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9,673,822 | 1. A system, comprising: a first device having a push-pull circuit configured to transmit a synchronization symbol; and a second device coupled to the first device by a bidirectional single wire interface, and configured to, in response to receiving the synchronization symbol from the first device via the single wireless interface, transmit a data symbol to the first device via the single wireless interface while the push-pull circuit is in a tristate phase. | 14,450 |
9,564,833 | 1. A phase leg for a multilevel inverter, comprising: a positive DC lead; a first outer MOSFET connected to the positive DC lead; a first inner IGBT connected to the first outer MOSFET; a second inner IGBT connected to the first inner IGBT; and a second outer MOSFET connected to the second inner IGBT, wherein the first and second outer MOSFETs are voltage balanced superjunction MOSFETs by the first and second IGBTs for reducing voltage stress in the solid-state switch phase leg when the superjunction MOSFET and the IGBT are conducting current from the DC lead to an AC lead, wherein the switching speed of at least one of the first and second outer MOSFETs is greater than about 10 kilohertz, wherein the source/drain capacitance of the first and second outer MOSFETs is at least three times collector/emitter capacitance of the first and second IGBTs following a change between an on state and an off state. | 13,141 |
9,137,178 | 1. A method, comprising: receiving, by a device and from a user device associated with a user, an instruction to create a virtual packet tracker, creating, by the device, the virtual packet tracker in the device based on the instruction; receiving, by the virtual packet tracker of the device, a packet that includes a signature, providing, by the virtual packet tracker of the device, the packet to the portion of the cloud computing environment; receiving, by the virtual packet tracker of the device, an indication that the packet is dropped at a particular resource of the portion of the cloud computing environment; determining, by the virtual packet tracker of the device, whether a problem causing the packet to be dropped can be corrected by the virtual packet tracker of the device; and performing, by the virtual packet tracker of the device, processing relating to the problem based on whether the problem can be corrected by the virtual packet tracker of the device, | 42,325 |
9,015,340 | 1. A method for splitting a flow of data in a data network into a set of flow paths comprising: retrieving, from a memory, map data comprising a plurality of network nodes and a plurality of data links between the network nodes, wherein each data link has an associated flow value and an associated flow capacity; receiving, at a processing circuit, a selection of a source node and a selection of a destination node from the plurality of network nodes; sorting the data links based in part on the associated flow values; determining, by the processing circuit, a submap of the map data using the sorted data links, wherein the submap has a maximum flow between the selected source node and the selected destination node that is greater than a predefined percentage of a maximum flow between the selected source node and the selected destination node in the map data; adjusting flow capacities of data links in the submap based on a smallest flow capacity of a data link in the submap; and determining, by the processing circuit, a set of flow paths from the source node to the destination node using the adjusted flow capacities. | 14,640 |
8,527,129 | 1. A configurable energy management system for recharging an electric vehicle comprising: an energy storage device for storing energy; an in-vehicle renewable energy source for generating electrical energy for recharging the in-vehicle energy storage device; at least one off-vehicle renewable energy source for providing electrical energy to the vehicle for recharging the in-vehicle energy storage device; a vehicle communication module for transmitting and receiving data; an integration module for integrating in-vehicle energy parameter data, in-vehicle renewable energy parameter data, off-vehicle renewable energy parameter data, user parameter data, and web-based data; and a user interface device for communicating with the vehicle communication module and the integration module, the user interface device communicating the user parameter data to the integration module, the user parameter data includes a prioritization of preferential parameters in re-charging the in-vehicle energy storage device, wherein the preferential parameters include at least one of a time-based index, a cost-based index, and a green index; wherein the integration module identifies an optimal energy source for re-charging the vehicle based on the in-vehicle energy parameter data, in-vehicle renewable energy parameter data, off-vehicle renewable energy parameter data, user parameter data, and the web-based data. | 6,486 |
8,753,511 | 1. Apparatus for integrated biological wastewater treatment and clarification comprising: a tank having a wastewater inlet for receiving wastewater to be treated and having a treated, clarified wastewater outlet for providing treated, clarified wastewater for use, said tank having an upper turbulence region, a lower solids settling region below said upper turbulence region and a sludge collection region below said lower solids settling region; a multiplicity of biomass carriers disposed in said upper turbulence region; a gas diffuser assembly arranged generally between said upper turbulence region and said lower solids settling region for providing gas bubbles which move upwardly through said wastewater and said biomass carriers in said upper turbulence region, providing turbulence and oxygen; and a sludge removal conduit communicating with said sludge collection region for removal of sludge therefrom. | 34,706 |
9,845,711 | 1. A waste heat recovery system configured to be operatively coupled to an internal combustion engine, the waste heat recovery system comprising: a Rankine cycle (RC) circuit operable to convert heat energy of the internal combustion engine, said RC circuit including a pump, a boiler, an energy converter, a condenser, and a conduit fluidly connecting the energy converter and the condenser; a gear assembly mechanically coupled to the energy converter, said gear assembly including a capacity for oil; an interface positioned between the RC circuit and the gear assembly; and an oil collector positioned in the conduit between the energy converter and the condenser, wherein the waste heat recovery system is structured to return, due to a first pressure of oil proximate the oil collector being higher than a second pressure of oil proximate the gear assembly due to a dynamic pressure of the oil proximate the oil collector, oil that has moved across the interface from the gear assembly to the RC circuit. | 43,399 |
9,358,788 | 1. An apparatus to print on media moved along a media path, comprising: a first print head die having first print structures disposed along a major dimension thereof perpendicular to the media path, the first print structures including a leading print structure with respect to the media path; and a second print head die independent of the first print head die, the second print head die having second print structures disposed along a major dimension thereof perpendicular to the media path, the second print head die being staggered with respect to the first print head die along the media path, the second print structures including a leading print structure with respect to the media path; wherein an extent between respective leading print structures of the first and second print head dies is between a minimum value equal to a width of the first print head plus 100 μm and a maximum value such that the distance along the media path between any of the first print structures and any of the second print structures does not exceed 10 mm. | 38,302 |
8,733,425 | 1. A casting device for producing semiconductor material foil, said casting device comprising a casting frame and a substrate band, the casting frame being arranged for holding a molten semiconductor material and comprising sidewalls of which an exit sidewall is located at an output position for the semiconductor material foil, the exit side wall being provided with an exit slit, wherein the casting device further comprises a local force exerting means to exert at the location of the exit slit a local relatively enlarged external force on the molten semiconductor material to enlarge locally an outer pressure on the molten semiconductor material at the exit slit as compared to a working pressure surrounding the casting frame, thereby reducing drag-out of the molten semiconductor material; wherein the force exerting means comprises an overpressure device; the overpressure device being arranged at the exit sidewall of the casting device and is adapted for producing at the location of the exit slit an overpressure relative to the outer pressure; and wherein the overpressure device comprises an inlet for pressurized gas, a pressure leveling chamber, and an overpressure chamber; the inlet being connected with an entrance of the pressure leveling chamber, an exit of the pressure leveling chamber being in communication with the overpressure chamber, the overpressure chamber being located at the exit slit of the casting frame. | 32,876 |
9,003,987 | 1. A vessel or a floating structure operating in ice-covered waters, comprising: a hull with a bottom and with a waterline including at least one bow structure, which is exposed to a loading effect of ice while the ice or the vessel or floating structure is moving in the ice or an ice field, wherein said bow structure, in an underwater part of the hull, is provided with at least one flow channel, the at least one flow channel being vertically or obliquely located with respect to the waterline and arranged to be directed towards the ice or the ice field in front of the vessel or floating structure, the bow structure comprising a forwardly protruding portion, the at least one flow channel having a first end disposed on an underside of the forwardly protruding portion and a second end on a top surface of the forwardly protruding portion, the at least one flow channel extending vertically or obliquely through the forwardly protruding portion and the at least one flow channel being oriented forwardly through the forwardly protruding portion, and wherein the at least one flow channel is provided with a pump or a propeller for leading from underneath the bottom of the vessel or the floating structure upwards-directed flows of water through said bow structure towards the ice or the ice field in front of and encountered by the bow structure. | 46,812 |
9,589,119 | 1. A method of processing customer feedback, comprising: provisioning, by a computer processor, a plurality of short codes to a plurality of portable electronic devices according to one or more parameters associated with the plurality of portable electronic devices, each different short code of the plurality of short codes comprising at least one segment associated with the one or more parameters having a value different from the at least one segment of other different short codes of the plurality of short codes, wherein the plurality of short codes comprises a first short code and a second short code; receiving, by the computer processor, a first plurality of messages from a first sub-set of the plurality of portable electronic devices addressed to the first short code; receiving, by the computer processor, a second plurality of messages from a second sub-set of the plurality of portable electronic devices addressed to the second short code; segmenting, by the computer processor, the first and second short codes received in the first and second plurality of messages according to the one or more parameters associated with the plurality of portable electronic devices, each segment of the segmented first and second short codes comprising a value associated with one of the one or more parameters; automatically analyzing, by the computer processor, the first and second plurality of messages based on a number of occurrences of the value associated with the one of the one or more parameters occurring in the each segment of the segmented first and second short codes; and based on the analysis, allocating, by the computer processor, customer care personnel resources to respond to the first and second plurality of messages. | 33,571 |
