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9,202,931 | 1. A semiconductor device comprising: a semiconductor substrate having an upper surface; a first strip comprised of a first dielectric material, the first strip having a first length in a first direction and a first width, smaller than the first length, in a second direction, the first direction being parallel to the upper surface, and the second direction also being parallel to the upper surface and substantially perpendicular to the first direction, and the first strip having a first sidewall and a second sidewall along the first direction, the first and second sidewalls being opposite to each other; a second strip comprised of a second dielectric material different from the first dielectric material, the second strip having a second length in the first direction and a second width, smaller than both the second length and the first width, in the second direction, the second and first strips forming a first stack with the first strip being stacked on the second strip, and the second strip having a third sidewall and a fourth sidewall along the first direction, the third and fourth sidewalls being opposite to each other; a third strip comprised of a conducting or semiconducting material, the third strip having a third length in the first direction and a third width in the second direction, the third width being smaller than the third length, and the third strip having a fifth sidewall and a sixth sidewall along the first direction, the fifth and sixth sidewalls being opposite to each other, and the third strip covering a part of the second strip, at a same height location thereof, so that the fifth sidewall is in contact with the third sidewall and the sixth sidewall is substantially coplanar with the first sidewall; a fourth strip comprised of a conducting or semiconducting material, the fourth strip having a fourth length substantially identical to the third length in the first direction and a fourth width smaller than the fourth length, the fourth width being substantially identical to the third width in the second direction, and the fourth strip having a seventh sidewall and an eighth sidewall along the first direction, the seventh and eighth sidewalls being opposite to each other, and the fourth strip covering a part of the second strip, at a same height location thereof, so that the seventh sidewall is in contact with the fourth sidewall and the eighth sidewall is substantially coplanar with the second sidewall; a fifth strip comprised of a conducting or semiconducting material, the fifth strip having a fifth length in the second direction and a fifth width in the first direction, the fifth width being smaller than the first, second, third, fourth and fifth lengths, and the fifth strip being formed over portions of the first stack, covering a part of the top of the first strip and covering parts of the first, second, sixth and eighth sidewalls, and wherein the first sidewall is protruding relative to the third sidewall and the second sidewall is protruding relative to the fourth sidewall. | 2,112 |
9,458,835 | 1. A condition monitoring system that diagnoses an abnormality of an apparatus provided in a wind turbine, the condition monitoring system comprising: a monitoring apparatus including a sensor provided for the apparatus; a monitoring-side control apparatus that sets a threshold value to be used by the monitoring apparatus for diagnosing the abnormality of the apparatus during a diagnostic period, and diagnoses the abnormality of the apparatus based on the threshold value; and a monitoring terminal apparatus that monitors a condition of the apparatus, wherein: the monitoring-side control apparatus transmits a diagnostic operation condition with which the monitoring-side control apparatus diagnoses the abnormality of the apparatus, the monitoring apparatus gathers learning data, in a leaning period preceding the diagnostic period, with respect to an operation of the apparatus under the diagnostic operation condition, and transmits the learning data to the monitoring-side control apparatus, the monitoring-side control apparatus generates the threshold value based on the learning data gathered by the monitoring apparatus in the learning period, the monitoring apparatus gathers operating data, in the diagnostic period, with respect to the operation of the apparatus, the monitoring apparatus transmits the operating data, gathered in the diagnostic period, to the monitoring-side control apparatus if an operation condition of the apparatus meets the diagnostic operation condition, and does not transmit the operating data if an operation condition of the apparatus does not meet the diagnostic operation condition, and the monitoring-side control apparatus diagnoses whether the apparatus has an abnormality or not based on the operating data and the threshold value corresponding to the operating data, and transmits a diagnostic result to the monitoring terminal apparatus. | 20,605 |
9,363,118 | 1. A non-contact power supply transmitter system configured to transmit an electric power from a transmitting device to a receiving device with a non-contact power supply transmitter method, the transmitting device comprising: the receiving device comprising: the frequency shift keying demodulation unit comprises: a rectangular-wave generating circuit configured to input the frequency shift keying signal received through the receiving coil so as to be generated as a rectangular-wave signal therefrom, the frequency shift keying signal comprising a first level signal and a second level signal, the rectangular-wave signal comprising a first rectangular-wave signal based on the first level signal and a rectangular-wave signal based on the second level signal; a frequency/voltage conversion circuit configured to convert a variation in a frequency of the rectangular-wave signal into voltage so as to be output as a frequency/voltage converted signal, the frequency/voltage converted signal comprising a first frequency/voltage converted signal based on the rectangular-wave signal and a second frequency/voltage converted signal based on the second above-mentioned rectangular-wave signal; a band pass filter configured to allow the variation in the frequency of the frequency/voltage converted signal to pass through so as to be output as a band-pass-filtered signal; an amplifier circuit configured to amplify an amplitude of the band-pass-filtered signal so as to be output as an amplified signal; and an output determining circuit configured to output an existence or nonexistence of the variation in the frequency of the amplifier circuit so as to be output as a frequency shift keying output signal, the frequency shift keying output signal being a signal of “0” or “1” wherein the amplified signal comprises a first amplified waveform having a first time period at the time of when the second frequency/voltage converted signal is switched to the first frequency/voltage converted signal, and a second amplified waveform having a second time period at the time of when the first frequency/voltage converted signal is switched to the second frequency/voltage converted signal, wherein the output determining circuit outputs one of the frequency shift keying output signal during a third time period and the frequency shift keying output signal during a fourth time period as the signal of “0”, and outputs the other thereof as the signal of “1”, wherein the third time period is a time period from a trailing edge of the first amplified waveform to a trailing edge of the subsequent second amplified waveform, and the fourth time period is a time period from the trailing edge of the second amplified waveform to a trailing edge of the subsequent first amplified waveform. | 3,613 |
8,619,653 | 1. A mobile station capable of accessing a wireless communication network comprising a plurality of base stations, the mobile station comprising processing circuitry configured to: determine if a battery level of the mobile station is below a selected one of a plurality of power level thresholds; upon a determination that the battery level is below the selected power level threshold, send a battery report describing the battery level is below the selected power level threshold to a first base station of the wireless communication network, and enter a battery power preservation mode; in case of handover being triggered, conduct the handover from the first station to a second base station, maintaining the battery power preservation mode; determine if the battery level of the mobile station rises to the selected power level threshold; upon a determination that the battery level of the mobile station rises to the selected power level threshold, send a cancellation message cancelling the battery report to either the first base station or the second base station if the handover has been conducted, and exit the battery power preservation mode; and upon receiving a denial of entering the battery power preservation mode from the base station, refrain from entering the power reservation mode. | 36,715 |
9,216,653 | 1. A method for charging at least one energy store of an electric vehicle by supplying direct current (DC) from a charging point over a charging cable configured for supplying alternating current (AC), the method comprising: connecting the electric vehicle to the charging point via the charging cable, the charging cable having a plurality of first AC-configured connecting elements that are (a) connected at a first end to the charging point and (b) connected at a second end to corresponding second connecting elements of a second terminal on the vehicle side, wherein the plurality of first AC-configured connecting elements comprise interfaces configured for connection to an alternating current source to supply alternating current for charging the at least one energy store of the vehicle, supplying direct current from the charging point for charging the at least one energy store to the electric vehicle via at least two of the first AC-configured connecting elements or at least two separate third connecting elements of the charging cable, during the supply of direct current from the charging point to the electric vehicle via the at least two first AC-configured connecting elements or the at least two third connecting elements, performing power line communication (PLC) between the electric vehicle and the charging point to exchange information relating to the charging operation via one or more of the first AC-configured connecting elements on which no alternating current or direct current for charging is being carried. | 32,960 |
9,338,808 | 1. A method for a first terminal communicating with a base station to perform direct communication with a second terminal, the method comprising: receiving, from the base station, a message requesting the first terminal initiate terminal discovery; determining a first timing for transmitting or receiving a first signal to or from the base station; determining a second timing for transmitting a second signal for terminal discovery to the second terminal; changing either the first timing or the second timing in response to the first timing and the second timing overlapping; transmitting, to the second terminal, the second signal for terminal discovery in response to the changing of either the first timing or the second timing; and establishing a first link for direct communication with the second terminal in response to the transmitting of the second signal for terminal discovery, and a determination that direct communication with the second terminal is possible, wherein the message requesting the first terminal initiate terminal discovery comprises information indicating whether a received signal strength of the second signal for terminal discovery will be reported to either the base station or the first terminal. | 25,777 |
9,158,182 | 1. An assisting suspension arrangement for suspending a monitoring device, the suspension arrangement comprising: a hook member; a blocking member; and a resilient member; wherein the suspension arrangement is configured to adopt an open state, in which the hook member is arranged to enable engagement with a suspension element for suspending a monitoring device, and a closed state, in which the blocking member is arranged to prevent disengagement of the suspension element from the hook member; wherein the open state and the closed state are enabled by the hook member being movable in relation to the blocking member; wherein the resilient member is arranged to bias the suspension arrangement toward the closed state; wherein the suspension arrangement is configured such that when the monitoring device is suspended by the suspension arrangement, the hook member is adapted to carry the weight of the monitoring device and thereby to transfer the load to the resilient member and to move toward the open state of the suspension arrangement; wherein the suspension arrangement is configured such that when the load of the weight of the monitoring device is released from the hook member, the resilient member is adapted to move the hook member toward the closed state of the suspension arrangement; wherein the hook member is provided with a slot being arranged to receive and contain the suspension element; and wherein the blocking member comprises an elongated portion extending along and adjacent to an outer surface of the hook member and transverse to a side of the slot of the hook member such that the blocking member prevents a suspension element contained in an engagement portion from exiting through an entrance portion. | 21,550 |
9,606,769 | 1. A method for adaptive compression mode selection for memory buffers in a portable computing device (PCD), the method comprising: selecting a first compression mode for a buffer of the PCD; formatting the buffer to the first compression mode; monitoring an access to the buffer; selecting a second compression mode for the buffer based on the monitored access; and formatting the buffer to the second compression mode, wherein selecting a second compression mode for the buffer based on the monitored access further comprises: wherein the first compression mode is different from the second compression mode. | 2,592 |
