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9,647,564 | 1. A power supply device comprising: a filter capacitor coupled to a line configured to receive an input voltage from a dimmer; a discharge switch coupled to the filter capacitor through the line; and a main switch configured to receive the input voltage and control power transmission, wherein the power supply device is configured to perform input voltage control for shaping the input voltage with a predetermined pattern using the discharge switch, control a switching operation of the main switch, and control at least one of a conduction period of the dimmer and a current flowing to the main switch during the conduction period according to a phase angle of the input voltage. | 8,059 |
8,828,266 | 1. A CMP slurry composition comprising: metal oxide particles; a diisocyanate compound; and deionized water, wherein the diisocyanate compound has a structure that contains a hydrophilic group at a terminal of a hydrophobic diisocyanate repeating moiety. | 36,495 |
9,161,987 | 1. A biologically compatible implantable PEG/CMC composition, comprising: a carboxymethyl cellulose-A (CMC-A) having a molecular weight of about 700,000 Daltons and a degree of substitution of about 0.65 to 0.85; and a polyethylene glycol diglycidyl ether (PEGDGE) having a molecular weight of about 500 Daltons, said PEG linked to said CMC via a base catalyzed addition reaction in the presence of NH | 39,592 |
9,073,781 | 1. A process for increasing the degree of crystallization of at least one thin continuous film deposited on a first side of a substrate while keeping the film continuous and without melting the film, the process comprising: heating the film with a laser, wherein at every point on said at least one thin film that is heated to a temperature of at least 300 wherein the laser simultaneously irradiates the entire width of the substrate, and wherein the thin film is based on at least one oxide selected from the group consisting of indium zinc oxide, indium tin oxide, gallium-doped zinc oxide, niobium-doped titanium oxide, cadmium stannate, zinc stannate, fluorine-doped tin oxide, antimony-doped tin oxide, and fluorine- and antimony-doped tin oxide and wherein the thin film does not contain a metallic functional layer. | 48,728 |
9,335,044 | 1. A cover for a chimney, said cover comprising: a housing adapted to surround at least an upper end of a chimney, said chimney having a substantially circular cross section, said housing having an expansion area for receiving emissions from an upper end of said chimney, said housing having a substantially tetragonal cross section with four walls and four corners; a grill extending over an upper end of said housing; a rain flashing extending from said grill, said rain flashing including an annular component having an angled side wall which extends downwardly and outwardly from said grill towards said expansion area; a diffuser cone for diffusing the emissions from said upper end of said chimney into said expansion area, said diffuser cone extending downwardly and converging from said rain flashing towards said expansion area; at least one air inlet for introducing air into said expansion area; at least one outlet for enabling the air or emissions to be exhausted from said expansion area; a casing received in said housing and surrounding a portion of said chimney featuring said upper end; a casing cover received in said housing and over said upper end, said casing cover having a diameter greater than a diameter of said casing; and a flue extending from said casing cover into said expansion area, said flue having a diameter less than said diameter of said casing; wherein said housing is adapted such that the emissions exiting said upper end of said chimney are diffused and expanded into said expansion area and a reduced pressure is created within said housing expansion area for drawing the emissions from said upper end of said chimney into said expansion area; wherein said housing being sized such that each of said four walls are adjacent to a peripheral edge of said casing cover defining airways with said four corners between said housing and said casing cover, said airways extending from a lower portion of said housing up to said expansion area, said airways being in communication with said air inlet to introduce the air from outside said cover to said expansion area. | 18,171 |
8,996,233 | 1. A vehicle control device for controlling a vehicle including: a first drive source adapted to automatically stop based on an automatic stop command when a predetermined condition is satisfied: a power transmission unit arranged between the first drive source and drive wheels and adapted to transmit power according to a supplied or discharged hydraulic pressure; a first oil pump adapted to be driven by power generated by the first drive source and supply oil to the power transmission unit; and a second oil pump adapted to be driven by a second drive source different from the first drive source and supply the oil to the power transmission unit when the first drive source is in a state of the automatic stop; the vehicle control device comprising: | 48,688 |