8,739,774 | 1. A solar collection system, comprising: an inlet manifold coupled to a source of water; an outlet manifold; a plurality of receiver sections connected between the inlet manifold and the outlet manifold, with individual receiver sections including: a steam distribution system coupled between the outlet manifold and an oilfield steam injection well to direct steam from the water into the well, without a reboiler between the outlet manifold and the injection well; and a controller coupled to the inlet manifold, the outlet manifold and the receiver sections, the controller being configured to (a) isolate a particular receiver section from other receiver sections and (b) position a reflector corresponding to the particular section off-sun, during cleaning operations. | 6,028 |
9,183,414 | 1. A memory controller comprising: a security key and parameter storage unit storing a plurality of security keys and a plurality of parameters that are used during encryption and decryption, wherein the security key and parameter storage unit selects one of the security keys and one of the parameters based on a control signal received from a central processing unit CPU; and in a security operation mode, a security engine configured to receive encrypted data stored in an external boot memory, decrypt the received encrypted data by using the selected security key and parameter, and output the decrypted data to the CPU, and configured to encrypt data transmitted from the CPU by using the selected security key and parameter, and output the encrypted data to the external boot memory. | 14,652 |
9,682,900 | 1. A process for producing C 5+ hydrocarbon, the process comprising: (a) providing a feed comprising a C (b) contacting the feed with a catalyst comprising at least one molecular sieve and at least one dehydrogenation component under conditions, including a temperature less than 700° C., effective to convert at least a portion of the methane and at least a portion of the aldehyde in the feed to a product comprising at least 5 wt. % of C (c) separating at least part of the C | 29,054 |
9,853,026 | 1. A transistor device comprising: a substrate having a first first-type well portion; a buffer layer having a second first-type well portion, wherein an intrinsic semiconductor material of the buffer layer is different from an intrinsic semiconductor material of the substrate, wherein the first first-type well portion is a first p-well portion, and wherein the second first-type well portion is a second p-well portion; a first source member; a first drain member; a first fin bar formed of a first semiconductor material, disposed between the first source member and the first drain member, and overlapping the first first-type well portion, wherein a semiconductor material of the first first-type well portion is different from the first semiconductor material, and wherein the second first-type well portion is positioned between the first fin bar and the first first-type well portion in a direction perpendicular to a surface of the substrate; and a first fin layer formed of a second semiconductor material, disposed between the first source member and the first drain member, and contacting the first fin bar. | 37,027 |
9,718,717 | 1. A process for hydrothermal carbonization of pasty products or waste, or of treatment plant sludge, in a reactor ( 3 ) under pressure and heated at a carbonization temperature T0, generally between 140° C. and 280° C., process wherein the products to be treated, before being introduced into the reactor, undergo the following steps: pressurization, preheating in an exchanger, with a thermal fluid that circulates in a closed loop, and that receives heat originating from the products leaving the reactor, wherein the thermal fluid is heated in the loop by an external heat source ( 12 ), downstream of the exchange with the products leaving the reactor, and upstream of the preheating of the products entering the reactor, the temperature of the product to be treated, preheated by the thermal fluid, on entering the reactor ( 3 ) is between the carbonization temperature T0 and T0-100° C., and the product to be treated flows through at least one tube ( 1 b ), including through the preheating exchanger, before entering the reactor, and at at least one location of the tube, an injection ( 20 ) of liquid is carried out in order to create a liquid ring (A) against the inner wall of the tube, and to reduce the pressure drops. | 10,777 |
9,798,362 | 1. A storage device storage tray for use with one or more storage devices, comprising: a chassis including a pair of opposed sidewalls and at least one storage region; and a storage frame positioned in the at least one storage region and pivotable about a pair of fasteners, each extending through a corresponding one of the pair of opposed sidewalls, the storage frame comprising: | 15,911 |
9,416,614 | 1. An offshore system including a surface wellhead and a riser extendable through and adjustably landable within the wellhead, including: a spool attachable to the wellhead; a flange assembly located above the spool; and a gasket configured to be located between and in contact with a top surface of the riser and the flange assembly such that the gasket forms a seal between the flange assembly and the top surface of the riser. | 32,814 |
9,852,043 | 1. A method for using principles of natural selection to optimize a cloud-computing genome, the method comprising: a processor of a computer system receiving data that describes a set of virtual resources comprised by the cloud-computing environment; the processor selecting a set of candidate resource configurations, where every virtual resource of the set of virtual resources is associated with a plurality of candidate resource configurations of the set of candidate resource configurations; the processor further selecting a set of candidate environment configurations, where each candidate environment configuration of the set of candidate environment configurations comprises at least one candidate resource configuration of the set of candidate resource configurations; the processor provisioning a virtual test environment that simulates the cloud-computing environment, and that comprises a virtual representation of each resource of the set of virtual resources; the processor configuring the virtual test environment by successively loading the virtual test environment with configuration combinations, the processor evaluating a first resource-fitness characteristic of a first loaded resource configuration of the at least two candidate resource configurations, the processor deriving a value of an environment-fitness characteristic of a first loaded environment configuration of the at least two candidate environment configurations, the processor ranking the at least two candidate resource configurations as a function of the evaluating and of the deriving; the processor further ranking the at least two candidate environment configurations as a function of the evaluating and of the deriving; the processor revising at least one candidate resource configuration of the set of candidate resource configurations and at least one candidate environment configuration of the set of candidate environment configurations as a function of the ranking and of the further ranking; and the processor repeating the configuring, the evaluating, the deriving, the ranking, the further ranking, and the revising until a resulting virtual test environment is an optimal virtual environment. | 6,100 |
9,193,661 | 1. A process for producing an acrylate product, the process comprising the steps of: (a) reacting an alkanoic acid comprising acetic acid and an alkylenating agent to form a crude product stream comprising the acrylate product comprising from 5 wt % to 50 wt % acrylic acid, from 0.5 wt % to 50 wt % alkylenating agent comprising formaldehyde and/or precursors thereof, from 5 wt % to 50 wt % acetic acid, and from 1 wt % to 60 wt % water; (b) condensing at least a portion of the crude product stream to form a condensed crude product stream; and (c) separating at least a portion of the condensed crude product stream to form an alkylenating agent stream comprising at least 1 wt % alkylenating agent and an intermediate acrylate product stream comprising acrylic acid and acetic acid. | 45,482 |
8,874,055 | 1. A communications device comprising: a first receiver coupled to a first phase lock loop (PLL) and a first subscriber identity module (SIM); a second receiver coupled to the first PLL, a second PLL, and a second SIM; a transmitter coupled to the second PLL; and a controller coupled to the first PLL and the second PLL, wherein the controller is configured to: initiate, using the second PLL, a second wake up signal for the second receiver if a second transmission is in progress using the first SIM. | 2,152 |
9,027,508 | 1. A periphery coating apparatus that coats a coating liquid on a periphery region of a substrate, the apparatus comprising: a rotatable holding unit configured to hold and rotate the substrate thereon horizontally; a coating liquid supply unit provided above the substrate, having a coating liquid nozzle that discharges a coating liquid downward, and configured to supply the coating liquid onto a surface of the substrate; a horizontal transfer unit configured to move the coating liquid nozzle in a horizontal direction; and a coating controller configured to control the rotatable holding unit, the coating liquid supply unit and the horizontal transfer unit, wherein the coating controller performs: a scan-in process of moving the coating liquid nozzle from an outside of an edge of the substrate to a position above the periphery region of the substrate by controlling the horizontal transfer unit while rotating the substrate by controlling the rotatable holding unit and discharging the coating liquid from the coating liquid nozzle by controlling the coating liquid supply unit, and a scan-out process of moving the coating liquid nozzle from the position above the periphery region of the substrate to the outside of the edge of the substrate by controlling the horizontal transfer unit while rotating the substrate by controlling the rotatable holding unit and discharging the coating liquid from the coating liquid nozzle by controlling the coating liquid supply unit, and when performing the scan-out process, the coating liquid nozzle is moved at a speed lower than a speed at which the coating liquid is moved to a side of the edge of the substrate. | 38,671 |
9,772,432 | 1. A device comprising: photosensitive elements defining a focal plane, the photosensitive elements to capture incident light over a wavelength band of interest; and a diffraction grating defining a transverse plane, spaced from the focal plane, to modulate the incident light, the diffraction grating including pairs of adjacent segments defining between them boundaries extending away from a center in the transverse plane, the boundaries producing curtains of minimum intensity separated by foci and extending to the focal plane; wherein the adjacent segments widen away from the center in the transverse plane. | 43,392 |
9,447,774 | 1. A non-rotating wind energy generating apparatus, comprising: a bluff body operable to initiate and sustain non-rotational oscillatory motion in response to wind energy; and an alternator system operable to generate electrical energy via the motion of the bluff body. | 32,068 |
8,613,815 | 1. A method of rapidly and uniformly heating a metallic glass sheet using a rapid capacitor discharge comprising: providing a sample of metallic glass formed of a metallic glass forming alloy having a substantially uniform cross section in an enclosure, the enclosure having an opening in at least one end thereof and at least one pair of rollers arranged parallel to each other positioned external to said enclosure and adjacent to the opening; discharging a quantum of electrical energy of at least 50 Joules uniformly through said sample to uniformly heat the sample at a rate of at least 500K/sec to a processing temperature between the glass transition temperature of the metallic glass and the equilibrium melting point of the metallic glass forming alloy; applying a compressive force to the heated sample to urge said material through the opening and between the at least one roller pair, the roller pair being configured to apply a deformational force to shape the heated sample into a sheet while the heated sample is still at a temperature between the glass transition temperature of the metallic glass and the equilibrium melting point of the metallic glass forming alloy; and cooling said article to a temperature below the glass transition temperature of the metallic glass. | 6,182 |
