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9,466,341 | 1. A sense amplifier circuit, comprising: a first transistor and a second transistor; a third transistor and a fourth transistor; a first resistive device; a second resistive device; a fifth transistor; and a sixth transistor; wherein | 29,902 |
9,227,479 | 1. A system for determining that there is a possibility that a land vehicle is about to travel through water at a vehicle wading depth wherein an exhaust tailpipe of the vehicle is submerged in water, the system comprising: at least one remote sensor configured to remotely detect the presence of water about or ahead of the vehicle at a control threshold depth, wherein said control threshold depth is below said wading depth and said exhaust tailpipe is not submerged in water at said control threshold depth; and a controller configured to, in response to said determining, implement one or more vehicle control strategies in dependence on said detection of the presence of water at said control threshold depth. | 13,714 |
9,049,099 | 1. A method, comprising: advertising, via Label Distribution Protocol (LDP) by an application node, that the application node is configured to perform one or more packet-processing services and corresponding one or more servicewire labels for accessing said one or more packet-processing services; receiving, by a packet switching device, one or more packets including information being distributed via said LDP, with said one or more packets including a particular advertisement that the application node is configured to perform a particular packet-processing service of said one or more services and a particular servicewire label of said one or more servicewire labels to use to access the particular packet-processing service; receiving an original packet, determining to apply the particular packet-processing service to the original packet; selecting the application node to apply the particular packet-processing service to the original packet based on the particular advertisement; sending, by the packet switching device, a request packet to the application node requesting the application of the particular packet-processing service to the original packet, with the original packet being servicewire encapsulated in the request packet, and with the request packet including the particular servicewire label and a servicewire header; and applying, by the application node, the particular packet-processing service to the original packet; and sending, by the application node to the packet switching device, a servicewire response packet responsive to the packet-processing service said applied by the application node to the original packet, with the servicewire response packet including an encapsulation of a packet-processing services-applied version of the original packet resulting from the packet-processing service said applied by the application node to the original packet. | 19,514 |
9,023,530 | 1. A non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery comprising: a positive electrode including a positive electrode active material; a negative electrode including a negative electrode active material; a separator interposed between said positive electrode and said negative electrode; and a non-aqueous electrolyte, wherein said positive electrode active material comprises secondary particles, each comprising an aggregate of primary particles, said primary particles comprising a transition metal-containing composite oxide capable of intercalating and deintercalating lithium ions, and wherein a value (V V Pr =(1−C/D)/(A 2 ×B 3 ), is not less than 0.0005 and not greater than 0.04, where an average particle size of said primary particles is A μm, an average particle size of said positive electrode active material is B μm, a tap density of said positive electrode active material is C g/ml, and a true density of said positive electrode active material is D g/ml, provided that C is from 2.4 to 2.6, wherein, said composite oxide is represented by the formula: Li | 25,332 |
9,508,880 | 1. A method for manufacturing a device, comprising: a first step of forming a thin film on a silicon substrate by a gas phase method, the thin film having a plurality of openings and including a metal having higher electronegativity than silicon; a second step of soaking the silicon substrate in a hydrofluoric acid containing an oxidizer; and a third step of soaking the silicon substrate in an ammonia aqueous solution containing an oxidizer. | 47,496 |
8,356,624 | 1. A self-operated pressure transmission type of pressure reducing valve with corrugated pipe, comprising a valve body disposed with a valve seat, and a spool is disposed on the valve seat and connected to the lower end of a lower valve rod, said lower valve rod passes through and is disposed in a valve cover above the valve seat, the upper end of said lower valve rod is connected to an upper valve rod with a connecting member; said upper valve rod is movable up and down and supported by a housing, the upper end of said upper valve rod is connected to the upper end of said housing with a regulating nut and a spring, a pressure guiding pipe is connected between said housing and the valve seat; wherein said housing comprises an upper cover, a cylinder and a lower cover, a lower housing inlet is connected to the side wall of the lower cover, an upper housing inlet is connected to the side wall of the upper cover or the side wall of the cylinder, the upper cover and the lower cover are respectively and hermetically connected to the upper and the lower ends of the cylinder, a sealing board is transversely disposed between the cylinder and the lower cover, the center of said sealing board has a through hole; a sealing sleeve is disposed in the cylinder, a corrugated pipe which bears high pressure is disposed outside of the sealing sleeve, the upper and lower ends of the corrugated pipe are respectively and hermetically connected to the sealing sleeve and the sealing board, a first nut for connecting the upper valve rod is fixed above the bottom of said sealing sleeve, and a second nut for connecting the lower valve rod is fixed beneath the bottom of said sealing sleeve; the lower valve rod is threadably connected to the second nut; the first nut is threadably connected to the lower end of a sealing nut of a sealing corrugated pipe of the upper valve rod; the sealing corrugated pipe of the upper valve rod is disposed between the sealing sleeve and the upper valve cover, the upper end of which is hermetically connected in the upper cover, the lower end of which is hermetically fixed to the sealing nut of the sealing corrugated pipe of the upper valve rod; said corrugated pipe which bears high pressure, sealing corrugated pipe of the upper valve rod, sealing sleeve and the cylinder are respectively coaxially disposed with the upper valve rod. | 31,335 |
8,661,813 | 1. A method for controlling the turbine inlet pressure of an exhaust gas turbocharger of an internal combustion engine, the exhaust gas turbocharger having a turbine, a compressor which is driven by the turbine and which makes available a compressed fluid for the internal combustion engine, and a pressure setting device for setting the turbine inlet pressure, the method comprising: determining a residual gas amount at the air inlet closure of at least one cylinder of the internal combustion engine; subsequently determining a supplied fresh air mass at the air inlet closure of at least one cylinder of the internal combustion engine based on the residual gas amount; optimizing an optimized defined turbine inlet pressure based on at least the residual gas amount and the supplied fresh air mass; and setting the turbine inlet pressure to the optimized defined turbine inlet pressure; wherein at the optimized defined turbine inlet pressure the internal combustion engine operates at one selected from the group consisting of a maximized indicated medium pressure, a maximized effective medium pressure, and combinations thereof. | 31,807 |
9,487,463 | 1. A method for hydrolyzing a dibasic ester, comprising: introducing a dibasic ester to a reactor, where the dibasic ester is 1,18 dimethyl octadecanedioate; and reacting the dibasic ester with water in the reactor at an elevated temperature to form a dibasic acid and one or more alcohols, wherein water is added to the reactor during the reacting, and wherein at least 50% of the added water is added as steam, wherein the dibasic acid is 1,18-octadecanedioic acid, and wherein the one or more alcohols comprise methanol; wherein at least a portion of the formed alcohols are removed from the reactor during the reacting. | 33,468 |
9,339,793 | 1. An exhaust gas purification catalyst composition for purifying a carbon monoxide (CO), a hydrocarbon (HC) and nitrogen oxides (NO x ) in exhaust gas, comprising: a rhodium (Rh) particle (A); a neodymium oxide (Nd alumina (C) support supporting the rhodium particle (A) and the neodymium oxide (Nd wherein the neodymium oxide particle (B) having an average particle diameter of 100 nm or smaller, exists at the neighborhood of the rhodium particle (A), as a transfer inhibiting material. | 8,455 |
8,697,297 | 1. A metal air battery, comprising: a negative electrode comprising one metal selected from a group consisting of Li, Zn, Mg, Al, and Fe; a positive electrode comprising a mixture of a carbon material and an oxygen-storing material which stores an oxygen-containing species; and an electrolyte interposed between the negative electrode and the positive electrode; wherein the oxygen-containing species comprises a composite oxide of yttrium and manganese represented by YMnO | 45,394 |
8,362,053 | 1. A compound of Formula I: wherein R1 is a straight or branched C 3 -C 10 alkyl and R2, R3, R4 and R5 are independently F or H, wherein if all of R2, R3, R4 and R5 are H then R1 is | 25,346 |
8,460,669 | 1. A method for reducing cytokine release from macrophages mediated by Japanese Encephalitis Virus (JEV) infection, comprising administering to a subject in need thereof an effective amount of a pharmaceutical composition including an anti-human DVLR1/CLEC5A receptor antibody and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, wherein the anti-human DVLR1/CLEC5A antibody includes (i) the heavy chain variable sequence (VH) of SEQ ID NO:66 and the light chain variable sequence (VL) of SEQ ID NO:69; (ii) the VH sequence of SEQ ID NO:67 and the VL sequence of SEQ ID NO:70; or (iii) the VH sequence of SEQ ID NO:68 and the VL sequence of SEQ ID NO:71. | 1,507 |
9,054,585 | 1. A low drop diode equivalent circuit comprising: an input is a first terminal of a switch metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor (MOSFET) (M | 45,166 |
8,866,009 | 1. A structure comprising: a molecule of carboxymethyl amylose in a helical conformation having an exterior surface and an interior space; a plurality of cyanine molecules on the exterior surface arranged in a J-aggregate formation; and a chromophore molecule in the interior space; wherein n is 1, 2, or 3; and wherein R is H or an organic group. | 6,968 |
8,730,036 | 1. A manufacturing control device comprising: means for receiving production instruction information from a production management device in which a production plan for vehicles manufactured is stored, means for displaying sockets to be used for a next operation of tightening of bolts or nuts in accordance with the production instruction information as working operations of the production plan proceed according to predetermined timing, means for recognizing sockets removed from a socket holder, and means for generating an alert in case of a mismatch between sockets recognized by the recognizing means and sockets displayed by the displaying means. | 18,320 |
