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8,840,666 | 1. A spinal implant comprising: a hollow body having a leading end, an open trailing end and first and second lateral braches extending from said leading end to said open trailing end, said lateral branches including opposing concave, non-threaded inner surfaces defining an internal space of said hollow body and outer surfaces defining an outer dimension of said hollow body, said hollow body having upper and lower faces extending between said leading and trailing ends and along said first and second lateral branches, wherein said upper and lower faces are arranged to contact adjacent vertebral bodies, and said first and second lateral branches are spaced apart from one another so that each vertebral body is engageable with said first and second lateral branches at first and second distinct locations by way of said upper and lower faces; a first opening extending between said outer and inner surface of each lateral branch, and a second opening located outside said internal space of said hollow body and extending between said upper and lower faces and at least partially through said first lateral branch, at least one of said first openings being in communication with said second opening; and an anchoring member insertible between said lateral branches and into said internal space of said hollow body, said anchoring member having bone anchoring projections defining an outer diameter of said anchoring member, wherein said open trailing end of said hollow body is configured to allow insertion of said outer diameter of said anchoring member therethrough, and wherein when said anchoring member is inserted into said internal space of said hollow body, said concave inner surfaces of said lateral branches substantially surround said outer diameter of said anchoring member. | 47,866 |
9,369,575 | 1. A system for detecting or determining any given “VoIP (Voice over internet protocol) location” of any “VoIP enabled wireless device registered to the system” by extracting any such device's “VoIP address or return path” and storing it and updating it in one or more accessible databases, the system including a server, a VoIP enabled wireless device registered to the server and a software module downloadable from the server to the VoIP enabled wireless device, in which: (a) the system is adapted to receive VOID communications from multiple VoIP enabled wireless devices; (b) the system enables access to information in one or more databases; (c) the system is capable of extracting and reporting dynamically the “VoIP address or return path” and all associated information from each incoming data communication from any “VoIP enabled wireless device registered to the system” into a database(s) associated with each corresponding registered VoIP enabled wireless device user account; (d) the system is capable of extracting a specific “VoIP address or return path” and all associated information corresponding to a specific registered VOID enabled wireless device user account from the system accessible database(s) and communicating with each specific VoIP enabled wireless device registered to the system through each specific “VoIP address or return path”; (e) in which the VoIP enabled wireless device registered to the server incorporates the software module, which at certain time intervals authenticates and connects to the server which is part of the system, and (f) wherein a time between each time interval of the registered VoIP enabled wireless device authenticating and connecting with the server is less than a time allowed by the registered VoIP enabled wireless device to receive a response from the server. | 8,651 |
8,922,626 | 1. A stereo camera apparatus for obtaining distance information of an object, comprising: a camera unit that includes a left image sensor and a right image sensor which are positioned parallel to each other to respectively obtain a left-side image and a right-side image, each of the images being composed of a frame including plural pixels of plural rows and plural columns, the left image sensor and the right image sensor sequentially exposing the pixels of the rows from an upper row to a lower row in the frames, respectively; a shift amount detection unit that detects a relative positional shift amount in the vertical direction between a left-side image and a right-side image respectively obtained by the left image sensor and the right image sensor; and a timing control unit that changes a starting time of exposing the frame by the left image sensor or by the right image sensor based on the positional shift amount in the vertical direction detected by the shift amount detection unit. | 15,368 |
9,130,278 | 1. A dual linear or circularly polarized patch radiator comprising: a patch substrate having first and second opposing surfaces; an antenna conductor disposed over the first surface of said patch substrate to form a patch element; a slot substrate having a first surface disposed over the second surface of said patch substrate and having a second opposing surface; a plurality of slots in the first surface of said slot substrate, each of the slots having a centerline which is orthogonal to a centerline of at least one other slot and wherein first and second slots are disposed in a first direction with respect to the patch element and third and fourth slots are disposed in a second, orthogonal direction with respect to the patch element; a tuning substrate having a first surface disposed over the second surface of said slot substrate and having a second opposing surface; a pair of excitation circuits disposed over the first surface of said tuning substrate with one side of each excitation circuit grounded at an appropriate position to provide substantially pure linear excitation and the other side used as to transmit or receive from the patch antenna element wherein each excitation circuit comprises: | 12,319 |
9,527,550 | 1. A self-propelled watercraft comprising: a hull having first and second rotatable rollers; a belt mounted between the first and second rotatable rollers; a motor connected to the first roller for rotating the first roller; a sensor for determining the speed of the watercraft through the water; a sensor for determining the surface speed of the belt; and a controller connected to the motor for adjusting the surface speed of the belt to match the speed of the watercraft through the water. | 37,705 |
8,756,947 | 1. A refrigeration system for a transport refrigeration unit for cooling a temperature controlled cargo space, said refrigeration system comprising: a primary refrigerant circuit including a refrigerant compression device, a refrigerant heat rejection heat exchanger downstream of said compression device, a refrigerant heat absorption heat exchanger downstream of said refrigerant heat rejection heat exchanger, and a primary expansion device disposed downstream of said refrigerant heat rejection heat exchanger and upstream of said refrigerant heat absorption heat exchanger; a motor operatively associated with said compression device for driving said compression device; a variable speed drive operatively associated with said motor for varying the speed of operation of said compression device; and a controller operatively associated with said variable speed drive and said compression device for controlling a cooling capacity of the refrigeration system by selectively controlling the speed of said compression device wherein the controller is configured to operate the variable speed drive in modes including: | 22 |
8,532,544 | 1. A developer container for an image forming apparatus, comprising: a developer accommodating chamber, provided with an opening, for accommodating a developer to be supplied to said opening; a feeding member, provided in said developer accommodating chamber, for feeding the developer by rotation thereof, said feeding member having a free end and an elasticity; a deformation portion provided in said developer accommodating chamber in contact with said feeding member at a position upstream of said opening with respect to a rotational direction of said feeding member, said deformation portion being capable of deforming said feeding member against the elasticity with rotation of said feeding member; and a restoration portion provided at a position downstream of said deformation portion and upstream of said opening with respect to the rotational direction of said feeding member, said restoration portion being capable of permitting said feeding member deformed by said deformation portion to be elastically restored by separating said feeding member from an internal surface of said developer accommodating chamber, and to cause the developer to jump toward said opening from said feeding member, wherein rotation of said feeding member is advanced such that when said free end of said feeding member departs a boundary portion between said deformation portion and said restoration portion, said feeding member is at such a rotational position as to be contactable to a portion of said developer accommodating chamber adjacent to said opening by the elastic restoration. | 8,053 |
8,768,445 | 1. An electronic device, comprising: a receiving unit configured to receive heart rate data generated by a heart rate measuring system; a calculation unit configured to calculate heart rate variation data based on the received heart rate data; and a processing unit configured to determine at least one fat burning threshold value using the calculated heart rate variation data and a stored curve relating fat burning rate to heart rate variation. | 21,634 |
8,928,719 | 1. An optical scanning apparatus comprising: an optical box for accommodating a deflecting device for deflecting a laser beam emergent from a light source, and for accommodating an optical portion member for directing the laser beam to photosensitive member; a cap mounted to a top surface of a side wall of the optical box; and a sealing member molded on the cap, the sealing member being made of a material which is different from that of the cap and which is more easily deformed than the cap; wherein in a state that the cap is fixed to the top surface of the side wall of the optical box, the sealing member extends between an inside surface of the side wall of the optical box and a central portion of the cap, at positions spaced apart from a contact portion at which the cap contacts the top surface of the side wall of the optical box, and wherein the sealing member flexes, when the cap is mounted to the top surface of the side wall of the optical box, between a free end portion and a base portion at which the sealing member flexes so that the free end portion faces toward the cap, and wherein in a state that cap is fixed to the top surface of the side wall of the optical box, the sealing member contacts the inside surface of the side wall which does not face the cap in a state that sealing member flexes with the free end portion facing toward the cap. | 18,902 |
9,661,070 | 1. A load balancing system for balancing load based on performance based factors and non-performance based factors, the load balancing system comprising: a first local network, in a first geographic location, including a first plurality servers; a second local network, in a second geographic location, including a second plurality of servers; a traffic manager communicatively coupled to the first local network and the second local network, the traffic manager comprising: | 43,357 |