9,528,497 | 1. A vehicular wind power generator for being installed on a vehicle, comprising: a main body having a power-generating unit, a plurality of blades each assembled to the combining portions of the main body to flare radially outward therefrom, each blade having an engaging portion formed along a radially inner edge configured to engage in dovetailed manner axially along a corresponding one of the combining portions; a maglev unit including at least one first magnetic portion and at least one second magnetic portion, wherein the at least one first magnetic portion is provided on the stator, and the at least one second magnetic portion is provided on at least one of the blades; wherein the first magnetic portion and the second magnetic portion are of an identical magnetic pole for repulsive magnetic coupling radially therebetween; and two stands, each being assembled to a respective one of the two axle portions and having a fixing portion corresponding to the respective one of the two axle portions, whereby when the vehicle is moving, wind is guided to the blades so as to make the rotor rotate with respect to the stator, and cause the induction windings and the magnets to generate electric power due to electromagnetic effects. | 36,335 |
9,043,676 | 1. A device comprising: a plurality of content addressable memories, wherein each content addressable memory of the plurality of content addressable memories includes error detection circuitry for each word entry of the content addressable memory, the error detection circuitry configured to generate an error signal when an error is detected for the word entry and content of the word entry matches search data; counting circuitry that counts a number of sequential repeats of search data detected by at least one of the plurality of content addressable memories without an error; compression circuitry that generates compression information for a sequentially repeating search data that repeats for a compression threshold; a data path to carry search data in accordance with a number of stages for the plurality of content addressable memories to search for a match with the search data; and selection circuitry that selects input from the data path when the error detection circuitry of any one of the plurality of content addressable memories generates an error signal, that selects input from the compression circuitry when none of the error detection circuitries of the plurality of content addressable memories generates an error signal over a span of a detected sequence of repeating search data that repeats for a compression threshold, and that outputs a selected input. | 34,058 |
9,540,716 | 1. A composite powder, comprising: 80-97 wt % of carbide; and 3-20 wt % of a blending metal powder comprising cobalt and a first metal powder, wherein the first metal powder is formed of nickel, or nickel, and one of aluminum, titanium, iron or a combination thereof, the amount of cobalt is 90-96% of the blending metal powder, and the ratio of the amount of cobalt to the amount of nickel is 30:1-96:1. | 13,483 |
8,530,267 | 1. A method for manufacturing a hybrid silicon-based thin film solar cell including an amorphous silicon photoelectric conversion unit and a crystalline silicon photoelectric conversion unit stacked on a transparent substrate side, the method comprising steps of: in an amorphous unit formation step, forming the amorphous silicon photoelectric conversion unit; in a crystalline unit formation step, forming the crystalline silicon photoelectric conversion unit on the amorphous silicon photoelectric conversion unit; wherein the amorphous unit formation step comprises a step of forming a first p-type layer, an amorphous i-type silicon photoelectric conversion layer and a first n-type layer, in this order; wherein the crystalline unit formation step comprises a step of forming a second p-type layer, a crystalline i-type silicon photoelectric conversion layer, an n-type silicon-based thin film layer, and a second n-type layer, in this order; wherein the n-type silicon-based thin film layer includes an n-type silicon alloy layer and an n-type amorphous silicon layer thereon, the n-type silicon alloy layer being in contact with the crystalline i-type silicon photoelectric conversion layer and having a film thickness of 1 to 12 nm; and wherein the second n-type layer formed on the n-type amorphous silicon layer of the n-type silicon-based thin film layer is an n-type microcrystalline silicon layer. | 9,454 |
9,803,773 | 1. An oil-gas dual-purpose integrated switch, wherein said oil-gas dual-purpose integrated switch comprises a valve and a knob switch for controlling an ignition coil and a carburetor solenoid valve; the knob switch has a knob which can be rotated to control the ignition coil to perform earthing or powering off the carburetor; the valve comprises a valve body, a valve core and a valve cap; the valve cap is fixed on the valve body to form a valve cavity; the valve core is disposed in the valve body; the valve core passes through the valve cap to be fixed with the knob of the knob switch such that when the knob switch is rotated, the valve core is driven to rotate; the valve body is provided with an oil inlet pipe joint, an oil outlet pipe joint, a gas inlet pipe joint and a gas outlet pipe joint which are communicated with the valve cavity; the valve core is provided with an oil duct which is communicated with the oil inlet pipe joint and the oil outlet pipe joint, and a gas duct which is communicated with the gas inlet pipe joint and the gas outlet pipe joint. | 31,620 |
8,991,756 | 1. An aircraft crew rest station for an aircraft having a hull with a curved top portion, a lowered ceiling overlying a passenger seating area, and a space therebetween overlying a passenger seating area below the lowered ceiling, the aircraft crew rest station comprising: an overhead crew rest portion contoured to occupy the space between the curved top portion of the hull of the aircraft and the lowered ceiling of the aircraft, said overhead crew rest portion including a central deck portion disposed in the overhead crew rest portion, a forward bunk portion connected to a forward portion of said central deck portion and disposed in said overhead crew rest portion, and an aft bunk portion connected to an aft portion of the central deck portion and disposed in the overhead crew rest portion, said forward bunk portion including a plurality of adjacent partitioned individual forward sleeping berths and said aft bunk portion including a plurality of adjacent partitioned individual aft sleeping berths, each of said plurality of adjacent partitioned individual sleeping berths in the forward and aft bunk portions having a head end and a foot end, said head end being wider than said foot end, and said berths in said forward and aft bunk portions being configured in interfitting adjacent alternating trapezoid shapes with a head end of at least one of said plurality of adjacent partitioned individual sleeping berths being positioned adjacent to a foot end of at least one other of said plurality of adjacent partitioned individual sleeping berths to optimize spatial accommodation of body proportions of crew members in the forward and aft bunk portions in the overhead crew rest portion; and a central entry vestibule connected between the aircraft passenger seating area and the central deck portion of the overhead crew rest portion to provide direct access to the central deck portion of the overhead crew rest portion, each of said plurality of adjacent partitioned individual sleeping berths in said forward and aft bunk portions having individual entrances connected to said central deck portion at alternating adjacent head and foot ends of said plurality of adjacent partitioned sleeping berths of said forward and aft bunk portions. | 44,104 |
9,504,722 | 1. A dosage form comprising an anti-adipogenic or pro-lipolytic composition, wherein said composition comprises an herbal supplement consisting of: a) an effective amount of an alcohol extract of b) an effective amount of an antiobesic agent; wherein said extract is obtained by: wherein said dosage form is selected from the group consisting of a tablet, a capsule, a pill, a suppository, and a controlled release tablet. | 45,791 |
9,731,313 | 1. In a fluid applicator for applying a fluid to a surface protrusion, said applicator comprising a hollow body having an elongated axis with opposing ends and an opening at each of the opposing ends, the improvement wherein a porous material is positioned inside the hollow body along the elongated axis, the porous material containing an aperture at one end and opening of the hollow body, said porous material aperture having a predetermined depth and diameter so as to match the height and the geometric shape of the surface protrusion and cover the surface protrusion such that fluid flowing from the porous material is uniformly applied to the protrusion. | 8,027 |
8,677,913 | 1. A device for incinerating combustion material in the form of combustible waste during cement production, said device comprising: a combustion chamber separate from a calcinator, said combustion chamber having a static floor; means for feeding the combustion material into the combustion chamber; means for supplying at least a first air flow into the combustion chamber; means for feeding cement raw meal into the combustion chamber; and means for supplying at least a second air flow in the form of compressed air pulses into a region of a floor of said combustion chamber. | 40,705 |
9,051,657 | 1. A modular electrolysis system comprising: a. an exterior surface; b. a first endplate comprising; c. a plurality of membrane frames, each membrane frame comprising: d. wherein one membrane frame is provided adjacent the first endplate; e. at least one passive electrode frame comprising: f. a second endplate comprising: | 18,007 |
8,902,802 | 1. A method of receiving a signal at a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system supporting a plurality of component carriers, the method comprising: receiving a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) including control information of a first type component carrier from a base station (BS) or a relay node (RN); and performing decoding a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) based on the control information included in the PDCCH at a second type component carrier after a time corresponding to a specific time offset value has passed from a time when the PDCCH is transmitted, wherein the specific time offset value is computed by Equation A: where, T | 32,327 |
8,584,596 | 1. A truck for a vehicle, comprising: an unpowered axle spring system that couples an unpowered axle carrier to a truck frame, the unpowered axle spring system configured to generate an overall unpowered axle separation force between the truck frame and the unpowered axle carrier, wherein a rate of decrease of the overall unpowered axle separation force increases past a first separation distance between the truck frame and the unpowered axle carrier; and a powered axle spring system that couples a powered axle carrier to the truck frame, the powered axle spring system configured to generate a powered axle separation force between the truck frame and the powered axle carrier, wherein a rate of decrease of the powered axle separation force decreases past a second separation distance between the truck frame and the powered axle carrier. | 36,696 |
9,849,807 | 1. A system comprising: one or more processors configured to assign plural vehicles to different groups in one or more vehicle systems for travel along one or more routes, the one or more processors also configured to determine trip plans for the different groups of the vehicles, wherein the trip plans designate different operational settings of the vehicles in the different groups at different locations along one or more routes during movement of the one or more vehicle systems along the one or more routes, wherein the one or more processors also are configured to modify one or more of the groups to which the vehicles are assigned or the operational settings for the vehicles in one or more of the vehicle systems based on a movement parameter of one or more of the vehicle systems, and wherein the trip plans for the different groups of the vehicles are interdependent upon each other. | 47,372 |
9,788,721 | 1. A sensor block comprising: an amplifier to receive a sensor signal from a sensor and output an amplified signal; a compressed sensing analog-to-digital conversion block coupled to the amplifier, the compressed sensing analog-to-digital conversion block including a random number generator that generates random values to enable an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) to take random samples of the amplified signal based on the random values, and output compressed sensing data comprising the random samples; a post processor coupled to the compressed sensing analog-to-digital conversion block to receive the compressed sensing data and remove noise from the compressed sensing data by active thresholding; and a communication interface coupled to the post processor to receive the compressed sensing data from the post processor and send the compressed sensing data to a computing device, wherein the sensor block further utilizes the random number generator for encrypting the compressed sensing data prior to sending to the computing device. | 12,400 |