8,588,981 | 1. A system including at least two manipulators each programmed to carry out a plurality of tasks, the system comprising: a controller configured to control the manipulators; and a handheld control tool for manually manipulating the manipulators, said handheld control tool comprising a communication unit configured to communicate with the controller, wherein each manipulator is movably oriented in a first coordinate system, wherein a second coordinate system is defined for each manipulator so that one part of each manipulator stands still in the second coordinate system, and wherein each second coordinate system is movable relative to the first coordinate system, wherein the controller is configured to switch the manipulators between independent movement and synchronized movement and, if synchronized movement is selected, receive information on which of said manipulators is selected as a leading manipulator, and which manipulators are to be moved synchronously with the leading manipulator, receive a movement command from the handheld control tool, create a move order for the leading manipulator, based on the received movement command and a current position of the leading manipulator, and create move orders for the manipulators to be moved synchronously with the leading manipulator, such that said parts of the manipulators, which stand still in the second coordinate systems, are moved such that the parts maintain positions relative to the second coordinate system of the leading manipulator, thereby controlling the manipulators such that the manipulators move together in a synchronized motion when the leading manipulator is manually moved utilizing said handheld control tool. | 48,664 |
9,045,868 | 1. A tool for forming impressions in concrete material, comprising: a single-piece, molded, shaped, framework of cured flexible material consisting of polyurethane or polyuria in a shape of a pattern, the cured material having a memory property configured to return to an original state such that the framework is capable of being folded multiple times or rolled, and then unfolded or unrolled to return to the original state without distorting the shape of the pattern, the framework configured to be pressed into the base material to leave an impression in the concrete in the shape of the pattern. | 25,668 |
8,703,086 | 1. A method for producing phosphates and/or phosphate-containing compounds, the method consisting of: (a) placing bones in a reaction vessel and heating of the bones in the absence of oxygen at temperatures between 500° to 1100° C. to form gases and carbon; and (b) successive combustion of the carbon formed in step (a) under oxidizing conditions at temperatures between 500° to 1200° C., wherein the bones are rotated via a rotating tube before at least one of step (a) or step (b), and wherein the carbon formed in step (a) is solid carbon. | 7,850 |
9,711,297 | 1. A method of pre-doping an anode of an energy storage device, the method comprising: immersing the anode and a dopant source in an electrolyte, wherein the dopant source comprises a source for lithium ions; and coupling a substantially constant current between the anode and the dopant source; wherein the coupling comprises coupling the substantially constant current between the anode and the dopant source for a duration of time to achieve a potential difference between the anode and the dopant source of 0.01 Volts (V) to 0.4 V. | 36,835 |
8,516,278 | 1. A power consumption control apparatus of a portable terminal comprising: an oscillator configured to create alternating current (AC) signals to control the portable terminal to be operated in one of a sleep mode and a standby mode; an inverter configured to invert the AC signals received from the oscillator and output the inverted AC signals; a voltage source configured to output a direct current (DC) voltage to the inverter; and a direct current (DC) bias voltage cutting unit configured to receive the inverted AC signals and reduce the DC bias voltage by feeding the inverted AC signal from an output port of the inverter back to an input port of the inverter via a feedback line. | 11,202 |
8,798,316 | 1. A method of controlling lighting of a space by means of a plurality of controllable light sources, wherein said controlling depends on a position of an object in the space relative to the controllable light sources, the method comprising: receiving an image of at least part of said space; detecting from said image whether light from a selected one of the controllable light sources to points in said space shown at respective image positions in said image has been intercepted by the object; determining information indicative of a direction of the intercepting object relative to the selected one of the controllable light sources from the respective image positions where the light has been detected to be intercepted; updating position information that indicates a position of the object in said space, according to the direction determined from the respective image positions where the light has been detected to be intercepted; enabling to adjust a lighting parameter setting of the controllable light sources dependent on the updated position information; detecting a position of the object in the image; and updating the position information using a combination of the detected position of the object and the direction determined from the respective image positions where the light has been detected to be intercepted. | 7,203 |
8,998,232 | 1. A powered unicycle device for use upon a riding surface, comprising: a support frame; an axle engaged with the support frame; a single wheel rotatably coupled to the axle, the wheel extending substantially in a fore-aft direction in which the unicycle device travels; a motor for driving the wheel; electronic equipment, in communication with the motor, configured to maintain fore-aft balance of the unicycle device while being ridden; an elongated curved rail coupled to the support frame and extending laterally in a side-to-side direction substantially transverse to the fore-aft direction, the rail having a curved portion defining a curved path of the rail, the curved portion extending contiguously from a first lateral end of the rail to a second lateral end of the rail and curved downwardly and rearwardly in the fore-aft direction; and a seat disposed above the wheel and movably coupled to the rail, the seat capable of moving laterally along the curved path of the rail, in the side-to-side direction substantially transverse to the fore-aft direction, while the unicycle device is being ridden. | 37,168 |
8,674,721 | 1. An integrated circuit (“IC”) comprising: a plurality of configurable logic circuits for configurably performing computations; and a plurality of configurable interconnect/storage circuits for configurably passing signals to and from said configurable logic circuits; wherein each of the plurality of configurable interconnect/storage circuits comprises (i) an interconnect circuit and (ii) an output stage that comprises a plurality of controllable storage sections, each storage section for receiving a signal from the interconnect circuit without an intervening storage section and for configurably storing the received signal. | 35,121 |
8,458,108 | 1. A method comprising: determining a plurality of constraint compliant values for each of a plurality of constrained variables of an optimization problem, wherein a constraint condition mutually constrains possible values that can be used for the plurality of constrained variables, and wherein the plurality of constraint compliant values comply with the constraint condition; generating a population of constraint compliant candidate solutions for a computer-based simulation that implements a population-based optimization algorithm for the optimization problem, wherein the constraint compliant candidate solutions use a subset of the plurality of constraint compliant values, and wherein each of the constraint compliant candidate solutions complies with the constraint condition; while running the computer-based simulation with the population of constraint compliant candidate solutions, determining that a mutated candidate solution, created from mutating one of the constraint compliant candidate solutions fails to comply with the constraint condition; and modifying the mutated candidate solution to use at least one value randomly selected from the plurality of constraint compliant values for a corresponding one of the plurality of constrained variables resulting in a constraint compliant mutated candidate solution that complies with the constraint condition. | 47,725 |
8,968,952 | 1. An electronic equipment, comprising: a fuel cell for supplying an electric power to the electronic equipment; a power source switch for controlling start and stop of supply of the electric power of the fuel cell to the electronic equipment; a checking unit, which checks the electric power of the fuel cell; and a control unit, which controls the check unit, wherein the control unit measures a first time when the supply of the electric power of the fuel cell to the electronic equipment is stopped by the power source switch and a second time when the supply of the electric power of the fuel cell to the electronic equipment is started again by the power source switch, wherein the control unit calculates an elapsed time between the first time and the second time from the measurement results of the first time and the second time, wherein in a case where the elapsed time is shorter than a predetermined time set in advance, the control unit controls the checking unit so that the checking unit checks the electric power of the fuel cell using a first load, and wherein in a case where the elapsed time is longer than the predetermined time set in advance, the control unit controls the checking unit so that the checking unit checks the electric power of the fuel cell using a second load smaller than the first load. | 43,412 |
9,422,915 | 1. A method of customizing a wind turbine for a site-specific condition, comprising: establishing a design environmental condition for a wind turbine blade, the blade comprising a coefficient of lift and a corresponding optimum blade tip speed ratio (TSR) that establishes a first annual energy production of the wind turbine when operating under the design environmental condition; determining a site-specific condition that changes a wind loading condition on the blade compared to the design environmental condition; determining a second annual energy production for the wind turbine using the blade under the site specific condition; providing an add-on device for the blade that establishes an increased annual energy production of the wind turbine under the site-specific condition by changing the coefficient of lift and the TSR of the blade, and installing the add-on device on the blade. | 26,922 |
9,342,168 | 1. An input apparatus of a display apparatus, the input apparatus comprising: a communication unit configured to communicate with the display apparatus; a touch sensor configured to sense a touch input; a motion sensor configured to sense a motion of the input apparatus; and a controller configured to: | 14,532 |
9,385,608 | 1. A method for communicating information in a DC-to-DC converter including a master controller and at least a first slave circuit, comprising: generating a first analog slave communication signal representing information associated with the first slave circuit; communicatively coupling the first analog slave communication signal from the first slave circuit to the master controller at least partially using a first communication line; in response to an occurrence of an event, generating a first digital slave communication signal representing additional information associated with the first slave circuit; and communicatively coupling the first digital slave communication signal from the first slave circuit to the master controller at least partially using the first communication line. | 28,391 |