9,711,533 | 1. A method of fabricating a semiconductor device, comprising: forming, on a substrate, a first fin structure of a first FinFET device and a second fin structure of a second FinFET device; forming a first gate over the first fin structure and forming a second gate over the second fin structure; forming a material layer over the first gate and the second gate; forming a protective layer over the second gate but not over the first gate; implanting dopant ions into portions of the material layer formed on sidewalls of the first gate while the second gate is being protected by the protective layer; and after the implanting, etching the material layer to form first spacers for the first gate. | 8,014 |
8,713,519 | 1. A computer-implemented method for generating procedural code from initial function calls, the initial function calls drawing a parametric object within a graphical user interface of a design system and the parametric object including an attribute and a formula using the attribute, the method comprising: receiving an attribute for a formula of the parametric object using the attribute, the attribute in a first format; converting the received attribute and the formula to a second format corresponding to a function parameter of the design system; initially drawing the parametric object within the graphical user interface of the design system by calling a function corresponding to the function parameter of the design system and passing one or more of the converted attribute and the converted formula to the function as the function parameter; generating procedural code from the function call, wherein generating procedural code comprises compiling at least one of (i) the attribute and (ii) the formula using the attribute, such that the procedural code, when executed, re-draws the parametric object within the graphical user interface of the design system using an updated attribute; and using the updated attribute to determine an appearance of the parametric object within a graphical user interface of the design system. | 45,232 |
8,502,545 | 1. An apparatus for power factor correction for a test transformer, the apparatus comprising: a generator configured to produce a generator current and a generator voltage at a predeterminable test frequency; a stepped capacitor bank; a variable inductor having a variable inductance and being connectible to said stepped capacitor bank; wherein said variable inductor and said stepped capacitor bank are disposed between said generator and the test transformer and are connectible to the test transformer based on electrical variables determined by a test circuit so as to cause said generator to be operated substantially exclusively with real power. | 33,710 |
8,707,736 | 1. A method for manufacturing a glass concentrator for a solar module, the method comprising: providing a glass material in a molten state; processing the glass material in the molten state to form a ribbon glass including a first surface and a second surface; and subjecting the first surface to one or more drum members to form a plurality of concentrating structures while continuously passing the ribbon glass via the second surface over a plurality of rollers, each of the concentrating structures including an aperture region, an exit region, and one or more reflection regions, the reflection region configured to receive incoming light and the one or more reflection regions configured to concentrate the received incoming light to the exit region, the exit region being smaller in area than the aperture region: and cutting the ribbon glass into one or more sheets of glasses, each sheet of glass including a predetermined number of the plurality of concentrating structures and being a soda lime glass composition; wherein each concentrating structure can be disposed physically one-next-to-another on the first surface in a first direction, the first direction being parallel to passing direction of the ribbon glass; wherein each of the concentrating structure can be elongated along a second direction, the second direction being substantially perpendicular to the first direction; using at least one sheet of glass including the predetermined number of the plurality of concentrating structures for the solar module; wherein each of the concentrating structures is characterized as an elongated truncated pyramid structure comprising: wherein each of the concentrating structures is characterized by a geometric concentration characteristic with an aperture to exit ratio in a range from about 1.8 to about 4.5; and wherein each of the concentrating structures is characterized by an RMS roughness less than 30 nm. | 7,009 |
8,555,049 | 1. A secure boot terminal for booting a plurality of software modules in a predetermined boot order, the secure boot terminal comprising: a first storage unit for storing a digital certificate for each software module of the plurality of software modules, the digital certificate, for each respective software module of the plurality of software modules, including (i) a target digest value calculated as a digest value of the respective software module, and (ii) a target cumulative value of target digest values of other software modules, of the plurality of software modules, booted prior to the respective software module; a verification unit that, with respect to each respective software module of the plurality of software modules, verifies, for a subsequent software module in the predetermined boot order, a validity of other software modules of the plurality of software modules booted