8,563,900 | 1. A charcoal smoke-far infrared ray radiating convection oven in which meat to be roasted is heated and roasted while being rotated by rotating plates, comprising: a. a sealable grilling chamber provided with a plurality of far infrared ray heaters emitting far infrared rays for roasting meat in a heating area of said grilling chamber; b. a smoking chamber partitioned from and disposed below the grilling chamber, said smoking chamber being provided with a plurality of electric heaters which generate far infrared rays and smoke from an organic fuel placed on said electric heaters, said smoke being discharged into a smoking area of the grilling chamber; and c. an air circulating means including at least one air-circulating blower in fluid communication with an air supply blower that supplies air from an exterior of the grilling chamber, for convecting heated air and maintaining an equal distribution of temperature in the grilling chamber; whereby the roasting by the far infrared rays and the smoking from the organic fuel are carried out simultaneously in the convection oven by rotating said meat sequentially through said heating area and said smoking area to produce a smoked and roasted meat. | 18,210 |
9,191,480 | 1. A method of operating an electronic device, the method comprising: determining whether an amount of remaining battery power of the electronic device is lower than or equal to a reference amount, wherein the reference amount is based on power supply of the electronic device being maintained in a turned-on state until a time when an alarm is set to be activated; and transmitting alarm information about the alarm to a second electronic device, wherein the alarm information includes information configured by an instruction prearranged between the electronic device and the second electronic device to enable the second electronic device to automatically set an alarm function according to the alarm information after reception of the alarm information. | 27,607 |
9,005,637 | 1. A multiple unit dosage form for oral administration comprising: an effective amount of a therapeutic agent, a barrier layer, and a chromium layer, wherein the therapeutic agent and the chromium layer are formulated as a single dose, wherein the barrier layer is disposed between the therapeutic agent and the chromium layer, separating the chromium layer from the therapeutic agent to prevent interaction between the therapeutic agent and the chromium layer, wherein the therapeutic agent is located at the center of the dosage form and the chromium layer surrounds the barrier layer. | 24,718 |
8,481,065 | 1. A bone cement precursor system comprising: a first container containing an acidic aqueous paste comprising monocalcium phosphate monohydrate (MCPM) and dicalcium phosphate anhydrous (DCPA), citric acid, water, glycerol, polyvinyl pyrrolidone (PVP) and polyethylene glycol (PEG), and a second container containing an alkaline non-aqueous paste comprising at least one basic calcium phosphate mineral, at least one paste stabilizing agent, a surfactant and a solvent, wherein said at least one basic calcium phosphate mineral is tetra calcium phosphate (TTCP) having a bimodal mean particle size distribution, wherein the mean particle size of a first set of said TTCP is between about 10 μm to about 30 μm, and the mean particle size of a second set of the TTCP is between about 25 μm to about 60 μm. | 5,380 |
8,883,715 | 1. A process for tissue and cell regeneration, protection, preservation and anti-aging in vivo and ex vivo comprising administering a therapeutically effective amount of a pharmaceutical composition to a patient in need thereof, the pharmaceutical composition comprising at least one biocompatible polymer of the following general formula (I): wherein: A represents a monomer, X represents a carboxyl group bonded to monomer A and is contained within a group according to the following formula: —R—COO —R′, in which R is a bond or an aliphatic hydrocarbon chain, optionally branched and/or unsaturated, and which can contain one or more aromatic rings except for benzylamine and benzylamine sulfonate, and R′ represents a hydrogen atom or a cation, Y represents a sulfate or sulfonate group bonded to monomer A and is contained within a group according to one of the following formulas: —R—O—SO a represents the number of monomers A such that the mass of the at least one biocompatible polymer of formula (I) is greater than approximately 5,000 da, x represents the substitution rate of the monomers A by the groups X, which is between approximately 20 and 150%, and y represents the substitution rate of the monomers A by the groups Y, which is between approximately 30 and 150%, and a pharmaceutically acceptable vehicle. | 24,922 |
8,768,532 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a current sensor configured to monitor current consumption of an electrical component within an enclosure; a temperature sensor configured to monitor a temperature of air entering the enclosure; a fan configured to affect airflow proximate the electrical component; one or more modules communicatively coupled to the current sensor, the temperature sensor, and the fan, the one or more modules configured to: | 29,840 |
9,296,596 | 1. A lifting apparatus, comprising: a) a scissor lift assembly, further comprising: i) an upper frame operatively disposed above a lower frame, ii) a pair of scissor braces operatively disposed between the upper frame and the lower frame, each brace further comprising first and second arms pivotally attached to each other, each arm further comprising a first end and a second end, iii) a first fixed pin pivotally attaching the first end of the first arms to the upper frame, and a second fixed pin pivotally attaching the first end of the second arms to the lower frame, wherein the scissor lift assembly further comprises a first roller rotatably disposed about the first fixed pin, and a second roller rotatably disposed about the second fixed pin, iv) a first sliding pin disposed in a first slot disposed in the upper frame, the first sliding pin further disposed through the second end of the second arms wherein the first sliding pin can move along the first slot, and v) a second sliding pin disposed in a second slot disposed in the lower frame, the second sliding pin further disposed through the second end of the first arms wherein the second sliding pin can move along the second slot; b) a linear actuator disposed between the upper frame and the lower frame, the linear actuator configured to extend and retract; and c) a wedge comprising upper and lower wedge surfaces, the wedge operatively coupled to the linear actuator, the wedge configured to extend between the first fixed pin and the second fixed pin when the linear actuator is extended wherein the upper frame can be raised relative to the lower frame when the linear actuator is extended, wherein the upper frame can be lowered relative to the lower frame when the linear actuator is retracted, and wherein the wedge extends between the rollers when the linear actuator is extended. | 28,853 |
9,853,534 | 1. A converter circuit arrangement, comprising: a power supply that comprises a first supply voltage node and a second supply voltage node, wherein the power supply is configured to develop a floating voltage between the first supply voltage node and the second supply voltage node; a converter switch controller comprising a control input and a converter switch coupled between the first supply voltage node and the control input, wherein the converter switch controller is configured to drive the converter switch between an open state and a closed state based on a feedback signal developed at the control input; a load circuit interface; an inductor coupled between the second supply voltage node and the load circuit interface, wherein the load circuit interface is coupled between the control input and the inductor in series with a ground reference node; and a diode or transistor coupled between the inductor and the ground reference node and configured to provide a freewheeling path for current flowing through the inductor and the load circuit interface when the converter switch is in the open state. | 47,201 |
9,210,188 | 1. A method for preventing relay-attack on a smart key system, the method comprising: a challenge signal receiving step of transmitting a challenge signal including received signal strength information (hereinafter, “RSSI”) information of two levels from a smart key unit (hereinafter, “SMK unit”) installed in a vehicle to a FOB key carried by a user and receiving the challenge signal by the FOB key; a first decoding step of decoding at least one information item of information items included in the challenge signal after receiving the challenge signal; a response signal transmitting step of transmitting a response signal from the FOB key to the SMK unit after the first decoding step; a second decoding step of decoding at least any one information item included in the response signal received by the SMK unit after the response signal transmitting step; and a normal user determining step of calculating a current distance between the vehicle and the FOB key using a result interpreted in the second decoding step and determining whether a passive operation signal applied from a door of the vehicle other than the FOB key is normal. | 41,056 |
9,672,990 | 1. A dye sensitized solar cell, comprising: an anode, a cathode, a light absorbing layer between the anode and the cathode, wherein the light absorbing layer comprises a semiconductor and a light absorbing compound, wherein the light absorbing compound is chemisorbed on the semiconductor; and wherein the light absorbing compound has formula (I): wherein A 1 is a divalent thiophene group of formula (I′) A 2 is a divalent 5-membered heterocyclic group of formula (II′), (III′), (IV′), or (V′): A wherein R | 22,731 |
9,244,468 | 1. A smoothing device comprising: a predicting unit configured to calculate, among a plurality of operation areas in which facility devices that perform environmental control according to control values are installed, the number of operation areas in which a change in a weather represented by weather prediction information at a first time slot is larger than a threshold and predict a calculation load of operation at the first time slot; a calculating unit configured to calculate, among the plurality of the operation areas, the number of operation areas in which a change in a weather represented by weather information at a second time slot earlier than the first time slot is larger than the threshold, subtract the number of operation-executed operation areas from the number of the operation areas, and calculate a calculation load of operation at the second time slot; and a control unit configured to control an executing device that executes the operation so that part of the operation to be executed at the first time slot is executed at the second time slot when the calculation load at the second time slot is smaller than a first threshold and the calculation load at the first time slot is equal to or larger than the first threshold, wherein the control unit comprises: | 2,121 |
8,901,773 | 1. A power supply system with a photovoltaic device comprising a plurality of DC voltage-generating photovoltaic modules, wherein: the photovoltaic modules are connected in parallel and/or in series to one another and thus generate a DC voltage that exceeds the withstand voltage of the photovoltaic modules and is suitable for high-voltage DC transmission, and the generated DC voltage is in a high-voltage range from 1 kV to 2 MV; the power supply system includes at least one converter substation that can be connected to a power supply network installed for consumers and includes a high-voltage DC transmission power line that transmits in the high voltage range the DC voltage generated by the photovoltaic device to the converter substation. | 28,634 |
8,608,614 | 1. An actuation system for a drive unit of a motor vehicle, comprising: a control unit which is assigned to the drive unit and has a function level and a function monitoring level; a power output stage for actuating the drive unit or actuators or sensors which are assigned to the drive unit; wherein, a data transmission device for outputting data to a data bus is arranged in the function monitoring level; and the data transmission device is configured to output a drive setpoint torque to at least one of the drive unit, actuators or sensors which are assigned to it, and a power output stage of a separate, second drive unit, the drive setpoint torque is a torque value corresponding to a driver requested torque. | 15,106 |
8,862,296 | 1. An electric vehicle, comprising: a pair of left and right rear wheels configured to be driven by rotary driving power; a motor supplied with electric power, and configured to provide the rotary driving power; a rear body comprising rear body frames attached in a transversely tiltable manner with respect to a body frame and a chassis attached to the rear body frames by a pivot shaft on a vehicle forward side in a vertically swingable manner; batteries configured to provide the electric power, the batteries being located on the rear body frames, wherein the motor and the rear wheels are supported on the chassis, and wherein the batteries are housed in a battery case fixed on the rear body frames; a PDU configured as a battery control device, said PDU being located on a vehicle forward side of the battery case; and a contactor configured to open and close a connection between the batteries and the PDU, is the contactor being located on a lateral face of the battery case. | 17,544 |