9,240,599 | 1. A fuel cell system, comprising: a controller; a fuel cell stack; a fuel inlet conduit operatively connected to the fuel cell stack, the fuel inlet conduit adapted to receive fuel from a fuel supply; a recycling conduit operatively connecting the fuel cell stack to the fuel inlet conduit, the recycling conduit adapted to recycle a portion of a fuel exhaust stream from the fuel cell stack to the fuel inlet conduit; a composition sensor configured to detect a change in the composition of the fuel provided to the fuel inlet conduit; and an ammonia or hydrazine storage vessel operatively connected to the fuel inlet conduit via a valve coupled to the controller, wherein the controller is configured to control the operation of the valve to mix ammonia or hydrazine from the ammonia or hydrazine storage vessel with the fuel in the fuel inlet conduit, when the composition sensor detects a change in the composition of the fuel from the fuel supply. | 48,169 |
9,233,158 | 1. A respirable dry powder comprising respirable dry particles comprising magnesium lactate, one or more therapeutic agents, leucine, and optionally one or more additional excipients, wherein the respirable dry particles comprise about 20% (w/w) to about 80% (w/w) magnesium lactate, and a total amount of about 20% (w/w) to about 60% (w/w) therapeutic agents; and wherein all components of the respirable dry particles amount to 100 weight percent, wherein the respirable dry particles have a volume median geometric diameter (VMGD) of 10 microns or less, a dispersibility ratio (1/4 bar) of 2.0 or less as measured by laser diffraction (RODOS/HELOS system), and a tap density of greater than 0.4 g/cc. | 40,198 |
9,450,436 | 1. A device for charging a battery, the device comprising a power factor converter comprising a controller configured to produce a first switching frequency for a first load current or voltage and a second switching frequency for a second load current or load voltage, wherein the first switching frequency and the second switching frequency are determined based on a battery charging curve. | 25,531 |
9,382,220 | 1. A diaminophenothiazinium composition comprising a diaminophenothiazinium compound of the following formula: wherein: each of R each of R each of R X is one or more anionic counter ions to achieve electrical neutrality; wherein the composition is characterised by the following by weight in the composition: | 7,736 |
9,712,831 | 1. A method of processing video data, the method comprising: receiving a bitstream that comprises a Video Parameter Set (VPS) that includes a syntax element; determining, based on the syntax element being equal to 1, that Network Abstraction Layer (NAL) unit type syntax elements of all Video Coding Layer (VCL) NAL units in an access unit have the same value, the VCL NAL units in the access unit being within a coded video sequence (CVS) that refers to the VPS; and responsive to determining that one or more pictures in the access unit are cross-layer aligned, performing one of random access or layer switching using any layers of the bitstream. | 29,526 |
8,961,775 | 1. A method of increasing productivity of a Kolbe electrolysis reaction forming one or more C6to C54 hydrocarbons, the method comprising: combining one or more C4-C28 fatty acids with a solvent and with an amount of acetic acid to create a reaction mixture, wherein the one or more C4-C28 fatty acids is between about 80 weight percent to about 99.8 weight percent of a total carboxylic acid weight percent in the solvent, and wherein the amount of the acetic acid is between about 0.2 weight percent to about 20 weight percent of the total carboxylic acid weight percent in the solvent; and performing a Kolbe electrolysis reaction on the reaction mixture to produce the one or more C6to C54 hydrocarbons, wherein the acetic acid in the reaction mixture lowers a passivation voltage of an electrode used in the Kolbe electrolysis reaction. | 7,469 |
9,763,294 | 1. A lighting device for providing power from an AC power source to turn on a light source, comprising: a pair of input terminals to which the AC power source configured to output an AC current may be electrically connected; a pair of output terminals to which the light source may be electrically connected; a rectifier circuit configured to generate a pulsating current by full-wave rectification of the AC current; a conversion circuit configured to convert the pulsating current from the rectifier circuit into a DC current, and to output the DC current to the pair of output terminals; a constant current circuit configured to make the DC current outputted by the conversion circuit into a constant current and supply the constant current to the light source connected to between the pair of output terminals; and a control circuit configured to control the conversion circuit and the constant current circuit, wherein the rectifier circuit comprises: a pair of first input ends electrically connected to the pair of input terminals, respectively; and a pair of first output ends electrically connected to the conversion circuit, wherein the conversion circuit is a single-ended primary inductance converter, wherein the conversion circuit comprises: a pair of second input ends electrically connected to the pair of first output ends of the rectifier circuit, respectively; a pair of second output ends electrically connected to the pair of output terminals, respectively; a first capacitor connected between the pair of second input ends; a first series circuit comprising a first inductor and a switching element, which are connected in series, and being connected in parallel to the first capacitor; a second series circuit comprising a second capacitor and a second inductor, which are connected in series, and being connected in parallel to the switching element; and a third series circuit comprising a diode and a third capacitor, which are connected in series, and being connected in parallel to the second inductor, wherein the third capacitor is connected between the pair of second output ends, wherein the conversion circuit is configured to output the DC current by on/off of the switching element being controlled by the control circuit, wherein the third capacitor comprises a high potential-side terminal and a low potential-side terminal, the high potential-side terminal being electrically connected to a first output terminal of the pair of output terminals, the low potential-side terminal being electrically connected to a second output terminal of the pair of output terminals, via the constant current circuit, wherein the lighting device further comprises a limiting circuit that is capable of limiting a voltage that is applied to the light source, wherein the limiting circuit includes a series circuit of a plurality of resistors connected in parallel to the third capacitor, and wherein a connection point between any two resistors of the plurality of resistors is connected to a connection point between the light source and the constant current circuit. | 42,819 |
9,184,464 | 1. An electrochemical cell comprising: an anode; a semi-solid cathode including a suspension of about 35% to about 75% by volume of an active material and about 1% to about 8% by volume of a conductive material in a non-aqueous liquid electrolyte; and an ion-permeable membrane disposed between the anode and the semi-solid cathode; wherein the semi-solid cathode has a thickness in the range of about 250 μm to about 2,000 μm, and wherein the electrochemical cell has an area specific capacity of at least 7 mAh/cm | 2,332 |
9,683,549 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a cage configured to rotate around a cage axis, wherein the rotation of the cape around the cape axis causes a lift of the apparatus above the around: a turbine located at and coupled to an end of the cage, wherein the turbine rotates around a turbine axis different from the cage axis, and wherein the turbine comprises a turbine blade having an adaptable shape and comprising: a frame including a first frame portion and a second frame portion coupled to the first frame portion, and wherein the first frame portion pivots relative to the second frame portion, a first connection between a first side of an end of the frame and a center region of the frame; and a second connection between a second side of the first end of the frame and the center region of the frame; and wherein the adaptable shape of the turbine blade conforms to a substantially flat shape and to a curvature shape by adjusting, maintaining, shortening, or lengthening lengths of the first connection and the second connection. | 19,694 |
9,697,330 | 1. A method of image processing to determine blood flow through coronary arteries of a patient, comprising: receiving a 3D image data set of an anatomy comprising at least one or more coronary arteries and myocardial muscle of the patient; receiving a perfusion information data set measured from the patient and corresponding to the 3D image data set; generating a three-dimensional anatomical model depicting the anatomy of the patient's coronary arteries and the myocardial muscle, based on the 3D image data set; subdividing the myocardial muscle into myocardial muscle segments based on which portion of the myocardial muscle is supplied by each of the coronary arteries; determining the blood flow into the respective myocardial muscle segments from said perfusion information data set, by performing a 3-D computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation of blood flow using the three-dimensional anatomical model; determining blood flow characteristics at one or more points of a coronary artery of interest, based on the simulated blood flow into all myocardial muscle segments supplied by said coronary artery; determining an estimate of fractional flow reserve in said coronary artery of interest using the blood flow characteristics; and outputting one or more of the determined fractional flow reserve, blood flow characteristics, or the three-dimensional model to an electronic storage medium or display. | 15,165 |
8,743,856 | 1. A mobile device, comprising: a battery; a low power personal area network (PAN) module configured to wirelessly communicate with an external device for establishing a connection with the external device; a controller for the low power PAN module configured to monitor a connection request signal communicated from the external device via the low power PAN module while the mobile device is in a sleep mode, wherein the controller is supplied with quiescent current from the battery of the mobile device during the sleep mode; an application processor (AP) configured to: a switch physically coupled to the controller, the low power PAN module, and the AP, wherein the switch is controlled by the controller to break a connection between the low power PAN module and the AP prior to the wake up of the AP and to establish the connection between the low power PAN module and the AP upon the wake up of the AP such that the equipment identity data and the charging status are communicated directly from the AP to the low power PAN module without being routed via the controller upon the wake up of the AP. | 16,269 |
9,631,844 | 1. A layer assembly for a heat exchanger, the layer assembly comprising: at least one heat pump module comprising a thermo-electric cooler (TEC) attached to an island formed from a flow-permissive material, the flow-permissive material configured to permit a fluid to flow therethrough; a flow-permissive layer provided with an island-reciprocating recess for substantially corresponding to and accommodating the island; and a thermal storage layer comprising a heat transfer matrix material and provided with a TEC-reciprocating recess for substantially corresponding to and accommodating the TEC, the heat transfer matrix material being charged with a phase-change material; wherein the TEC is attached to the thermal storage layer at a surface of the TEC-reciprocating recess, and the flow-permissive layer and the thermal storage layer are arranged such that the island of flow-permissive material extends into the island-reciprocating recess and a separation exists between the island and the flow-permissive layer. | 5,868 |