prior to the subsequent software module, the validity of the other software modules booted prior to the subsequent software module being verified by comparing (i) an actual cumulative value obtained by a cumulative calculation of digest values of the other software modules booted prior to the subsequent software module, and (ii) the target cumulative value included in the digital certificate corresponding to the subsequent software module; an update unit that updates one software module of the plurality of software modules and the digital certificate corresponding to the one software module; a second storage unit for storing, for each respective software module of the plurality of software modules, an alternate cumulative value obtained by a cumulative calculation of the target digest values of the other software modules booted prior to the respective software module, the cumulative calculation of the target digest values of the other software modules booted prior to the respective software module being made using, for each of the other software modules booted prior to the respective software module, (i) when the digital certificate of the other software module has been updated, the target digest value included in the digital certificate of the other software module prior to the updating of the digital certificate, and (ii) when the digital certificate of the other software module has not been updated, the target digest value included in the digital certificate of the other software module; and a boot control unit that, with respect to each respective software module of the plurality of software modules, (i) when the verification of the validity performed by the verification unit is successful, boots the subsequent software module of the plurality of software modules, and (ii) when the verification of the validity performed by the verification unit fails, compares the alternate cumulative value corresponding to the subsequent software module with the target cumulative value included in the digital certificate corresponding to the subsequent software module, and when the compared alternate cumulative and target cumulative values match, the boot control unit boots the subsequent software module. | 24,776 |
8,940,151 | 1. An electrolysis system, comprising: an electrolysis chamber having an electrolysis fluid inlet fluidly coupled to an electrolysis fluid reservoir; a cathode associated with the electrolysis chamber and having a plurality of apertures that fluidly couple the electrolysis chamber with a cathode fluid pathway that is fluidly coupled to a first electrolysis product gas collector; an anode associated with the electrolysis chamber opposite of the cathode at a distance from the cathode sufficient for electrolysis of the electrolysis fluid, the anode having a plurality of apertures that fluidly couple the electrolysis chamber with an anode fluid pathway that is fluidly coupled to a second electrolysis product gas collector; a power source electrically coupled to the cathode and anode; and a pump fluidly coupled with the reservoir and electrolysis chamber and configured to pump the electrolysis fluid through the reservoir, | 25,647 |
9,183,879 | 1. A suspension board with circuit for mounting a slider unit including a slider and an electron device, the electron device being mounted so as to form, when projected in the thickness direction with respect to the slider provided with a magnetic head, wherein the suspension board with circuit is formed with a first opening that penetrates in the thickness direction, which is perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the suspension board with circuit, and accommodates the overlapping portion, a second opening that communicates with the first opening, wherein the second opening extends from the first opening in the longitudinal direction of the suspension board with circuit, wherein the second opening is smaller in width than a width of the first opening in a widthwise direction of the suspension board with circuit, where the widthwise direction is perpendicular to both the longitudinal direction and the thickness direction, and wherein the second opening accommodates the protruding portion of the electron device, wherein the protruding portion has a width smaller than a width of the overlapping portion in the widthwise direction of the suspension board with circuit, wherein the suspension board with circuit further comprises a metal supporting board and an insulating base layer formed on the metal supporting board, wherein the first opening is defined by a region at a rear side in the front-rear direction of a support opening passing through the metal supporting board in the thickness direction, the region being exposed from the insulating base layer, and wherein the second opening is defined by a cutout extending from a front end face of the first opening in the front-rear direction toward a front side in the front-rear direction in the insulating base layer, the cutout being at an inner side in the width direction in a region at the front side in the front-rear direction of the support opening. | 26,044 |