9,075,375 | 1. A driving device, comprising: a motor including a drive shaft and configured to generate a rotational drive force; a pulley in the form of a disk having a circumferential surface, including, in a central part thereof, an output shaft extending in parallel to the drive shaft and rotatably supported with the output shaft as a rotary shaft, the circumferential surface being arranged at a distance from the drive shaft in a radial direction of the rotation; a metal belt mounted between the drive shaft and the circumferential surface of the pulley and configured to transmit the rotation of the drive shaft to the pulley by being driven and rotated; a first unit configured to rotatably support the pulley; a second unit configured to support the motor and slidable in a direction connecting the drive shaft and the output shaft in a cross-section intersecting with an axial direction of the drive shaft; a biasing member configured to bias the second unit in a direction to move the drive shaft away from the output shaft in a state where the metal belt is mounted between the drive shaft and the circumferential surface of the pulley; a detector configured to detect a change in an inter-axial distance between the drive shaft and the output shaft; and an auxiliary transmission unit to be coupled to the drive shaft in association with a fracture of the metal belt and configured to transmit a rotational drive force of the drive shaft to the output shaft. | 40,823 |
8,601,772 | 1. A method, comprising: arranging a plurality of panels for a genset enclosure; packaging the plurality of panels in a first shipping container; providing a genset assembly to be at least partially enclosed by the genset enclosure; shipping the first shipping container and the genset assembly to a selected destination; and providing instructions for performing an operation with the genset assembly, wherein performing the operation includes priming the genset assembly with a priming tool that connects to a fuel system of the genset assembly to receive pressurized air and fuel from the genset assembly and vent the air while storing the fuel during priming, and for assembling the panels about the genset assembly after the performing of the operation to at least partially enclose the genset assembly. | 30,709 |
9,029,752 | 1. A solid-state imaging apparatus, comprising: a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix, each of the plurality of pixels including a photoelectric conversion element; a reference signal generating circuit configured to generate a reference signal of which a signal level changes over time with a slope; a counter circuit configured to perform a counting operation according to the change of the reference signal; and an AD converting circuit, arranged for each column of the pixels, configured to perform analog-to-digital conversion to a pixel signal transferred from the pixel by comparing the pixel signal with the reference signal, said AD converting circuit comprising (i) a comparator having a first input terminal to which the pixel signal is input and a second input terminal to which the reference signal is input, (ii) a storing unit configured to store a count value of the counter circuit when an output of the comparator is inverted, and (iii) a slope converting circuit configured to adjust the slope of the reference signal, comprising a first capacitor connected between an output terminal of the reference signal generating circuit and the second input terminal of the comparator, and at least one second capacitor connected between the second input terminal of the comparator and a reference voltage, and a first switch configured to electrically separate the connection between the second input terminal of the comparator and the reference voltage via the at least one second capacitor. | 29,187 |
9,722,534 | 1. A system, comprising: a solar radiation receiver; a plurality of mirrored reflectors that are positioned to concentrate solar radiation onto the solar radiation receiver; a computing apparatus that receives: | 42,964 |
8,917,653 | 1. A method comprising: determining a first reverse total pilot power sufficient for coherent demodulation of a reverse data channel based on a first data rate on the reverse data channel; transmitting data on the reverse data channel, a pilot signal on a reverse pilot channel, and a supplemental pilot signal on a reverse supplemental pilot channel, wherein the pilot signal and the supplemental pilot signal provide the first reverse total pilot power sufficient for coherent demodulation of the reverse data channel; and in response to a determination that the first data rate on the reverse data channel has changed to a second data rate different from the first data rate, adjusting the first reverse total pilot power to a second reverse total pilot power based on the second data rate on the reverse data channel, wherein the second reverse total pilot power is different from the first reverse total pilot power. | 49,415 |
8,569,605 | 1. A musical instrument having apparatus for tuning the frequency of a tone comprising: an acoustic cavity for enclosing a standing wave having a resonant frequency; a tuning actuator for vibrating when energized by an electrical signal, said tuning actuator forming a portion of a boundary of said cavity at a location that affects said resonant frequency; an electrical sensor for sensing said standing wave and producing a sensor signal; means for providing a frequency-error signal indicating an error in said resonant frequency; means responsive to said sensor signal and said frequency-error signal, for producing a tuning signal in quadrature phase relationship with said standing wave; said tuning signal communicating with said tuning actuator to create an acoustic vibration within said cavity that is in substantially quadrature phase relationship with said standing wave; whereby the frequency of said standing wave is changed. | 7,040 |
9,105,889 | 1. A method for controlling humidity states of a plurality of cells stacked in a fuel cell, comprising the steps of: determining that the plurality of cells presents a mixture of dry and overly humid states when: wherein if it is determined that the plurality of cells presents the mixture of dry and overly humid states: performing drying control to dry the plurality of cells, to thereby cause the plurality of cells to be recovered to a predetermined humidity state. | 2,137 |
9,742,154 | 1. A vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser device, comprising: a first distributed Bragg reflector; a second distributed Bragg reflector; an active region with an oxide aperture between the first and second distributed Bragg reflectors; and a dielectric layer positioned above the second distributed Bragg reflector, wherein a positioning of the dielectric layer with respect to the first and second distributed Bragg reflectors and the oxide aperture causes suppression of higher modes of the vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser device. | 12,828 |
8,980,487 | 1. A fuel cell system comprising a fuel cell which generates a power by the electrochemical reaction of a fuel gas and an oxidizing gas, the fuel cell system further comprising: a control unit programmed to calculate a ratio of a difference between a current fuel cell temperature and a fuel cell temperature at a start of activation against a difference between a fuel cell temperature at a completion of activation and the fuel cell temperature at the start of activation; and a display device configured to display the ratio of the difference between the current fuel cell temperature and the fuel cell temperature at a start of activation against the difference between the fuel cell temperature at the completion of activation and the fuel cell temperature at the start of activation on a gauge having a starting point as the fuel cell temperature at the start of activation and an end point as the fuel cell temperature at the completion of activation, the current fuel cell temperature differing from the fuel cell temperature at a completion of activation and the fuel cell temperature at the start of activation, wherein the fuel cell temperature at the completion of activation is a predetermined value representing the completion condition. | 3,461 |
9,681,503 | 1. A converter with electrical isolation, which is configured to supply power to a light-emitting means ( 3 ; 5 ), the converter comprising: a primary-side circuit ( wherein the primary-side circuit ( wherein the control device ( | 21,210 |
8,829,239 | 1. A porous metal organic framework comprising: at least one organic compound selected from the group consisting of formic acid and acetic acid; and lithium ions, wherein the skeleton of the framework comprises the at least one organic compound coordinated at least partly in a bidentate fashion to at least two lithium ions. | 31,431 |
8,811,244 | 1. A method of performing a radio access procedure in a wireless communication system using a number of orthogonal frequency division multiple (OFDM) symbols, the method performed by a user equipment (UE) and comprising: transmitting a radio resource control (RRC) connection request message to a network, wherein an establishment cause of the RRC connection request message is set to be delay tolerant or low priority; receiving information associated with a first wait time included in an RRC connection reject message or an RRC connection release message from the network; and performing a radio access to the network with a delay which is determined based on a lower bound of the first wait time and a upper bound of the first wait time, wherein the lower bound of the first wait time and the upper bound of the first wait time are indicated by the information on the first wait time, wherein the information associated with the first wait time includes a first data field and a second data field, and wherein the upper bound is indicated by the first data field and the lower bound is determined using a multiplication between a first value indicated by the first data field and a second value indicated by the second data field. | 45,045 |
9,827,319 | 1. A method for treating a genital tract infection in a female subject comprising the steps of: a) identifying a subject who is suffering from the infection; b) administering to the subject intravaginally, a composition comprising an amount of interleukin-12 (IL-12) incorporated in polymeric microspheres effective to treat the genital tract infection, wherein said composition does not contain a genital tract infection causing microorganism or an antigen therefrom, and wherein administration of the said composition results in treatment of the infection, and wherein the genital tract infection is caused by | 1,024 |
8,797,756 | 1. An integrated interconnect tab configured to provide a mechanically reparable connection point to make electrical connections to components that are mounted on a printed circuit board comprising: a primed circuit board including an encapsulating insulating layer; an electrically conductive pad coupled with said printed circuit board; wherein said electrically conductive pad comprises an outside edge, an inside edge, a first side edge and a second side edge; wherein said first side edge and said second side edge are parallel side edges; and, a sidewall structure that insulates components from the electrically conductive pad, wherein the sidewall structure is configured to guide and position an interconnecting device used to establish an electrical connection to the electrically conductive pad; wherein said encapsulating insulating layer comprises a curved vertical sidewall portion; wherein the sidewall structure includes a pedestal; and, wherein said pedestal extends alongside said first side edge, beyond said inside edge and terminates before said curved vertical sidewall portion, wherein said curved vertical sidewall portion arches away from said inside edge of said electrically conductive pad, wherein said pedestal comprises a divider termination point located beyond said inside edge and before said curved vertical sidewall portion, such that said pedestal terminates at said divider termination point. | 3,544 |