8,663,453 | 1. A crude product composition, comprising hydrocarbons that have a boiling range distribution between about 30° C. and 538° C. (1,000° F.) at 0.101 MPa, the hydrocarbons comprising iso-paraffins and n-paraffins with a weight ratio of the iso-paraffins to n-paraffins of at most 1.4, as determined by ASTM Method D6730. | 8,317 |
9,270,708 | 1. A method comprising: receiving, by a secondary device, a signal periodically from a primary device based on a power level of the primary device, wherein a previous association exists between the primary device and the secondary device; in response to the secondary device ceasing to receive the signal that is being sent periodically from the primary device, sending, by the secondary device, a notification to a contact device to inform the contact device to send a communication request to the secondary device; receiving, by the secondary device, the communication request from the contact device; and in response to receiving the communication request, establishing, by the secondary device, a communication session with the contact device. | 11,703 |
9,131,439 | 1. A power control method of a Base Station (BS) in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: comparing an operation voltage of a power controlled component in the BS with a minimum required voltage for the power controlled component in the BS, the minimum required voltage being set based on traffic variation to reduce power consumption in the BS; decreasing the operation voltage of the power controlled component in the BS by a predefined level, if the operation voltage is higher than the minimum required voltage; and increasing the operation voltage of the power controlled component in the BS by a predefined level, if the operation voltage is lower than the minimum required voltage. | 10,573 |
8,733,743 | 1. A gas spring piston dimensioned to receive an open end of an associated flexible wall, said gas spring piston comprising: a piston body having a longitudinal axis and including: wherein said engagement feature includes a groove extending radially-inwardly into said second side wall, said outer surface includes a first surface portion disposed between said end wall and said engagement feature, a second surface portion disposed between said shoulder surface and said engagement feature, and a third surface portion disposed between said first and second surface portions with said third surface portion at least partially defining said groove of said engagement feature, and wherein said third portion includes a curvilinear cross-sectional profile extending into said second side wall in a concave orientation and at least partially forms said groove of said engagement feature, and wherein said first and second surface portions have a linear cross-sectional profile and extend respectively between said end wall and said engagement feature and said shoulder and said engagement feature, said first, second and third surface portions defining the entirety of said outer surface between said shoulder surface and said end wall. | 32,333 |
9,450,122 | 1. An image sensor comprising: a silicon substrate; a read out integrated circuit (ROIC) on the silicon substrate; an insulation mask layer covering the ROIC and including at least one through hole, the through hole not exposing the ROIC; a first type semiconductor layer extending from the through hole along a topmost surface of the insulation mask layer; an active layer contacting the first type semiconductor layer; and a second type semiconductor layer contacting the active layer. | 34,583 |
9,106,148 | 1. A power supply apparatus, comprising: a transformer having a primary winding on a primary side and a secondary winding on a secondary side; a switching element configured to performs switching operation to turn on or turn off a current flowing in the primary winding; a feedback unit configured to output a voltage corresponding to a voltage generated in the secondary winding; a conversion unit configured to convert the current flowing in the primary winding of the transformer into a voltage; a control unit configured to control operation of the switching element based on the voltage output by the feedback unit and the voltage output from the conversion unit; and a voltage switching unit configured to increase the voltage output from the conversion unit and supply the increased voltage to the control unit, when the switching element is transited from a continuous oscillation state to an intermittent oscillation state, the continuous oscillation state causing the switching element to continuously oscillate in a predetermined cycle, the intermittent oscillation state causing the switching element to intermittently oscillate in a cycle longer than the predetermined cycle. | 21,070 |
9,750,437 | 1. A fitting system including at least one hardware-implemented processor for fitting a cochlear implant having an implanted electrode array with a plurality of stimulation electrodes to an implanted patient based on determining a physiological characteristic of the auditory pathway in the implanted patient, the system comprising: a tissue stimulation module in communication with the cochlear implant via a control interface and configured to generate a plurality of electrical stimulation pulses to the one or more stimulation electrodes for delivery to auditory neural tissue of the inner ear of the implanted patient; one or more response measurement electrodes on the implanted electrode array configured to measure neural response over time of the auditory pathway to the electrical stimulation pulses to develop a plurality of tissue response signals, wherein each tissue response signal forms a response curve; and a response calculation module including at least one hardware-implemented processor and coupled to the response measurement electrodes to receive the tissue response signals and configured to determine the physiological characteristic by: | 48,574 |
8,958,766 | 1. An electronic appliance ( 1 ) having an electrical circuit and an operating mode switching device ( 18 ) which is associated with the latter and which can be used to wake the electrical circuit from a quiescent state into an operating state in which the current draw of the electrical circuit is greater than in the quiescent state, having a receiver for receiving a radio signal which has a UHF carrier which has been subjected to amplitude modulation with a modulation signal, wherein the receiver has a UHF antenna ( 6 ) which is connected to an input of a passive rectifier circuit ( 8 ) via a passive filter stage ( 7 ), wherein an output of the passive rectifier circuit ( 8 ) is connected to a detection device ( 16 ) for the modulation signal, and wherein the operating mode switching device ( 18 ) has a control connection to the detection device ( 16 ) for the purpose of waking the electrical circuit which is in the quiescent state, the improvement which comprises: means for matching the output impedance of the rectifier circuit ( wherein the means for matching the output impedance of the rectifier circuit ( | 7,478 |
9,837,563 | 1. A method of forming a Group II-VI multijunction semiconductor solar cell, comprising the steps of: providing a silicon growth substrate; forming, on the growth substrate, a passivation layer including Arsenic: forming, on the passivation layer, a buffer layer of zinc telluride, a lattice constant of the buffer layer being substantially mismatched to a lattice constant of the growth substrate; forming, on the buffer layer, a first subcell from a first Group II-VI semiconductor material selected from the group consisting of CdTe, Cd forming, over the first subcell, a second subcell from a second Group II-VI semiconductor material selected from the group consisting of CdTe, Cd affixing a back support such that the back support is proximate the second subcell and remote from the first subcell; and removing the growth substrate. | 48,855 |
8,783,475 | 1. A hanging apparel strap for attaching items thereto comprising: a support member having a length and a width, said support member being continuous along its width; a cord extending along the length of said support member; a plurality of pairs of tabs fixedly attached to said support member and extending over said cord at intermediate locations along the length thereof, said cord being unattached to said support member at the respective locations between said respective pairs of tabs; said cord extending beyond at least one end portion of said support member forming a loop at a first end of said support member for securing the hanging apparel strap to a surface; and each respective pair of tabs allowing the unattached cord extending therebetween to form an eyelet for attaching items thereto. | 11,572 |
8,696,942 | 1. An adhesive composition comprising: (a) a radical generator; (b) a thermoplastic resin; (c) a urethane(meth)acrylate having two or more (meth)acryloyl groups and two or more urethane bonds in the molecule, and also having a divalent group represented by the following general formula (G), or formula (H), for formula (G) and formula (H), wherein in formula (G), p represents an integer of 0-10 and q represents an integer of 1-20; and (d) a vinyl compound containing one or more phosphate groups in the molecule. | 47,970 |
9,510,067 | 1. A non-bussed control module that receives an audio code, comprising: a tone processing module, implemented as non-bussed hardware in a vehicle, for receiving the audio code and sending a trigger signal if the audio code is received; a self-diagnostic module, implemented as non-bussed hardware in the vehicle, for performing a self-diagnostic test for the non-bussed control module if the trigger signal is received, and generating a diagnostic signal indicative of the self-diagnostic test; and a reporting module, implemented as non-bussed hardware in the vehicle, for receiving the diagnostic signal and determining a type of fault based on the diagnostic signal. | 18,268 |
9,804,105 | 1. A water-cut sensor system comprising: a cylindrical pipe for routing the flow of a production fluid comprising a mixture of oil and water; a microwave resonator water-cut sensor comprising: a measurement system configured to: | 24,749 |
8,948,077 | 1. A method comprising: generating, using a processor, interference overload indication information, wherein generating interference overload indication information includes generating interference overload indication information at a donor cell; and causing the interference overload indication information to be transmitted on a broadcast channel for relay nodes, wherein the transmission via the broadcast channel indicates that the interference overload indication information is for the donor cell without the interference overload indication information comprising an identifier of the donor cell, wherein the donor cell supports at least one relay node by establishing a backhaul interface with the respective relay node. | 44,298 |
8,780,591 | 1. A frequency converter assembly comprising: an input for supplying electric power having an input frequency into the frequency converter assembly from a supply network; a direct voltage intermediate circuit having capacitor means; at least one controllable switch electrically positioned between the input and the direct voltage intermediate circuit; an output for supplying electric power having an output frequency from the frequency converter assembly; control means for controlling the at least one controllable switch, providing a recovery function to recover the capacitor means by supplying restricted recovery current from the supply network to the capacitor means through the at least one controllable switch, and preventing a supply of electric power from the direct voltage intermediate circuit towards the output during the recovery function; and clock means for measuring an inactive time of the capacitor means, wherein when an inactive time of the capacitor means measured by the clock means exceeds a predetermined recovery requirement limit value, the control means prevents the supply of electric power from the direct voltage intermediate circuit towards the output and allowing supply of electric power from the direct voltage intermediate circuit towards the output only after the recovery function has been completed, wherein the recovery function comprises a phase angle charge period during which the at least one controllable switch is arranged to be in a conducting state only for part of a period during which effective voltage over the at least one controllable switch has a forward direction. | 31,720 |