9,043,172 | 1. A system for estimating virtual machine energy consumption in a computer system, the computer system comprising system hardware resources and a plurality of virtual machines, the system for estimating comprising: a system energy consumption component configured to obtain system energy consumption of the system hardware resources; a functional unit event reading component configured to obtain event information of a plurality of functional units into which the system hardware resources are divided, and map the event information to the respective virtual machines; and a virtual machine energy consumption calculating component configured to calculate energy consumption of the virtual machines according to a plurality of energy consumption coefficients corresponding to the plurality of functional units and according to the mapped event information, wherein the virtual machine energy consumption calculating component comprises: a component configured to obtain energy consumptions of the respective functional units in the system hardware resources according to predetermined energy consumption weights, the energy consumption weights being proportions of the energy consumptions of the respective functional units to the system energy consumption; a component configured to determine the energy consumption coefficients by equally sharing the energy consumptions of the respective functional units according to a total amount of events obtained from the event information statistics of the functional units of the system hardware resources; a component configured to calculate energy consumptions of the respective functional units of the respective virtual machines by multiplication according to the energy consumption coefficients and the event information mapped to the respective virtual machines; and a component configured to calculate energy consumptions of the respective virtual machines by adding up the energy consumptions of the functional units in the respective virtual machines. | 36,478 |
8,982,034 | 1. A portable electronic device with a speaker hole defined thereon, comprising: a display; a backlight module for providing the display with a backlight; an orientation sensor for sensing a spatial position of the portable electronic device and generating a first signal in accordance with the spatial position, wherein the first signal corresponds to at least one first orientation value; a light sensor, disposed on the same side with and around the speaker hole, for sensing a brightness of an ambient light outside the portable electronic device and generating a second signal in accordance with the brightness, wherein the second signal corresponds to a brightness value; and a processing unit for turning on or off the backlight module in accordance with the at least one first orientation value and the brightness value, wherein after a calling request is received, the processing unit enables the orientation sensor and the light sensor to generate the first signal and the second signal, and if the at least one first orientation value falls within a first value range and the brightness value falls within a second value range, the processing unit has the calling request automatically accepted for a communication and turns off the backlight module, and wherein after the calling request is automatically accepted and the backlight module is turned off and before the communication is ended, the orientation sensor generates another first signal, which corresponds to at least one second orientation value, and the processing unit turns on the backlight module if the at least one first orientation value falls within the second value range. | 39,823 |
9,551,515 | 1. A refrigeration cycle apparatus comprising: an outdoor heat source unit, an indoor unit, and a water heating unit that are connected together by refrigerant lines cycling a refrigerant, and the outdoor heat source unit comprises | 11,705 |
9,043,631 | 1. A control system comprising: a processing device configured to process data; a main storage device configured to store therein a plurality of pieces of the data; a cache memory configured to store therein a part of the plurality of pieces of the data stored in the main storage device; a power supply unit configured to supply power; a detector configured to detect whether the processing device is in an idle state in which the processing device is not executing processing; an estimating unit configured to estimate an idle period representing a period during which the idle state is continued; a determining unit configured to determine, when the idle state is detected, whether a first power consumption amount at the time when writeback of the data which needs to be written back to the main storage device among the data stored in the cache memory is performed and supply of power to the cache memory is stopped is smaller than a second power consumption amount at the time when writeback of the data is not performed and supply of power to the cache memory is continued for the idle period; and a controller configured to, when the first power consumption amount is determined to be smaller than the second power consumption amount, perform writeback of the data to stop the supply of power from the power supply unit to the cache memory, but when the first power consumption amount is determined to be larger than the second power consumption amount, to continue the supply of power from the power supply unit to the cache memory without performing writeback of the data wherein the first power consumption amount is expressed by Expression (1): where E1 is a first power consumption amount, Pw is an average power consumption amount when writeback is performed, Tw1 is an average period required for writeback of one piece of data, WB is a total number of pieces of data which needs to be written back, and C is a power consumption amount corresponding to an overhead occurring when the supply of power is restarted after the supply of power to the cache memory is stopped, and the second power consumption amount is expressed by Expression (2): where E2 is a second power consumption amount, Po is an average power consumption amount when power is supplied to the cache memory, and T is the idle period. | 48,570 |
9,017,605 | 1. A nickel-base superalloy, having the following chemical composition (in % by weight): 7.7-8.3 Cr 5.0-5.25 Co 2.0-2.1 Mo 7.8-8.3 W 5.8-6.1 Ta 4.9-5.1 Al 1.0-1.5 Ti 1.0-2.0 Re 0.1-0.2 Nb 0.11-0.15 Si 0.1-0.7 Hf 0.02-0.17 C 50-400 ppm B remainder nickel and production-related impurities. | 14,942 |
8,482,271 | 1. A switching power supply apparatus comprising: a power circuit unit, the power circuit unit comprising a first switching element connected at a first end to a first end of a power supply, an inductor connected at a first end thereof to a second end of the first switching element, a first output terminal connected to a second end of the inductor, a second output terminal connected to a second end of the power supply, a capacitor connected between the first output terminal and the second output terminal, and a second switching element connected between the second end of the power supply and a second end of the first switching element; and an optimal response multi-mode digital current program mode control unit, the optimal response multi-mode digital current program mode control unit comprising an error signal generator which generates an error signal according to a potential difference between an output voltage and a preset voltage, an inductor current detector which detects and amplifies an inductor current, a mode detector which detects an abrupt change of the output voltage and switches an operation mode; a peak/valley detector & optimal current difference calculator which detects an extreme value of the output voltage and calculates a charge quantity lost by the capacitor; and an inductor current detection storage circuit which detects and stores an inductor current obtained when an extreme value of the output voltage is detected, and on-off control of the first switching element or the second switching element being exercised according to control of the mode detector, the peak/valley detector & optimal current difference calculator, and the inductor current detection storage circuit. | 45,778 |
9,660,536 | 1. A switching power supply device comprising: a transformer including a primary winding and a secondary winding; a primary-side alternating-current voltage generating circuit electrically connected to the primary winding and including high-side and low-side switching circuits, the primary-side alternating-current voltage generating circuit generating an alternating-current voltage having a substantially square or trapezoidal wave shape from an input direct-current voltage; a secondary-side rectifier circuit that rectifies the alternating-current voltage into a direct-current voltage; a first LC series resonant circuit on a primary side, the first LC series resonant circuit including a first series resonant inductor and a first series resonant capacitor; a second LC series resonant circuit on a secondary side, the second LC series resonant circuit including a second series resonant inductor and a second series resonant capacitor, and impedances of the first and second LC series resonant circuits are matched by the transformer so that the first LC series resonant circuit and the second LC series resonant circuit resonate with each other; a first parallel resonant capacitor connected in parallel to the secondary winding; and a switching control circuit that performs control to alternately turn on and off the high-side and low-side switching circuits of the primary-side alternating-current voltage generating circuit with a dead time period; wherein the secondary-side rectifier circuit includes an adder-rectifier circuit configured to store a voltage generated in the secondary winding in the second series resonant capacitor as electrostatic energy in a period during which one of the high-side and low-side switching circuits is brought into a conductive state, and add the voltage in the second series resonant capacitor and the voltage generated in the secondary winding and output a sum as the direct-current voltage in an on period of the other of the high-side and low-side switching circuits; the switching control circuit includes an on-period ratio controller arranged and programmed to control an on period ratio, that is a proportion of a period during which the high-side switching circuit is brought into a conductive state of a resonant current of the first LC series resonant circuit to a period during which the low-side switching circuit is brought into the conductive state of the resonant current of the first LC series resonant circuit, in order to adjust an output power to be output from the secondary-side rectifier circuit, except for a commutation period where a voltage across the high-side and low-side switching circuits changes via a switching period, so as to enable the output power to be controlled even when a switching frequency of the high-side and low-side switching circuits is constant; the first parallel resonant capacitor is connected to a node that is between the second series resonant inductor and the second series resonant capacitor; the first parallel resonant capacitor corrects for a difference between the dead time period and the commutation period with respect to variations of the output power; and the transformer defines an electromagnetic field resonant circuit in which magnetic field coupling through mutual inductance and electric field coupling through mutual capacitance between the primary winding and the secondary winding are combined. | 21,150 |
9,645,291 | 1. An optical-based imaging system including at least one voltage-controlled plasmonic tunable optical filter comprising a shortwave pass (SWP) plasmonic filter comprising a plurality of voltage-controlled transparent, conductive strips disposed above and insulated from a layer of transparent, conductive material, the SWP plasmonic filter defined as exhibiting a selected cut-off wavelength λ a longwave pass (LWP) plasmonic filter comprising a plurality of voltage-controlled transparent, conductive strips disposed above and insulated from a layer of transparent, conductive material, the LWP plasmonic filter defined as exhibiting a selected cut-on wavelength λ | 6,587 |
8,359,870 | 1. In a gas turbine having a combustor can and a fuel nozzle disposed in the combustor can, a flame-holding control method, comprising: performing a first scheduled injection of a diluent stream into the nozzle; setting a time threshold based on durability of the fuel nozzle subject to a flame-holding event; checking to see if a time period has exceeded the time threshold; and in response to the time period being greater than the time threshold, performing a second scheduled injection of the diluent stream into the nozzle, wherein the first and second scheduled injections are pulsed injections performed for a pulsed time period less than the time threshold, and injected at an amount above a diluent threshold for quenching the flame-holding event. | 10,082 |
8,495,211 | 1. A network service system comprising a service registry interacting with a registry client, said service registry including a service registry interface operatively coupled to (i) a service data registry for processing structured queries from said registry client regarding registered services and (ii) a metadata registry for processing unstructured queries from said registry client regarding said registered services, wherein said structured queries permit retrieval of specific information regarding said registered services by designating specific data structures internal to the service data registry, wherein said structured queries permit said registry client to determine at least one of security protocols and transport protocols supported by a given registered service, and wherein the service registry interface is configured to receive an input unstructured query and then, based on the input unstructured query, at least one of: (1) process a call into the metadata registry, in which case the metadata registry includes an index on service descriptions within the service data registry, or (2) process calls into both the service data registry and the metadata registry. | 964 |
8,873,784 | 1. Hearing aid with a casing element enclosing electronic components and a battery drawer hingedly connected to the casing element for pivotal movement with respect to the casing element whereby the battery drawer, in a first pivotal position, aligns with the casing, and in a second pivotal position grants access to a battery compartment whereby the user may extract the battery and insert a substitute battery when the battery drawer is in the second pivotal position, and where bushings in the casing element corresponding to seats in the battery drawer are provided co-axially with the desired pivotal axle, the seats are open to one side in a radial direction with respect to the pivotal axle, and the opening of the seats having a width that is smaller than the diameter of the bushing; wherein a metal hinge pin is provided coaxially with the desired pivotal axle and centrally through holes in the bushings, the battery drawer and the casing parts; the through holes in the casing part being provided at both sides of the casing part such that the metal hinge pin when in position is flush with or slightly below an outer surface of the casing part. | 48,135 |