8,993,679 | 1. A method for producing an aqueous dispersion of fluorine-containing seed polymer (B) particles, comprising: (I) a step for preparing an aqueous dispersion of fluorine-containing polymer (A) particles by polymerization of monomer comprising at least one fluoroolefin in an aqueous dispersion in the presence of a compound (1) represented by the formula (1): wherein R is a hydrocarbon group which may have an oxygen atom, a nitrogen atom and/or a polar group, and (II) a step for seed-polymerizing ethylenically unsaturated monomer with the fluorine-containing polymer (A) particles in the aqueous dispersion of the fluorine-containing polymer (A) particles, and the compound (1) is a compound (2) in which R in the formula (1) is represented by the formula (2): wherein X is H or SO n is an integer of 0 to 19, a compound (3) in which R in the formula (1) is represented by the formula (3): wherein AO is a straight chain or branched chain oxyalkylene group having 2 to 4 carbon atoms; p is a positive integer; X is H or SO a compound (4) in which R in the formula (1) is represented by the formula (4): wherein AO is a straight chain or branched chain oxyalkylene group having 2 to 4 carbon atoms; X is H or SO | 36,605 |
9,260,853 | 1. An apparatus for cleaning runoff water comprising: a unitary vault having a floor, side walls, end walls and a dividing wall defining first and second chambers within said vault; an input conduit for supplying runoff water to said first chamber at a first elevation above said vault floor; a discharge conduit spaced above said bottom at said first elevation and having an inlet for receiving water from said vault above said first elevation, a baffle positioned between said input and said discharge conduits, extending across said first chamber, and having a lower edge at a second elevation below said first elevation and a upper edge at a third elevation above said first elevation and above the elevation of said discharge conduit input, such that transfer of floating contaminates on the input side of said baffle to the discharge side is impeded; a transfer conduit positioned at said first elevation and fed by surface water in said first compartment once said water has risen within said compartment to said first elevation, for delivering such water and floating contaminates into said second compartment at a lower elevation; a screen basket positioned within said second chamber for receiving said water from said transfer conduit into the interior of said basket, wherein said screen basket further includes a screen frame, wherein at least one independent screen is mounted to said screen frame so as to allow for limited movement of said screen in response to water flow against said screen; a return conduit with a first end in said second chamber, positioned at a fourth elevation below said second elevation and outside said screen basket so as to receive water after said water has passed through said screen basket, said return conduit extending into said first chamber at said first elevation wherein as the level of water in said second chamber rises, water from below the surface of the water in said second chamber is transported to said discharge conduit without said floating contaminates and is discharged from said vault; and at least one turbulator fin attached to said screen positioned in said water flow from said transfer conduit to cause said screen to shake or flex when water is flowing. | 31,975 |
8,955,429 | 1. A support mechanism integrated into an egg breaker and for preventing outward deflection of an associated cracker shaft about which are supported in orbiting fashion a plurality of circumferentially spaced rows of egg breakers, said mechanism comprising: a disk shaped portion mounted in slaved rotatable fashion about an intermediate location of the cracker shaft, said disk exhibiting a plurality of exteriorly facing and circumferentially offset inwardly recessed scalloped surfaces; an outer fixed and guiding cam secured to an aligning intermediate location of the breaker, said cam exhibiting an inner arcuate extending and guiding/supporting surface in outwardly spaced and aligning fashion relative to said scalloped locations of said rotating disk; and a generally arcuate perimeter shaped support disposed upon an aligning location of each cracker shaft and which is captured between a selected one of said scalloped locations and said inner guide supporting surface through a subset arcuate range corresponding to at least one of egg receipt, breaking and depositing of yolk and albumen contents to synchronized delivery cups and albumen trays associated with the breakers. | 38,851 |
9,282,508 | 1. A method in a near end radio link node for controlling power consumption in a radio link system in which the near end radio link node is connected to a far end radio link node via a radio link, the method comprising: the near end radio link node obtaining a granted rate of traffic on the radio link between the near end radio link node and the far end radio link node; the near end radio link node obtaining a demanded rate of the traffic on the radio link between the near end radio link node and the far end radio link node; and the near end radio link node controlling power consumption for the radio link system based on the granted rate of traffic and the demanded rate of traffic, wherein controlling the power consumption for the radio link system comprises: | 31,690 |
9,315,106 | 1. A circuit for evaluating resolver sensor signals from an electrical machine of a vehicle, the circuit comprising: a resolver sensor configured to sense a rotary movement of a rotor of the electrical machine and to output at least one sinusoidal or cosinusoidal amplitude-modulated analog signal indicative of the rotary movement of the rotor; and an electronic processor; wherein the electronic processor has a data processing unit, a resolver sensor actuation unit and a resolver sensor evaluation unit, the at least one sinusoidal or cosinusoidal amplitude-modulated analog signal of the resolver sensor is received by the resolver sensor evaluation unit. | 4,961 |
8,887,885 | 1. A clutch actuator for a vehicle, comprising: a movable member connected to a power generating unit and configured to be linearly moved by power provided by the power generating unit; and a lever which has a pivoting point at one end thereof and to which a release fork is connected at an opposite end thereof to provide a point of application, the lever being configured such that a location of the point of application is varied such that the lever is rotated about the pivoting point when a force point is pushed by the movable member and a length between the point of application and the force point is shortened when the lever is rotated about the pivoting point and a rotating force of the lever is improved as the point of application is moved toward the pivoting point. | 26,051 |
8,687,706 | 1. A video coding method comprising: determining a first number of memory access clock cycles needed to retrieve a first prediction according to motion compensation from random access memory; determining a second number of memory access clock cycles needed to retrieve a second prediction according to motion compensation from the random access memory, the second prediction being distinct from the first prediction; determining a third number of memory access clock cycles needed to retrieve a combined prediction containing the first prediction and the second prediction from the random access memory; comparing the third number of clock cycles with a sum of the first number of clock cycles and the second number of clock cycles; and sending to the random access memory a memory read command to retrieve the combined prediction from the random access memory when the third number of clock cycles is less than or equal to the sum of the first number of clock cycles and the second number of clock cycles. | 47,709 |
8,395,183 | 1. A light emitting apparatus comprising: a substrate; a light emitting device on the substrate; a fluorescent layer formed on the substrate and the light emitting device to surround the light emitting device; an encapsulant resin layer formed on the substrate and the fluorescent layer to surround the fluorescent layer; and a lens disposed on the light emitting device and supported by the substrate, wherein the lens includes a lens body having a downwardly concave first recess formed at a center of a top surface of the lens body and an upwardly concave second recess formed at a center of a bottom surface of the lens body, and at least one of lens supporters provided at the bottom surface of the lens body to support the lens body such that the lens body is spaced apart from the substrate, and wherein a thickness of the lens body between a bottom surface of the downwardly concave first recess and a top surface of the upwardly concave second recess increases from a center region of one of the downwardly concave first recess or the upwardly concave second recess to an end region thereof, wherein a ratio of a maximum depth of the first recess to a maximum depth of the second recess is about 6.25 to 10. | 12,843 |
9,227,942 | 1. A method for producing 5-(difluoromethyl)pyrazine-2-carboxylic acid represented by a formula (V): or a hydrate thereof, or a salt of 5-(difluoromethyl)pyrazine-2-carboxylic acid or a hydrate thereof, comprising a step of decarboxylating a compound represented by a formula (IV): or a salt thereof. | 9,379 |
9,510,445 | 1. A member for a flexible device, the member comprising: a substrate; a plurality of nanopillars formed on the substrate; and a metal electrode which is formed on the substrate and includes a plurality of nanoholes, and the nanopillars penetrate through the nanoholes, wherein the substrate and the nanopillars include polyimide, and the metal electrode includes copper. | 25,664 |
9,830,451 | 1. A system for distributed pattern discovery comprising: a node comprising a processor and memory to: receive a plurality of local frequent pattern trees from a plurality of sub-nodes, wherein the respective local frequent pattern trees are each based on a plurality of transactions; merge the local frequent pattern trees into a global pattern tree for the sub-nodes; send the global pattern tree to the sub-nodes, wherein one of the local frequent pattern trees is associated with a count of times a potential pattern occurs in the transactions associated with the one local frequent pattern tree, wherein the one local frequent pattern tree includes a partial pattern associated with one of the transactions, wherein the count is below a threshold level, wherein a second one of the local frequent pattern trees includes a second count of times the potential pattern occurs in the transactions associated with the second one local frequent pattern tree, wherein the second one local frequent pattern tree includes a second partial pattern associated with the potential pattern, wherein the second count is below the threshold level, and wherein the global pattern tree is used to perform a security function. | 3,026 |
8,595,997 | 1. A fastening system for a panel, comprising: at least two mounting rails ( a number of engaging slide blocks ( wherein the panel ( the fastening system for the panel further comprises: a middle clamp ( an L-shaped fastener ( 13 ), including a vertical flange ( 134 ) and a horizontal flange ( 135 ), wherein the vertical flange ( 134 ) is fixedly connected with the other engaging slide block ( 5 ), which engages with the second engaging open cavity ( 23 ), via a fastening bolt ( 153 ). | 526 |
8,911,248 | 1. A method, comprising: removing a primary power connection from a device in a datacenter; removing a power connection between the device and a power bus in a switchboard in the datacenter, the power bus being in electrical connection with a computing device; electrically coupling a busbar connection assembly to the power bus; electrically coupling the busbar connection assembly to a backup power source; and providing the computing device with a backup power using the backup power source via the busbar connection assembly. | 14,867 |