8,566,500 | 1. An expansion card comprising: a circuit board; a power circuit arranged on the circuit board, to receive a voltage and convert the received voltage; a storage unit arranged on the circuit board and connected to the power circuit, to receive the converted voltage from the power circuit and store data; a display unit arranged on the circuit board and connected to the power circuit, to receive the converted voltage from the power circuit and display information of a motherboard; and an edge connector and a notch arranged on a bottom side of the circuit board, to be inserted into an expansion slot of the motherboard, wherein the edge connector comprises a plurality of control signal pins connected to the storage unit, to receive a control signal from the motherboard and transmit the control signal to the storage unit for storing data, a plurality of power pins connected to the power circuit, to receive a voltage from the motherboard and transmit the voltage to the power circuit for converting the voltage, a plurality of ground pins, and a plurality of bus signal pins connected to the display unit, to receive a bus signal from the motherboard and transmitting the bus signal to the display unit to enable the display unit to display information of the motherboard. | 11,637 |
8,676,390 | 1. A system for remotely controlling and monitoring electrical generators, each respective electrical generator having a control network for control thereof, one or more switches coupled to the control network for controlling the respective electrical generator via the control network, said system comprising: a controller hardwired coupled to the control network of the respective electrical generator, the controller being configured to control the respective electrical generator via the control network independently from, and simultaneously with, the switches, the controller being configured to monitor operation of the respective electrical generator; means for receiving signals for controlling the controller from a remote location; means for transmitting, to a remote location, information collected by the controller resulting from the controller monitoring operation of the respective electrical generator; a central server configured to initiate the signals for controlling the controller; and a graphical user interface for interfacing with said central server, wherein the controller is selectively user by-passable, independent of the signals for controlling the controller, at the controller such that, in a by-passed state, said controller is prevented from controlling the respective electrical generator, and wherein, with the controller being in the by-passed state, said controller monitors operation of the respective electrical generator. | 15,600 |
8,463,422 | 1. A device for processing a plastic material, comprising: a material supply device which supplies the plastic material as raw material; a plasticizing device which plasticizes or homogenizes, or both, the supplied raw material; a molding device which forms the plasticized or homogenized raw material into a product that is removed from the molding device after a predetermined cool-down or hardening time, a control device which controls processing via process parameters and which is connected for data transmission with an input device receiving a value of a process input quantity or a process control quantity, or both, a processor which is connected for data transmission with the control device and determines, from a predetermined process control quantity or a predetermined process input quantity selected from an actual value or a history of at least one of a process measurement, monitoring and control quantity, and an experience or user limit value for this quantity, a process monitoring quantity representing at least one limit value for a maximum number of additional process cycles, before service is required, so as to thereby minimize service and repair costs by relying on a corresponding actual need, and an output device connected to the control device outputting and displaying in form of a characteristic curve field a value of the process monitoring quantity. | 11,684 |
9,378,808 | 1. A pulse width modulation device for use in an N-ports random access memory, N being greater than or equal to 2, the N-ports random access memory comprising a plurality of word line sets, at least a specified one of the word line sets comprising N port word lines, and the pulse width modulation device comprising: a status detecting device outputting a first control signal when both voltage values of a first port word line and a second port word line are within a first level range; and a clock signal generator electrically coupled to the status detecting device and the specified word line set and generating and outputting a first clock signal to the specified word line set, wherein a duration of the first clock signal kept within the first level range is variable and a pulse width of the first clock signal is adjusted by the first control signal. | 3,732 |
9,087,114 | 1. A method for managing electrical current within a portable computing device (“PCD”), the method comprising: assigning a plurality of hardware elements of the PCD to one of two groups, wherein a first group of the two groups is a high priority group, and a second group of the two groups is a low priority group; monitoring individual electrical current levels of the first group; estimating an electrical current level of the second group; calculating an instantaneous electrical current level for the PCD based on a current charge status for the PCD; comparing the calculated instantaneous electrical current level to the monitored individual electrical current levels of the first group and the estimated electrical current level of the second group; and adjusting operation of at least one hardware element based on the comparison to keep operation of the PCD below the calculated instantaneous electrical current level for the PCD, wherein comparing the calculated instantaneous electrical current level to the monitored individual electrical current levels and estimated electrical current level further comprises comparing the calculated instantaneous electrical current level to the sum of the monitored individual electrical current levels of the first group and the estimated electrical current level of the second group. | 12,699 |
9,052,869 | 1. A portable electronic device assembly, comprising: a portable electronic device, including a first electronic connection element and at least one first magnetic element; and a peripheral device, comprising: a retaining portion, used for placing the portable electronic device; a base portion, a second electronic connection element, a circuit board, at least one second magnetic element and at least one third magnetic element being disposed in the base portion, the second electronic connection element being electrically connected with the circuit board, and the at least one second magnetic element being disposed on the circuit board; a supporting portion, one end of the supporting portion being connected with the base portion, another end of the supporting portion being connected with the retaining portion, the supporting portion being used for supporting the retaining portion such that the retaining portion can be stood on the base portion; wherein, when the portable electronic device is not placed on the retaining portion, by the at least one third magnetic element attracting the at least one second magnetic element, the circuit board and the second electronic connection element are fixed inside the base portion, and when the portable electronic device is placed on the retaining portion, by the at least one first magnetic element attracting the at least one second magnetic element, the circuit board is moved and thereby makes the first electronic connection element electrically connected to the second electronic connection element. | 4,738 |
9,828,902 | 1. A cooling control system for an internal combustion engine that includes a supercharger, the cooling control system being provided for cooling intake gases which have been increased in temperature by being pressurized by the supercharger, comprising: an intercooler provided in an intake passage of the engine at a location downstream of a compressor of the supercharger, for cooling the intake gases by heat exchange with engine coolant; a heat exchanger for dissipating heat from the engine coolant; an engine coolant passage connecting between said intercooler and said heat exchanger, for circulating the engine coolant between said intercooler and said heat exchanger; an engine coolant pump of the electrically-driven type, which is provided in said engine coolant passage, for delivering the engine coolant to thereby cause the engine coolant to circulate; pump control means for controlling an amount of the engine coolant to be delivered by said engine coolant pump; engine coolant temperature detection means for detecting a temperature of the engine coolant flowing into said intercooler; operating condition detection means for detecting an operating condition of the engine; and target temperature-setting means for setting a target temperature of the engine coolant within said intercooler, according to the detected operating condition, wherein when a difference between the detected temperature of the engine coolant and the set target temperature is not larger than a predetermined value, said pump control means controls the amount of the engine coolant to be delivered to a predetermined minimum flow rate larger than 0, whereas when the difference is larger than the predetermined value, said pump control means controls the amount of the engine coolant to be delivered such that the amount of the engine coolant to be delivered becomes larger as the difference is larger, wherein the engine further includes an EGR device for recirculating part of exhaust gases discharged into an exhaust passage of the engine to an upstream side of the compressor in the intake passage as EGR gases, the cooling control system further comprising operating region determination means for determining, based on the detected operating condition of the engine, whether or not the engine a predetermined operating region where recirculation of the EGR gases by said EGR device is not to be performed but supercharging by the supercharger is to be performed, wherein when it is determined that the engine is in the predetermined operating region, said pump control means controls the amount of the engine coolant to be delivered to a predetermined maximum flow rate, irrespective of the difference. | 43,859 |
9,303,073 | 1. An isolated polypeptide selected from the group consisting of: (a) an isolated polypeptide comprising an amino acid sequence having at least 91 percent sequence identity to the amino acid sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO: 2 or SEQ ID NO: 8; (b) an isolated polypeptide comprising the amino acid sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO: 2 or SEQ ID NO: 8; and (c) an isolated polypeptide consisting of the amino acid sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO: 2 or SEQ ID NO: 8. | 30,833 |