8,493,047 | 1. A control circuit for a switching regulator receiving an input voltage, the control circuit controlling a main switch and a low-side switch using a constant on-time control scheme to drive a switch output node for generating a switching output voltage, the switch output node being coupled to an LC filter circuit to generate a regulated output voltage having a substantially constant magnitude on an output node, the regulated output voltage being fed back to the control circuit as a feedback voltage, the control circuit comprising: an one-shot timer configured to generate a control signal indicative of a fixed on-time duration of the main switch, the control signal being applied to turn on the main switch while turning off the low-side switch and to turn off the main switch after the fixed on-time duration has expired while turning on the low-side switch; a minimum off-time timer configured to generate a minimum off-time signal having a first state when the main switch has been turned off for a minimum off-time duration; a first control loop configured to control the one-shot timer to generate the control signal to turn on the main switch when the feedback voltage is below a first reference voltage and the minimum off-time signal has the first state; and a second control loop configured to control the one-shot timer to generate the control signal to turn on the main switch when the feedback voltage is below a second reference voltage and the minimum off-time signal has the first state and a low-side current signal has a first state indicative of a light load condition at the output node, the second reference voltage being greater than the first reference voltage, wherein the second control loop regulates the regulated output voltage during light load conditions to cause the regulated output voltage to be maintained at a voltage level greater than the regulated output voltage maintained by the first control loop during normal or heavy load conditions. | 37,984 |
9,698,686 | 1. A detection device, comprising: a driving circuit which receives a feedback signal from a physical quantity transducer, and drives the physical quantity transducer, and wherein the driving circuit amplifies a signal based on the feedback signal and outputs the amplified signal, as a drive signal; a detection circuit which receives a detection signal from the physical quantity transducer, and detects a desired signal; a power-supply terminal into which a power-supply voltage is input; a regulator circuit which performs a voltage adjustment of stepping down the power-supply voltage from the power-supply terminal, and supplies a regulated power-supply voltage obtained by the voltage adjustment to the driving circuit and the detection circuit as an operating power-supply voltage; and a buffer circuit receives the power-supply voltage, and receives the drive signal from the driving circuit, wherein the buffer circuit is operable to output an amplified drive signal in which an amplitude of the drive signal increases to the physical quantity transducer. | 39,313 |
8,828,345 | 1. A method for manufacturing trichlorosilane, the method comprising: reacting metallurgical grade silicon with silicon tetrachloride and hydrogen so as to obtain a reaction gas; condensing the reaction gas so as to obtain a condensate; and distilling the condensate using a distillation system including a first distillation column and a secondary distillation column so as to refine trichlorosilane, wherein the condensate is maintained in a high temperature state so that a concentration of aluminum chloride in the condensate becomes in a range of a saturation solubility or less, and the condensate flows to the first distillation column while maintaining the high temperature state, a liquid distilled in the first distillation column is distilled by the secondary distillation column so as to refine trichlorosilane, and a liquid in which aluminum chloride is concentrated is extracted from a bottom portion of the first distillation column, and the extracted liquid is concentrated and dried, and then aluminum chloride is exhausted. | 13,245 |
8,389,851 | 1. A method comprising: creating an optical element comprising essentially of glass having a flat first surface including a concave surface portion, a convex second surface disposed opposite to the flat first surface, and a cylindrical pedestal structure disposed on the concave surface portion, the cylindrical pedestal structure including a flat second surface defining a recess, the flat second surface facing away from the flat first surface; depositing conductive material on the flat second surface such that a portion of the deposited conductive material is disposed within the recess; and substantially planarizing the flat second surface to expose the portion of the conductive material disposed within the recess. | 35,937 |
9,610,523 | 1. A filter media comprising: a substrate; and a fine fiber web disposed on the substrate, wherein the fine fiber web comprises: wherein the fine fiber web is substantially uniform in active particulate distribution. | 21,580 |
9,496,561 | 1. An electrode catalyst having a core-shell structure comprising: a support; a core part formed on said support; and a shell part formed to cover at least a part of a surface of said core part, wherein said electrode catalyst concurrently fulfils conditions expressed by the following formulae (1) and (2): (X2/M) in the formula (2) exceeds 4.5, wherein in the formula (1) and the formula (2), M represents an amount of substance (number of atoms) of one or more constituent metal elements of the shell part, as calculated using an electrochemical surface area (ECSA) based on a hydrogen desorption wave obtained by cyclic voltammetry, X1 represents an amount of substance (number of atoms) of bromine (Br), as calculated based on the content of a bromine (Br) species as measured by X-ray fluorescence (XRF) spectrometry, and X2 represents an amount of substance (number of atoms) of chlorine (Cl), as calculated based on the content of a chlorine (Cl) species, as measured by X-ray fluorescence (XRF) spectrometry. | 36,163 |
9,570,538 | 1. A method of manufacturing a polysilicon resistor with a selected temperature coefficient of resistance (TCR), the method comprising: selecting a sheet resistance for the polysilicon resistor, the selected sheet resistance being related to a selected film thickness of the polysilicon resistor; selecting a dose level for a grain size modulating species (GSMS) for modulating an average grain size of grains of the polysilicon resistor; selecting the TCR for the polysilicon resistor, the TCR being related to a selected average grain size of the polysilicon; forming the polysilicon resistor on a substrate, the polysilicon resistor having the selected sheet resistance, the selected GSMS dose level and the selected TCR; measuring a density of states (DOS) for traps within the polysilicon resistor using deep level transit spectroscopy (DLTS); creating a technology computer aided design (TCAD) model of the polysilicon resistor by performing a TCAD simulation on the polysilicon resistor; calculating a resistance versus voltage characteristic based on a measured current versus voltage characteristic for the polysilicon resistor; converting the resistance versus voltage characteristic to a resistance versus temperature characteristic using the TCAD simulation model; and calculating the TCR for the polysilicon resistor by using the resistance versus temperature characteristic. | 23,951 |
9,502,589 | 1. A solar cell module comprising: a solar cell in which a collecting electrode is formed on at least one of a light receiving surface and a back surface; and a resin sealing layer positioned over the collecting electrode, wherein the solar cell comprises a transparent conductive layer the collecting electrode comprises: the collecting electrode is formed between insulating coating layers formed on the transparent conductive layer, and the collecting electrode is thinner than the coating layers on both sides of the collecting electrode, and the sealing layer covers a depression formed by an upper surface of the overcoat layer and side surfaces of the coating layers on both sides of the collecting electrode. | 1,965 |
9,242,631 | 1. A vehicle comprising: a drive unit configured to drive a driving wheel; and a controller configured to control the drive unit and receive an activation command for the drive unit from a user, the controller limiting an actual braking force generated by the drive unit when a condition i) that the vehicle carries out coasting with the drive unit unactivated and a condition ii) that the activation command for the drive unit is received from the user are fulfilled, as compared to a case where the vehicle runs in a state other than coasting. | 12,945 |
9,632,387 | 1. A display unit, comprising: a display layer that includes a plurality of pixels, wherein each pixel of the plurality of pixels has an electrophoretic device; a color filter provided on a display side of the display layer and that includes a plurality of filter layers that face respective pixels of the plurality of pixels, | 41,851 |
8,925,304 | 1. An apparatus comprising a diesel engine and an exhaust system therefor comprising at least one exhaust system component for treating exhaust gas and means for generating an exotherm for heating the at least one exhaust system component, which exotherm generating means consisting essentially of a catalyst and means for injecting hydrocarbon into exhaust gas for combustion on the catalyst, wherein the catalyst consists essentially of both a palladium (Pd) component and a platinum (Pt) component, and a NO x absorber, a first support material and a second support material, disposed on a substrate monolith, wherein the palladium (Pd) component is supported on the first support material, the platinum (Pt) component is supported on the second support material and the NO x absorber comprises an oxide of an alkaline-earth metal, and wherein: (a) the palladium (Pd) component supported on the first support material is in a first layer and the platinum (Pt) component supported on the second support material is in a second layer, and wherein the first layer is below the second layer; or (b) the platinum (Pt) component supported on the second support material is disposed in a zone on an upstream end of the substrate monolith and the palladium (Pd) component supported on the first support material is disposed in a zone on a downstream end of the substrate monolith. | 36,615 |
9,847,727 | 1. A half-bridge resonant bidirectional DC-DC converter circuit comprising: a half-bridge buck-boost converter coupled to an external DC power source which provides a stable DC voltage, the half-bridge buck-boost converter comprising: a resonant DC-DC converter coupled to the half-bridge buck-boost converter to act as a later stage circuit of the half-bridge buck-boost converter, the resonant DC-DC converter is adapted to respond to the half-bridge buck-boost converter in a fixed frequency method and output an induced current converted from the input of the half-bridge buck-boost converter; wherein the resonant DC-DC converter comprises a first-order side switch unit, a voltage conversion unit and a second-order side switch unit, the first-order side switch unit coupled to the half-bridge buck-boost converter, the voltage conversion unit coupled to the first-order side switch unit, and the second-order side switch unit coupled to the voltage conversion unit; and wherein the second-order side switch unit comprises a fifth switch, a sixth switch, a second capacitor and a third capacitor, the input end of the fifth switch is coupled to the first end of the second coil, the input end of the sixth switch is coupled to the first end of the second coil, the second capacitor coupled to the second end of the second coil, the third capacitor coupled to the second end of the second coil, and the fifth switch, the sixth switch, the second capacitor and the third capacitor adjust and output the induced voltage. | 13,426 |
8,666,156 | 1. A method comprising: analyzing, by a computing device, an image in order to identify a color that represents the image and that is expected to be perceived by humans as a general hue of the image, the analyzing including: generating an enhanced background based at least in part on the identified color; and outputting both the image and the enhanced background on a screen. | 26,198 |