9,427,503 | 1. A cardiotomy suction tube system consisting essentially of: a main suction line; a first branch suction line in direct and continuous fluid communication with the main suction line; a second branch suction line in selective fluid communication with the main suction line; a third branch suction line in selective fluid communication with the main suction line; and a three-way valve mechanism to selectively place either the second branch suction line or the third branch suction line in fluid communication with the main suction line, the second branch suction line and the third branch suction line each being connected to the three-way valve mechanism at their respective proximal ends; wherein the first branch suction line and the second branch suction line each have a distal tip configured to draw fluid from an operative field and the third branch suction line has a distal end configured to draw fluid from the operative field. | 11,770 |
8,853,905 | 1. A radial direction controller that is applied to a magnetic bearing apparatus that supports a rotating body to be levitated by at least an electromagnet, comprising: a radial control circuit that controls the displacement of the axis of the rotating body in the radial direction; a negative bearing stiffness elimination circuit that is connected in parallel with the radial control circuit, and that outputs a signal related to negative bearing stiffness; a current value command device that outputs a current value for controlling the electromagnet, on the basis of a signal outputted by the radial control circuit and the signal related to the negative bearing stiffness outputted by the negative bearing stiffness elimination circuit; a DC component extraction device that extracts a DC component from the current value outputted by the current value command device; a correction coefficient calculation device that calculates a correction coefficient on the basis of the DC component extracted by the DC component extraction device and a bias current for the electromagnet; and a coefficient multiplication device that multiplies the signal outputted by the negative bearing stiffness elimination circuit by the correction coefficient calculated by the correction coefficient calculation device. | 8,138 |
8,739,571 | 1. A manufacturing method for manufacturing an optical element, the method comprising: supplying a gas containing a mold-release acceleration substance to a space between a first mold and a second mold which sandwich an optical material; heating an inert gas and supplying the heated inert gas to the space between the first and second molds to heat and soften the optical material; and pressurizing and transforming the heated and softened optical material by moving the first and second molds towards each other, wherein the mold-release acceleration substance is generated by heating raw material for the mold-release acceleration substance, wherein the step of supplying the gas containing the mold-release acceleration substance comprises reducing an amount of the mold-release acceleration substance supplied to the space between the first mold and the second mold during the pressuring and transforming step, and wherein the mold-release acceleration substance is at least one of a hydrocarbon and graphite, or the mold-release acceleration substance is obtained by a reaction of a hydrocarbon or a halogenated hydrocarbon in a raw material form. | 15,880 |
8,406,957 | 1. A system for lane-keeping control, the system comprising: a sensor for sensing a lane by using a camera; a lane-keeping controller for generating an auxiliary steering torque that causes a vehicle to follow a basis following position and controlling a vehicle driving, so as to enable the vehicle to keep a lane; and a basis following position setting unit for changing and setting the basis following position based on the sensed lane during the controlling of the vehicle driving, wherein the basis following position setting unit comprises: an entry type recognition unit for recognizing an entry type indicating that the vehicle enters a straight road or a curved road based on a road's curvature recognized from the sensed lane; and a curved road basis following position setting unit for, when it is determined that the vehicle enters the curved road, detecting a driver override, monitoring a lateral offset changing rate according to a detected driver override, and setting a specific lateral offset in a case where the monitored lateral offset changing rate is less than a predetermined value and is simultaneously maintained for a predetermined time as a basis following position. | 3,989 |
8,567,134 | 1. A photovoltaic (PV) assembly comprising: a first and second PV module, each module comprising: a front side facing the sun during normal operation and a back side opposite the front side; a frame surrounding the PV module comprising: a coupling platform comprising: a support member. | 1,490 |
9,698,908 | 1. A method for decoding light-based communication (LCom) signals, the method comprising: receiving sub-raster line data encoding a first LCom message and raster line data encoding a second LCom message from an image capture device, wherein the sub-raster line data and raster line data are transmitted from a luminaire in a combined signal; reconstructing the first LCom message based on the sub-raster line data; and reconstructing the second LCom message based on the raster line data. | 24,954 |
9,764,423 | 1. A method for manufacturing a hybrid component, comprising: manufacturing a preform as a first part of the hybrid component, then successively building up on that preform a second part of the component from a metallic powder material via an additive manufacturing process by scanning with an energy beam, establishing a controlled grain orientation in a primary direction and in a secondary direction of at least a part of the second part of the component via the successively building up of the second part of the component on the preform, wherein the controlling of the grain orientation in the secondary direction is performed via alternating parallel and orthogonal scanner paths of the energy beam in subsequent layers as the second part is successively built up on the preform, the parallel scanner paths being parallel to a direction of the component that is to have a smallest value of Young's Modulus and the orthogonal scanner paths are orthogonal to the direction of the component that is to have the smallest value of Young's Modulus; and wherein the controlled grain orientation in the secondary direction is aligned to a cross section profile of said component or to local load conditions for said component. | 28,840 |
8,637,558 | 1. A thiazolidinedione derivative having a formula selected from the group consisting of or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. | 25,523 |
9,577,132 | 1. A solar cell module comprising: a plurality of solar cells each including a substrate forming a p-n junction, a plurality of first electrodes of a first conductive type extended in a first direction on a back surface of the substrate, a plurality of second electrodes of a second conductive type which alternate with the first electrodes, extended in the first direction, and are separated from the first electrodes on the back surface of the substrate, wherein the plurality of solar cells comprising a first solar cell, a second solar cell adjacent to the first solar cell in a second direction crossing the first direction, and a third solar cell adjacent to the first solar cell in the first direction; and a first connector electrically connecting the first solar cell and the second solar cell in the second direction; a second connector electrically connecting the first solar cell and the third solar cell in the first direction, wherein an arrangement of the plurality of first electrodes and the plurality of second electrodes is different from each other in the first solar cell and the second solar cell, and the first connector electrically connects the plurality of first electrodes of the first solar cell and the plurality of second electrode of the second solar cell in the second direction, wherein an arrangement of the plurality of first electrodes and the plurality of second electrodes is the same in the first solar cell and the third solar cell, and the second connector electrically connects the plurality of second electrodes of the first solar cell and the plurality of first electrode of the third solar cell in the first direction. | 36,648 |
9,247,502 | 1. A method for power management of a mobile device, comprising: at the mobile device having one or more processors, memory, a battery, and a display: | 24,730 |
8,595,522 | 1. A memory storage device having instructions, that when executed in a computing platform, cause it to perform a method, comprising: monitoring, by a policy engine within a storage drive driver, storage drive access demand to determine if transaction access requests are not being submitted for the driver for a sufficient amount of time; if transaction access requests are not being submitted for the sufficient amount of time, then changing priority settings for a drive and reducing power supplied to the drive using at least one register to be used to increase platform latency for an exposed operating system power state; detecting a storage drive transaction request; determining that the storage drive transaction request is a media access request for media stored on the drive; increasing a power capability for the drive; and decreasing a latency setting for the drive. | 6,242 |
9,336,051 | 1. A programmable controller, comprising: a plurality of channels for receiving input; a plurality of processors, the plurality of processors comprising a first one or more processors and a second one or more processors; at least one memory medium coupled to the plurality of processors and the plurality of channels, wherein the memory medium stores: wherein the scheduler program is executable to dynamically schedule a first subset of the plurality of user programs to execute on the first one or more processors according to the scanning architecture, wherein the scanning architecture specifies that execution of the first subset of the plurality of user programs is time-driven according to a periodic execution cycle, not in response to asynchronous events; and wherein the scheduler program is executable to dynamically schedule a second subset of the plurality of user programs to execute on the second one or more processors in response to asynchronous events, not according to a periodic execution cycle, and wherein execution of the second subset of the plurality of user programs on the second one or more processors does not introduce a delay in execution of the first subset of the plurality of user programs executing on the first one or more processors. | 30,570 |
8,969,721 | 1. A protector for a boom tip for use within an electrical power transmission system, the protector comprising: one or more walls having a boom tip enclosure side, an exterior side, and one or more terminal edges that define a boom tip entrance; and a first guide shoulder contoured along an inside of the boom tip enclosure side to define an installation path for a part of the boom tip to contact and follow the first guide shoulder relative to the protector. | 4,732 |
