modulator module electrically connected to the network adapter module and comprising a physical layer and a data link layer, the signal modulator module comprising an electrical output and internal circuitry, wherein the electrical output is configured for electrical connection to a trainline, and wherein the internal circuitry is configured to receive the high bandwidth network data from the network adapter module, to convert the high bandwidth network data into modulated network data in a form suitable for transmission over the trainline, and to transmit the modulated network data, comprising the high bandwidth network data, over the trainline; the data link layer comprises an application protocol convergence layer, a logical link control layer, and a medium access control layer, wherein the application protocol convergence layer is configured to accept network frames of the high bandwidth network data from the network adapter module and to encapsulate the network frames into medium access control service data units, the logical link control layer is configured to receive the medium access control service data units from the application protocol convergence layer for at least one of encryption, aggregation, segmentation, or automatic repeat-request, and the medium access control layer is configured to schedule channel access; and the physical layer comprises a physical coding layer, a physical medium attachment layer, and a physical medium dependent layer, wherein the physical coding layer is configured to generate physical layer headers, the physical medium attachment layer is configured for scrambling and forward error correction coding, and the physical medium dependent layer is configured for interfacing with the trainline and for the conversion of the high bandwidth network data into the modulated network data. | 32,218 |
9,053,901 | 1. An x-ray system with one or more conditioning filters comprising: an x-ray tube containing: a radiation resistant casing which encloses the x-ray tube; and a window in the radiation resistant casing which allows some of the x-rays generated at the target area to exit the system, with the window having a vapor deposited layer of a filtering metal of sufficient thickness to effectively condition the x-rays passing through the window and located to intercept the x-rays passing through the window; wherein the window is constructed of high purity aluminum; and wherein the vapor deposited layer of filtering metal is selected from the group consisting of high purity copper, molybdenum, tin, titanium, tungsten, and zirconium. | 48,150 |
8,770,977 | 1. An instructor controlled training simulation system to train teams, comprising: a computer generated simulated training environment comprising a collaborative immersive virtual environment wherein simulated movements and interactions of each of one or more team members are represented within the simulated training environment; at least one trainee station, comprising: at least one computer to generate the simulated training environment, the at least one computer communicatively coupled to the at least one display and communicatively coupled to the at least one controller, the at least one computer monitoring inputs from the at least one controller and modifying the simulated training environment displayed on the display based on the inputs; a plurality of communication channels to allow communication among the instructor and the one or more team members; an instructor station to host the instructor, to serve as a simulated training environment server and network host for the at least one computer and the at least one trainee station, and to serve as a simulated training environment control station, the instructor station receiving and propagating inputs from the at least one trainee station and allowing the instructor to control, modify, and record the execution of the simulated training environment, to control and record the communication channels, to create custom simulation scenarios for the simulated training environment, and; a scenario editor to edit the collaborative immersive training environment during the training simulation, wherein the scenario editor allows the instructor to take over an entity represented within the collaborative immersive training environment during the training simulation, and wherein the at least one display in each trainee station displays a viewpoint of the collaborative immersive virtual environment corresponding to movements and interactions of the at least one controller. | 31,577 |
8,930,994 | 1. A method for displaying digital broadcasting program guide information in a mobile communication terminal, said terminal including a display unit, a digital broadcasting receiving unit and a memory, the method comprising the steps of: receiving the broadcasting program guide information through the digital broadcasting receiving unit; storing the received broadcasting program guide information in the memory; determining whether an idle mode is set and an image is displayed on the display unit while a user is not viewing digital broadcasting; and automatically displaying the broadcasting program guide information on the display unit, if it is determined that the idle mode is set and the image is displayed on the display unit while the user is not viewing digital broadcasting. | 25,838 |