8,551,341 | 1. A wastewater treatment system comprising: a biological reactor comprising a separation subsystem constructed and arranged to maintain adsorbent material in the biological reactor with a mixed liquor, the separation subsystem including a settling zone comprising a first baffle and a second baffle positioned and dimensioned to define a quiescent zone in which the adsorbent material separates from mixed liquor and settles into the mixed liquor in a lower portion of the biological reactor; a gas lift suspension system positioned in the biological reactor, the suspension system constructed and arranged to maintain adsorbent material in suspension with the mixed liquor; and a membrane operating system located downstream of the biological reactor that is constructed and arranged to receive treated mixed liquor from the biological reactor and discharge a membrane permeate. | 18,664 |
9,074,887 | 1. A method for detecting distance in a smart portable device comprising: receiving a first digital image comprising the target object by a photo sensor of an image acquisition unit of the smart portable device; displaying and enlarging the first display image by a display unit of the image acquisition unit; selecting a digital image of the target object in the first digital image by a selection unit of the image acquisition unit; automatically calculating a length of a side of the target object in the digital image displayed on a display unit by a processing means of the smart portable device; acquiring a predicted length of the side of the target object from user prediction by the processing means; automatically determining a mil value of the length of the side in the digital image from the length of the side in the digital image by the processing means without user assistance; and calculating the distance between the smart portable device and the target object according to a ratio of the predicted length to the mil value by the processing means. | 11,645 |
9,017,024 | 1. A method of restoring a gas turbine engine component, including the step of: (a) providing a turbine airfoil for repair along a chordwidth dimension to refurbish an eroded chordwidth dimension to a restored chordwidth dimension (b) inserting a barrier member into a slot in a trailing edge of the turbine airfoil to prevent a filler material from entering the slot, wherein a first portion of the barrier member extends past the eroded chordwidth dimension and into a portion of the slot defined by an original component, wherein a second portion of the barrier member protrudes beyond the trailing edge of the turbine airfoil; (c) depositing the filler material adjacent the barrier member to extend a slot length of the slot, wherein the filler material is the same material as the original component; and (d) laser cladding the trailing edge of the turbine airfoil along the chordwidth dimension with the filler material to form a cladded portion defining a restored portion of the trailing edge, wherein the cladded portion is disposed around the barrier member, wherein the second portion of the barrier member protrudes substantially in the chordwidth dimension beyond the cladded portion after the laser cladding. | 28,818 |
9,407,095 | 1. A method, comprising: receiving, by a control system coupled to a load coupler, an input signal associated with an electrical load coupled to a multiply-connected velocity inhibiting circuit via the load coupler, the input signal indicating a magnitude of the electrical load; and determining, by the control system, a determined rate at which alternating current (AC) power is diverted from the multiply-connected velocity inhibiting circuit to the electrical load based at least in part upon the input signal. | 33,053 |
9,080,099 | 1. A fluorine-bridged associate consisting of an oligomer or polymer containing fluorine radicals which are bonded to the oligomer or polymer backbone, and up to three types of functional units in the backbone which differ with respect to function and are selected from the group consisting of a hole-transport and/or hole-injection unit, an electron-transport and/or electron-injection unit and an emitter unit, and one to three types of compounds containing a fluorine radical which differ with respect to function and are selected from a hole-transport and/or hole-injection unit, an electron-transport and/or electron-injection unit and an emitter unit wherein the fluorine radicals have the general formula C the emitter unit is a triplet emitter which contains Ru, Os, Ir, Pd or Pt, the oligomer or polymer backbone contains an electron-transport and/or electron-injection unit and the fluorine-bridged associate contains a hole-transport and/or hole-injection unit and/or an emitter unit as compound(s) containing a fluorine radical, the oligomer or polymer backbone contains a hole-transport and/or hole-injection unit and an electron-transport and/or electron-injection unit and the fluorine-bridged associate contains an emitter unit as compound(s) containing a fluorine radical, or the oligomer or polymer backbone contains a hole-transport and/or hole-injection unit and an emitter unit and the fluorine-bridged associate contains an electron-transport and/or electron-injection unit as compound(s) containing a fluorine radical, and wherein the electron-transport and/or electron-injection unit is selected from the group consisting of optionally substituted pyridines, pyrimidines, pyridazines, pyrazines, pyrenes, perylenes, anthracenes, benzanthracenes, oxadiazoles, quinolines, phenazines, benzimidazoles, ketones, phosphine oxides, sulfoxides, triazines, triarylboranes, and benzophenone. | 30,532 |