9,819,292 | 1. A method, comprising: combusting a fuel and an oxidant in a combustor of an exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) gas turbine system that produces electrical power and provides a portion of the electrical power to an electrical grid; controlling, via one or more processors, one or more parameters of the EGR gas turbine system to decrease the portion of the electrical power provided to the electrical grid in response to an over-frequency event associated with the electrical grid, wherein controlling the one or more parameters comprises decreasing a flow rate of fuel to the combustor in response to the over-frequency event; and decreasing a concentration and/or flow rate of oxidant in the combustor in response to the over-frequency event, wherein the EGR gas turbine system comprises a shaft coupled to an electric generator, and wherein a droop governor control is applied to control the electric generator, wherein a flow rate of the oxidant is decreased by an air stroke reference (ASR) from a higher flow rate to a lower flow rate subsequent to the over-frequency event. | 19,783 |
9,128,189 | 1. A hybrid pulsed and Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave (FMCW) radar antenna device, comprising: an Electronically Scanned Array (ESA) antenna, the ESA having an aperture, the ESA further comprising: wherein a receive path is configured to carry received FMCW radar signals and received pulsed radar signals from each TRM to a radar receiver. | 10,254 |
8,747,530 | 1. A system for water extraction from air, comprising: a housing having a plurality of openings allowing an air flow to enter into an inner space defined by the housing; a sponge disposed within the inner space defined by the housing, the sponge including a water absorbing/adsorbing material for absorbing/adsorbing water vapor from the air flow; a presser disposed above the sponge and configured to compress the sponge to discharge water from the sponge; and a fan disposed at an end position of the housing and configured to receive power from an electrical power supply. | 32,846 |
9,109,614 | 1. An energy storage and recovery system comprising: a reversible compressor/expander in selective fluid communication with a compressed gas storage unit and comprising an element configured to introduce liquid to effect gas-liquid heat exchange with gas being compressed or expanded within the reversible compressor/expander; a gas-liquid separator configured to separate the liquid from a gas-liquid mixture received from the reversible compressor/expander; an insulated thermal storage unit in thermal communication with separated liquid; and a second insulated thermal storage unit configured to be in thermal communication with liquid separated by a second gas-liquid separator when the reversible compressor/expander is operating as a compressor. | 16,875 |
8,779,279 | 1. An integrated wiring member for a solar cell module, comprising: a first wiring member; a second wiring member; and an insulating and protecting film for electrically insulating said first wiring member and said second wiring member from each other, wherein said first wiring member and said second wiring member are integrated with each other through said insulating and protecting film, wherein said second wiring member has a second connecting portion directly electrically connected to a connecting member of a solar cell at a point, wherein said point is in a second overlapping region that is a region of said second wiring member substantially overlapped with said first wiring member, and wherein said insulating and protecting film is located between said second connecting portion and said first wiring member. | 37,624 |
9,652,364 | 1. A computer-implemented method, comprising: receiving, from a network document browser of a user device, a request for a debugging session including an indication of a particular mobile device that is remotely hosted with respect to the user device; initiating, by a computer-implemented agent on the user device, the debugging session in the network document browser, the computer-implemented agent configured to relay a debugging command between the user device and the particular mobile device; receiving, by the computer-implemented agent, the debugging command via the network document browser of the user device; translating, by the computer-implemented agent, the debugging command from a common debugging protocol to a particular debugging protocol for the particular mobile device; and in response to providing, via the computer-implemented agent, the debugging command to the particular mobile device: | 31,761 |
9,199,674 | 1. A cooling air guide for a motor vehicle, comprising: a transverse radiator arranged in a front end region of the vehicle; a body opposed to an upper part of the radiator and forming an upper part of a first air duct in the front end region of the vehicle forward of the radiator and an upper part of a second air duct rearward of the radiator, the body including a substantially horizontal downwardly facing body shell undersurface rearward of the second air duct; and a front skirt mounted in the front end region of the vehicle and opposed to a lower part of the radiator, the front skirt including: a front section forward of the radiator and having an upper surface forming a lower part of the first air duct; a rear section unitary with the front section and extending continuously rearward from the front section to a position rearward of the radiator and below and parallel to a front part of the body shell undersurface so that an upper surface of the rear section of the front skirt is opposed to and spaced below the body shell undersurface and forms a lower part of the second air duct; and at least one outlet gap formed between the body shell undersurface and the upper surface of the rear section of the front skirt, the outlet gap being configured and disposed for guiding the outlet air flow out from the second air duct substantially horizontally and parallel to the body shell undersurface, and wherein no components other than the front skirt form the lower parts of the first and second air ducts. | 5,500 |
8,819,403 | 1. A method for supporting a hibernation function of a mobile device, the method comprising: detecting a wakeup event in a hibernation mode; in response to the wakeup event, loading a snapshot image into a volatile memory from a snapshot image region of a nonvolatile memory; after the loading of the snapshot image, determining whether a system status has been modified by comparing data in the snapshot image loaded into the volatile memory with data stored in a database region of the nonvolatile memory; if the system status has not been modified, finishing a system boot; and if the system status has been modified, performing data synchronization by reloading data from the database region of the nonvolatile memory into the volatile memory, and then finishing the system boot. | 14,254 |
8,661,371 | 1. A computer-implemented method for displaying design solutions for resolving assignment conflicts between shapes in a circuit design layout that are pre-assigned to different masks, the method comprising: receiving a set of paths for a disjoint set of shapes, each path comprising a set of links for connecting two pre-assigned shapes that have an assignment conflict, wherein each link is for connecting a pair of shapes that are within a threshold distance from each other; identifying a set of holes in a plurality of shapes and links of the disjoint set, wherein a hole is a space enclosed by a loop formed by shapes and links; for each of the received paths, performing an analysis on the path based on the set of identified holes to identify a set of design solutions that eliminates the assignment conflict on the path; and displaying the set of identified design solutions for each of the received paths in order to aid a user to resolve the assignment conflicts. | 6,059 |
9,169,829 | 1. A hydraulic system adapted to feed oil from a hydraulic tank into a hydraulic unit, the hydraulic system comprising: a hydraulic main line for connecting the hydraulic tank and the hydraulic unit; a hydraulic pump placed in the hydraulic main line, the hydraulic pump feeding the oil from the hydraulic tank into the hydraulic unit through the hydraulic main line to actuate the hydraulic unit; a bypass path branching off from a discharge side of the hydraulic pump in the hydraulic main line to the hydraulic tank; a flow rate control means provided in the bypass path to control a flow rate of the bypass path; a pressure sensor provided in an inlet of the hydraulic unit in the hydraulic main line; a control device to which a pressure detection value is input from the pressure sensor to control the flow rate control means based on the pressure detection value; and a temperature sensor for detecting a temperature of the oil and inputting a temperature detection value to the control device, wherein the oil is circulated in the bypass path while keeping a pump discharge pressure and the flow rate equal to or smaller than given specified values, and wherein the control device is configured: to circulate the oil in the bypass path while controlling the flow rate control means in order to keep an actuation power of the hydraulic pump equal to a maximum value based on the pressure detection value and a set curve of an actuation power of the pressure and the flow rate of the hydraulic unit, when the temperature detection value is lower than a predetermined temperature; and to perform control to stop circulating the oil in the bypass path, when the temperature detection value reaches the predetermined temperature. | 7,756 |
8,564,209 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a circuit in series with at least one light-emitting diode to receive, at a first terminal of the circuit, a rectified A.C. voltage, the circuit comprising: | 25,625 |
9,840,642 | 1. A process for treating a cellulosic fiber-based substrate comprising: applying a coating comprising a wet coating composition onto at least one surface of the cellulosic fiber-based substrate; and heating the coated substrate to allow migration of the coating towards a core of the cellulosic fiber-based substrate, wherein the wet coating composition comprises: wherein the wet coating composition when dried forms a coating having a surface energy ranging from 20 to 60 mN/m being the sum of dispersive and polar energies. | 40,069 |
9,589,753 | 1. A method performed in a control unit for closing a contactor device, the contactor device being movable between a closed position in which a current is allowed to flow in a current path and an open position in which the current path is broken, the control unit being configured to enable the movement between the closed position and the open position by energizing a coil of an electromagnetic circuit, the method comprising: applying a voltage over the coil, determining, during a first period of time, current through the coil and voltage over the coil and estimating based thereon model parameters for a model predicting the behavior of the current through the coil if the contactor device were to stay in an open position, and measuring, after the ending of the first period of time, current through the coil and determining a difference between, on the one hand the measured current and, on the other hand a predicted current of the model, and repeating the measuring and determining until a state change from open position to closed position is detected by the difference in current. | 10,792 |
9,647,890 | 1. A method for providing mesh network resiliency comprising: providing, to one or more first nodes of a mesh network associated with a monitoring or automation system located in a property, routing data that indicates routing responsibilities for the one or more first nodes within a first routing configuration for the mesh network, wherein the one or more first nodes of the mesh network are associated with one or more sensors that sense attributes of the property or one or more devices that perform automated functionality for the property, and the first routing configuration being appropriate at a time during which a first power source that powers multiple nodes of the mesh network is available; designating a particular node of the one or more first nodes of the mesh network as a coordinator node, wherein the particular node designated as the coordinator node is capable of detecting an interruption of the first power source and features a second power source that is different than the first power source; detecting, by the particular node designated as the coordinator node, an interruption of the first power source for the mesh network; determining a second routing configuration for one or more second nodes of the mesh network that include the particular node designated as the coordinator node, the second routing configuration being appropriate at a time during which the first power source that powers multiple nodes of the mesh network is unavailable; providing, to the one or more second nodes of the mesh network, routing data that indicates routing responsibilities for the one or more second nodes within the second routing configuration for the mesh network, wherein each of the one or more second nodes of the mesh network include a second power source that is different than the first power source; and providing, by the particular node designated as the coordinator node and in response to the particular node designated as the coordinator node detecting the interruption of the first power source for the mesh network, one or more messages to the one or more second nodes of the mesh network indicating the interruption of the first power source for the mesh network, wherein receipt of a message from the particular node designated as the coordinator node indicating the interruption of the first power source for the mesh network causes the one or more second nodes of the mesh network to route data according to the second routing configuration for the mesh network. | 42,488 |