8,646,281 | 1. A cooling device for a photovoltaic module, comprising: a cooling chamber comprising: an upper plate having a predetermined height, the upper plate being attached to a rear surface of the photovoltaic module in such a way as to be in surface contact with each other; a lower plate having a planar shape, the lower plate being joined to the upper plate so that an inner space is defined between the upper plate and the lower plate; and a working fluid injected into the inner space, the working fluid carrying out a cooling operation by means of boiling and condensing, wherein a plurality of protrusions are formed on the upper plate and the lower plate by pressing predetermined portions of the upper and lower plates inwards in such a way as to face each other, the protrusions of the upper and lower plates being joined to each other; and a heat sink in surface contact with the lower plate of the cooling chamber, the heat sink dissipating heat to an outside. | 23,155 |
9,505,397 | 1. A computing device-implemented method comprising: receiving information representative of an amount of electrical energy stored over a first period of time in an electrical energy storage device of a hybrid vehicle that includes a combustion engine; receiving information representative of a performance measure of the hybrid vehicle for a second period of time, shorter than the first period of time; determining a level of assistance for an electric motor based system included in the hybrid vehicle from the received information representative of the performance measure; and adjusting the level of assistance using a comparison of the received information representative of the amount of electrical energy stored over the first period of time in the electrical energy storage device and information representative of a target amount of electrical energy stored in the electrical energy storage device. | 7,451 |
8,818,686 | 1. A control device for an internal combustion engine, said internal combustion engine including a purge mechanism for implementing purge control which causes evaporated fuel generated within a fuel tank to flow into an intake pipe, utilizing a negative pressure within said intake pipe which varies in accordance with an opening degree of a throttle provided in said intake pipe, said control device for the internal combustion engine comprising: a determination unit determining whether or not to implement said purge control in accordance with predetermined implementation conditions; a switching unit switching an upper limit value of the opening degree of said throttle based on a determination result of said determination unit, wherein, when it is determined by said determination unit to implement said purge control, said switching unit sets said upper limit value to a first value, and when it is determined by said determination unit not to implement said purge control, said switching unit sets said upper limit value to a second value larger than the first value; and a throttle opening degree control unit controlling the opening degree of said throttle to a fuel efficiency-optimizing opening degree for optimizing fuel efficiency of said internal combustion engine, when it is determined by said determination unit not to implement said purge control. | 11,917 |
9,057,466 | 1. A method of containing or directing flow of a supercritical medium, the method comprising: contacting a molding with a supercritical medium, wherein the molding has a molding composition which comprises at least 50% by weight of: (a) from 0 to 99 parts by weight of polyamide, and (b) from 1 to 100 parts by weight of at least one polyamide elastomer selected from the group consisting of a polyetheresteramide and a polyetheramide, wherein a total of the parts by weight is 100 and wherein the molding composition comprises at most 9% by weight of plasticizer, and wherein the supercritical medium further comprises at least one selected from the group consisting of CO wherein the molding is at least one of a flexible pipe and a rigid pipe, and the contacting comprises conveying the supercritical medium through at least one of the flexible pipe and the rigid pipe, wherein the flexible pipe and the rigid pipe comprise the molding composition as an inner thermoplastic layer which is in contact with the supercritical medium during the contacting. | 49,151 |
9,550,175 | 1. A honeycomb filter comprising: a plurality of cells through which exhaust gas is to flow and which include exhaust gas introduction cells and exhaust gas emission cells, the exhaust gas introduction cells each having an open end at an exhaust gas introduction side and a plugged end at an exhaust gas emission side, the exhaust gas emission cells each having an open end at the exhaust gas emission side and a plugged end at the exhaust gas introduction side; porous cell walls defining rims of the plurality of cells; an oxidation catalyst supported inside the porous cell walls in an amount of 5 to 60 g/L; the exhaust gas introduction cells and the exhaust gas emission cells each having a uniform cross sectional shape except for a plugged portion in a cross section perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the plurality of cells thoroughly from the exhaust gas introduction side to the exhaust gas emission side; the exhaust gas emission cells having an average cross sectional area larger than an average cross sectional area of the exhaust gas introduction cells in the cross section perpendicular to the longitudinal direction; and a total volume of the exhaust gas introduction cells being larger than a total volume of the