9,768,964 | 1. A certified identification system for a subject comprising: a hardware certification station configured to issue first identification means representing said subject; second identification means, comprising a first code, assigned by said hardware certification station, wherein said first code is suitable for identifying at least one identification station, said second identification means being configured to be associated with said subject; an identification station configured to identify said subject depending on said first identification means and said second identification means; wherein said identification station is configured to combine said first identification means and said first code of said second identification means, issuing a unique identification code comprising: wherein said identification station comprises: wherein said hardware certification station comprises a database, associated with said second unit, and configured to contain at least said second data representing subjects; wherein said second processing unit comprises said dedicated access module connected to said database, wherein said dedicated access module is configured to allow access by said subject to said web platform depending on recognition of corresponding second data in said database and depending on an activated state of said flag. | 42,773 |
9,513,543 | 1. A method for forming a non-deformable patterned template, comprising: providing a stable mesh, wherein the stable mesh is resistant to deformation; providing a curable liquid polymer; placing the stable mesh in the curable liquid polymer such that the stable mesh is completely enclosed within the liquid polymer; curing the liquid polymer to form a polymer sheet with the stable mesh embedded therein; forming a surface pattern on at least one of the faces of the polymer sheet, the surface pattern including at least two fiducial marks; and aligning the stable mesh to the surface pattern by placing one or more fiducial marks on the stable mesh and aligning them to corresponding fiducial marks on the surface pattern. | 25,873 |
9,556,998 | 1. An insulator comprising: a core material that retains a space; a sheath material that has a gas barrier ability and encloses the core material therein in a decompressed and closed state; and a gas adsorbent enclosed in the sheath material together with the core material, wherein the gas adsorbent is a copper ion-exchanged ZSM-5 type zeolite compact which contains ZSM-5 type zeolite subjected to copper ion exchange and which is molded in such a manner that the density of the zeolite is higher than the density of the core material decompressed and sealed in the sheath material. | 46,632 |
9,773,269 | 1. A computer-implemented method comprising: as implemented by a computing device configured with specific executable instructions, | 11,163 |
9,744,863 | 1. Method for operating a motor vehicle which has an electrical drive device, said method comprising: operating the motor vehicle in one of three modes, a drive mode in which an electric machine of the drive device is operated as motor, wherein by means of electrical energy withdrawn from an energy storage a torque that is directed toward an acceleration of the motor vehicle is provided, a recuperation mode in which the electric machine is operated as a generator, wherein a torque that is directed toward a deceleration of the motor vehicle is provided and electrical energy generated thereby is temporarily stored in the energy storage, and a charging mode in which the energy storage is charged with externally provided electrical energy until a predetermined target state of charge is achieved; when operating the motor vehicle in the recuperation mode, determining a recuperation driving route driven during the recuperation mode and an associated recuperation energy amount and storing the recuperation driving route and the recuperation energy amount as driving route data in a driving route memory or transmitting the driving route data to an external data storage device; when switching into the charging mode or when operating the motor vehicle in the charging mode predictively determining an expected driving route of the motor vehicle and for the expected driving route reading out the driving route data from the driving route memory or requesting the driving route data from the external data storage device; and setting the target state of charge to a value which is determined from a maximal state of charge of the energy storage and the recuperation energy amount stored in the driving route data. | 20,770 |
8,590,926 | 1. A curtain airbag system for a vehicle, comprising: an inflator that generates gas; and a curtain airbag that is stored in a folded state in an upper edge portion of an opening of a vehicle body through which a passenger gets in or off, the curtain airbag being operable to be inflated with gas supplied from the inflator, and deployed downward from the upper edge portion of the opening of the vehicle body, wherein the curtain airbag comprises: a gas supply passage that is deployed in a cylindrical shape that extends in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle, along the upper edge portion of the opening, in the event of a side impact and rollover of the vehicle, so as to guide at least a part of the gas supplied from the inflator, toward the front of the vehicle; a first deployment portion to which gas is supplied from the gas supply passage in the event of a side impact or rollover of the vehicle, so that the first deployment portion is deployed downward in a vertical direction of the vehicle, so as to cover a region below the gas supply passage and above a belt line of the vehicle, the first deployment portion is a front main chamber; a second deployment portion to which gas is supplied from the inflator at least in the event of rollover of the vehicle, so that the second deployment portion is deployed at a vehicle front side of the first deployment portion, such that a lower end portion of the second deployment portion is located below the belt line; and a gas-flow guide portion located at the vehicle front side of a communicating portion that communicates with the gas supply passage and the front main chamber, and the gas-flow guide portion is located above the front main chamber, such that at least a part of the gas-flow guide portion projects downward beyond an imaginary line that extends from a lower end of the gas supply passage in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle, and the gas-flow guide portion is operable to block gas flowing toward the front of the vehicle through the gas supply passage, and guide the gas toward the front main chamber, such that most of the gas is directed toward the front main chamber. | 10,868 |
8,623,308 | 1. A process for removing mercaptans from a feed gas stream comprising natural gas or inert gas having a mercaptans concentration of up to 40 vol %, the process comprising the steps of: (a) passing said feed gas stream to a gas treating unit, wherein said gas treating unit includes a mercaptan adsorbent bed, said adsorbent bed consisting essentially of a mercaptan adsorbent material selected from the group consisting of silica, silica gel, alumina, silica-alumina, and molecular sieve, to thereby provide a mercaptan adsorbent material loaded with mercaptan and to yield therefrom a gas stream having a mercaptans concentration of less than 5 ppmv; (b) ceasing said passing of said feed gas stream to said gas treating unit, and, thereafter, contacting said mercaptan adsorbent material loaded with mercaptan with an inert gas stream at an elevated temperature or reduced pressure to transfer mercaptan from said mercaptan adsorbent material loaded with mercaptan to said inert gas stream to thereby yield from said gas treating unit a first gas stream comprising mercaptans and at least 80% of gases selected from the group of helium in the periodic table, nitrogen and hydrocarbonaceous gases, wherein the concentration of CO (c) contacting said first gas stream with a hydrodesulphurisation catalyst in the presence of hydrogen in a hydrodesulphurisation unit to obtain a second gas stream comprising inert gas, which is depleted of mercaptans and enriched in H (d) removing H | 34,526 |
9,309,422 | 1. An ink set for inkjet recording, comprising: an ink composition including a pigment, a water-soluble polymerizable compound, and water; and a maintenance liquid that has a pH higher than 8.5 and that includes water and a water-soluble organic solvent having an SP value higher than 27.5 MPa | 4,534 |
9,308,321 | 1. An infusion device comprising: a housing to receive a shaft coupled to a plunger disposed in a reservoir; a gear assembly including a first gear to engage the shaft and a worm gear coupled to the first gear, the first gear having rotational freedom in a direction opposite a delivery direction, the worm gear exhibiting axial displacement in a first direction in response to rotation of the first gear in the direction opposite the delivery direction; a force sensor aligned with an axle of the worm gear; a motor having a rotor coupled to the gear assembly; and a control module coupled to the motor to operate the motor to displace the axle of the worm gear in a second direction opposite the first direction and away from the force sensor in response to the reset condition. | 30,638 |
8,575,334 | 1. A method for separating anthocyanins from plant tissue feedstock containing anthocyanins and phenolic mixtures, which comprises the sequential steps of: (a) contacting said feedstock with a mixed mode cation-exchange resin for a time period effective for said resin to selectively bind with said anthocyanins; (b) separating non-bound phenolic mixture from said resin; (c) subjecting bound resin to alkaline solvent wash to release said anthocyanins in an eluate; (d) mixing the eluate with an acid such that a resulting mixture has pH less than about pH 2; and (e) recovering, from the resulting mixture, anthocyanins having a purity of at least 85%. | 39,543 |
8,552,517 | 1. A CPV module, comprising: a substrate comprising a conductive first section and a conductive second section that are disposed in spaced relation to each other with a gap defined therebetween; a photovoltaic receiver die having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface, wherein the second surface is mounted and electrically connected to the conductive first section of the substrate; a mold body comprising: a conductive material disposed in the at least one channel to electrically connect the first surface of the photovoltaic receiver die to the second section of the substrate. | 21,178 |
9,419,231 | 1. An organic electroluminescence device, comprising two or more organic thin film layers including an emitting layer between an anode and a cathode, wherein: the emitting layer comprises at least one compound according to formula (2a), (2b), or (2c); and an organic thin film layer that is in contact with the emitting layer on a cathode side comprises at least one benzimidazole compound according to formula (A): wherein, in formulas (2a) to (2c): G G Ga to Gk are independently C—R each R when plural C—R each R when plural C—R each R when plural C—R when R X X wherein, in formula (A): Ra to Rd, Re to Rf, Rh to Ri, Rj to Rk, and Rm to Rn are independently a hydrogen atom, a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, a substituted or unsubstituted cycloalkyl group having 3 to 20 ring carbon atoms, a substituted or unsubstituted alkoxy group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, a substituted or unsubstituted cycloalkoxy group having 3 to 20 ring carbon atoms, a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic hydrocarbon ring group having 6 to 18 ring carbon atoms, a substituted or unsubstituted aryloxy group having 6 to 18 ring carbon atoms, a substituted or unsubstituted heteroaromatic ring group having 5 to 18 ring atoms, a substituted or unsubstituted amino group, a substituted or unsubstituted silyl group, a fluorine atom, a substituted or unsubstituted fluoroalkyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, a substituted or unsubstituted fluoroalkoxy group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, or a cyano group; Rg and Rl are independently a hydrogen atom, a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, a substituted or unsubstituted cycloalkyl group having 3 to 20 ring carbon atoms, a substituted or unsubstituted alkoxy group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, a substituted or unsubstituted cycloalkoxy group having 3 to 20 ring carbon atoms, a substituted or unsubstituted silyl group, a fluorine atom, a substituted or unsubstituted fluoroalkyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, or a substituted or unsubstituted fluoroalkoxy group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms; at least one of Re to Rf, Rh to Ri, Rj to Rk, and Rm to Rn is a substituted or unsubstituted carbazolyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted azacarbazolyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted dibenzofuranyl group, or a substituted or unsubstituted dibenzothiophenyl group; Ar Ar when Ra to Rn, Ar m and n are independently 0 or 1; o and p are independently an integer of 0 to 3; m, n, o and p satisfy relationships: m+o is greater than or equal to 1, and n+p is greater than or equal to 1; when o is 2 or 3, plural Ar when p is 2 or 3, plural Ar | 9,359 |