9,394,595 | 1. A high carbon steel sheet having a chemical composition containing C: 0.20% to 0.50%, Si: 1.0% or less, Mn: 2.0% or less, P: 0.03% or less, S: 0.02% or less, sol.Al: 0.08% or less, N: 0.02% or less, and the remainder composed of Fe and incidental impurities, on a percent by mass basis, and a microstructure composed of ferrite and cementite, wherein the fraction of pro-eutectoid ferrite, among the ferrite, in the whole steel microstructure is 20% or more and less than 50%, the average grain size dc of the cementite in the region from the position at one-quarter of the sheet thickness of the steel sheet to the sheet thickness center is 0.50 to 1.5 μm, and the average grain size ds of the cementite in the region from the surface of the steel sheet to the position at one-quarter of the sheet thickness satisfies ds/dc≦0.8. | 34,932 |
9,774,434 | 1. A method for acknowledgement mode (AM) radio link control (RLC) segmentation, comprising: segmenting/concatenating at least one RLC service data unit (SDU) to generate a RLC protocol data unit (PDU) of a first size, wherein the first size is within a maximum size associated with a first transmission opportunity; including header information in the RLC PDU, wherein the header information comprises a sequence number (SN) of the RLC PDU; transmitting the RLC PDU; storing the RLC PDU in a retransmission buffer; receiving a status report to indicate a transmission status of the RLC PDU; segmenting the RLC PDU to generate a RLC PDU segment of a second size, wherein the second size is within a maximum size associated with a second transmission opportunity; including segment information in the RLC PDU segment, the segment information comprising a segment start field that indicates a position of a first byte of the RLC PDU segment in the RLC PDU and a segment last field that indicates a position of a last byte of the RLC PDU segment in the RLC PDU; and transmitting the RLC PDU segment. | 4,448 |
9,321,352 | 1. An auxiliary power system, for employment with a vehicle, said vehicle comprising an engine, a storage battery, and an engine-driven charging device for charging said storage battery, said vehicle further comprising an electrically-driven heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) system and/or one or more comfort loads; and said auxiliary power system comprising: an auxiliary electrical power storage unit; an auxiliary electrical generation device connected to said auxiliary electrical power storage unit for generating electrical power for storage in said auxiliary electrical power storage unit; | 26,094 |
9,159,980 | 1. An electrochemical cell, comprising: a housing comprising a metallic material, wherein the housing defines a portion of an anode compartment containing an alkali metal, wherein the alkali metal is selected from the group consisting of lithium, sodium, and potassium; a separator disposed in the housing, and the anode compartment is disposed between the housing and an anode surface of the separator; and a component disposed within the anode compartment adjacent to the anode surface of the separator, wherein the component comprises a sacrificial metal having an oxidation potential less than the oxidation potential of the housing material, wherein the sacrificial metal comprises a metal or a metal alloy comprising manganese, titanium, magnesium, copper, or zinc, wherein the component comprising the sacrificial metal comprises a shim-structure, the shim structure being a separate structure from the anode surface of the separator. | 26,687 |
8,641,871 | 1. A process for pyrolyzing hydrocarbonaceous material, the process comprising the steps of: charging a reactor having a volume of at least 1.7 cubic meters with feed material, the feed material comprising carbonaceous material; heating the feed material at an initial heat flux rate that ranges from about 7×10 collecting liquid product from the reactor; and wherein the reactor is substantially anaerobic in operation. | 35,080 |
9,835,083 | 1. An engine comprising: a piston pair including a first piston having first and second combustion faces with said first combustion face arranged opposing a combustion face of a second piston; a housing for forming a chamber corresponding to the piston pair, such that the first piston and the second piston are arranged with said opposing combustion faces within the chamber for forming an expansion volume between said first piston and said second piston that is fixed about a combustion point, wherein said second combustion face of said first piston is provided in another chamber for forming another expansion volume: a main shaft; one or more crank shafts; a piston transmission mechanism comprising a push rod connected to a crank of one of said crank shafts for converting a motion of said first piston and said second piston away from each other, thereby expanding said expansion volume, into a rotation of at least one of said one or more crank shafts; and one or more rotation transmission mechanisms comprising a first gear connected to one of said crank shafts in connection with a second gear connected to said main shaft, each one of said transmission mechanism for connecting one of said one or more crank shafts to said main shaft for rotating said main shaft when said one or more crank shafts rotate. | 8,041 |
8,925,075 | 1. A system for protected cloud computing, the system comprising: a server receiving data from a client, wherein the data is provided to the server in encrypted form; and a cloud service implemented on the server for performing calculations for the client, wherein the server performs calculations without decryption of the data and provides a result back to the client, such that the client can decrypt the result, wherein: a finite set of initial elements are generated on the client and transformed into a set of encrypted elements by applying a partially or fully homomorphic encryption algorithm; and resulting encrypted elements belong to the finite set of the initial elements and each of the encrypted elements has only one corresponding initial element, wherein the initial elements are transformed into the encrypted elements by a first encryption algorithm using a secret key z p is a prime number, a element v is encrypted into element u by u=a wherein a set of coefficients of a polynomial used as an encryption key, and wherein the encryption uses an encryption polynomial h(x)=ξ+(x−λ)*r(x), where r(x) is an arbitrary polynomial from a Galois field G(2 | 17,538 |
9,611,625 | 1. An industrial machine comprising: a plurality of components installed in the industrial machine, each of the plurality of components including an identification tag; an identification tag reader operable to receive a signal from each of the plurality of identification tags, each signal received from the plurality of identification tags being specific to a respective one of the plurality of components; an actuator having at least one operating parameter; and a controller including a processor and a memory, the controller configured to | 40,881 |
9,132,380 | 1. A method of decomposing nitrosamines contained in a nitrosamine-laden aqueous amine solution obtained through scrubbing of carbon dioxide from flue gases with an amine-containing circulating washing fluid, which comprises the steps of: (a) branching off a substream of the nitrosamine-laden aqueous amine solution from the washing fluid circulation and concentrating the nitrosamine-laden aqueous amine solution by evaporating water and low boiling constituents therefrom; (b) retaining the concentrated nitrosamine-laden aqueous amine solution at its boiling point in which a liquid phase and a vapor phase are in contact, to establish a vapor/liquid equilibrium between the liquid phase and the vapor phase; (c) irradiating the vapor phase with ultraviolet light to decompose the nitrosamines entering the vapor phase to obtain a concentrated aqueous amine solution from which the nitrosamines have been removed; and (d) recycling the concentrated aqueous amine solution from which the nitrosamines have been removed back to the circulating washing fluid. | 34,589 |
9,610,300 | 1. A method of treating pain associated with a joint comprising: a. selecting a patient having 1) pain associated with a joint and 2) a pain intensity of 5 or greater measured using the 0-10 NRS or 5 cm or greater using the 10 cm VAS; and b. administering an inhibitor of osteoclast activity to the patient wherein the inhibitor of osteoclast activity is olpadronic acid, incadronic acid, ibandronic acid, risedronic acid, cimadronic acid, etidronic acid, or tiludronic acid. | 15,650 |
8,979,179 | 1. A floor structure of a motor vehicle body, comprising: a floor panel comprising a front foot well portion and a seat connection portion which with respect to the front foot well portion is formed elevated in vehicle vertical direction; and a support structure provided below the floor panel with two longitudinal structures substantially running in vehicle longitudinal direction and in vehicle transverse direction which are spaced from one another, wherein each longitudinal structure comprise an inner sill profile projecting to the inside in vehicle transverse direction and a side member profile connected thereto, wherein below the seat connection portion a cross member structure formed in one piece and corresponding to the total area of the seat connection portion is connected to the longitudinal structure located opposite in vehicle transverse direction, and wherein the cross member structure comprises a lateral connecting slope which closes the side member profile. | 11,888 |
8,889,286 | 1. An electrode assembly of a secondary battery, the electrode assembly comprising: a first electrode plate, a second electrode plate, and a separator between the first and second electrode plates, the first electrode plate including a first electrode collector and a first electrode tab coupled thereto, and the second electrode plate including a second electrode collector and a second electrode tab coupled thereto; and a protective member covering an end of at least one of the first and second electrode tabs, the end overlapping a non-coating portion of a respective one of the first and second electrode plates, wherein a portion of the at least one of the first and second electrode tabs covered by the protective member and facing the electrode collector of the respective one of the first and second electrode plates is exposed from the protective member and is coupled to the non-coating portion of the respective one of the first and second electrode plates, and a portion of the at least one of the first and second electrode tabs overlapping the non-coating portion of the respective one of the first and second electrode plates and facing the electrode collector of the other one of the first and second electrode dates is exposed from the protective member, and wherein, at the end of the at least one of the first and second electrode tabs, the protective member surrounds an edge of a surface of the at least one of the first and second electrode tabs that is facing the electrode collector of the respective one of the first and second electrode plates. | 18,879 |
8,852,352 | 1. A method of cleaning air diffuser apparatuses in membrane filtration units in a treatment tank while immersed in a liquid to be treated, each membrane filtration unit having a membrane separation module and an air diffuser apparatus disposed below the membrane separation module, wherein the liquid to be treated is filtered by the membrane separation module at the same time as air is diffused by the air diffuser apparatus, and filtrate is recovered from the membrane separation module, each air diffuser apparatus including: at least one air main pipe for receiving air blown from an aeration blower; a gas supply pipe branched to each membrane filtration unit from said air main pipe; a liquid supply pipe that joins in midstream of the air main pipe; a branch pipe conduit connected through the gas supply pipe; and a plurality of air diffusion pipes connected to the branch pipe conduit, the air diffusion pipes are horizontally disposed perpendicular to the branch pipe conduit, each air diffusion pipe having a plurality of diffusion holes that are opened substantially vertically downward, said method comprising: forming a gas-liquid mixing flow by mixing a liquid from the liquid supply pipe into the air in the air main pipe, and delivering the gas-liquid mixing flow to the plurality of air diffusion pipes for unclogging diffusion holes in the air diffusion pipes, wherein a gas flow rate in said branch pipe conduit is set to a range of 1 m/sec or more and 8 m/sec or less, and a liquid supply rate in the branch pipe conduit is set to a range of 0.03 L/min/mm | 30,158 |