8,683,815 | 1. A magnetocaloric element ( 1 , 10 , 20 , 30 , 40 , 50 , 60 , 70 , 80 , 90 ) comprising: an alignment of at least two sets (MC the at least two sets (MC the magnetocaloric element ( the initiating element (MA | 1,386 |
9,231,257 | 1. A bipolar plate, configured for a cathode and an anode to be formed on two opposite sides thereof, for a fuel cell, comprising: an electrochemical reaction region comprising a first primary side and a second primary side opposite the first primary side thereof, the electrochemical reaction region further comprising a plurality of edges disposed between the first and second primary sides; and a non-electrochemical reaction region joined with the electrochemical reaction region, the non-electrochemical reaction region comprising a first primary side and a second primary side opposite the first primary side thereof, the non-electrochemical reaction region further comprising a plurality edges that join with the plurality of edges of the electrochemical reaction region, wherein, when the electrochemical reaction region and the non-electrochemical reaction region are joined together, the first primary side of the electrochemical reaction region is flush with the first primary side of the non-electrochemical reaction region and the second primary side of the electrochemical reaction region is flush with the second primary side of the non-electrochemical reaction region, and wherein each of the edges of the electrochemical reaction region comprises an indentation and each of the edges of the non-electrochemical reaction region comprises an indentation such that the electrochemical reaction region and the non-electrochemical reaction region are joined together by the indentations of the edges of the electrochemical reaction region mating with the indentations of the edges of the non-electrochemical reaction region. | 11,668 |
8,773,894 | 1. A static random access memory, comprising: a pre-charger connected to a first local bit line for pre-charging the first local bit line, wherein the pre-charger is comprised of a first PMOS transistor and a first inverter; a first cell column array/peripheral circuit connected to the first local bit line and having a plurality of cells for temporarily storing data, the cells being connected to the first local bit line; a first ripple buffer connected to the first local bit line and a second local bit line for sending the data from the first local bit line to the second local bit line, wherein the first ripple buffer is comprised of a second PMOS transistor, an NMOS transistor, a NAND gate, and a second inverter; a second cell column array/peripheral circuit connected to the second local bit line and having a plurality of cells for temporarily storing data, the cells being connected to the second local bit line; and a second ripple buffer connected to the second local bit line and a third local bit line for sending the data from the second local bit line to the third local bit line; wherein the first cell column array/peripheral circuit has a first cell column array with the plurality of cells, and the second cell column array/peripheral circuit has a first cell column array with the plurality of cells. | 33,811 |
9,278,477 | 1. A method of making a stent comprising: disposing a polymer tube within a cylindrical mold having a larger diameter than the tube, wherein the polymer tube is made completely of a bioresorbable polymer; heating the tube with infrared radiation from an infrared radiation source, wherein the heated tube radially expands against an inner surface of the mold; and making a stent from the radially expanded tube. | 32,236 |
8,965,653 | 1. A transmission comprising: a plurality of oncoming clutches, each of the plurality of oncoming clutches being hydraulically-actuated; a controller operatively connected to the plurality of oncoming clutches; an algorithm stored on and executable by the controller to cause the controller to: wherein the first staging pressure (PS | 14,258 |
8,758,470 | 1. An Intake air filter filtering air flow into an internal combustion engine, comprising: a housing enclosing a chamber therein, said housing openable to access said chamber, said housing including a main filter element arranged with said chamber, said filter element seal-tightly arranged between the inlet and the outlet such that airflow flowing from said inlet to said outlet is required to flow through said main filter element, wherein said main filter element has an annularly closed shape, a secondary element having an annularly closed shape, said secondary element arranged downstream of said main filter element in flow direction and connected seal-tightly with the outlet such that airflow from said chamber in said outlet is required to flow through said secondary element; a centering device arranged at an end face of said main filter element, said end face on an axial end of said main filter element opposite said airflow outlet, wherein said centering device is operable to fix radial position of said secondary element within said main filter element, wherein said centering device is provided between said secondary element and said main filter element, wherein said centering device comprises an insertion device that is embodied as a pin; wherein a compressible ring is arranged on said pin. | 942 |
9,117,728 | 1. A method of manufacturing a solid-state imaging device, comprising the steps of: providing a plurality of photoelectric conversion units that receive light and generate signal charge in such a manner as to correspond to a plurality of pixels in a pixel area of a semiconductor substrate; and providing pixel transistors that output the signal charge generated in the photoelectric conversion units as electrical signals on a second surface of the semiconductor substrate opposite to a first surface of the semiconductor substrate on which the photoelectric conversion units receive light, wherein the step of providing the pixel transistors includes at least forming a transfer transistor that transfers the signal charge generated in the photoelectric conversion unit to a floating diffusion corresponding to a drain, wherein in the step of providing the transfer transistor, the transfer transistor is formed in such a manner that a gate electrode of the transfer transistor extends with a gate insulating film in between from a channel formed area to a portion where the photoelectric conversion unit has been formed on the second surface of the semiconductor substrate, and wherein a first portion of the gate includes an impurity of a first conduction type, and wherein a second portion of the gate electrode includes an impurity of a second conduction type. | 9,879 |
9,258,547 | 1. A method for extending 3-dimensional view-depth of 3D video recording and playing back on an intelligent device to increase the view depth beyond human eye capability, comprises the following steps: (1) producing extension for the location of one camera in camera pair for 3D video recording; (2) integrating the said extension with the said intelligent device for both 3D video recording and playing back with extended view-depth for wider applications; (3) recording 3D video with extended view-depth; and (4) playing back recorded 3D video with extended view-depth; wherein, the said intelligent device being referring to any one of cell-phone, PDA, iPhone, iPad, Google Glass, pocket PC or tablet, GPS, eBook, laptop or notebook, monitors of desktop computer, TV or iTV; wherein, the 3D display of intelligent device with said extension for playing back being not necessarily to limit to case of glassless display, and being not necessarily to limit to the case which needs a camera for eye tracking; wherein the (means of) recording 3D video with extended view-depth comprises at least one of: (1) determine camera-separation in camera pair from the depth of scene using relation: (separation of approximately 30 feet)*(camera-distance/8 cm); (2) pulling out extension from intelligent device to a proper distance according to required camera-separation; (3) adjusting numerical and optic focus of two cameras in camera pair simultaneously during 3D recording; and (4) adjusting view-angles of two cameras in camera pair simultaneously during 3D recording; wherein, data of right eye pictures and left eye pictures is stored in predetermined format such as in separate data files, alternately in one data file, in industry standard format(;), and in predefined 3D movie format. | 39,728 |
8,874,351 | 1. A method of engine control optimization, the method comprising: detecting a plurality of operating conditions of a vehicle engine, the plurality of operating conditions including a first operating condition and a second operating condition; identifying an initial value for a first engine control parameter that corresponds to a combination of the detected first operating condition and the detected second operating condition in a first engine map look-up table, the first engine map look-up table defining a plurality of operating sub-regions each corresponding to a range of values for the first operating condition and a range of values for the second operating condition and defining a first engine control parameter value corresponding to each operating sub-region; adjusting the initial value for the first engine control parameter based on a detected engine performance variable to cause the engine performance variable to approach a target value; identifying an initial value for a second engine control parameter that corresponds to the combination of the detected first operating condition and the detected second operating condition in a second engine map look-up table, the second engine map look-up table defining a plurality of operating sub-regions each corresponding to a range of values for the first operating condition and a range of values for the second operating condition and defining a second engine control parameter value corresponding to each operating sub-region; adjusting the initial value for the second engine control parameter based on the detected engine performance variable to cause the engine performance variable to approach the target value; determining a first sensitivity of the engine performance variable in response to changes in the first engine control parameter when the detected first operating condition and the detected second operating condition are within a first operating sub-region of the first engine map look-up table; adjusting the first engine map look-up table by dividing the first operating sub-region of the first engine map look-up table into a plurality of new operating sub-regions within the first operating sub-region of the first engine map look-up table when the first sensitivity is greater than a threshold; determining a second sensitivity of the engine performance variable in response to changes in the second engine control parameter when the first operating condition and the second operating condition are within a first operating sub-region of the second engine map look-up table; and adjusting the second engine map look-up table by dividing the first operating sub-region of the second engine map look-up table into a plurality of new operating sub-regions within the first operating sub-region of the second engine map look-up table when the second sensitivity is greater than a threshold. | 23,657 |
9,251,697 | 1. A method for pairing a wireless sensor including a switch with a coordinator in a wireless personal area network, the method comprising a pairing mode initiation sequence including the steps of: first sensing actuation of the switch according to a first actuation sequence timing requirement; second sensing no actuation of the switch, for a first designated waiting period commencing after the first sensing has ended; third sensing actuation of the switch according to a second actuation sequence timing requirement after the second sensing; and entering a pairing mode with the coordinator only after completing at least the third sensing step. | 41,719 |
8,579,074 | 1. An intake silencer for a gas turbine disposed in a sealed flow path of an intake of a gas turbine and configured by a sound-absorbing splitter group composed of a plurality of panel-shaped sound-absorbing splitters including a sound-absorbing material therein disposed in parallel along a gas flow direction, wherein a high frequency sound-absorbing splitter group composed of a plurality of sound-absorbing splitters that reduces high-frequency component noise of a frequency level centered on 2 kHz, each of said high frequency sound-absorbing splitters being 5 centimeters in width and a gap between a pair of adjacent high frequency sound-absorbing splitters being 5 centimeters, and a middle to low frequency sound-absorbing splitter group composed of a plurality of sound-absorbing splitters that reduces middle to low frequency component noise of equal to or below 1 kHz, each of said middle to low frequency sound-absorbing splitters being 20 centimeters in width and a gap between a pair of adjacent middle to low frequency sound-absorbing splitters being 30 centimeters, and said high frequency sound-absorbing splitter group and said middle to low frequency sound-absorbing splitter group are disposed separately in the gas flow direction. | 6,752 |