9,293,340 | 1. A surface planarization method of thin films, comprising: patterning a non-metallic layer located above a first film layer by dry etching in an apparatus with a dry-etching working gas configured for the dry etching, wherein the dry etching causes the first film layer to be exposed with a rough surface; and planarizing the exposed first film layer to smooth the rough surface of the exposed first film layer to be planar, wherein planarizing the exposed first film layer comprises: | 35,470 |
9,499,804 | 1. An expression vector comprising a nucleic acid molecule, wherein the nucleotide sequence of the nucleic acid molecule: (a) encodes the amino acid sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO: 1 or 3; (b) encodes a cyclodextrin glucanotransferase (CGTase) having at least 80% amino acid sequence identity with SEQ ID NO: 1 or 3; (c) is set forth in SEQ ID NO: 2 or 4; or (d) has at least 80% sequence identity with the nucleotide sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO: 2 or 4, and which encodes a CGTase. | 10,024 |
9,328,202 | 1. A process for making thermoset resins and thermoplastics, comprising: isolating resorcinolic lipids from plant and/or animal sources having 5-n-alkylresorcinols wherein said ‘n’ is selected from the group consisting of n=1 being orcinol, n=3 being divarinol, and n=5 being olivetol; converting said 5-n-alkyl resorcinolic lipids into 5-n-alkyl resorcinolic dicyanate ester lipids; and molding said thermoset resins and thermoplastics in a component or coating a component to protect against extreme heat and moisture. | 24,108 |
8,482,255 | 1. A method of charging an auxiliary battery in a plug-in electric vehicle including an onboard charging system, the method comprising: charging the auxiliary battery to an upper charge level using an external power source thereby reducing energy used from the onboard charging system to charge the auxiliary battery during a drive mode of the vehicle, the upper charge level being at least one of: allowing the auxiliary battery to discharge to a lower charge level during the drive mode of the vehicle, the lower charge level being at least one of: wherein the lower charge level is based on a time that the vehicle is predicted to be in an off state. | 11,847 |
8,657,022 | 1. A fire detection system, comprising: a detection tube containing a sensing fluid having a first physical condition and a second physical condition, the sensing fluid being in the first physical condition below a temperature threshold and being in the second physical condition above the temperature threshold, wherein the sensing fluid is inescapably sealed within the detection tube, and wherein the sensing fluid is at least partially liquid in the first physical condition; and a sensing device movable to open in response to a transition of a portion of the sensing fluid from the first physical condition to the second physical condition and moveable from open in response to a transition of a portion of the sensing fluid from the second physical condition to the first physical condition, the sensing device corresponding to a fire suppressant valve assembly that includes an actuation portion having a pin that is movable from a first position to a second position in response to a pressure increase from a transition between the first physical condition and the second physical condition, and the fire suppressant valve assembly opens in response to the actuation portion being moved to the second position, the pin including a first end in fluid contact with the sensing fluid and a second end in contact with a bias member, and an opening of the pin aligns with a pilot pressure channel when the pin is in the second position such that fluid can pass through the pin in the second position to move the fire suppressant valve assembly. | 42,591 |
9,542,033 | 1. An interactive control device ( 1 ) for at least one service apparatus ( 2 ), comprising: a control unit ( a screen ( characterized in that it comprises a presence and distance sensor ( receiving the detection signal ( processing the detection signal ( generating at least one signal ( the control unit ( receiving the detection signal ( processing the detection signal ( configuring the touch selection means ( generating a signal ( wherein the detection signal ( identifying the frequency of the detection signal ( comparing the frequency identified with a first predetermined frequency value so as to determine the presence of the user; if the frequency of the detection signal ( the control unit ( identifying the instantaneous amplitude of the detection signal ( comparing the amplitude identified with a first predetermined amplitude value so as to determine the distance of the user from the sensor ( if the amplitude of the detection signal ( | 4,828 |
8,862,334 | 1. A vehicle having an upwardly pivotable tailgate, the vehicle comprising: a first control unit by which the tailgate is adjustable into a predefined open position via an adjusting device; a second control unit by which an active wheel suspension system is activated to adjust a vehicle height, wherein a lowering of the vehicle height is carried out along with an opening of the tailgate via communication between the first control unit and the second control unit. | 46,107 |
8,666,640 | 1. A control apparatus for an internal combustion engine, comprising: an electronic control unit configured with executable program logic to perform: advancing or retarding phases of an opening timing and a closing timing of an intake valve; increasing or decreasing a duration of time that the intake valve is opened; increasing an amount of EGR gas, based on an operating state of an internal combustion engine; and advancing the closing timing of the intake valve when the amount of EGR gas is increased, by executing a first operation that advances the phases of the opening timing and the closing timing of the intake valve, and executing a second operation that decreases the duration of time the intake valve is opened; wherein the second operation is executed at a later timing than a timing at which the first operation is executed, wherein the second operation is executed at a time of intake-valve closing timing, so that the intake-valve is closed more quickly than when the second operation is executed at a time of intake-valve opening timing. | 42,403 |
8,543,345 | 1. A measuring system, comprising: a potentiostat; a sensor comprising a plurality of electrodes; and a connector electrically connected to the electrodes, wherein at least one of the plurality of electrodes comprises a memory, wherein the connector comprises an operational sequence to be employed by the potentiostat. | 19,299 |
8,881,518 | 1. A hydraulic system comprising: a variable-displacement first pump; a variable-displacement second pump; a first actuator selectively connected either to the first pump in a closed loop manner and not the second pump, or to the first and second pumps in a closed loop manner; a second actuator selectively connected either to the second pump in a closed loop manner and not the first pump, or to the first and second pumps in a closed loop manner; and a variable-displacement rotary actuator selectively connected either to the first pump in a closed loop manner and not the second pump, or to the first and second pumps in a closed loop manner. | 39,350 |
9,807,948 | 1. A drip irrigation system, comprising: a drip irrigation tube comprising a tube wall; and multiple metering elements inserted in the drip irrigation tube, wherein each of the metering elements is connected to the tube wall of the drip irrigation tube, and wherein each of the metering elements comprises: | 28,263 |
8,893,679 | 1. A system, comprising: an engine-driven power source, comprising: a controller communicatively coupled to the sensor and comprising one or more processing components configured to execute a shutdown sequence in response to the second signal, wherein the shutdown sequence includes a first time period while the second signal indicates no demand and a second time period while the second signal indicates no demand, wherein the engine is shut down at the end of the first time period and the controller is shut down at the end of the second time period; and a remote control panel communicatively coupled to the controller and configured to control functions of the controller until the end of the second time period when the controller is shut down. | 15,116 |
9,586,174 | 1. A post combustion capture process for removing CO 2 and at least one second acid gas from a flue gas stream including the steps of: providing a flue gas stream containing CO providing a solvent comprising an absorbent liquid for CO passing the gas stream through the absorption column preferentially absorbing the second acid gas into said solvent in the first section of the absorption column before passing to the second section of the absorption column where CO recovering gas depleted in CO | 34,574 |
8,573,944 | 1. An anti-wear device of a turbomachine rotor comprising: a disk with a rim and axial recesses machined on the rim for individually housing blades; and a ring fitted to one face of the rim, the ring being pierced with holes in an axial extension of the recesses, at least one of said holes in the axial extension of the recesses being closed by a plug comprising a metal head forming a bearing surface for said blades, wherein the plug comprises wherein an axial length of the insert and an axial length of the rigid annular element are greater than an axial length of the at least one of said holes, and wherein the insert made of deformable material is deformed by the collar of the rigid annular element so as to present a protrusion formed between a downstream outlet of the hole and the collar of the rigid annular element so as to immobilize the plug in the at least one of said holes. | 20,223 |
8,642,720 | 1. A photoelectric conversion element comprising a substrate and provided thereon, a first electrode, a photoelectric conversion layer comprising a semiconductor and a sensitizing dye, a hole transport layer and a second electrode, wherein the hole transport layer comprises a polymer comprising a repeating unit represented by Formula (1) or Formula (2): where at least one of R where at least one of R | 43,498 |