8,361,374 | 1. A method of making a shaped product comprising: combining a major portion by weight of a clay-containing compound which essentially does not include free silica, said clay-containing compound comprising clay mineral selected from the group consisting of plagioclase, muscovite, kaolinite, biotite, hornblende, chlorite, montmorillonite, illite, vermiculite, serpentine, pyrophyllite, talc, phlogopite, glauconite, prehnite, stilpnomelane, apophyllite, anthophyllite, cummingtonite, tremolite- actinolite, pigeonite, diopside, hedenbergite, augite, acmite, jadeite, spodumene, wollastonite, pectolite, rhodonite, axinite, beryl, cordierite, lawsonite, pumpellyite, gehlenite, akermanite, hemimorphite, vesuvianite, zoisite, clinizoisite, epidote, allanite, olivine, willemite, zircon, thorite, titanite, andalusite, sillimanite, kyanite, staurolite, topaz, datolite, xhloritoid, and mixtures thereof, with a calciferous additive to form a first mixture in a dry form, wherein a first portion of said clay-containing compound has an average particle size that is coarser than a second portion of said clay-containing compound; mixing the first mixture in the dry form; mixing the second mixture in the moistened form; compacting said second mixture with pressure from about 34,474 to 68,948 kPa (5000 to 10,000 psi) to form a shaped product; and hydrothermally treating said shaped product to facilitate the formation of an interlocking mineralogical matrix therein. | 41,938 |
9,356,308 | 1. A cable-type secondary battery comprising: a core including an electrolyte for supplying lithium ions; an inner electrode comprising an inner current collector surrounding the core for supplying lithium ions and an inner electrode active material layer formed on a surface of the inner current collector; a separation layer surrounding an outer surface of the inner electrode; and an outer electrode surrounding an outer surface of the separation layer and comprising an outer electrode active material layer and an outer current collector. | 10,504 |
9,048,359 | 1. A solar cell module comprising: a plurality of solar cells arranged next to one another in a first direction orthogonal to a second direction of the solar cells, the solar cells each being longer in the second direction than in the first direction and including a lower conductive layer, an upper conductive layer, and a power generating layer between the upper and lower conductive layers, each of the solar cells having first and second edge portions that are opposite to each other in the first direction, adjacent solar cells of the solar cells being partially overlapped and electrically connected with each other, each of the solar cells further including end processed regions at both ends thereof in the second direction and a main power generating region in a middle portion thereof between the end processed regions in the second direction, the end processed regions having a short-circuit prevention property that prevents a short-circuit between the upper conductive layer and the lower conductive layer, the main power generating region having a photoelectric conversion property that performs photoelectric conversion, and a first edge portion of one of the adjacent solar cells that overlaps from above with a second edge portion of the other one of the adjacent solar cells being shorter in the second direction than the second edge portion of the other one of the adjacent solar cells, the first edge portion of the one of the adjacent solar cells overlapping from above with the second edge portion of the other one of the adjacent solar cells only at the main power generating region of the other one of the adjacent solar cells such that the first edge portion of the one of the adjacent solar cells does not overlap with the second edge portion of the other one of the adjacent solar cells at the end processed regions of the other one of the adjacent solar cells. | 23,825 |
8,671,049 | 1. A computer implemented method for the creation and trading of financial instruments based upon the intensity of an underlying index comprising the following steps: (a) creating at least one futures contract by a computer, said at least one futures contract having a predetermined formula for a settlement price (AR) based at least in part on the following formula: (b) trading said at least one futures contract at a market-determined price from creation through the date of expiration. | 4,965 |
9,577,262 | 1. A positive electrode material for a lithium ion secondary cell, comprising: a binding agent in which an active material formed from a lithium metal oxide is dispersed together with barium titanate and conductive carbon, the binding agent including an acrylic copolymer, polyvinylidene fluoride, and a copolymer of vinylidene fluoride and tetrafluoroethylene, wherein when a sum of the acrylic copolymer, the polyvinylidene fluoride, and the copolymer of the vinylidene fluoride and the tetrafluoroethylene is 100 mass %, a ratio of the acrylic copolymer is 23.3 to 60.0 mass %, and an acid value of the acrylic copolymer is 20 to 80 mgKOH/g. | 41,436 |
8,559,199 | 1. A correction circuit of the power factor of a circuit for a three-phase electric network, comprising: a filtering unit at the input of said correction circuit receiving the three phases of the current, at least one inductor per phase of current placed downstream of the filtering unit, and a rectifying bridge powering a current-chopping stage, wherein the filtering unit comprises at least one differential-mode filtering cell comprising at least one inductive circuit formed of a single magnetic material in a double E, each leg of the E being surrounded by a winding, the values of the inductors being chosen so that said correction circuit operates at the boundary between the continuous mode and the discontinuous mode, and wherein the filtering unit includes a first common-mode filtering cell, associated in series with a first of the at least one differential-mode filtering cell, and a second differential-mode filtering cell, wherein the filtering unit also comprises a second common-mode filtering cell comprising a mid-point output and inserted between the first differential-mode filtering cell and the second differential-mode filtering cell. | 39,383 |
8,894,656 | 1. A method for treating compression fractures of a spine, comprising inserting a expandable device in a collapsed state in bone structures in thoracic or lumbar spine portions, and expanding the expandable bone device to act as scaffolding to support said bone structures, and filling said scaffolding with a filler material, wherein said expandable bone device comprises: a unitary body constructed of a medically safe metal extending along a longitudinal axis and including a deformable portion having a collapsed orientation for placement adjacent a bone structure and an expanded orientation comprising a three-dimensional prismatic shape, wherein in the collapsed orientation, said deformable portion is non-prismatic and is longer along the longitudinal axis than transverse to the longitudinal axis, and in the expanded orientation, said deformable portion expands outwards in two orthogonal directions which are both perpendicular to the longitudinal axis, wherein in the expanded orientation said deformable portion is longer in one of said orthogonal directions than in the other of said orthogonal directions. | 14,010 |
9,455,438 | 1. A method for preparing a lithium secondary battery, comprising: (a) preparing an anode for the lithium secondary battery by: (b) preparing a cathode for the lithium secondary battery by: (c) preparing the lithium secondary battery with the anode of step (a) and the cathode of step (b). | 1,571 |
9,450,912 | 1. A method for accessing an application server, applied to a terminal comprising a processor, wherein the method comprises: obtaining, by the processor, an IP address or a server domain name for accessing an application server from an access point list, wherein the access point list comprises a guaranteed IP address entry, a server domain name entry, and at least one blank entry for storing a new IP address, wherein the blank entry is located before the guaranteed IP address entry and the server domain name entry; initiating, by the processor, an access to the application server by using the IP address or server domain name; and updating, by the processor, after the access to the application server succeeds, the access point list by storing an IP address delivered, according to a load balancing policy, by the application server to a blank entry of the access point list; wherein obtaining the IP address or the server domain name for accessing the application server from the access point list comprises: traversing the access point list with an initial position of the access point list as a starting point and using an IP address or a server domain name which is obtained initially during the traversing as the IP address or server domain name for accessing the application server. | 24,244 |
9,502,155 | 1. A seal assembly including: a first shield tube surrounding a signal wire; a second shield tube surrounding the signal wire; and an electrically insulating barrier positioned between the first shield tube and the second shield tube and through which the signal wire extends, the insulating barrier including a first conductive layer on a first side of the insulating barrier and a second conductive layer on an opposing second side of the insulating barrier, wherein the first shield tube is electrically connected to the first conductive layer and the second shield tube is electrically connected to the second conductive layer such that the first shield tube, first conductive layer, second shield tube, and second conductive layer are electrically insulated from the signal wire, and the first shield tube being fully enclosed within a hermetically sealed boundary within the seal assembly. | 6,338 |
9,630,135 | 1. A honeycomb body of ceramic material for use in installations for cleaning and/or regenerating gases, comprising a prismatic body, which is penetrated by many rectilinear gas-flow channels parallel to one another, which discharge into two face ends of the honeycomb body, wherein the honeycomb body has at least one tubular recess, which is oriented transversely to the direction of the gas-flow channels, and wherein the at least one tubular recess has a cross-section dimensioned such that the number of gas-flow channels of a transverse plane of the prismatic body lying transverse to the side of the prismatic body into which the tubular recess opens is greater than the number of gas-flow channels of the transverse plane that are not connected by the at least one tubular recess. | 15,746 |
8,456,097 | 1. An illumination control circuit comprising: an input voltage sensing circuit producing an output signal proportional to said input voltage, and a microcontroller receiving said output signal from said input voltage sensing circuit, and adapted to write a digital pulsed modulation signal to a power regulating device according to programmed instructions, and a power regulating device receiving said digital pulsed modulation signal of said microcontroller to control an illumination source, and regulating the power delivered to said illumination source to control the intensity of said illumination source; wherein said power regulating device is controlled according to said digital pulsed modulation signal such that the intensity of said illumination source varies in proportion to the relative duty cycle of said pulsed modulation signal of said microcontroller. | 16,766 |
8,449,693 | 1. A paint roller cover cleaning and drying apparatus, comprising: a) an elongated hollow body portion having an open distal end and an open proximal end; b) a flange affixed to a proximal end of said elongated hollow body portion at said open proximal end; c) a nozzle plenum disposed on an inside surface of said hollow body portion and disposed substantially parallel to a major axis thereof, wherein said nozzle plenum comprises a cross sectional area that varies along a major axis; d) at least two nozzles disposed along a major axis of said nozzle plenum and communicative with an interior region thereof, said nozzles being directed toward a central portion of an interior region of said body portion; and e) a roller cover support depending from a lower surface of a roller support bar adapted for placement across said flange with said roller cover support being disposed within said interior region of said body portion. | 36,102 |
9,670,549 | 1. A method of determining if a hematological neoplasm is sensitive to treatment with histone deacetylase inhibitor (HDACi) and mechanistic Target of Rapamycin (mTOR) inhibitor (mTORi) combination therapy and treating the neoplasm, comprising: obtaining a blood sample from a subject with a hematological neoplasm; detecting the level of expression of six or more genes in the blood sample, wherein the six or more genes are selected from the group consisting of ATPase family, AAA domain containing 2 (ATAD2); Bloom syndrome, RecQ helicase-like (BLM); chromosome 9 open reading frame 140 (C9orf140); cyclin B2 (CCNB2); cell division cycle 20 homolog ( wherein the six or more genes comprise at least CDC25A, E2F2, RRM2, RAD51, MCM4, BLM, CDC6, CDCA5, HJURP, MCM2, MCM5, MYBL2, PHF19, SLC19A1, UBE2C, Hs.193784, Hs.202577, and HLA-DPB1; identifying the neoplasm as sensitive to treatment with HDACi and mTORi combination therapy if there is a difference in the level of expression of the six or more genes in the neoplasm sample as compared to a control; and administering a therapeutically effective amount of a HDACi and mTORi combination therapy to the subject if the neoplasm is identified as sensitive to treatment with HDACi and mTORi combination therapy. | 40,499 |
9,541,065 | 1. A method for controlling a wind turbine, comprising a rotor to which at least one blade is attached and an electrical machine connected to the rotor, wherein pitch angle of the at least one blade and electrical recovery torque of the electrical machine are measured or determined, comprising: a) constructing a model of dynamics of the rotor using a principle of dynamics to describe the rotor, the model relating incident wind speed at the wind turbine to rotating speed of the rotor, the pitch angle of at least one blade and the electrical recovery torque; b) measuring the rotating speed of the rotor; c) determining an incident wind speed by using the model of dynamics of the rotor, of the measured rotating speed of the rotor, of the pitch angle of the at least one blade and of the electrical torque; and d) controlling the pitch angle of at least one blade and/or the electrical recovery torque as a function of the incident wind speed to optimize production of energy by the wind turbine. | 24,492 |