exhaust gas emission cells, wherein each of the exhaust gas emission cells is adjacently surrounded fully by the exhaust gas introduction cells across the porous cell walls, wherein the exhaust gas introduction cells include first exhaust gas introduction cells and second exhaust gas introduction cells, wherein each of the second exhaust gas introduction cells has a cross sectional area larger than a cross sectional area of each of the first exhaust gas introduction cells in the cross section perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the plurality of cells, wherein each of the exhaust gas emission cells has a cross sectional area equal to or larger than the cross sectional area of each of the second exhaust gas introduction cells in the cross section perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the plurality of cells, wherein, in the cross section perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the plurality of cells, the exhaust gas introduction cells and the exhaust gas emission cells each have a polygonal shape, and wherein, in the cross section perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the plurality of cells, | 24,222 |
9,149,747 | 1. A method of manufacturing a carbon fiber material, the method comprising: centrifugally spinning a dispersion liquid comprising a resin, carbon particles, and a solvent, to obtain a nonwoven fabric comprising a carbon fiber precursor; and denaturing the nonwoven fiber comprising the carbon fiber precursor, to obtain a nonwoven fabric comprising carbon fiber having a large diameter part extending a first length and a second smaller diameter part extending a second length. | 30,059 |
8,478,725 | 1. A method for migrating persistent data associated with a virtual machine (VM), the method comprising: copying static persistent data from a source data store to a target data store, the static persistent data being persistent data associated with the VM that is not accessible by guest software; creating a new VM using the copied static persistent data: copying a virtual disk associated with the VM from the source data store to the target data store, wherein dynamic persistent data includes the virtual disk; monitoring input and output (I/O) disk operations during the copying of the virtual disk, the monitoring including maintaining a data structure identifying each disk block written to by the VM during the copying of the virtual disk, wherein disk blocks that are written to are dirty disk blocks; iteratively copying dirty disk blocks until a set of dirty blocks is smaller than a threshold number of disk blocks; and after the set of dirty blocks is smaller than the threshold number of disk blocks, stunning the VM, copying remaining dirty disk blocks to the target data store, and when all the persistent data of the VM has been copied to the target data store, resuming execution of the VM using persistent data stored on the target data store. | 22,181 |
8,370,415 | 1. A method of detecting overflow in a clamping circuit, the method comprising: inputting a first operand having a first fixed-point format denoted by s.i inputting a second operand having a second fixed-point format denoted by s.i determining a clamp bit based upon the first operand and the second operand; performing at least partially a multiplication operation of the first operand and the second operand to produce a multiplication result having a number of bits that is at least (io+1) when a predetermined output representation for a final result has a fixed-point format denoted by s.io.fo, and io<i predicting whether the result of the multiplication operation needs to be clamped given the predetermined output, wherein a prediction is based on the clamp bit and a most significant bit (MSB) of the multiplication result; and inputting the multiplication result and a predetermined clamp value into a multiplexor for selection therebetween based upon the prediction. | 42,195 |
8,786,253 | 1. An electric charging system in which an electric charger and an electric vehicle are connected by a charging cable, and an electric storage device installed on the electric vehicle is charged, the electric charging system comprising: a first reference setting unit for setting a reference point for supplied voltage data calculated by subjecting a supplied voltage at the electric charger side to predetermined filter processing, the reference point being set on the basis of a variation rate of the supplied voltage data; a second reference setting unit for setting a reference point for received voltage data calculated by subjecting a received voltage at the electric vehicle side to predetermined filter processing, the reference point being set on the basis of a variation rate of the received voltage data; a data synchronization unit for synchronizing the supplied voltage data and the received voltage data on the basis of the reference points of the supplied voltage data and the received voltage data; a voltage difference calculation unit for comparing the synchronized supplied voltage data and received voltage data and calculates a voltage difference between the supplied voltage and the received voltage; a resistance calculation unit for calculating a power supply resistance of the charging cable on the basis of the voltage difference between the supplied voltage and the received voltage; a drop amount calculation unit for calculating a voltage drop amount in the charging cable on the basis of the power supply resistance of the charging cable and a supplied current on the electric charger side or a received current on the electric vehicle side; and a charging determination unit for comparing a determination voltage updated on the basis of the voltage drop amount with the supplied voltage on the electric charger side and determines a state of charge of the electric storage device. | 2,161 |