9,517,400 | 1. An improved mouth guard, comprising: a sheet of material composed of a thermoplastic polymer, enabling the sheet to be heated with hot water or microwave energy; the sheet having an arc-shaped bite line, the arc-shaped bite line divides the sheet into a first area of material entirely on one side of the arc-shaped bite line and a second area of material entirely on another side of the arc-shaped bite line, wherein the first and second areas each have a plurality of closely spaced perforations which penetrate entirely through the sheet, wherein said perforations laterally deform with an impact; a first unperforated V-shaped area of material located across said arc-shaped bite line to bound a greater number of perforations in said first area than said second area; and a second unperforated area of material between said first and second areas and within said V-shaped area and said arc-shaped bite line. | 36,972 |
8,843,729 | 1. A microprocessor configured to receive first and second program-adjacent macroinstructions of the instruction set architecture of the microprocessor, wherein the first macroinstruction instructs the microprocessor to move a first operand to a first architectural register of the microprocessor from a second architectural register of the microprocessor, wherein the second macroinstruction instructs the microprocessor to perform an arithmetic/logic operation using the first operand in the second architectural register and a second operand in a third architectural register of the microprocessor to generate a result and to load the result back into the first architectural register, the microprocessor comprising: a hardware execution unit; an instruction translator, configured to simultaneously translate the first and second program-adjacent macroinstructions into a single micro-operation for execution by the hardware execution unit; wherein the single micro-operation instructs the hardware execution unit to perform the arithmetic/logic operation using the first operand in the second architectural register and the second operand in third architectural register to generate the result and to load the result back into the first architectural register; and a retire unit, configured to retire both the first and second macroinstructions in the same clock cycle. | 25,508 |
9,489,175 | 1. A configurable integrated circuit comprising: a plurality of configurable logic circuits, wherein the configurable logic circuits include a plurality of sets of associated configurable logic circuits; and first and second carry circuits for performing up to N carry operations sequentially in each set of the plurality of sets of associated configurable logic circuits, wherein N is greater than two, wherein the first carry circuits are serially connected to form a first carry chain, and wherein the second carry circuits are serially connected to form a second carry chain that is separate from the first carry chain. | 7,201 |
9,249,677 | 1. A blade pitch-controlled wind turbine system comprising: a support assembly including a tower, wherein said support assembly also includes an elongate support member supported upon said tower; a turbine rotor assembly supported upon said support assembly, wherein said turbine rotor assembly includes a hub member rotatably disposed upon said elongate support member, wherein said turbine rotor assembly also includes blade support members rotatably and pivotally mounted to said hub member, wherein said turbine rotor assembly further includes blades each disposed upon a respective said blade support member; and a blade pitch control assembly supported upon said support assembly and in communication with said turbine rotor assembly, wherein said blade pitch control assembly also includes an actuator having a rotatable member and being in communication with said blade support members for adjusting a pitch of said blades relative to the wind, and also includes a brake mechanism being in communication with said rotatable member to effectively brake said rotatable member with said blades being at selected stationary pitches. | 28,245 |
9,322,364 | 1. An air intake system for an internal combustion engine comprising: an intake manifold having an air inlet for admitting combustion gases, including at least air, into a plenum, and at least two runners extending from the plenum, wherein each runner terminates at an outlet through which said combustion gases flow from the manifold; an EGR inlet for admitting exhaust gases recirculated by an EGR circuit from an exhaust side of the engine; an EGR tube disposed in the EGR inlet and partially extending into the plenum adjacent the air inlet, wherein the EGR tube has a slot formed therein which faces 180° away from the air inlet and into the plenum; and a guide vane arranged in the plenum and having an upstream end positioned near the EGR tube, wherein the guide vane diverges from the EGR tube between the at least two runners to form multiple flow channels in the plenum. | 23,030 |
9,312,714 | 1. A control device that controls transmission and reception of electric power between a power generation device that generates electric power and a power storage device that stores electric power, comprising: a first acquiring unit that acquires first information that is information relating to a power generation status of the power generation device; a second acquiring unit that acquires second information that is information relating to a power storage state of the power storage device, wherein the second information includes information relating to a remaining operating time of a power consuming unit included in the power storage device that is based on a power storage amount of a power storing unit included in the power storage device; a determining unit that determines the power storage device set as a power transmission destination of the electric power generated by the power generation device in accordance with the power generation status represented in the first information that has been acquired by the first acquiring unit and the power storage state represented in the second information that has been acquired by the second acquiring unit, wherein the determining unit determines the power storage device set as the power transmission destination based on the information relating to the remaining operating time of the power consuming unit; a first supplying unit that supplies the power generation device as a power transmission source with a power transmission instruction for instructing to start transmitting the electric power to the power storage device determined by the determining unit as the power transmission destination; and a second supplying unit that supplies the power storage device determined by the determining unit as the power transmission destination with a power reception instruction for instructing to start receiving the electric power from the power generation device as the power transmission source. | 19,916 |
9,270,251 | 1. A carrier for mounting a piezoelectric crystal device on a circuit board, the carrier comprising: a carrier bottom including an opening extending partially through the carrier bottom from a top surface thereof, the opening being configured such that when a piezoelectric crystal device to be mounted in the carrier is inserted into the carrier bottom, the piezoelectric crystal device is at least partially recessed within the carrier bottom; a plurality of metal contacts, mounted on the carrier bottom, wherein each of the plurality of metal contacts is configured such that a first end of each contact is arranged outside of the carrier for electrical connection to a circuit board on which the carrier is to be mounted and a second end is arranged inside of the carrier for electrical connection to the piezoelectric crystal device; and a carrier lid attached to the carrier bottom, wherein the carrier lid is configured to retain a piezoelectric crystal device within the carrier bottom and to apply substantially even pressure across an entire top surface of the piezoelectric crystal device, wherein the plurality of metal contacts are arranged such that the second end of each of the plurality of metal contacts is in alignment with a corresponding one of a plurality of electrical pads of the piezoelectric crystal device, the electrical pads are on a bottom surface of the piezoelectric crystal device, and the bottom surface of the piezoelectric crystal device is on an opposite side of the piezoelectric crystal device from the top surface of the piezoelectric crystal device, and wherein at least one of the second ends of the metal contacts terminates in an end tip, the end tip configured to point towards the piezoelectric crystal device when the piezoelectric crystal device to be mounted in the carrier is inserted into the carrier bottom. | 26,607 |
9,371,597 | 1. A device for producing silicon blocks for photovoltaic applications, the device comprising: a container for receiving a silicon melt, said container comprising a base wall and at least one side wall; at least one covering element for reducing diffusion of impurities from at least one of said base wall and said at least one side wall of the container into the silicon melt and the silicon block, wherein the at least one covering element is configured as an insertion plate for insertion into the container to at least partially cover at least one of the base wall and the at least one side wall of the container, wherein the at least one covering element is at least partially made of a material, which has a melting point which lies above a melting point of silicon, wherein the at least one covering element has a closed-pore configuration. | 12,047 |
9,799,906 | 1. A redox flow secondary battery comprising an electrolytic bath comprising: a positive electrode cell chamber comprising a positive electrode composed of a carbon electrode; a negative electrode cell chamber comprising a negative electrode composed of a carbon electrode; and an electrolyte membrane as a separation membrane to separate the positive electrode cell chamber and the negative electrode cell chamber, wherein the positive electrode cell chamber comprises a positive electrode electrolyte solution comprising a positive electrode active substance; and the negative electrode cell chamber comprises a negative electrode electrolyte solution comprising a negative electrode active substance; wherein the redox flow secondary battery charges and discharges based on changes in valences of the positive electrode active substance and the negative electrode active substance in the electrolyte solutions; wherein the electrolyte membrane comprises an ion-exchange resin composition comprising a fluorine-based polyelectrolyte polymer having a structure represented by the following formula (1): wherein X 1 , X 2 , and X 3 each independently represent one or more selected from the group consisting of halogen atoms and perfluoroalkyl groups having 1 to 3 carbon atoms; X 4 represents COOZ, SO 3 Z, PO 3 Z 2 , or PO 3 HZ wherein Z represents a hydrogen atom, an alkali metal atom, an alkaline earth metal atom, or an amine (NH 4 , NH 3 R 1 , NH 2 R 1 R 2 , NHR 1 R 2 R 3 , NR 1 R 2 R 3 R 4 ) wherein R 1 , R 2 , R 3 , and R 4 each independently represent one or more selected from the group consisting of alkyl groups and arene groups, when X 4 is PO 3 Z 2 , Z may be identical or different; R 1 and R 2 each independently represent one or more selected from the group consisting of halogen atoms and perfluoroalkyl groups and fluorochloroalkyl groups having 1 to 10 carbon atoms; and a and g represent numbers satisfying 0≦a<1, 0<g≦1, and a+g=1, b represents an integer of 0 to 8, c represents 0 or 1, and d, e, and f each independently represent an integer of 0 to 6 (with the proviso that d, e, and f are not 0 at the same time); and wherein the electrolyte membrane has an ion cluster diameter of 1.00 to 2.95 nm as measured in water at 25° C. by a small angle X-ray method. | 10,881 |