9,797,912 | 1. A method of diagnosing or assessing and treating an inflammatory bowel disease in a subject, comprising a. detecting the presence of one or more markers in the serum of the subject, wherein the one or more markers is selected from the group consisting of SPP24 or a fragment thereof and guanylin or a fragment thereof; b. comparing the level of the one or more markers in the serum of the subject relative to a reference value for the one or more markers; c. diagnosing the subject with IBD when the level of the one or more markers in the serum of the subject is elevated relative to the reference value; and d. treating the subject diagnosed with IBD with an anti-inflammatory agent, an immune modifier or an anti-TNF agent to the subject. | 9,118 |
9,358,498 | 1. A mixed air removal device for removing air from a mixture gas of an organic gas and the air, the device comprising: a reservoir that reserves the mixture gas; a pressure container; a first pressure gauge that measures a pressure inside the pressure container; a pump that supplies the mixture gas from the reservoir to the pressure container; a first piping through which the reservoir and the pump are connected to each other; a second piping through which the pump and the pressure container are connected to each other; a membrane unit that comprises a gas separation membrane through which the organic gas permeates at a speed higher than that of air; a third piping through which a supply gas inlet of the membrane unit and the pressure container are connected to each other; a first valve provided in the third piping; and a controller, wherein with the first valve closed, the controller activates the pump to supply the mixture gas to the pressure container until a value measured by the first pressure gauge reaches a set upper limit value, and when the value measured by the first pressure gauge exceeds the set upper limit value, the controller opens the first valve to supply the mixture gas to the membrane unit. | 14,868 |
8,644,769 | 1. A wireless input device communicable with a processor-based device, the wireless input device comprising: a transducer operable for generating instruction data; a transceiver for transmitting the instruction data as instruction signals for reception by the processor-based device, the instruction signals having a transmission technique determining how the instruction signals are transmitted from the transceiver to the processor-based device, the transceiver further for receiving control signals from the processor-based device; a controller for controlling the power consumption of a battery module; an actuator coupled to the controller, the actuator configured to enable user selection between a first power consumption mode that is associated with a lower power consumption of the battery module and a second power consumption mode that is associated with a higher power consumption of the battery module, instruction signals transmissible from the wireless input device to the processor-based device at each of the first and second power consumption modes; and a software application for varying a rate of power consumption of the battery module independently of the actuator by selecting a transmission technique of the instruction signals, the transmission technique selected from any one of a continuous transmission, a frame bursting transmission, a data compression transmission, and a data frame concatenation transmission, the software application further dynamically adjusting the rate of power consumption in accordance with a plurality of user-defined options related to the instruction signals, comprising a transmission signal strength and a transmission range; wherein any of a selection of a transmission mode and an adjustment to a setting of one of the plurality of user-defined options automatically activates the software application to send corresponding control signals to the controller for dynamically adjusting the power consumption of the battery module. | 39,331 |
8,977,448 | 1. An operating state display device for a hybrid vehicle that runs by transmitting output from two drive sources including an electric motor and an engine to an axle via a transmission, comprising: a display portion that displays an energy transmission state of the vehicle; and a controller programmed to control a display of the display portion, wherein, regardless of an energy state, the controller controls the display portion to show a display similar to what is shown when no energy is being transmitted to the axle, when all of the following three conditions are satisfied (i) the vehicle is stopped, (ii) a brake operation is being performed, and (iii) torque is being applied by the electric motor to reduce backlash of gears in the transmission. | 16,002 |
9,461,480 | 1. A method of regulating output power on a secondary side of an inductive power transfer (IPT) system, the method comprising steps of: measuring, using a primary side controller of the IPT system, a phase angle between voltage across and current in a primary side conductive path having an unknown or variable mutual coupling with a pickup coil of the secondary side; calculating, using the primary side controller, an imaginary component of the voltage across the primary side conductive path using the measured phase angle; determining, using the primary side controller, the unknown or variable mutual coupling using the calculated imaginary component; and adjusting, under control of the primary side controller, current in the primary conductive path based on the determined unknown or variable mutual coupling to regulate power output by the primary side thereby regulating the output power of the coupled secondary side. | 40,114 |
8,572,738 | 1. A computer implemented method for detecting a computer virus, comprising: identifying a group of non-recently accessed objects, wherein an access to an object includes read and write operations associated with the object and non-recently accessed defined by an interval parameter; identifying one or more objects within the group having time from last access that at least meets the interval parameter; archiving the identified objects, wherein the step of archiving said identified objects renders said objects in an archived state un-executable; searching for presence of a virus, including periodically scanning for a virus on all non-archived objects in a file system while bypassing all archived objects in said file system; and granting access to a scanned object if it is determined that no virus is found in said scanned object, and denying access to said scanned object if it is determined that a virus is present. | 4,647 |
9,048,660 | 1. A short-circuit detecting apparatus of a heating system for a high voltage battery, the apparatus comprising: a plurality of heaters connected to a high voltage battery and configured to heat the high voltage battery; a short-circuit detection resistor connected between the heaters and configured to detect whether the heaters are short-circuited; an analog-to-digital (A/D) converter configured to sense a voltage applied across the short-circuit detection resistor; and a Battery Management System (BMS) configured to calculate a final operation value using the voltage applied across the short-circuit detection resistor and compare the final operation value with the value of battery pack voltage to detect whether the heaters are short-circuited. | 7,588 |
9,342,131 | 1. A USB (Universal Serial Bus) hub comprising: an upstream USB port connecting to an upstream device via an upstream USB line; a downstream USB port connecting to a downstream device via a downstream USB line; a clock generation circuit supplying a clock; a clock pin that supplies the clock received from the clock generation circuit for operating the downstream device to the downstream device; and a hub controller that automatically stops clock supply to the downstream device via the clock generation circuit and the clock pin, both when a connection between the upstream USB port and the upstream device is disconnected and when the hub controller receives a power save mode request to the downstream USB port from the upstream device, wherein the hub controller stops the clock supply whenever a stop of the data communication between the upstream device and the downstream device is detected by the hub controller including when the hub controller receives the power save mode request to the downstream USB port from the upstream device to stop the data communication, wherein when stopping the clock, the hub controller instructs the clock generation circuit to stop the clock supply and the clock generation circuit stops the clock supply from all the clock pins, and wherein the hub controller turns on a power line included in the downstream USB line and starts the clock supply to the downstream device when the upstream USB port and the upstream device are connected. | 35,086 |
8,662,527 | 1. An airbag apparatus comprising: an airbag; an inflator for generating gas to deploy the airbag; the airbag having an open end air-tightly connected to the inflator, and when the airbag is deployed, the airbag has a rear surface located remote from the open end for being in contact with an occupant, and a top surface, a bottom surface, a left surface, and a right surface that extend from the open end toward the rear surface of the airbag; the airbag including: a main bag having a bottom surface forming the bottom surface of the airbag and having an opening portion formed thereon, said main bag defining an interior space and having a first volume; a small bag extending from the opening portion into the main bag so as to be received in the interior space of the main bag, said small bag defining a second volume, said second volume being less than said first volume; the small bag having a joined portion of a predetermined length joined to an inside of the main bag; the airbag having the joined portion along the top surface, rear surface, or the left and right surfaces thereof when the airbag is deployed, the top surface, the rear surface, or the left and right surfaces having groove portions bent toward the small bag; and the joined portion extends in a direction of deployment of the airbag. | 38,475 |
8,489,852 | 1. A method of manipulating data, the method comprising: receiving a data manipulation command for corresponding data, which corresponds to a first logical block address, to a second logical block address; and mapping the second logical block address to a physical block address, which is mapped to the first logical block address, in response to the data manipulation command, wherein the receiving comprises receiving the data manipulation command for copying or moving the data corresponding to the first logical block address in order to enable the data corresponding to the first logical block address to correspond to the second logical block address. | 1,631 |
8,829,211 | 1. A process for producing an olefin oxide, wherein the process comprises reacting an olefin with oxygen in the presence of a halogen compound additive and a catalyst comprising copper, ruthenium or both, and the reaction is performed in the gas phase wherein the halogen compound additive is a compound selected from C1-C4 halogenated alkanes and C1-C4 halogenated alkenes, and wherein the olefin and oxygen are fed in the form of gas, and a linear velocity of the gas is in the range of from 0.0001 m/s to 500 m/s. | 24,505 |
9,243,075 | 1. A polysaccharide represented by formula (1): wherein: A represents a polysaccharide residue; R represents an acyl group derived from a saturated or unsaturated fatty acid having 8 to 12 carbon atoms; —CO—X—NH— represents an amino acid residue selected from the group consisting of aspartic acid and glutamic acid; n is an integer of 100 to 3,000; and said polysaccharide has a weight average molecular weight of 1,500,000 to 8,000,000, wherein A represents one or more selected from the group consisting of a cellulose residue, a starch residue, a hydroxyethylcellulose residue, a methylcellulose residue, an ethylcellulose residue, and a hydroxypropylcellulose residue, and wherein said polysaccharide has a degree of dispersion of 1.5 to 50. | 31,384 |
8,615,990 | 1. An apparatus for controlling regeneration events on multiple diesel particulate filters (DPFs) of an exhaust after-treatment system, comprising: a particulate matter loading module configured to estimate a first amount of particulate matter on the first DPF and a second amount of particulate matter on the second DPF, wherein the particulate matter loading module triggers a regeneration event request for the first DPF if the first amount of particulate matter on the first DPF is above a first threshold and the second amount of particulate matter on the second DPF is below a second threshold, and triggers a regeneration event request for the second DPF if the first amount of particulate matter on the first DPF is below the first threshold and the second amount of particulate matter on the second DPF is above the second threshold; a regeneration event synchronization module configured to simultaneously initiate a regeneration event on the first DPF and a regeneration event on the second DPF in response to a regeneration event request being triggered for one of the first or second DPFs; and a regeneration event termination module configured to terminate the regeneration event on the first DPF and the regeneration event on the second DPF, wherein under normal operating conditions, the termination of the regeneration event on the first DPF is performed independently of the termination of the regeneration event on the second DPF; wherein the particulate matter loading module, regeneration event synchronization module, and regeneration event termination module each comprises one or more of logic hardware and non-transitory machine-readable storage media having executable code stored thereon. | 15,020 |
9,601,529 | 1. A nanowire array, comprising a substrate and a plurality of nanowires extending essentially perpendicularly from the substrate, wherein a ratio of a radius of the nanowires to a pitch of the nanowires is at most 0.5, wherein radii of the nanowires are from 10 to 1000 nm; lengths of the nanowires are from 0.01 to 10 μm. | 4,721 |