8,983,454 | 1. A method of detecting interference in a waveform in a wireless channel received in a wireless network by an incoming signal receiver, the interference comprising a passive intermodulation (PIM) product of at least a first transmit signal and a second transmit signal, the method comprising: generating, on the basis of at least the first transmit signal and the second transmit signal, at least one interference signal comprising a simulated PIM product; correlating said at least one interference signal with the waveform in the wireless channel received by the incoming signal receiver to produce data representing a correlation; and detecting the presence of a PIM product of at least the first transmit signal and the second transmit signal in the interference in the waveform in the wireless channel received by the incoming signal receiver in dependence on the data representing the correlation. | 37,309 |
9,688,829 | 1. A composition for a foam tire comprising a blend of an olefin block copolymer and a rubber as a polymer matrix, a crosslinking agent, and a foaming agent, wherein the olefin block copolymer is a multi-block copolymer which comprises ethylene and one or more copolymerizable α-olefin comonomers in a polymerized form and has a plurality of blocks or segments of two or more polymerized monomer units having different chemical or physical properties, and wherein the olefin block copolymer and the rubber are present in amounts of 50 to 80% by weight and 20 to 50% by weight, respectively, based on the total weight of the polymer matrix. | 41,747 |
9,106,150 | 1. A battery free off-grid solar inverter system, the battery free off-grid solar inverter system comprising: an inverter for converting a direct current voltage provided by a solar panel into an alternating current voltage, the inverter having an input terminal, an output terminal, and a control terminal, wherein the input terminal is used for coupling to the solar panel for receiving the direct current voltage, and the output terminal is used for coupling to a load for outputting the alternating current voltage; and a controller coupled to the control terminal for gradually increasing the alternating current voltage to make the direct current voltage be gradually decreased when the battery free off-grid solar inverter system is turned on, wherein the controller stops increasing the alternating current voltage when the direct current voltage is lower than a predetermined direct current voltage value. | 48,737 |
8,870,022 | 1. A diaper and wipe dispensing system comprising: a housing formed by: an upper compartment within the housing, for holding stacked diapers; a diaper slot in the housing, for accessing diapers within the upper compartment, the a lower compartment for holding baby wipes, the lower compartment being within the housing and being separated from the upper compartment by a floor panel, and a wipe slot in the housing, for accessing wipes within the lower compartment, the wipe slot being formed through a bottom shelf of the rear wall plate; wherein the cover slides down with respect to the wall plate to secure the cover with the wall plate and slides up with respect to the wall plate to facilitate removal of the cover and loading of diapers and wipes; and wherein a base of the front cover includes a cutout for facilitating access to the wipe slot through the front cover. | 46,917 |
8,616,784 | 1. An optical connector that is assembled onto a terminal of an optical fiber cable where an optical fiber and tension bodies extending in a longitudinal direction of the optical fiber are integrated, the optical connector comprising: a housing; a ferrule that is provided in the housing; and a fixing cap that is mounted on the housing, wherein the housing includes a fixing portion of which an outer peripheral surface is provided with a screw portion, and wherein while the tension bodies leading from the terminal of the optical fiber cable are interposed between the screw portion of the housing and the fixing cap, the fixing cap is screwed onto and fixed to the fixing portion. | 25,550 |
8,888,224 | 1. A printing apparatus comprising: a conveying mechanism that conveys a printing medium; a printing mechanism that performs printing on said printing medium; and an image inspection apparatus including an image reading apparatus, wherein said printing mechanism includes a head in which ink outlets are arranged in a direction crossing with a conveying direction of said printing medium, printing is performed in a single pass of said printing medium through said head while said head is ejecting fine droplets of ink, said image reading apparatus comprises: a line illumination part that applies light onto a linear imaging area on a printing medium, said imaging area extending in a direction crossing with a direction of relative movement of said printing medium; one monochrome line camera that captures said imaging area, or a plurality of monochrome line cameras that capture said imaging area with imaging ranges of the cameras being aligned in a longitudinal direction of said imaging ranges; and a plurality of color line cameras that capture said imaging area with imaging ranges of the cameras being aligned in a longitudinal direction thereof, the number of said plurality of color line cameras is greater than the number of said one or plurality of monochrome line cameras, and each color line camera has a smaller number of pixels than each monochrome line camera, resolving power of each monochrome line camera is approximately the same as that of each color line camera, and said image inspection apparatus comprises: an information image extraction part that extracts an information element image from an image acquired with said one or plurality of monochrome line cameras, said information element image being a portion corresponding to an information element(s) that is at least one of letters, numbers, symbols, and bar code patterns; an information acquisition part that acquires target information from said information element image, said target information being character information or numerical information indicated by said information element(s); a storage part that stores said target information; and an image comparison part that compares an image acquired with said plurality of color line cameras and an image indicated by data used in printing. | 18,329 |
9,114,696 | 1. A rock drilling rig which is used for drilling at drilling sites and transfer-driven between the drilling sites, the rock drilling rig comprising: a movable carrier; combustion-engine-free drive equipment for performing a transfer drive of the rock drilling rig, the drive equipment including at least one electric motor and at least one electric control device for affecting the transfer drive; at least one energy storage, in which at least electric energy required for the transfer drive may be stored; at least one boom movable in relation to the carrier; at least one rock drilling machine arranged on the at least one boom; at least one liquid cooling system, wherein the at least one electric component affecting the transfer drive is connected to the at least one liquid cooling system; and at least one control unit, wherein the control unit is arranged to control the cooling of the at least one electric component connected to the at least one liquid cooling system and the at least one liquid cooling system being precoolable before a following transfer drive. | 3,654 |
9,529,920 | 1. A computerized method utilizing: one or more processors: wherein the computerized method alerts a user to one or more function types of a referenced webpage before the user navigates to the referenced webpage, an alert being shown as one or more annotations in a revised Internet search results listing shown to the user, the computerized method further comprising: | 14,488 |
9,093,232 | 1. An electronic switch comprising: a transfer transistor having a first conduction terminal configured to receive an input signal, a second conduction terminal, and a control terminal; said transfer transistor configured to enable/disable a transfer of the input signal from said first conduction terminal to said second conduction terminal according to a control signal, the control signal having either a first value or a second value different from the first value, a difference between the first value and the second value defining, in absolute value, an operative value of the control signal; and a driving circuit comprising | 8,672 |
8,793,521 | 1. An image forming apparatus comprising: a communication interface configured to receive data; a buffer configured to store the data received by the communication interface; a main system configured to process the data stored in the buffer; a subsystem configured to be controlled by the main system to perform a function of the image forming apparatus; a system control unit configured to switch an operation status mode of the image forming apparatus between a normal status mode in which the main system and the subsystem are turned on, a deep sleep status mode in which the main system and the subsystem are turned off, and a light sleep status mode in which the main system is turned on and the subsystem is turned off; and a data processing unit configured to, when the operation status mode is the deep sleep status mode, process the data received from the buffer if the data is determined to be processable by the data processing unit, and cause the system control unit to switch the operation status mode from the deep sleep status mode to the normal status mode if the data received from the buffer is determined not to be processable by the data processing unit, wherein the main system includes a non-volatile memory that stores a controller program, and is configured to cause the system control unit to switch the operation status mode from the deep sleep status mode to the light sleep status mode according to the controller program if a read count of the controller program from the non-volatile memory reaches a threshold value, wherein, if the read count reaches the threshold value, the main system is configured to cause the system control unit to inhibit switching of the operation status mode to the deep sleep status mode until the image forming apparatus next starts, cause the system control unit to switch the operation status mode from the deep sleep status mode to the light sleep status mode, and perform a recovery process of a storage area of the controller program in the non-volatile memory when the image forming apparatus next starts, and wherein the threshold value is an upper limit of the read count at which a read disturb error does not occur in the non-volatile memory. | 7,695 |
8,500,878 | 1. An inerting system for an aircraft comprising: at least one air-cycle air processing system having a first compressor and a turbine for expanding compressed air; and at least one air separation module including at least one air inlet, a first air outlet and a second air outlet, wherein the at least one air separation module is adapted for splitting an input air flow into a first air flow and a second air flow; wherein the at least one air separation module is an OBIGGS; wherein the first air flow is enriched with oxygen in comparison with the input air flow and discharged through the first air outlet; wherein the second air flow being enriched with nitrogen in comparison with the input air flow and discharged through the second air outlet; wherein the at least one air inlet is connectable to one or more air extraction points; wherein at least one of the one or more air extraction points is positioned upstream of the turbine of the at least one air processing system; and wherein the inerting system is adapted for routing the first air flow into a passenger cabin to be air-conditioned and pressurized without additional means. | 11,383 |