8,850,020 | 1. A method comprising: monitoring a plurality of independently operating processing nodes in a core data packet routing system, wherein each processing node is running its own operating system instance; prioritizing processes for placement on the independently operating processing nodes; making a placement decision for respective processes on selected ones of the independently operating processing nodes based on calculating a load index for each of the independently operating processing nodes representative of a load of a selected independently operating processing node after placement of the respective process, wherein calculating the load index comprises calculating a ratio of a total load to a resource maximum; placing, based on the placement decision, the respective processes on the selected ones of the independently operating processing nodes such that the respective processes become placed processes, wherein a process having a highest priority is placed on an operating process node having a lowest load index after placement of the process having the highest priority; and maintaining a list of placed process/processing node pairs specifying a pairing of the placed processes and the processing nodes on which the placed processes have been placed. | 12,804 |
9,076,112 | 1. A tangible, non-transitory computer readable medium including program code for providing a message-based interface for exchanging information about financial instrument impairment to expected cash flow analytical results, the medium comprising: program code for receiving via a message-based interface derived from a common business object model, where the common business object model includes business objects having relationships that enable derivation of message-based interfaces and message packages, the message-based interface exposing at least one service as defined in a service registry and from a heterogeneous application executing in an environment of computer systems providing message-based services, a first message for querying to find one or more analytical results of an expected cash flow determination that meet specified selection criteria, including information for an expected amount and timing of payments of collaterals, and expected proceeds, the first message including a first message package hierarchically organized based on and derived from the common business object, the hierarchical organization of the message package including: program code for processing the first message based on the hierarchical organization of the first message package, where processing the first message includes unpacking the first message package based on the hierarchical organization of the first message package, the specific grouping and order of the hierarchical elements within the first message package, and the first message package's derivation from the common business object model, wherein the particular hierarchical organization of the first message package and the specific grouping and order of the hierarchical elements within the first message package are used at least in part to identify the purpose of the first message; and program code for sending a second message to the heterogeneous application responsive to the first message, where the second message includes a second message package derived from the common business object model to provide consistent semantics with the first message package. | 24,503 |
8,675,222 | 1. An information distribution system comprising: an information reading apparatus reading out data distributed from an information medium; and an information display apparatus having an information acquisition unit for acquiring the data distributed from said information reading apparatus, a display for displaying the data acquired by said information acquisition unit, an authentication setting unit that accepts password settings for the data only when said information reading apparatus is in a directly-connected state with said information display apparatus using a connection cable and stops accepting password settings when said information reading apparatus is not in a directly-connected state with said information display apparatus using a connection cable, and a display limitation unit for imposing severer display limitations in cases where said information reading apparatus in an indirectly-connected state with said information display apparatus using connection cables between the information reading apparatus, an intermediary device, and the information display apparatus than in cases where said information reading apparatus is in a directly-connected state with said information display apparatus using a connection cable, wherein the display limitation unit requires password authentication with regard to the display of the data in cases where said information reading apparatus is not in a directly-connected state with said information display apparatus using a connection cable. | 4,063 |