8,472,158 | 1. A protective device, comprising: a substrate, a conductive section supported by the substrate, wherein the conductive section comprises a metal element electrically connected between first and second electrodes, wherein the metal element serves as a sacrificial structure having a melting point lower than that of the first and second electrodes; and a first auxiliary medium disposed between the metal element and the substrate, wherein the first auxiliary medium has a melting point lower than that of the metal element, and wherein the first auxiliary medium facilitates breaking of the metal element upon melting. | 15,628 |
8,538,978 | 1. A method of presenting a search suggestion to a user comprising: receiving by a search engine server a portion of a search query from the user, the search engine server having the capability to search the internet as a whole; responsive to receiving the portion of the search query, displaying to the user by the search engine server a plurality of search query suggestions and searching a social networking site by a social networking server for feedback and recommendations from at least one friend of the user with respect to the plurality of search query suggestions and displaying to the user by the social networking server a plurality of interactive social comment icons corresponding to at least some of the plurality of search query suggestions such that each social comment icon is displayed with the corresponding one of the search query suggestions, the social networking server being limited to only searching the social networking site. | 5,219 |
9,374,473 | 1. A telephone terminal of a peer-to-peer telephone system comprising a plurality of telephone terminals, the telephone terminal comprising: circuitry configured to couple the telephone terminal to an Internet Protocol (IP) network of the peer-to-peer telephone system, store for the telephone terminal system-wide configuration data comprising data used to configure each telephone terminal of the peer-to-peer telephone system for one or more telephony features of the peer-to-peer telephone system, and store files for the telephone terminal; and a server configured to determine whether the system-wide configuration data references a file not stored by the circuitry, wherein the file comprises further configuration data used to configure each telephone terminal of the peer-to-peer telephone system for one or more telephony features of the peer-to-peer telephone system, and request the file from another telephone terminal of the peer-to-peer telephone system in response to determining that the circuitry does not store the file wherein the circuitry is further configured to store a lock count for each stored file, wherein each lock count tracks active references to its respective stored file, and wherein the server is further configured to increment the lock count of a file in response to determining that the system-wide configuration data newly references the file; and wherein the server is further configured to decrement the lock count of a file in response to determining that the system-wide configuration data no longer references the file. | 38,903 |
9,325,032 | 1. An electrode assembly formed by stacking a plurality of electrode units, the electrode assembly comprising: two or more steps formed by stacking three or more types of the electrode units having different areas, wherein an array of electrode units having a maximum area among the electrode units is positioned in the interior of the electrode assembly, and electrodes having different polarities face each other at an interface between the electrode units having different areas, and wherein, at the interface, an electrode having a relatively large area is disposed as a negative electrode and an electrode having a relatively small area is disposed as a positive electrode. | 29,994 |
8,362,178 | 1. An 1-alkene-acrylate based random copolymer comprising 1-50 mol % of 1-alkene and 50-99 mol % of acrylate based monomer, wherein the number average molecular weight of the copolymer is in the range of 5,000-200,000 g/mol and the weight average molecular weight of the copolymer is in the range of 10,000-500,000 g/mol, wherein toughness intensity of the copolymer measured in MD direction is from 788 kgf/cm 2 to 865 kgf/cm 2 and elongation of the copolymer measured in MD direction is from 99% to 151% as measured in accordance with ASTM D638. | 39,702 |
9,028,783 | 1. An exhaust after-treatment system comprising: a primary system having a canister with a pre-determined amount of a first reductant containing material stored therein, the primary system having a primary flow control module; a secondary system having a canister with a pre-determined amount of a second reductant material stored therein, the secondary system having a secondary flow control module; a dosing control system for determining the amount of reductant released from the primary system and the secondary system relative to operating conditions; and an electronic control module for initially activating the primary flow control module and then the secondary flow control module based on operating conditions; one of the canisters containing a supply of an ammonia-containing material; a heating element coupled to the canister; tubing for fluidly connecting the canister with a vehicle exhaust stream; and an injection system connected to the tubing for injecting ammonia into the vehicle exhaust stream. | 4,023 |
8,410,326 | 1. A process for producing hydrocarbons, the process comprising: (a) reacting lactones, hydroxy-carboxylic acids, alkene-carboxylic acids, or mixtures thereof, or an aqueous solution comprising lactones, hydroxy-carboxylic acids, alkene-carboxylic acids, or mixtures thereof with a first acid catalyst, at a first temperature, and a first pressure, to yield a first product mixture comprising olefins; and then (b) reacting the first product mixture with a second acid catalyst, at a second temperature, and a second pressure, to yield a second product mixture comprising hydrocarbons heavier than the olefins in the first product mixture. | 4,059 |
8,402,906 | 1. A ship-body frictional resistance reducing device for reducing frictional resistance of a sailing ship body by forming an air bubble curtain on a bottom of the ship body by generating air bubbles, the device comprising: an air chamber disposed on the bottom of the ship body and being inside the ship body, the air chamber including an air supply port disposed thereon; a plurality of air ejection holes in an array on the bottom of the ship body, the plurality of air ejection holes disposed on a bottom of the air chamber so as to form an array; and a diffusion plate disposed inside the air chamber, the diffusion plate intervening between the air supply port and the air ejection holes, wherein the diffusion plate includes at least a supply-port facing area covering the air supply port, and first and second ejection-hole facing areas covering first and second air ejection holes of the plurality of air ejection holes, respectively, the first and second air ejection holes being disposed at first and second edges of the array of the plurality of air ejection holes, respectively. | 44,844 |
8,680,852 | 1. A method of detecting defects using eddy currents, the method comprising: exciting eddy currents in a test material using an eddy current probe driven by a drive signal; detecting induced eddy currents in the test material; converting the detected signal into integer values using an analog to digital converter; and adding or subtracting the generated integer values to or from each of two accumulators, or taking no action, so that one accumulator produces a value proportional to one component of the detected signal and the other produces a value proportional to another component of the detected signal and using these values to detect the presence of a defect, wherein each generated integer value is added to or subtracted from each accumulator according to the status of the accumulators flag, the status of each flag as add, subtract, or take no action being pre-defined and forming part of a repeated series. | 39,977 |
9,206,434 | 1. An isolated nucleic acid comprising a polynucleotide which encodes a polypeptide comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 15 and the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 126. | 25,693 |
9,814,156 | 1. An improved system for mounting equipment in a server frame, the server frame is defined to have four corner posts secured between a base structure and a top structure, each corner post includes a side wall and an end wall thereby defining a pair of sides and defining a front and a rear, each corner post further includes a plurality of standard EIA-310 openings to receive ends of a standard outer rail used to secure and support the equipment to the server frame, the improvement comprising: four interior posts, configured as two pairs of side interior posts, each interior post has a base plate and an arm plate extending from the base plate substantially perpendicularly and inwardly therefrom such that two pair of side interior posts face each other, each interior post is separately secured to one of the corner posts, and wherein each arm plate includes rail apertures extending along at least a portion of the arm plate; and a pair of secondary outer rails, separately and removably secured from the front to the rear of each pair of the side interior posts, each secondary outer rail has a rear end and a front end with rear facing hooks positioned on both the rear end and the front end of the secondary outer rail, the rear facing hooks being configured to slide into and out of engagement with the rail apertures on the interior posts, and wherein when the pair of secondary outer rails are secured to the pair of the side interior posts, the secondary outer rails are configured to receive inner rails secured to equipment for sliding the equipment into the server frame. | 44,887 |
9,672,721 | 1. A method for controlling a cooking device, comprising: detecting a temperature of a door on the cooking device; comparing the detected temperature with a predetermined warning and/or reference temperature; generating a predetermined warning if the detected temperature is equal to or higher than the predetermined warning and/or reference temperature; and outputting or displaying the predetermined warning, wherein outputting the predetermined warning comprises flickering one or more warning labels corresponding to the predetermined warning on a display panel on the cooking device, wherein the one or more warning labels have a color that changes depending on a level of the detected temperature, wherein outputting the predetermined warning comprises generating an intermittent buzzer and/or sound with a buzzer on the cooking device, wherein the buzzer and/or sound has an interval that becomes shorter as the detected temperature becomes higher, wherein the warning and/or reference temperature is changeable by a user of the cooking device. | 20,654 |
8,556,008 | 1. A method in the power transmission of a forest machine ( 1 ), the forest machine comprising a front chassis ( 2 ) and a rear chassis ( 3 ) articulated to one another, a primary hydrostatic power source ( 5 ) arranged on the front chassis ( 2 ) for generating hydrostatic power required for moving and controlling the forest machine and an actuator ( 6 , 7 ) therein, the primary power source under control of control devices ( 23 ), said method comprising the steps of: converting at least part of the power generated by the primary power source ( storing the electric energy generated by the generator arrangement ( leading at least part of the electric energy from the storage means ( at least partly hydraulically controlling a hydraulic timber-processing device responsive to the immediate increased power requirement of the forest machine ( | 13,973 |