8,976,216 | 1. A light source unit comprising: a surface-emitting laser array including light emitting units; and an apertured member provided on a light path of light beams emitted from the surface-emitting laser array, the apertured member including an aperture, wherein an orthogonal projection of the aperture on a plane including a light emitting area of the surface-emitting laser array has a length in one direction that is substantially an integral multiple of λL/d, where λ is an oscillation wavelength of the surface-emitting laser array, d is an interval between the light emitting units in the one direction, and L is a length of a vertical line extending from a center of the aperture to the plane. | 44,931 |
8,646,391 | 1. A rail vehicle for driving operation on a track system having a ballasted superstructure, said rail vehicle comprising: (a) a bogie; (b) an underfloor comprising a ceiling forming a bogie free space above the bogie and a bulkhead partition transverse to a ceiling; (c) a hollow space beneath the ceiling and open towards the bogie, said hollow space formed by the bulkhead partition and the ceiling; and (d) at least one flexible membrane spanning the hollow space to form a chamber defined by the ceiling and the bulkhead partition. | 34,983 |
9,255,816 | 1. A server for a data transmission system for communicating with meters at remote locations through power transmission lines, comprising: a processor; and a memory module storing code for execution on the processor, the code comprising wherein based on the load index, each meter of the first set of meters can generate and send its response to the server and the server will be able to process its response. | 42,704 |
9,634,500 | 1. A storage battery system comprising: a storage battery comprising a plurality of battery modules, each of the plurality of battery modules being configured by connecting battery cells in series; a plurality of voltage monitoring circuits for monitoring a voltage of the battery module, each of the plurality of voltage monitoring circuits being provided in accordance with each of the battery modules; and a control device that is connected to the voltage monitoring circuits in a circular shape and controls charging and discharging of the storage battery on the basis of the voltage of the battery module that is obtained by carrying out communication with the voltage monitoring circuits, wherein the control device comprises a determination unit that calculates an estimated output voltage of the storage battery by using the voltage of the battery module that is obtained from any one of the voltage monitoring circuits before occurrence of a communication failure in a case where the communication failure with any one of the voltage monitoring circuits occurs, and compares the estimated output voltage and an output voltage of the storage battery after occurrence of the communication failure to determine an abnormal site of the communication failure, and wherein the determination unit calculates the estimated output voltage by multiplying the voltage of the battery module obtained from any one of the voltage monitoring circuits by a value obtained by dividing a total number of the battery cells provided in the storage battery by a number of the battery cells provided in the battery module. | 21,728 |
9,421,478 | 1. A cold trap including a refrigerator, a trap vessel arranged between the refrigerator and a vacuum vessel, and a cold panel arranged in the trap vessel and cooled by the refrigerator to trap gas molecules, the cold trap comprising a vibration sensor configured to detect a vibration in the cold trap, the refrigerator comprising: a case; a piston capable of reciprocally moving in the case so as to compress and expand a working medium; a dynamic vibration absorber attached outside the case and configured to reduce the vibration when the piston is driven; and a driving frequency adjustment unit configured to adjust a driving frequency of the piston to increase a vibration reduction effect of the dynamic vibration absorber based on a signal from the vibration sensor, wherein the driving frequency adjustment unit comprises: | 541 |
9,561,122 | 1. A method, comprising: positioning, at a location within a blood vessel adjacent to an aneurysm, a vascular device having a body in a first, collapsed configuration with the body comprising braided strands forming pores and apertures between the strands, and the body having a longitudinally central section; and expanding the body from the first, collapsed configuration to a second, expanded configuration, wherein the pores are generally uniform in size and smaller in size than the apertures in the second, expanded configuration, the apertures being disposed at the longitudinally central section of the body and spaced apart from one another by the pores such that at least one of the apertures is adjacent to an ostium of the aneurysm, wherein blood flows into the aneurysm preferentially through the at least one aperture as compared to the pores. | 41,588 |
8,756,285 | 1. An image processing apparatus, comprising: an image reader configured to scan a document and create image data; a data converter configured to convert the image data created by the image reader into converted image data in a form attachable to an email; a communication unit configured to exchange emails with external apparatuses via a network; a first email creator configured, based on a user's request that includes an address of a destination external apparatus where the first email is to be sent, to create a first email which includes first header information and a message body and to which the converted image data converted by the data converter is attached; a second email creator configured to create a second email including second header information containing a request for acquisition of the status of the destination external apparatus, and to send the second email to the destination external apparatus through the communication unit after the address of the destination external apparatus has been designated by the user in the user's request and at the same time or before the image reader scans the document; an email analyzer configured to receive a third email containing a status response to the second email from the destination external apparatus through the communication unit and to analyze the third email to output an analysis result of whether the destination external apparatus can print an email; and a controller configured to send the first email through the communication unit when the analysis result by the email analyzer is that the destination external apparatus can print an email and alternatively to notify the user that the destination external apparatus cannot print when the analysis result is that the destination external apparatus cannot print, wherein the email analyzer analyzes the received second header information and requests the first email creator to create the third email including the third header information containing the status response when the second header information contains the status request, and the first email creator creates the third email and sends the third email to the destination external apparatus through the communication unit. | 10,040 |
9,424,682 | 1. A computer-implemented method for visualizing elongate objects, the method comprising: acquiring, using a processor, digital data of a portion of an elongate object, the digital data being generated by a medical imaging device imaging a portion of a patient's body; identifying, using a processor, a centerline connecting a plurality of points within the portion of the elongate object; defining a selected degree direction associated with a first point of the plurality of points along the centerline; defining a first vector originating from the first point along the centerline and extending in the selected degree direction; defining a second vector originating from a second point along the centerline and extending in the selected degree direction; creating a first half-plane extending between the first vector and the second vector along the centerline; traversing a predetermined angular distance in a clockwise or counter clockwise direction from the first half-plane to a second half-plane to define an angular wedge; calculating, using a processor, a view of the angular wedge between the first half-plane and the second half-plane; and generating an electronic view including the angular wedge. | 31,153 |
9,594,367 | 1. A process controller, comprising: memory circuitry, comprising: processing circuitry, comprising: | 43,885 |
8,893,483 | 1. A method for controlling operation of a multi-mode powertrain system including an internal combustion engine fluidly coupled to an exhaust aftertreatment system including a catalytic device, the multi-mode powertrain system employing a power-split configuration to transfer torque to a driveline, the method comprising: identifying permitted transition paths between a plurality of engine states, said plurality of engine states comprising a default state, a pre-light-off state, a light-off state, and a post-light-off state; selecting a preferred one of the plurality of engine states in response to an output torque request and an operating temperature of the catalytic device; transitioning engine operation to the preferred one of the plurality of engine states via the permitted transition paths; and operating the engine in the preferred one of the plurality of engine states, wherein operating the engine in the pre-light-off state includes initially operating in a fuel cutoff mode with the engine rotating and subsequently prohibiting the engine in the fuel cutoff mode when an elapsed time of said operating in the fuel cutoff mode exceeds a threshold during operation in the pre-light-off state. | 33,084 |
8,614,124 | 1. A method of fabricating a nonvolatile trapped-charge memory device, comprising: forming a tunneling layer on a substrate, wherein forming the tunneling layer comprises oxidizing the substrate to form an oxide film and nitridizing the oxide film; forming a multilayer oxynitride charge trapping layer on the tunneling layer comprising an oxygen-rich bottom layer and an oxygen-lean top layer; depositing a blocking layer on the charge trapping layer; densifying the blocking layer with an oxidizing anneal, wherein the oxidizing anneal oxidizes at least a portion of the oxygen-lean top layer of the multilayer oxynitride charge trapping layer, the oxidized portion proximate to the blocking layer and equal to approximately one half of the oxygen-lean top layer; and forming a gate layer on the densified blocking layer. | 18,887 |
9,737,444 | 1. A disposable absorbent article comprising: a first waist region, a second waist region, a crotch region disposed between the first waist region and second waist region; a first waist edge and a second waist edge; and a first longitudinal edge and a second longitudinal edge; the disposable absorbent article comprising a waistband and a leg gasketing system, wherein the leg gasketing system extends from the first waist edge to the second waist edge, wherein the leg gasketing system has a first gather count and the waistband has a second gather count such that the ratio of the first gather count to the second gather count is from 0.75 to 1.25 and the first gather count is between 13 and 21.1 per 30 mm, wherein the disposable absorbent article is a taped diaper, wherein the waistband is comprised of a laminate comprising a nonwoven material and at least one elastic strand, wherein the at least one elastic strand has an installed elongation which is the strain that the at least one elastic strand is under when combined with the nonwoven material to form the laminate and has an applied waistband strain which is the strain that the laminate is under when combined with the disposable absorbent article, wherein the installed elongation is higher than the applied waistband strain, wherein the waistband has an Extended Waist Feature Length and a Chassis Extended Length, wherein the waistband has a ratio of Extended Waist Feature Length to Chassis Extended Length of greater than 1.16 and less than 2.07. | 30,134 |
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