9,687,418 | 1. A medication filling apparatus comprising: an apparatus main body; a medication cassette, being removably mounted on the apparatus main body, having a cylindrical body for storing medications, a first rotating body reciprocatable in the cylindrical body in a direction of a shaft center thereof, and a second rotating body arranged on an outer circumference of said cylindrical body; a conveying unit, being movably mounted on the apparatus main body, having a first driving motor for raising the first rotating body, a second driving motor for rotating the second rotating body, and a third driving motor for rotating the first rotating body, wherein the conveying unit conveys a vial bottle to the medication cassette, and fills the medications stored in the cylindrical body into the vial bottle by driving the first driving motor to raise the first rotating body, by driving the second driving motor to rotate the second rotating body and by driving the third driving motor to rotate the first rotating body. | 28,191 |
8,574,776 | 1. A fuel cell system comprising: a fuel cell stack including reactant gas flow channels; a compressor for forcing air through the reactant gas flow channels; and a controller configured to control the fuel cell system, said controller determining whether a potential freeze condition exists at fuel cell system shut-down based on predetermined parameters, said controller causing the compressor to purge the reactant gas flow passage-ways if the potential freeze condition does exist, said controller shutting the fuel cell system down normally without a reactive gas flow passage-way purge if the potential for a freeze condition does not exist, said controller periodically determining after the normal shut-down whether a potential freeze condition exists, said controller performing the reactant gas flow passage-way purge if the subsequent determination of a potential freeze condition exists, and said controller initiating a keep warm strategy after shut-down if the controller determines that the potential freeze condition exists before performing the purge, wherein the controller determines whether there is enough fuel or battery energy to perform the keep warm strategy, and if not, perform the purge. | 24,685 |
9,824,182 | 1. A laboratory test processing center, comprising: one or more data storage devices storing (a) class-labeled matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI) time-of-flight (TOF)-derived mass spectral data obtained from blood-based samples of a multitude of cancer patients, the class labels for the mass spectral data indicating whether or not a patient associated with the mass spectral data was responsive to treatment of cancer from administration of a cancer targeting drug; and (b) a multitude of MALDI-TOF-derived mass spectra of blood-based samples of a multitude of cancer patients to be tested; a processing unit operating in accordance with a set of instructions to perform the following operations on the multitude of mass spectra of the blood-based samples of a multitude of cancer patients to be tested and the class-labeled mass spectral data: | 20,922 |
9,494,646 | 1. A method of testing an integrated circuit having a power pin, a ground pin, and a pair of communication pins, the method comprising: receiving a test mode activation signal via at least one of the pair of communication pins; first setting a plurality of switches after receiving the test mode activation signal to couple the pair of communication pins to test circuitry; performing at least one test operation; and second setting the plurality of switches to couple the pair of communication pins to digital communication circuitry after the performing of the at least one test operation. | 49,539 |
9,155,024 | 1. A radio reception apparatus comprising: a receiver configured to receive a series of a plurality of data blocks, each of which has a cyclic prefix; a generator configured to remove the cyclic prefix from each of the plurality of data blocks, and generate a data sequence by combining a tail end of each of the plurality of data blocks to a beginning of another data block following the each of the data blocks; and a channel estimation section configured to perform a channel estimation using the data sequence after combining, wherein the series of the plurality of data blocks are generated by dividing the single data sequence into the series of the plurality of data blocks and cyclically adding a tail end portion of each of the data blocks to a beginning portion of another data block following the each of the data blocks as the cyclic prefix, and wherein, when a maximum Doppler frequency is equal to or greater than a threshold, the channel estimation section performs the channel estimation using the data blocks before combining, and, when the maximum Doppler frequency is less than the threshold, performs the channel estimation using the data sequence after combining. | 27,714 |