9,201,707 | 1. A distributed system comprising: ordinary nodes each including a power-supply control unit and a task executing unit; and a management node including a job receiving unit for receiving a job execution instruction, a job managing unit for disassembling a job received by said job receiving unit into one task or a plurality of tasks and for driving one of said ordinary nodes or a plurality of said ordinary nodes to carry out said tasks, and a node power-supply control unit for managing as well as controlling the states of power supplies of said ordinary nodes, wherein: said power-supply control unit has: a function to put any one of said ordinary nodes in a reduced-power state at one of a plurality of stages having different amounts of electric power consumed at said reduced-power state and different times of recovery from said reduced-power state to a normal activated state; and a function to restore any one of said ordinary nodes in a reduced-power state to said normal activated state; said job managing unit determines an ordinary-node count representing the number of said ordinary nodes for carrying out tasks obtained as a result of disassembling a job received by said management node in accordance with the magnitude of said job; if the number of said ordinary nodes each put in said normal activated state and capable of carrying out said tasks is smaller than said ordinary-node count determined by said job managing unit to represent the number of said ordinary nodes for carrying out said tasks, said node power-supply control unit carries out an active-node select function to select as many ordinary nodes from said ordinary nodes put at one or more state stages selected from said stages of said reduced-power state as required to satisfy said ordinary-node count representing the number of ordinary nodes for carrying out said tasks; said node power-supply control unit carries out said active-node select function to select ordinary nodes to be restored to said normal activated state among said ordinary nodes each put at one of said stages of said reduced-power state in accordance with an ordinary-node order starting with said ordinary node existing in a reduced-power state and having a short time of recovery to said normal activated state; said node power-supply control unit issues an activation instruction to each of said selected ordinary nodes as an instruction requesting said ordinary node to make a transition to said normal activated state; said job managing unit issues task execution instructions to said ordinary nodes which are already put in said normal activated state and capable of executing tasks and to said ordinary nodes restored to said normal activated state in accordance with said activation instruction issued by said node power-supply control unit to serve as task execution instructions requesting said ordinary nodes to execute said tasks; and said task executing unit carries out said tasks in accordance with said task execution instructions issued by said job managing unit, wherein: each of said ordinary nodes has at least a processor for carrying out arithmetic processing as well as a memory and a nonvolatile storage apparatus which are used for storing information. | 39,899 |
9,694,819 | 1. A vehicle comprising: a driving device configured to control a left and right driving force difference, which is a difference between a left driving force and a right driving force, by controlling the left driving force and the right driving force, the left driving force being a driving force of a left wheel of the vehicle, the right driving force being a driving force of a right wheel of the vehicle; a drive control device configured to control the driving device; and a rotary electric machine connected mechanically to steered wheels and configured to impart a steering force or a steering additive force to a steering system including the steered wheels; wherein the vehicle further comprises a rotational velocity acquisition unit configured to acquire a rotational velocity of the rotary electric machine; and the drive control device controls the left and right driving force difference by the driving device, based on the rotational velocity. | 17,975 |
9,609,768 | 1. A wall mounting apparatus comprising: a container defining a mounting hole therein; a lock device received in the container and comprising a driver, an electrical connector electrically connecting the driver, and an engaging plate driven by the driver, a recess being defined in the engaging plate; a connector engaging with the container and the lock device to assemble the container on a wall, one end of the connector for being mounted on the wall, and the other end of the connector extending through the mounting hole and supporting the container; wherein the electrical connector is turned off to make the driver drive the engaging plate moving towards the connector to make the connector insert in the recess of the engaging plate and be clasped by the engaging plate to disengage the container from the wall. | 1,818 |
9,312,539 | 1. Negative electrode active material particles for a nonaqueous electrolyte battery consisting of: monoclinic system titanium dioxide, each of the particles having pores, the pores having an average pore diameter falling within a range of 8 to 25 nm, 10 to 30% of a total volume of the entire pores being a total volume of a part of the pores having a diameter ranging from 1 nm to 10 nm, wherein the volume of pores is measured by a nitrogen gas adsorption method using a BJH method. | 20,378 |
9,027,917 | 1. A printing machine comprising: a puncher cylinder including a puncher knife, the puncher cylinder cooperating with a paper web such that the puncher cylinder when in use can be rolled longitudinally along and in contact with the paper web, and punches holes in the paper web via the puncher knife, whereby holes are punched a longitudinal distance from each other which corresponds to a circumference of the puncher cylinder, wherein the puncher cylinder further includes a stapler, the stapler being arranged in the puncher cylinder such that staples can be placed in the paper web longitudinally essentially halfway between the punched holes when the puncher cylinder is in use; and a cutting cylinder including a cutting knife, wherein the printing machine is arranged such that in use, the cutting cylinder cuts the paper web through the holes, thereby forming sheets having at least two recesses. | 20,419 |
8,431,073 | 1. A nickel base gamma prime strengthened superalloy, consisting of (in a wt %): up to 20 wt % Co; 12-14 wt % Cr; 1-2 wt % Mo; 1.4-2.8 wt % W; 5.1-5.9 wt % Al; 1.1-1.6 wt % Ti; 3-7 wt % Ta; 0.01-0.3 wt % of C+Zr+B; 0.05-1 wt % Hf; 0.05-1 wt % Si; and 0.01-0.2 wt % of rare earths. | 22,257 |
8,798,891 | 1. A method of controlling a hybrid electric vehicle having an internal combustion engine including a crankshaft, a cylinder provided with an intake valve and a piston configured to reciprocate inside the cylinder and rotate the crankshaft, the method comprising: determining whether a deceleration of the vehicle is desired; ceasing supply of fuel to the cylinder when the deceleration is desired; and selecting a fuel-off actuation arrangement for the intake valve via a mechanism configured to provide variable valve timing and lift, such that an amount of lift for the intake valve when the supply of fuel has been ceased is lower than before the supply of fuel has been ceased and a magnitude of compression pulses in the cylinder during deceleration is limited thereby. | 20,064 |
9,272,961 | 1. A production method comprising producing a polyolefin by polymerization reaction of a raw material olefin in the presence of a single-site catalyst, wherein the concentration of an organohalide to the raw material olefin is from 0.05 to 10 ppm by weight in terms of a halogen atom, wherein the organohalide is a halogenated olefin. | 42,588 |
9,376,115 | 1. A method of controlling a two-speed transmission with an electric machine in a vehicle operating in negative torque, the method comprising the step of: controlling motor torque (M) produced by the electric machine independently of a driver's indication (F) to reach an approximately constant vehicle speed (V), and carrying out a 1-2 upshift from first gear to second gear upon detecting a driver's desire to increase the vehicle speed. | 25,657 |
9,620,725 | 1. A polymer solar cell, comprising: a lower electrode; a hole transport layer formed on the lower electrode; a photoactive layer formed on the hole transport layer and generating tunneling of electrons; and an upper electrode formed on the photoactive layer, wherein the photoactive layer comprises: | 902 |
9,514,936 | 1. A method for manufacturing particles, comprising: inserting supporting bodies into receiving grooves on a first substrate to accommodate a first surface of each of the supporting bodies into each of the receiving grooves and to expose a second surface of each of the supporting bodies to outside; forming a first coating layer on the second surface; attaching a second substrate to the supporting bodies on which the first coating layer is formed; exposing the first surface of each of the supporting bodies on which the first coating layer is formed by separating the supporting bodies on which the first coating layer is formed and which is attached to the second substrate from the first substrate; forming a second coating layer on the first surface of each of the supporting bodies; separating the supporting bodies, on which the first coating layer and the second coating layer are formed, from the second substrate, wherein the combination of the first coating layer and the second coating layer is coated on the whole surface of each of the supporting bodies; and removing a projecting coating layer that connects the supporting bodies, the projecting coating layer comprising the first coating layer and the second coating layer which have been formed directly onto the first substrate and the second substrate; and making the first coating layer and the second coating layer uniform, | 46,384 |
9,345,801 | 1. A method of cleaning and/or sterilizing gas in blow moulding machine having a blowing station, said blow moulding machine comprising a compressed gas supply system for shaping plastics material pre-forms to form plastics material containers, wherein compressed gas supplied via an annular-shaped distribution duct from a plurality of separate gas reservoirs at the same or different gas pressures is conveyed through at least one gas-processing device which sterilizes the compressed gas using a sterile filter having a pore size of less than 50 μm and optionally reduces residual quantities of oxidative disinfecting/sterilizing agent in the compressed gas by reaction with a catalyst, wherein the sterile filter is arranged in a line system of the blow moulding machine and is cleaned by the oxidative disinfecting/sterilizing agent which is also used for the disinfection/sterilization of the plastics material pre-forms and/or the plastics material containers, wherein the compressed gas is introduced first through the sterile filter, then through the annular-shaped distribution duct and then to the blowing station, and, employing said compressed gas to blow plastics material pre-forms to plastics material containers, and wherein the sterile filter is a central sterile filter and is situated in a position downstream of a feed of the oxidative disinfecting/sterilizing agent but upstream of the annular-shaped distribution duct. | 3,262 |
9,649,377 | 1. A method of treating Familial Mediterranean Fever (FMF), comprising administering to a patient in need thereof an effective amount of an IL-1beta antibody comprising: a) an immunoglobulin heavy chain variable domain (V b) an immunoglobulin light chain variable domain (V c) an immunoglobulin V d) the three CDRs of the V | 40,377 |
9,333,070 | 1. An implantable breast prosthesis, comprising: a soft, flexible outer membrane comprising a convex anterior wall and a flat posterior wall, the membrane having a volume, a maximum height, and a maximum diameter of the posterior wall; a flowable substance contained within the membrane and configured to flow within the membrane, wherein the flowable substance comprises saline or water; and an open cell structure positioned inside the membrane, the open cell structure being filled with the flowable substance so that the open cell structure dampens motion of the flowable substance within the membrane, wherein the open cell structure has a natural, unbiased shape when not positioned inside the membrane, the natural, unbiased shape being larger than the membrane, the membrane holding the open cell structure in a compressed state when the open cell structure is positioned inside the membrane, the compressed state being smaller than the natural, unbiased shape, and wherein the open cell structure has a volume in its natural, unbiased shape that is 5% to 20% larger than the volume of the membrane, and wherein the natural, unbiased shape of the open cell structure has at least one of (1) a height which is 5% to 20% larger than the maximum height of the membrane and (2) a diameter which is 5% to 20% larder than the maximum diameter of the posterior wall. | 40,818 |
8,932,977 | 1. A catalyst for the photo-electrolysis of water molecules, said catalyst comprising group comprising A 1-x B 2-y B′ y O 4 spinels having a cubical M 4 O 4 core, wherein A is Li or Na, B and B′ are independently any transition metal or main group metal, M is B, B′, or both, x is a number from 0 to 1, and y is a number from 0 to 2, and further comprising a conductive support substrate supporting a plurality of the catalytic groups and capable of incorporating water molecules, wherein at least some of the catalytic groups supported by the support substrate are able to catalytically interact with water molecules incorporated into the support substrate. | 7,856 |
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