9,568,165 | 1. An illumination system for a projection device, the projection device emitting a first waveband light along a first optical path, the illumination system comprising: a wavelength conversion element for converting the first waveband light into a second waveband light, wherein the second waveband light is propagated along a second optical path; a sequential light-filtering device for sequentially filtering the first waveband light and the second waveband light along a third optical path, wherein the sequential light-filtering device comprises a first segment, a second segment and a third segment; and a light guiding device arranged in and connected to the first optical path, the second optical path and the third optical path for guiding the first waveband light and the second waveband light along the third optical path or guiding the first waveband light to the wavelength conversion element, so that the first waveband light and a first light beam and a second light beam of the second waveband light are sequentially filtered by the sequential light-filtering device and sequentially projected out, wherein the first waveband light is reflected by the second segment or the third segment, and then guided to the wavelength conversion element by the light guiding device. | 10,149 |
8,856,462 | 1. A method for managing available memory at computing devices to reduce seismic imaging computation time, said method comprising: partitioning a model space volume as domains over a multiple number of computing nodes, each node having one or more associated processors and a first local memory storage device; assigning each partitioned domain to one or more processing nodes of a parallel computer device interconnected through one or more communication networks; determining an available amount of first local memory storage at each node; determining a sub-volume size per node corresponding to domain model processing; determining from said available amount of first memory and sub-space volume size a first amount of iterations corresponding to determined time steps at which forward wave propagation data is computed for storage; wherein during an iterative processing in a forward wavefield propagation calculation path, storing computed forward wavefield data contributions for said first amount of time steps needed to a second external memory storage device; in each remaining time steps, storing the computed forward wavefield data contributions in said available first memory; and wherein during an iterative processing in a backward wavefield propagation calculation path, using the stored computed forward wavefield data contributions from the available first memory during said first amount of time steps to compute reverse wave propagation data in said backward calculation path, and in a remaining time steps, using the stored computed forward wavefield data contributions from the second memory storage device to compute reverse wave propagation data; and, computing, using said stored forward wave propagation data and reverse wave propagation data, an image at each node, and, merging said computed images from each node to create a final image. | 17,185 |
8,563,400 | 1. A method of forming a semiconductor device package comprising: aligning a first substrate and a second substrate, the first substrate having a trench formed therein, and the second substrate having a conductive element formed thereon, wherein the trench and the conductive element are aligned; impinging a radiative beam onto the trench; and forming a bond between the conductive element and material of the first substrate. | 39,394 |
9,520,803 | 1. A photovoltaic (PV) panel system comprising: a PV panel in combination with a power conditioning unit for providing ac power from the PV panel, wherein the PV panel comprises a string of series connected solar cells having first and second connections to either end of the string and having at least one tap connection between first and second connections to define a plurality sub-strings of the string, each sub-string having an electrical connection at either end, and wherein the power conditioning unit comprises: | 10,656 |
9,085,459 | 1. An apparatus of producing quantum dots, comprising: at least one pump to inject a plurality of precursor solutions in which different kinds of precursors are dissolved; a mixer to mix the plurality of precursor solutions into a mixture solution, the mixer including a first input port diverging into a first plurality of first paths, a second input port diverging into a second plurality of second paths, and an output port having a third plurality of third paths collecting into the output port, wherein each of the first and second paths is connected to a third path; a plurality of heating furnaces to pass the mixture solution therethrough under different temperature conditions, the plurality of heating furnaces including a first heating furnace to provide a first temperature condition for nucleation, and a second heating furnace to provide a second temperature condition for nuclear growth, and a buffer disposed between the first heating furnace and the second heating furnace and passing the mixture solution through the buffer to provide a third temperature condition, wherein the first temperature is higher than the second temperature, and the second temperature is higher than the third temperature. | 26,120 |
8,506,738 | 1. A method of making a vacuum insulating glass (VIG) window unit, including an edge seal thereof, the method comprising: providing a unit comprising first and second substantially parallel spaced-apart glass substrates, one or more edge portions of the first and second substrates to be sealed, and a frit provided at least partially between the first and second glass substrates for sealing said one or more edge portions to be sealed; pre-heating the unit in substantially its entirety to at least one intermediate temperature which is below a melting point of the first and second substrates and below a melting point of the fit; providing localized near infrared (IR) inclusive heat to the unit proximate the edge portions to be sealed via at least one substantially two-dimensional array of heat sources so as to at least partially melt the fit, the localized near IR heat being provided to the unit such that at least some areas of the unit not proximate to the edge portions to be sealed are kept at a temperature(s) below frit-melting temperature when the localized near IR inclusive heat is applied; selectively and individually activating heat sources in the array, in sequence, in dependence on whether an edge portion to be sealed is proximate to the heat source as the unit moves continuously under and past the array; and cooling the unit and allowing the frit to harden in making the vacuum insulating glass (VIG) window unit. | 2,368 |
8,638,396 | 1. An antenna assembly, comprising: a plurality of antennas configured to receive radio frequency (RF) energy; a processing module configured to: a switching module configured to select the RF energy from the corresponding antenna in response to the control signal. | 45,603 |
9,231,261 | 1. A method of operating a fuel cell system during shutdown, the system having a fuel cell with an anode, a cathode and an ion exchange membrane between the anode and the cathode, a fuel being supplied to the anode and a fluid including an oxidizing agent being supplied to the cathode along a supply conduit such that an electrochemical reaction between the oxidizing agent and fuel occurs in the fuel cell, a cathode exhaust gas being formed in the reaction, the cathode exhaust gas being routed along an exhaust conduit from the fuel cell to an outlet, the supply conduit and exhaust conduit being interconnected via a three-way valve ( 52 ) having a blocking element ( 60 ), a first branch ( 54 ) connected to a branch conduit ( 57 ) branched from the supply conduit ( 20 ) downstream from the compressor ( 28 ), and second and third branches ( 56 , 58 ) operatively connected along and in fluid communication with the exhaust conduit, the method comprising: a) supplying the fluid to the cathode substantially at a first pressure and first flow rate; b) operating said blocking element ( c) controlling the voltage of the fuel cell so as to substantially deplete the oxidizing agent in the fluid supplied to the cathode; and d) decreasing the pressure of the fluid supplied to the cathode to a pressure lower than the pressure of the cathode exhaust gas in the substantially restricted exhaust conduit such that the cathode exhaust gas flows backward through the fuel cell and the supply conduit, whereby oxidizing agent remaining in the fuel cell and supply conduit is forced out of the system by the backward flowing cathode exhaust gas. | 6,070 |
8,617,919 | 1. A method for manufacturing an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display, the method comprising: forming a thin film transistor panel; forming a deposition mask on the thin film transistor panel by a photolithography process; obliquely spraying an organic material to the deposition mask from a linear deposition source to form an organic emission layer on the thin film transistor panel; and removing the deposition mask by using an adhering film, wherein the deposition mask comprises a plurality of deposition walls configured to block the organic material sprayed at an angle that is less than a blocking angle. | 21,493 |
8,516,797 | 1. A method for controlling operation of exhaust of a turbocharged engine including a particulate filter, comprising: generating vacuum in an intake manifold of the engine during engine operation by reducing engine boost; storing the vacuum in the intake manifold; during or after engine shutdown, drawing ambient air through the particulate filter via the stored vacuum through an exhaust gas recirculation passage of the engine. | 14,383 |
9,009,501 | 1. A power supply control circuit for an electronic device, the power supply control circuit comprising: an input/output (I/O) microchip; a southbridge microchip electrically connected to the I/O microchip; a control circuit electrically connected to the I/O microchip and the southbridge microchip; and a power management unit comprising a power management microchip electrically connected to the control circuit, the I/O microchip and the southbridge microchip; wherein the control circuit comprises a transistor, a voltage regulator, a first voltage dividing resistor, a second voltage dividing resistor, and a first capacitor, the voltage regulator comprises a voltage input terminal electrically connected to a drain of the transistor, a voltage regulating terminal and a voltage output terminal electrically connected to the I/O microchip and the southbridge microchip, the voltage regulating terminal is grounded by the first voltage dividing resistor and grounded by the second voltage dividing resistor and the first capacitor connected in series; wherein the power management microchip outputs a power on/off control signal to the southbridge microchip to power on/off the electronic device, and controls the control circuit to provide a driving voltage to the I/O microchip and the southbridge microchip when the electronic device is powered on and controls the control circuit to stop providing the driving voltage to the I/O microchip and the southbridge microchip when the electronic device is powered off. | 32,211 |
8,620,366 | 1. A method of data uplink synchronization between a mobile terminal and a server, comprising: step 1, a mobile terminal sending an uplink synchronization request of an address book to a server; step 2, the server returning an uplink synchronization request response of the address book to the mobile terminal; step 3, the mobile terminal sending to the server address book data needing to be synchronized; step 4, the server, according to a number of the mobile terminal, judging whether the address book data of the number exists in the server; if and only if the address book data of the number exist, executing a step 5; if and only if the address book data of the number does not exist, executing a step 6; step 5, the server, according to the received address book data, modifying the address book data stored in the server one item by one item, wherein the address book data comprises many records and each of the records further comprises many items, and executing a step 7; step 6, the server storing the received address book data; and step 7, ending; wherein the step 5 comprises: step 501, the server judging whether a first record in the received address book data exists in the address book data stored in the server; if it exists, executing a step 502; otherwise, executing a step 508; step 502, the server judging whether a first item of the first record can be mapped to an item in the address book stored in the server; if it can, executing a step 503; otherwise, executing a step 506; step 503, the server extracting content data information from the first item and replacing content data information of a corresponding item by the content data information; step 504, the server judging whether the first item's information of attribute and parameter is the same as the corresponding item's information of attribute and parameter; if they are the same, executing a step 507; otherwise, executing a step 505; step 505, the server, according to the first item's information of attribute and parameter, modifying the corresponding item's information of attribute and parameter; executing the step 507; step 506, the server storing the first item under a corresponding record of the address book stored in the server; step 507, the server deleting the first item from the first record of the received address book data; judging whether an item still exists in the first record; if the item exists, executing the step 502; otherwise, executing a step 509; step 508, the server storing the first record into the address book stored in the server; and step 509, the server deleting the first record from the received address book data; judging whether a record still exists in the received address book data; if the record exists, executing the step 501; otherwise, executing the step 7. | 47,811 |