9,214,247 | 1. A water filling system for a nuclear reactor water level gauge comprising: a reactor water level gauge instrumentation pipe connected to two vertically upper and lower portions of a nuclear reactor pressure vessel; a water filling instrumentation pipe connected to the reactor water level gauge instrumentation pipe at an inside of a reactor building and extended outside the reactor building, the water filling instrumentation pipe supplying water to the reactor water level gauge instrumentation pipe; and a water filling device provided outside the reactor building, the water filling device connected to the water filling instrumentation pipe, the water filling device injecting the water into the water filling instrumentation pipe and filling the reactor water level gauge instrumentation pipe with the water. | 8,498 |
9,665,536 | 1. A system for monitoring a flowing utility, the system comprising: a transducer, located proximate the flowing utility at a utility flow location configured for sensing data indicative of a utility flow characteristic and outputting a sensory signal conveying the sensed data; a meter device at the utility flow location and operatively connected to the transducer, the meter device comprising: determination of the utility flow characteristic toward a location remote from the utility flow location; and a remote server, located remote from the utility flow location, configured for receiving the prepared signal that conveys at least the sensed data but not a determination of the utility flow characteristic and for transmitting a control signal conveying program instructions to the meter device, the remote server comprising: | 17,549 |
9,836,104 | 1. A system comprising: a master power sequencer to output onto a command bus a command to perform a power sequencing protocol for transitioning the system from a first power state to a second power state, wherein the master power sequencer includes a master clock and a master synchronizer to synchronize master incoming signals to the master clock; and a plurality of slave power sequencers sharing the command bus, each slave power sequencer to power sequence a respective power group to a next power sequence state in response to the command, wherein at least one slave power sequencer of the plurality of slave power sequencers includes a slave clock and a slave synchronizer to synchronize slave incoming signals to the slave clock, and wherein the master clock and the slave clock are independent from each other. | 14,818 |
9,033,854 | 1. A forearm exercise apparatus comprising: a) a frame comprising: b) a seat platform disposed over said first upper longitudinal bar and said second upper longitudinal bar; and c) a pair of pivoting forearm support platforms disposed in front of said seat platform, said pair of pivoting forearm support platforms comprising; wherein an angle of said first forearm support platform relative to a horizontal plane of the apparatus is adjustable by rotating said first sleeve around said first upper longitudinal bar and an angle of said second forearm support platform relative to the horizontal plane of the apparatus is adjustable by rotating said second sleeve around said second upper longitudinal bar. | 33,844 |
8,820,399 | 1. A coiled tubing transport unit comprising: a coiled tubing reel skid comprising a load supporting skid frame having one or more guide post sleeves; and a reel skid landing platform comprising: | 13,569 |
9,691,915 | 1. A method for fabricating a solar cell with an anti-reflection structure, comprising steps of: Step S Step S Step S Step S | 28,985 |
9,729,632 | 1. A computer-implemented method for managing migration of an application, the method comprising: receiving, by a processor, a request to migrate the application; establishing, upon receiving the request, a source dataset having a set of source features of a source which includes the application, wherein the set of source features includes a source topology of the application configured to describe at least two features selected from a first physical component of the source, a second physical component of the source, a first virtual component of the source, and a second virtual component of the source; obtaining a set of legacy features of the application or a previously migrated application; determining, for the application, a first set of migration plans using a cost measure by evaluating the source dataset and the set of legacy features; and migrating, based on the first set of migration plans, the application from the source to a target. | 46,671 |
8,606,453 | 1. A drive train and control system therefore, comprising: a first prime mover; a second prime mover; a transmission coupled to absorb power from the first prime mover or the second prime mover; a power take-off application operable from the transmission for absorbing power from the first prime mover or the second prime mover; means for selecting an operating speed for the power take-off application; a first controller for the first prime mover; a second controller for the second prime mover programmed to generate change requests operated on by the first controller for varying output of the first prime mover; a third controller programmed to generate requests for changes in output from the first prime mover; a communication link connecting the first, second and third controllers; and the second controller being programmed to respond to the requests for conflating the requests with the change requests and transmitting conflated change requests over the communication link and the first controller being programmed to respond to the conflated change requests. | 34,236 |
9,343,649 | 1. A method for preparing superconducting cavities comprising: selecting a polishing media, where the polishing media have a representative diameter from about 0.001 microns to about 40 microns, and where the polishing media is bound to a carrier; loading the polishing media from about ⅓ to about ⅔ capacity into a superconducting cavity having an inner surface; capping the superconducting cavity with a cap comprised of the same material as the superconducting cavity; mounting the superconducting cavity to a centrifugal barrel polishing machine; and, rotating the superconducting cavity along its longitudinal axis such that the polishing media machines the inner surface of the superconducting cavity for such time that the inner surface of the resonance cavity is machined to a surface smoothness of less than 15 nm root mean square roughness over approximately a 1 mm | 46,697 |
8,482,579 | 1. An image display device for displaying an image in accordance with image signals of respective pixels in each frame period wherein a frame period corresponds to image signals for a single screen, said image display device comprising: a divider for dividing a single frame period into a plurality of periods including at least one sub frame A period and at least one sub frame B period; a first image processor for carrying out a smoothing process with respect to the image signals of the respective pixels in the sub frame A period, the smoothing process to reduce a difference between an image signal level of a target pixel and an image signal level of a peripheral pixel; a second image processor for carrying out an emphasizing process with respect to the image signals of the respective pixels in the sub frame B period, the emphasizing process to increase the difference between the image signal level of the target pixel and the image signal level of the peripheral pixel; an image display for displaying an image in accordance with (i) the image signals which have been subjected to the smoothing process by the first image processing section and which correspond to the respective pixels and (ii) the image signals which have been subjected to the emphasizing process by the second image processing section and which correspond to the respective pixels; and a detector for calculating a motion degree of a video, wherein: in case where the motion degree is larger than a second threshold value and smaller than a first threshold value, the first image processor carries out the smoothing process and the second image processor carries out the emphasizing process so that, as the motion degree is smaller, the image signal levels of the respective pixels are respectively more approximate to image signal levels of the image signals. | 29,839 |
9,247,496 | 1. Circuitry comprising: configuration-feedback circuitry configured to regulate an output power from a radio frequency power amplifier based on a difference between a target output power from the radio frequency power amplifier and a measured output power from the radio frequency power amplifier; and transceiver circuitry configured to regulate a modulated power supply voltage, which is used by the radio frequency power amplifier to provide power for amplification, based on the difference between the target output power from the radio frequency power amplifier and the measured output power from the radio frequency power amplifier, wherein: | 28,043 |
8,659,188 | 1. An apparatus including: a plurality of sensor interfaces configured to receive a plurality of respective sensor signals indicative of a temperature of a power converter and indicative of electrical power input to the power converter; and controller circuitry configured to adjust the electrical power input to the power converter based on the temperature. | 17,092 |
9,108,080 | 1. An orthosis machine for facilitating motion of a user, comprising: a base; a track mounted to the base; a carriage slidably mounted to the track; a cradle adapted to hold a portion of a bodily appendage of the user; and a rotational joint configured to connect the cradle to the carriage, wherein the rotational joint is adjustable into a first configuration in which the rotational joint secures the cradle to the carriage such that the cradle is permitted to rotate with respect to the carriage in at least a first plane of rotation and is prevented from rotating with respect to the carriage in at least a second plane of rotation, and a second configuration in which the rotational joint secures the cradle to the carriage such that the cradle is permitted to rotate with respect to the carriage in at least the first plane of rotation and the second plane of rotation. | 30,696 |
9,636,896 | 1. A toilet lid assembly, comprising: a toilet seat; and a toilet lid connected to the toiled seat by hinged hardware, the toilet lid having a lenticular three-dimensional image comprising: | 33,942 |
9,463,108 | 1. An orthosis for treating muscle disorders of an elbow, the orthosis including a body comprising: a distal portion arranged to be placed at a level of a hand, and including a substantially transverse palm support for a palm of the hand, and extending in a proximal direction by two substantially longitudinal lateral branches joined at their proximal end by a substantially transverse distal bridge arranged to be placed over a posterior side of a wrist; a proximal portion arranged to be placed at a level of a forearm and including two substantially longitudinal lateral wings arranged to bear on either side of the forearm and which are joined at their distal end by a substantially transverse proximal bridge arranged to be placed over the posterior side of the forearm; a back joining strap extending substantially longitudinally and connecting the substantially transverse distal bridge and substantially transverse proximal bridges; a strap associated with each of the substantially longitudinal lateral wings of the proximal portion to hold the lateral wings tight against each other, and passing underneath the anterior side of the forearm, the body of the orthosis having a geometry such that a relative position of the distal and proximal portions, in a non-stressed state, corresponds to holding in extension of the wrist when the orthosis is worn; wherein the joining strap is elastically deformable so that when pressure is applied to the palm support opposite the joining strap, the joining strap becomes deformed to allow pivoting of the distal portion relative to the proximal portion about an articulation axis which is substantially transverse and parallel to a flexion-extension axis of the wrist when the orthosis is worn; wherein when said pressure is released, the body returns to the non-stressed state via elasticity by pivoting of the distal portion relative to the proximal portion about said articulation axis; wherein the body is made in a single piece in semi-rigid material. | 14,322 |