8,733,322 | 1. An air-fuel ratio control device for a carburetor, comprising: a choke valve arranged in an intake path of an internal combustion engine; a throttle valve arranged in the intake path on a downstream side of the choke valve; a first stepper motor driving the choke valve to adjust an opening degree of the choke valve; a second stepper motor driving the throttle valve to adjust an opening degree of the throttle valve; and a controller which controls the opening degree of the choke valve in accordance with a change of a rotation speed of the internal combustion engine based on the opening degree of the throttle valve, and, when the rotation speed of the internal combustion engine is constant, controls the opening degree of the choke valve based on a map which determines the opening degree of the choke valve from load of the internal combustion engine, so as to achieve a desired air-fuel ratio. | 15,183 |
9,249,034 | 1. Positive electrode active substance particles comprising a compound having at least a crystal system belonging to a space group of R−3m and a crystal system belonging to a space group of C2/m, and boron, which compound is a composite oxide comprising at least Li, Mn, and Co and/or Ni; which positive electrode active substance particles whose relative intensity ratio [(a)/(b)] of a maximum diffraction peak intensity (a) observed at 2θ=20.8±1° in a powder X-ray diffraction pattern of the positive electrode active substance as measured using a Cu-Ka ray to a maximum diffraction peak intensity (b) observed at 2θ=18.6±1° in the powder X-ray diffraction pattern, is 0.02 to 0.5; a content of Mn in the positive electrode active substance particles being controlled such that a molar ratio of Mn/(Ni+Co+Mn) therein is not less than 0.56; and which positive electrode active substance particles comprise the boron in an amount of 0.001 to 3% by weight, wherein the positive electrode active substance particles have a molar ratio of Li/(Ni+Co+Mn) of 1.23 to 1.7. | 21,451 |
8,776,280 | 1. An apparatus for containing overflow water from a toilet, the apparatus comprising: a base member having a central bore therethrough and an upwardly extending exterior wall extending around a periphery thereof; a sleeve extending through said central bore having a top end, said sleeve sized to be slidably received within a drain pipe for the toilet, said top end of said sleeve extending a riser distance above said base member so as to form an annular trap around said sleeve; a top support extending substantially radially outwardly from said top end of said sleeve, said top support having openings around a periphery thereof so as to permit water introduced to a top surface of said base member to drain into said trap; and a plurality of apertures extending through said sleeve proximate to said top support so as to drain water retained in said trap into said drain pipe for the toilet. | 32,734 |
8,779,237 | 1. A method for enhancing seed yield-related traits in plants relative to corresponding wild-type plants, comprising (a) increasing expression in a plant of a nucleic acid encoding a Root Hairless polypeptide by introducing and expressing said nucleic acid in said plant; and (b) selecting for plants having enhanced seed yield-related traits relative to corresponding wild-type plants, wherein the nucleic acid encoding a Root Hairless polypeptide is selected from the group consisting of: | 18,111 |
9,605,352 | 1. A method for producing a cation exchange membrane, comprising the steps of: weaving two or more reinforcing core materials, a sacrifice yarn soluble in an acid or an alkali, and a dummy yarn soluble in a predetermined solvent in which the reinforcing core materials and the sacrifice yarn are insoluble, to obtain a reinforcing material having the sacrifice yarn and the dummy yarn arranged between the reinforcing core materials adjacent to each other; soaking the reinforcing material in the predetermined solvent to remove the dummy yarn from the reinforcing material; stacking the reinforcing material from which the dummy yarn is removed and a fluorine-based polymer having an ion-exchange group or an ion-exchange group precursor which can be converted into the ion-exchange group by hydrolysis, to form a membrane body having the reinforcing material; and soaking the sacrifice yarn in an acid or an alkali to remove the sacrifice yarn from the membrane body, thereby forming an elution hole in the membrane body. | 6,810 |
9,382,836 | 1. A method for an engine, comprising: routing air from a compressor through a heat exchanger to a combustion chamber of the engine, the heat exchanger including a reservoir to collect condensate; coupling condensate stored in the reservoir with a passage coupled to said combustion chamber; accumulating a portion of said compressed air in an accumulator; and when an engine output is below a predetermined amount, directing a part of said accumulated air through said passage into said combustion chamber, wherein said accumulated air is directed through said passage only when said condensate is present and said engine output is below said predetermined amount. | 29,494 |
8,539,107 | 1. A system for synchronizing data on a client device with data stored on a server, the system comprising: a processor; memory; and an application stored in memory and executable by the processor to: | 44,602 |