8,899,826 | 1. A timepiece, comprising: a body; a case at least partially imitating a tin can, said case having a pull off lid and a pull off ring attached thereto; the body configured to be inserted into the case employing a mounting mechanism to assume an assembled position; the mounting mechanism configured to reversibly release said body from said case to assume an uncovered position; and said pull off lid configured to be torn off using said pull off ring to irreversibly uncover said body to assume an unassembled position. | 21,703 |
8,414,533 | 1. A medicament delivery device, comprising: a generally elongated tubular housing having opposite proximal and distal parts; a needle shield sleeve slidably and coaxially arranged inside the housing, wherein a proximal part of the sleeve protrudes a distance outside the proximal part of the housing; a syringe carrier mechanism, comprising a syringe carrier slidably and coaxially arranged within the needle shield sleeve; a syringe, comprising a stopper, a medicament, and a needle, wherein the syringe is coaxially arranged within the syringe carrier; and a holding member connected to the syringe carrier; a first activator member slidably and coaxially arranged within the housing and connected to the needle shield sleeve; a second activator member slidably and coaxially arranged within the first activator member; a drive mechanism slidably and coaxially arranged within the second activator member, releasably connected to the holding member and to the second activator member, and adapted to accumulate a drive force for moving the syringe carrier mechanism in a first step for penetrating the needle into an injection site and for moving the stopper in a second step for expelling the medicament through the needle, wherein the drive mechanism is controlled by the first and the second activator members; wherein the second activator member includes an information device arranged to cooperate with a corresponding interacting device arranged on the distal part of the elongated tubular housing after the medicament is completely expelled such that a remaining drive force of the accumulated drive force in the drive mechanism forces the second activator member to be displaced toward the distal part of the elongated tubular housing for producing at least one of audible, visual, and tactile feedback to a user about a completed injection. | 48,743 |
8,936,878 | 1. A method of forming a single layer battery separator, wherein said battery separator exhibits a maximum thickness of 250 microns, and wherein said battery separator includes a combination of microfiber and nanofiber constituents, said method comprising the steps of: a) providing an aqueous solvent; b) introducing therein a plurality of nanofibers having an average width of less than 700 nm to form a nanofiber dispersion within an aqueous solvent; c) mixing said nanofiber dispersion under high shear conditions of at least 14.13 m/sec linear speed; d) introducing a plurality of microfibers having an average width of greater than 3000 nm to form a microfiber/nanofiber dispersion within said aqueous solvent such that said microfiber/nanofiber dispersion has a concentration of fibers solids of less than 1.0% by weight of solvent; e) introducing said dispersion of step “d” within a paper making machine; f) producing a web of microfiber/nanofiber material; and g) drying said web. | 40,413 |
9,120,469 | 1. A vehicle behavior control apparatus comprising: braking and driving force generating mechanisms that generate driving force or braking force independently on at least a front wheel and a rear wheel of a vehicle; suspension mechanisms that respectively connect the front wheel and the rear wheel disposed under springs of the vehicle to a vehicle body disposed above the springs of the vehicle; and a control portion that controls the braking and driving force generating mechanisms in response to behavior occurring on the vehicle body to generate specified driving force or braking force independently on the front wheel and the rear wheel, wherein the suspension mechanisms include: shock absorbers that damp vibrations transmitted from a road surface to the vehicle body through the front wheel and the rear wheel; and damping force changing portion that change damping force of the shock absorbers, and the control portion: controls the braking and driving force generating mechanisms in response to the behavior occurring on the vehicle body and generates the specified driving force or braking force independently on the front wheel and the rear wheel, controls the damping force changing portion in response to the behavior occurring on the vehicle body and changes the damping force of the shock absorbers to specified damping force, controls the damping force changing portion in accordance with the magnitude of vertical forces in vehicle vertical directions acting on the vehicle body through the suspension mechanisms as components of the specified driving force or braking force generated on the front wheels and the rear wheels by controlling the braking and driving force generating mechanisms; and changes the damping force of the shock absorbers to the specified damping force, controls the braking and driving force generating mechanisms in order to suppress pitch behavior that is the behavior with vertical motion occurring on the vehicle body and in which the direction of vertical displacement of the vehicle body on the side of the front wheels and the direction of vertical displacement on the side of the rear wheels are opposite to each other; and, when the specified driving force or braking force is generated independently on the front wheels and the rear wheels, controls the damping force changing portion so as to increase the damping force of the shock absorber in the suspension mechanism transmitting the vertical force having relatively small magnitude and controls the damping force changing portion so as to reduce the damping force of the shock absorber in the suspension mechanism transmitting the vertical force having relatively large magnitude, among the suspension mechanisms transmitting the vertical force acting on the vehicle body. | 28,808 |
8,833,076 | 1. A thermal storage system comprising: a first tank; a second tank thermally interfaced with the first tank by a common wall between the first tank and the second tank; a pump connected between the first tank and the second tank to move a fluid from the first tank to the second tank; a first heat exchanger having a heat-exchanging portion within the first tank; a second heat exchanger having a heat-exchanging portion within the second tank; and a turbine connected with the first heat exchanger. | 28,999 |
8,740,061 | 1. A method of a web manufacturing process, comprising: recording, onto an excess trim region of a web that is a subject of the web manufacturing process, information relating to a first processing stage of the web manufacturing process; determining, based on reading the recorded information, a corrective action to take with respect to an issue indicated by the recorded information; and receiving parameter data from a sensor associated with the first processing stage, wherein the recorded information is based on the parameter data, and where the parameter data includes a measured parameter that relates to manufacturing processing performed by the first processing stage. | 31,875 |
9,411,370 | 1. A human-machine dialog system, comprising: a support having a plurality of identical docking stations, each docking station being associated with a universal human-machine dialog device, each universal human-machine dialog device comprising at least a display member and a sensor member, a plurality of modular members, each modular member being arranged to be positioned in a docking station in a removable and interchangeable manner and comprising a human-machine dialog interface arranged to cooperate with said display member and/or said sensor member, said plurality of modular members including a first modular member positioned in a first docking station and whose human-machine dialog interface is a control interface and a second modular member positioned in a second docking station and whose human-machine dialog interface is a display interface, a central control unit arranged to receive a control signal from the sensor member of the first docking station when the control interface of the first modular member is activated and to send a control order to the display member of the second docking station to activate the display interface of the second modular member, wherein each modular member has an electronic tag storing in its memory the type of human-machine dialog interface of the modular member with which it is associated, and the system has a station for reading the electronic tags that are incorporated into each modular member, said reading station having an antenna arranged inside the support. | 40,233 |
8,920,468 | 1. A method for securing an implant to a bone having independent rotational and translational locking through the use of an orthopedic fastener comprising an engagement member, an interpositional member, and a fixation member, the method comprising: sliding the implant translationally along the fixation member and against the bone to rotate the implant with respect to the bone about a first axis; urging the engagement member toward the bone along a direction nonparallel to the first axis; in response to urging the engagement member, moving the orthopedic fastener from an unlocked configuration in which the engagement member is rotatable with respect to the interpositional member, to a first locked configuration in which relative rotation between the interpositional member and the engagement member is restricted; in response to urging the engagement member toward the bone, urging the implant toward the bone; in response to motion of the orthopedic fastener to the first locked configuration, restricting relative rotation between the implant and the bone about the first axis; and applying a second locked configuration such that translational motion of the implant along the fixation member is restricted. | 41,132 |
9,739,052 | 1. A fire-rated stud framing wall and ceiling system, comprising: a bottom track comprising a web, a first flange and a second flange, the first and second flanges extending in an upward direction from opposing side edges of the web, the bottom track defining an interior space between the web and the inwardly-facing surfaces of the first and second flanges; a plurality of studs that are spaced from one another along the bottom track, each of the plurality of studs having a bottom end received within the interior space of the bottom track, each of the plurality of studs extending in a generally vertical direction from the bottom track; a top track comprising a web, a first flange and a second flange, the first and second flanges extending in a downward direction from opposing side edges of the web, the top track defining an interior space between the web and the inwardly-facing surfaces of the first and second flanges, wherein upper ends of each of the plurality of studs are received within the interior space of the top track, further comprising at least one fire-retardant material strip extending along a length of the top track, the at least one fire-retardant material strip positioned on a portion of the web and at least one of the first and second flanges, the at least one fire-retardant material strip having at least a first surface facing the top track and a second surface; and a ceiling; wherein the top track is secured to the ceiling and the at least one fire-retardant material strip is located on the top track such that at least a portion of the second surface of the at least one fire-retardant material strip abuts against the ceiling, and wherein the portion of the second surface defines a width that is less than the width of the web of the top track. | 11,366 |
9,479,320 | 1. A communication device comprising: a receiver, which, in operation, receives a plurality of control information, each of which includes both resource assignment information indicating a resource allocated to the communication device in each of multiple component carriers (CCs) configured for the communication device and information indicating each of the multiple CCs, in which resources are allocated to the communication device, the multiple CCs having frequencies different from each other, the plurality of control information being received on one out of the multiple CCs; and circuitry, which, in operation, decodes the plurality of control information on one out of the multiple CCs. | 35,331 |
9,093,438 | 1. A method of making a surface mount semiconductor device comprising: providing a substrate structure having an array of substrate elements linked by substrate corner elements and separated by slots extending between said substrate corner elements; positioning an array of semiconductor dies on said array of substrate elements; providing a cap, frame and contact structure having a corresponding array of caps supported by corner legs linking said caps to frame corner elements, a plurality of frame elements linking said frame corner elements, and sets of electrical contact elements supported by said frame elements; aligning said cap, frame and contact structure on said substrate structure, with said caps extending over corresponding semiconductor dies, said frame corner elements extending over said substrate corner elements, and said sets of electrical contact elements disposed in said slots; connecting said semiconductor dies electrically with said electrical contact elements; encapsulating said substrate structure, said array of semiconductor dies and said cap, frame and contact structure with a molding compound; and singulating encapsulated units of said semiconductor dies with the corresponding caps and the corresponding sets of electrical contact elements, wherein said singulating removes said frame elements. | 15,689 |
9,657,293 | 1. A double stranded RNA (dsRNA) molecule comprising a sense strand and an antisense strand, wherein at least 20 consecutive nucleotides of the antisense strand is complementary to a portion of a mRNA polynucleotide transcribable from a Diabrotica insect IAP gene wherein the mRNA polynucleotide comprises at least 20 consecutive nucleotides of SEQ ID NO: 3, and wherein the dsRNA molecule is toxic to a Diabrotica insect. | 24,950 |
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