9,562,481 | 1. A drive system for a hybrid vehicle, the drive system comprising: an engine configured to start by itself by starting rotating of the engine with combustion energy of a fuel generated in a cylinder from a condition in which rotation is stopped, and increasing a rotational speed to complete starting; a first differential mechanism connected to the engine, the first differential mechanism configured to transmit rotation of the engine; a second differential mechanism to connect the first differential mechanism with drive wheels, the second differential mechanism including a first rotational element, a second rotational element, and a third rotational element, the first rotational element connected to an output element of the first differential mechanism, the second rotational element connected to a first rotating machine, and the third rotational element connected to a second rotating machine and the drive wheels; a switching device to change a speed ratio of the first differential mechanism; and an electronic control unit configured to selectively establish a first running condition and a second running condition, the first running condition being a running condition in which the hybrid vehicle runs using the second rotating machine as a power source, in a condition in which the switching device allows differential operation of the first differential mechanism, the second running condition being a running condition in which the hybrid vehicle runs using the second rotating machine as a power source, in a condition in which the switching device inhibits operation of the first differential mechanism, and a running region in which the hybrid vehicle runs in the second running condition in a case where the engine cannot start by itself, is larger than a running region in which the hybrid vehicle runs in the second running condition in a case where the engine can start by itself. | 1,121 |
9,272,252 | 1. A system consisting of several different types of cartridges and several different types of mixers that can be connected with one another, whereby the cartridges as double cartridges have two containers that are connected with each other having an outlet opening or an outlet connector respectively, and the several different types of mixers respectively have two inlet openings or inlet connectors that can be coupled to the outlet openings or outlet connectors of the cartridges, wherein a size of the inlet openings or inlet connectors for each mixer type and the size of the outlet openings or outlet connectors for each type of cartridge is the same, and that for associating at least one type of mixer with at least one type of cartridge, each said type of mixer is equipped with a cross section that is different than that of the other types of mixers of the system, that a guide protrusion extends in axial direction of each of said mixers, and wherein each type of cartridge is equipped with an opening that is different in cross section from the other types of cartridges of the system for accepting a guide protrusion of a mixer of each of said mixers wherein for attaching said each type of mixer to said each type of cartridge, each type of cartridge is provided with an inner thread and said each type of mixer with an outer thread, whereby the outer thread of said each type of can be screwed into the respective inner thread of said each type of cartridge. | 40,691 |
9,141,176 | 1. A data storage device (DSD) in communication with a host, the DSD comprising: at least one disk for storing data; a solid state memory for storing data; and a controller configured to: | 13,027 |
9,342,560 | 1. A method of operating a network of connected nodes, the method comprising: maintaining a trust value for each node in the network, in a storage device accessible to the network; maintaining one or more attributes for each node in the network, in the storage device accessible to the network, each attribute comprising a value and a respective confidence level; performing a validation of a specific attribute of a specific node, by a processing device accessible to the storage device and the network, the validation comprising: changing the value and/or the respective confidence level of the respective attribute of the specific attributes of the specific node, by the processing device, in response to the new value and/or the new confidence level for the respective attribute of the specific attributes of the specific node determined, wherein the specific attribute values maintained in the storage device by the processing device, are dynamically altered by the processing device based on the processing of the results set of one or more queries within the network, to increase validity of information held in the storage device over time. | 19,444 |
9,637,512 | 1. A diastereoselective process for preparing (Sp-4): comprising: i) reacting compound C: wherein LG′ is p-nitrophenoxide, 2,4-dinitrophenoxide or pentafluorophenoxide with a basic reagent and compound 3: wherein Z is hydrogen, to obtain Sp-4; or ii) reacting compound C with a basic reagent and compound 3, wherein Z is a protecting group, and deprotecting to obtain S | 36,088 |
9,720,375 | 1. A spatial light modulating panel device comprising: a plurality of pixels arrayed in a matrix; a liquid crystal layer including an electrically controlled birefringence (ECB) mode liquid crystal material and having a constant thickness corresponding to a cell gap; an upper substrate and a lower substrate defining the pixels arrayed in the matrix and joining each other with the liquid crystal layer therebetween; an upper electrode disposed at each pixel and formed on an inner side of the upper substrate; and a lower electrode disposed at each pixel and formed on an inner side of the lower substrate, wherein the liquid crystal layer is electrically controlled to modulate a phase of an incident light passing through each pixel from 0 to 2π by controlling only a birefringence of the ECB mode liquid crystal material, wherein two neighboring pixels form a basic unit configured to interfere and produce a three-dimensional (3D) holographic image with phase and amplitude variation, the basic unit producing two phase only modulated lights having different phases, and wherein a flat lens panel disposed in front of the upper electrode focuses and combines the two phase only modulated lights output by the two neighboring pixels to provide a combined light having a modulated amplitude and a modulated phase. | 2,956 |
8,894,525 | 1. An apparatus for driving a hybrid vehicle having an internal combustion engine and first and second electric rotating machines, comprising: a speed increasing mechanism comprising a first planetary gear mechanism and adapted to increase speed of an output of the engine inputted through an input shaft and transmit output to the first electric rotating machine; a speed reducing mechanism comprising a second planetary gear mechanism and adapted to reduce speed of an output of the second electric rotating machine and transmit output to an output shaft; a carrier of the speed increasing mechanism connected in a state incapable of relative rotation to the output of the engine; a sun gear of the speed increasing mechanism fixed at a housing; a ring gear of the speed increasing mechanism connected in a state incapable of relative rotation to an output of the first electric rotating machine; a carrier of the speed reducing mechanism connected the output shaft; a sun gear of the speed reducing mechanism connected in a state incapable of relative rotation to the output of the second electric rotating machine; a ring gear of the second speed reducing mechanism connected to the housing; a first clutch adapted to connect the ring gear of the speed increasing mechanism and the output shaft; and a second clutch adapted to connect the engine and the output shaft directly. | 6,331 |
8,393,779 | 1. A lamp comprising: a case having a certain shape; a light source including a semiconductor light-emitting device; and a lighting circuit provided inside said case, for driving said semiconductor light-emitting device to emit light, wherein on an outer side of said case, a step for splitting said case is formed, said step is a through groove, and said lamp further comprises a split member joined to both sides of said through groove and embedded in said through groove in such a way as to allow said split member to be pulled out, a power supply line disposed inside said case, for supplying power to said semiconductor light-emitting device; and a disconnecting unit configured to cut said power supply line when said split member is pulled out. | 33,199 |
9,605,906 | 1. A heat recovery system for capturing, storing, and releasing waste heat from exhaust of an engine of a vehicle, the system comprising: a first heat exchanger for receiving exhaust from a vehicle exhaust system; an evaporator thermally coupled to the first heat exchanger for transferring an energy of the vehicle exhaust to a heat transfer fluid and converting the heat transfer fluid to a gaseous state; an exhaust bypass valve between the vehicle exhaust system and the first heat exchanger configured to control flow of exhaust to the first heat exchanger; a condenser in fluid communication with the evaporator for receiving the gaseous heat transfer fluid and condensing the gaseous heat transfer fluid to a liquid state; a second heat exchanger thermally coupled to the condenser for transferring energy from the condensed heat transfer fluid to a storage device, wherein the heat transfer fluid is circulated by a heat pipe cycle and gravity due to the secondary heat exchanger being arranged vertically above the primary heat exchanger, and the heat recovery system is devoid of a pump, wherein the storage device continuously stores the energy during a charge mode until a predetermined temperature is obtained; a vehicle subsystem thermally coupled to the second heat exchanger; and a shutoff valve between the vehicle subsystem and the second heat exchanger configured to control flow of vehicle subsystem fluid to the second heat exchanger to be heated by the storage device; wherein: in a charging phase of the charge mode, which is activated when the engine has warmed to a predetermined operating temperature and phase change material of the second heat exchanger is below a predetermined capacity, the exhaust bypass valve is open to permit flow of exhaust to the first heat exchanger, and the shutoff valve is closed to restrict flow of vehicle subsystem fluid to the second heat exchanger; in a charge sustaining phase of the charge mode, which is activated after the storage device is at or above the predetermined temperature, the shutoff valve is opened to permit vehicle subsystem fluid to flow to the second heat exchanger and be heated by the storage device, and the exhaust bypass valve remains open until the storage device is fully heated; and in a discharge mode, which is activated during a cold start of the vehicle when the storage device is below the predetermined temperature, the exhaust bypass valve and the shutoff valve are open. | 23,772 |
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