9,643,898 | 1. An adiabatic process for catalytically converting an alcohol contained in an alcohol feedstream to its corresponding olefin, which process comprises feeding the alcohol feedstream to a first dehydration catalyst bed in a series of two or more sequential dehydration catalyst beds under a first set of dehydration conditions to yield a partially dehydrated alcohol feedstream with a first olefin content and then feeding the partially dehydrated alcohol feedstream to a second sequential dehydration catalyst bed under a second set of dehydration conditions to yield a dehydrated alcohol feedstream with a second olefin content, the second olefin content being greater than the first olefin content, the first and second catalyst beds in each pairing of first and second catalyst beds comprising different catalysts and the first and second sets of dehydration conditions differing from one another by at least temperature with the first set of dehydration conditions comprising a temperature higher than the temperature of the second set of dehydration conditions. | 45,056 |
9,802,716 | 1. A system for identifying an aircraft equipped with an electric taxi system for autonomous ground movement without reliance on aircraft engines or tow vehicles, comprising: a. an electric taxi system with system components mounted within one or more nose or main landing gear wheels of an aircraft, wherein said electric taxi system components comprise at least an electric drive motor, an activatable drive system, and a source of electric power for said electric taxi system; b. an identifying lighting system mounted on a clearly visible outboard face of each of the one or more aircraft landing gear wheels with electric taxi system components mounted within said landing gear wheels, comprising lighting elements of a selected number and type arranged to clearly and easily identify said aircraft to persons outside the aircraft as an aircraft equipped with said electric taxi system and a source of electric power to provide electric power to illuminate said identifying lighting system; and c. an automatic or manual control system connected with said electric taxi system and said identifying lighting system activatable to direct electric power from at least one of said electric taxi system source of electric power or said identifying lighting system source of electric power to said identifying lighting system to illuminate the identifying lighting system when said electric taxi system is operating to drive the aircraft during ground movement and when an aircraft equipped with said electric taxi is stopped. | 31,790 |
9,578,819 | 1. A growing apparatus for cleansing air and watering plant comprising: a modular panel having a rail, a plurality of channels, an air port and a water port, wherein each channel of the plurality of channels has an opposing conical top and bottom to channel water and accept a nozzle having a wick; a connecting coupler and end cap configured to direct water flow from a first channel to a second channel wherein the end cap restricts and holds water within a base of the first channel and directs water flow to a bottom of the second channel; and an fan connected to the air port, wherein the fan provides an air flow behind the wick and a negative pressure of the air flow within the nozzle propels the water flow through the wick. | 14,720 |
9,542,283 | 1. An apparatus, comprising: at least one hot-swappable component; at least one engagement device, wherein the engagement device selectively operates to prevent removal of a non-failed hot-swappable component from a carrier; a detector; the detector detecting at least one failed hot-swappable component; and an alarm operating upon detection of an attempted removal of a non-failed hot-swappable component. | 29,090 |
8,473,706 | 1. An apparatus, comprising: a memory; a first processor and a second processor, wherein the second processor has a slower memory access rate than the first processor; a multiplexer configured to select a memory request received from one of the first or second processors; and a timing circuit configured to determine acceptance time periods at which particular memory requests from the first processor are accepted, wherein the timing circuit is further configured to delay a position of the acceptance time periods in response to receiving a memory request from the second processor. | 28,312 |
9,252,671 | 1. A power adapter, comprising: a rectifier and filter configured to be coupled to an input alternating current (AC) source and to generate a direct current (DC) transformer input signal; a transformer, the transformer comprising a primary winding coupled to the transformer input signal and a secondary winding coupled to an output of the power adapter; a current sensor configured to enable determination of an output current drawn at the output of the power adapter and to generate a current sense signal; and a controller configured to a) regulate a voltage at the output of the power adapter by controlling current flowing through the primary winding of the transformer and b) select an output voltage from at least a first voltage and a second voltage based upon the current sense signal. | 46,727 |
8,762,897 | 1. A semiconductor device design system comprising: at least one processor; a schematic design block connected to the at least one processor configured to generate schematic information and pre-coloring information for a semiconductor device, wherein the schematic design block is configured to receive the pre-coloring information from a user, and the pre-coloring information includes mask number information; a netlist file connected to the at least one processor configured to store the schematic information and the pre-coloring information on a non-transitory computer readable medium; a layout design block connected to the at least one processor configured to design a plurality of masks based on the schematic information and the pre-coloring information, wherein the layout design tool is configured to receive the pre-coloring information from the extraction tool; and a layout versus schematic (LVS) comparison block connected to the at least one processor configured to compare the at least one mask to the schematic information and the pre-coloring information. | 36,598 |