8,681,513 | 1. A power converter, comprising: an input stage connected to receive an input signal and to provide an intermediate DC voltage; an output stage having an inductor-inductor-capacitor (LLC) converter connected to receive the intermediate DC voltage and to provide a DC output voltage; and a control unit connected to the input and output stages to regulate the DC output voltage and set a target operating parameter of the LLC converter to control the intermediate DC voltage, wherein the target operating parameter determines an operating frequency or an operating period of the LLC converter and corresponds to a series resonant frequency of the LLC converter. | 11,875 |
9,667,093 | 1. A process for operating a transportable power plant; said transportable power plant comprises a customer device, an energy storage component, protection module, a DC to AC converter, a fuse, a GFCI (Ground Fault Circuit Interrupter) module, a first energy output connector, and a second energy output connector, comprising the steps of: connecting said customer device to said second energy output connector; transferring energy from said energy storage component to said protection module; determining whether there is sufficient energy in said energy storage component to allow energy to be extracted without damaging said energy storage component; transferring allowable energy from said protection module to said DC to AC converter; converting said allowable energy from a DC energy to AC energy; transferring said AC energy to said fuse; transferring said AC energy from said fuse to said GFCI module; transferring said AC energy from said GFCI module to said first energy output connector; transferring said AC energy from said first energy output connector to said second energy output connector; charging said customer device connected to said second energy output connector; testing whether said customer device is fully charged; continuing when said customer device is not fully charged with the step of transferring energy from said energy storage component to said protection module. | 25,706 |
9,330,782 | 1. A shift register, comprising: a buffer control circuit configured to output at least three buffer control signals; and a plurality of unit circuits in a multi-stage cascade connection and capable of outputting at least four signals from each stage according to the buffer control signals and a clock signal which is different from the buffer control signals, wherein each of the unit circuits includes a shift unit which operates in accordance with the clock signal and at least three buffer units, each corresponding to one of the buffer control signals, the shift unit includes: each of the at least three buffer units includes: each of the at least three buffer units is configured to output an output signal from the output node, the shift unit is configured to output a signal on the second node as the set signal of a next-stage unit circuit and the reset signal of a previous-stage unit circuit, the buffer control circuit is configured to control the buffer control signals to be at an ON level for a time period shorter than a half cycle of the dock signal, and the buffer control circuit controls the buffer control signals to be at an ON level respectively for periods not overlapping with each other, the period being included in an ON-level period of the clock signal in a horizontal period and to be at an OFF level before the clock change to an OFF level. | 38,438 |
9,770,040 | 1. A method of treating an animal carcass to reduce a microbial population in resulting cut meat, the method comprising: diluting a concentrated antimicrobial composition, wherein the concentrated antimicrobial composition comprises: treating the carcass with the diluted antimicrobial composition for at least about 10 seconds, the diluted antimicrobial composition comprising: thereby reducing the microbial population by at least one log | 29,636 |
9,061,005 | 1. A multiple-variable dose method for treating idiopathic inflammatory bowel disease in a subject in need thereof, comprising subcutaneously administering to the subject: a first dose of 160 mg of a recombinant human anti-TNFα antibody administered to the subject within a day; and a second dose of 80 mg of the antibody administered to the subject within a day, wherein the second dose is administered two weeks following administration of the first dose; wherein the antibody comprises: a heavy chain comprising a CDR1 comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:8; a CDR2 comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:6; and a CDR3 comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:4; and a light chain comprising a CDR1 comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:7; a CDR2 comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:5; and a CDR3 comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:3. | 34,530 |
8,995,345 | 1. A method comprising: simultaneously receiving incoming messages on at least two channels in a multi-channel device, wherein a first incoming message is received according to a first protocol on a first channel of the at least two channels; and responsive to receiving the first incoming message, transmitting outgoing messages on the first channel while simultaneously receiving the incoming messages according to a second protocol on a second channel of the at least two channels, wherein the transmitting comprises: | 39,752 |
8,915,244 | 1. A system comprising: an at least partially enclosing structure establishing an interior region, at least a section of the enclosing structure enabling transmittance of solar radiation from the sun; within the interior region, a line-focus concentrator coupled to suspension members to selectively rotate about a focal line to concentrate the solar radiation at the focal line, wherein all the suspension members comprise flexible wires, wherein the line-focus concentrator comprises a longitudinal, bilaterally symmetric primary portion and a secondary portion comprising a unilateral extension coupled to the primary portion; and a counterweight attached to the line-focus concentrator to, at least in some rotational positions of the line-focus concentrator, counterbalance a weight of the line-focus concentrator. | 23,696 |
9,086,224 | 1. A fan module, comprising: a fan module frame comprises at least one fan housing, at least one water misting apparatus housing and at least one power unit housing; wherein the fan module frame further comprises a central plus support unit, a central cross support unit, a plurality of vibration insulation elements, a plurality of corner elements, and a plurality of edge connection elements; at least one mechanical fan placed in the fan housing; at least one water misting apparatus placed in the water misting apparatus housing; and at least one power unit comprises at least one battery and at least one charger and at plurality of connectors. | 15,923 |
9,048,500 | 1. A fuel cell system, comprising: a first operation device which provides, as an instruction to start a fuel cell, an instruction to supply an electric power, through a power transmission line, to an auxiliary device which is an electric device used for actuating the fuel cell and including an inverter circuit for the auxiliary device; a second operation device which instructs a shift to a power generation state of the fuel cell, wherein a wait period is defined as the period from the moment the first operation device is turned ON to the moment when the second operation device is turned ON; a power consumption suppression unit which suspends supply of the electric power through the power transmission line, wherein the suspension takes place during the wait period, and wherein the suspension starts when a predetermined wait time has elapsed since the first operation device is turned ON, and wherein the suspension ends when the second operation device is turned ON; and an fuel cell inverter switch controlled by the power consumption suppression unit to disconnect the auxiliary device including the inverter circuit for the auxiliary device from the power transmission line. | 30,957 |
9,238,193 | 1. A method comprising: providing a process stream comprising an acid gas; capturing at least a portion of the acid gas from the process stream by an ionic liquid solvent; and recovering at least a portion of a captured acid gas from the ionic liquid solvent, wherein the ionic liquid solvent comprises a Ag(I) salt, a Cu(I) salt, or combinations thereof. | 44,364 |
9,622,571 | 1. A collapsible support structure comprising: a plurality of leg members, each of said leg members having a vertical intermediate section, said intermediate section having a top end and a bottom end; an outwardly flared lower section obliquely extending from the bottom end of said intermediate section; an upper section horizontally extending from the top end of said intermediate section, said upper section having a pin vertically extending from a distal end that fits within a designated receptacle on a lower side of a work surface; an elongated sleeve rotatably receiving the intermediate section of each said support legs with the lower section of each of said leg members extending outwardly from a bottom end of said sleeve to stabilize the work surface on both flat and irregular terrain when said leg members are attached to said work surface, and which allows said leg members to be collapsed against each other when said leg members are detached from said work surface to facilitate transport and storage. | 45,341 |
8,371,248 | 1. A pet washing apparatus comprising: a base substantially impermeable to water; a top cover member supported above and parallel to said base; a flexible side wall connected to and extending from said top member to said base, wherein said flexible side wall helps contain water; first and second side members each including first and second rigid rod supports, wherein said rod supports have two ends with a first end connected to and extending from said base, and a second end connected to and substantially supporting said top member, wherein said first and second supports extend diagonally between said base and top member; and a water dispensing device comprising a water line and a nozzle, said water dispensing device disposed above said base; wherein the top member and the base are approximately the same shape and size so that the top member is able to nest within the base. | 5,098 |
8,906,355 | 1. A ligand-targeted multi-stereoisomer peptide-polymer conjugate compound represented by the formula: [sP]n-(L)-Pol-sPL wherein: sP is a stereoisomer peptide, n is an integer from 2-4 representing a plurality of different stereoisomer peptides, said plurality of different stereoisomer peptides comprise the sequences SEQ ID NOs: 7, 11, 12 and 17; SEQ ID NOs: 7, 11, 12 and 27; SEQ ID NOs: 43, 48, 72 and 83; or SEQ ID NOs: 47, 48, 72, and 75, said peptides target each the functional domain of a specific protein involved in abnormal angiogenesis to inhibit, antagonize, bind, block, disrupt, interact and suppress, each simultaneously and independently, and positively, or negatively the target protein, said target protein is VEGF-165, tumstatin, neurophilin, VEGF Receptor, and somatostatin, or a-synuclein, amyloid, GSK-3, myelin, and tau, L is a linker, Pol is poly lactic-co-glycolic acid (PLGA); and sPL is a stereoisomer peptide ligand selected from the amino acid sequences consisting of SEQ ID NO:8, 10, 43, or 85. | 17,578 |
8,772,477 | 1. A process for manufacturing a lactam from a linear or branched aliphatic aminonitrile having from 3 to 12 carbon atoms, the process comprising reacting said aminonitrile with water by forming a mixture of vapors of said aminonitrile and water by bringing into contact, in a vapor phase, water and said aminonitrile, passing said mixture of vapors through a catalyst bed positioned in at least one tube that forms a reactor and recovering the lactam at a tube outlet, wherein the aminonitrile is aminocapronitrile and the lactam is ε-caprolactam, and wherein the temperature in the tube is controlled by cooling means to maintain the temperature throughout the length of the tube at a value between 280° C. and 340° C., said cooling means comprising at least two distinct means, a first cooling means which controls the temperature in an upstream part of the tube in order to maintain the temperature at a value below 340° C., and a second cooling means positioned around a downstream part of the tube in order to maintain the temperature of the tube at a value above 280° C. and below 340° C. | 7,341 |
8,463,885 | 1. A method comprising: invoking, by a server, a registration tool to interrogate individual target machines to develop an inventory of resources for each of the individual target machines, wherein the registration tool generates at least one of a link, an association, a channel, or a connection to a set of management agents to permit target machines to download the management agents; determining, by the server, a first type of management software component that is associated with one or more performance monitoring services and that is compatible with a particular configuration of a first target machine; transmitting to a first target machine, by the server, a performance monitoring agent that corresponds to the first type of management software component and is to monitor performance of the first target machine via a connection to a first remote management server; determining, by the server, a second type of management software component that is associated with one or more configuration management services and that is compatible with a particular configuration of a second target machine, wherein the second type of management software component differs from the first type of management software component; and transmitting to a second target machine, by the server, a configuration management agent that corresponds to the second type of management software component and is to manage the configuration of the second target machine via a connection to a second remote management server. | 49,877 |
8,498,505 | 1. A light guide apparatus, comprising: a light guide layer having a top surface and a bottom surface, at least one of which is a substantially planar surface, and a transversely oriented side-end surface that forms an output aperture of the light guide, characterized by an index of refraction, n a plurality of light injection elements disposed in at least one of the top and bottom surfaces; and a respective plurality of by-pass elements disposed within the light guide layer optically upstream from each respective light injection element. | 11,867 |
8,765,516 | 1. A method of forming plural solar cells from a re-usable substrate, comprising: forming a first intermediate layer on the substrate, wherein the first intermediate layer is a sacrificial layer comprising one of SiGe and SiAs; forming a first single crystal silicon layer on the first intermediate layer; processing the first single crystal silicon layer as a first solar cell; selectively etching the first intermediate layer to detach the first single crystal silicon layer from the substrate; forming a second intermediate layer on the substrate; forming a second single crystal silicon layer on the second intermediate layer; processing the second single crystal silicon layer as a second solar cell; and selectively etching the second intermediate layer to detach the second single crystal silicon layer from the substrate. | 19,508 |
9,001,950 | 1. A serial communication system including a master apparatus and a slave apparatus, wherein said master apparatus and said slave apparatus are connected by: a first clock signal line configured to transmit a first clock signal from said master apparatus to said slave apparatus, a first data signal line configured to transmit a first data signal from said master apparatus to said slave apparatus, a second clock signal line configured to transmit a second clock signal from said slave apparatus to said master apparatus, and a second data signal line configured to transmit a second data signal from said slave apparatus to said master apparatus, said master apparatus comprises: a first decision unit configured to decide whether the second data signal line has been asserted, a first switching unit arranged between the second data signal line and said first decision unit, and configured to control whether to invert a logical value, a first driving unit configured to control to assert the first data signal line for a period of time longer than at least a cycle of the first clock signal, a first cancellation unit configured to control to invert, when said first decision unit detects that the second data signal line has been asserted for a period of time longer than at least a cycle of the second clock signal after said first driving unit asserted the first data signal line, a logical value by said first switching unit while cancelling the assertion of the first data signal line, and a first state decision unit configured to control to cancel, when said first decision unit detects that the second data signal line has not been asserted for a period of time longer than at least the cycle of the second signal after said first cancellation unit canceled the assertion of the first data signal line, the inversion of the logical value by said first switching unit while deciding that said slave apparatus is in a communicable state, and said slave apparatus comprises: a second decision unit configured to decide whether the first data signal line has been asserted, a second switching unit arranged between the first data signal line and said second decision unit, and configured to control whether to invert a logical value, a second driving unit configured to control to invert, when said second decision unit detects that the first data signal line has been asserted for a period of time longer than at least the cycle of the first clock signal, a logical value by said second switching unit while asserting the second data signal line for a period of time longer than at least the cycle of the second clock signal, and a second state decision unit configured to control to cancel, when said second decision unit detects that the first data signal line has not been asserted for a period of time longer than at least the cycle of the first signal after said second driving unit asserted the second data signal line, the inversion of the logical value by said second switching unit by cancelling the assertion of the second data signal line while deciding that said master apparatus is in a communicable state. | 31,293 |
8,804,665 | 1. A method of transmitting uplink data in a mobile telecommunication system, the method comprising the steps of: transmitting, if the uplink data becomes available for transmission, a scheduling request for requesting uplink resources for the uplink data and transitioning to an active state; monitoring a control channel in the active state; transmitting the uplink data if the uplink resources are allocated; maintaining the active state during a first period after the uplink resources are allocated; and maintaining the active state during a second period to receive an acknowledge message corresponding to the uplink data. | 22,690 |
9,788,418 | 1. A method for manufacturing a conductive transparent substrate, the method comprising: a main electrode forming step of manufacturing a plurality of main electrodes arranged on a substrate in such a manner that the plurality of main electrodes are spaced apart from each other; and a connecting electrode forming step of manufacturing a connecting electrode electrically connecting at least two main electrodes in such a manner that the plurality of main electrodes are grouped as a plurality of group electrodes and the plurality of group electrodes are electrically isolated from each other, wherein at the connecting electrode forming step, a connecting electrode pattern is printed, or a connecting electrode layer is formed and then a portion of the connecting electrode layer is removed or insulated, thereby forming the connecting electrode, such that the main electrodes that are distanced and electrically disconnected from one another are electrically connected but that two or more of the main electrodes are grouped and the grouped main electrodes are disconnected from one another. | 13,675 |
9,473,017 | 1. A control circuit for a PFC circuit, wherein the PFC circuit comprises an inductor, a first bridge arm and a second bridge arm connected to the first bridge arm in parallel, the first bridge arm has a first switch and a second switch connected with each other in series, and a common node of the first switch and the second switch is coupled to an input voltage through the inductor, the control circuit comprising: a zero current detection circuit, comprising: a feedback circuit, for receiving the zero current detection signal and a predetermined pulse signal, and generating a driving pulse signal; and a pulse distribution circuit, comprising a polarity detection circuit, the polarity detection circuit receiving the input voltage and outputting a first digital signal and a second digital signal indicating a polarity of the input voltage, a potential of the first digital signal being opposite to that of the second digital signal, wherein, the pulse distribution circuit distributes the received driving pulse signal to the first switch and the second switch of the first bridge arm according to the first digital signal and the second digital signal so that one of the first switch and the second switch performs an ON operation, wherein, after a switch cycle, one of the first switch and the second switch performs the ON operation for the next switch cycle when a current flowing through the inductor decreases to a predetermined threshold value, and an ON time of the first switch is equal in each switch cycle, and an ON time of the second switch is equal in each switch cycle. | 35,973 |
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