8,972,047 | 1. A pharmaceutical dispensing system, comprising: a frame having first and second opposed sides; a plurality of cells attached to the frame and configured to house pharmaceutical pills, each of the cells being accessible from the first side of the frame for replenishment of pharmaceutical pills therein; a plurality of dispensing shelves attached to the frame and configured to receive filled pill containers, each of the shelves being accessible from the second side of the frame for removal of filled pill containers therein, wherein the dispensing system labels empty pill containers, fills each labeled pill container with pills from a respective one of the cells, and then deposits each filled pill container in a respective one of the dispensing shelves of the pharmaceutical dispensing system; a first touch screen display on the frame first side; a second touch screen display on the frame second side; a processor; memory coupled to the processor; a computer program residing in the memory that is executable by the processor for displaying a cell inventory graphical user interface (GUI) within the first touch screen display, wherein the cell inventory GUI displays cell inventory information, and wherein the cell inventory GUI comprises one or more GUI controls that are responsive to user touching for adding and/or modifying contents of the cells; and a computer program residing in the memory that is executable by the processor for displaying a series of GUIs within the second touch screen display, wherein each GUI in the series comprises status information about a prescription order at a respective stage of completion of the prescription order by the pharmaceutical dispensing system, wherein the series of GUIs comprises a ready queue GUI that displays an array of icons, each icon associated with a respective dispensing shelf of the pharmaceutical dispensing system, and wherein each icon displays a number of filled pill containers in a respective dispensing shelf of the pharmaceutical dispensing system. | 24,589 |
9,566,416 | 1. A catheter comprising: a catheter body; a deflectable intermediate section distal the catheter body; a mapping assembly distal the intermediate section, the mapping assembly having a generally circular portion; a control handle proximal the catheter body, the control handle having a longitudinal axis and comprising: first and second puller members responsive to the deflection control assembly adapted to deflect the intermediate section; and a third puller member responsive to the linear control assembly adapted to contract the generally circular portion of the mapping assembly, a proximal end of the third puller member being anchored to the follower between the helical cam track and the inner rotational member, the follower being configured to slide in the helical cam track in response to rotation of the inner rotational member to thereby move the proximal end of the third puller member along the helical cam track. | 44,729 |
8,451,864 | 1. A passive optical network (PON) processor comprising: a packet processor configured to process packets belonging to a certain flow through a plurality of processing stages of a programmable data-path; a microprocessor-data configured to process one or more user-defined functions in the programmable data-path on designated packets belonging to the certain flow, wherein packets of respective flows to be processed by the microprocessor-data are designated in a flow table and the designated packets processed by the microprocessor-data are returned to one of the processing stages of the packet processor for further processing; a microprocessor-control configured to manage connections handled by the PON processor; a data-path bus configured to connect the packet processor and the microprocessor-data, wherein the designated packets are dispatched between the packet processor and the microprocessor-data on the data-path bus; and a control-path bus configured to connect the packet processor and the microprocessor-control. | 4,785 |
9,490,600 | 1. A sliding track ( 13 ) of a slip ring module ( 10 ), the sliding track ( 13 ) being rotatable about a rotation axis ( 11 ) and having an outer contact surface, a center of said contact surface located at the rotation axis ( 11 ), a cross-section of said contact surface being arctuated outwardly in a convex fashion in a plane parallel to the rotational axis. | 22,608 |
8,893,838 | 1. A vehicle battery mounting structure comprising: a relay that electrically connects a battery and a motor when the relay is electrified, and that electrically disconnects the battery and the motor from each other when the relay is not electrified; a lock mechanism that fixes the battery to a vehicle main body; an actuation member that, when the actuation member is not electrified, causes the lock mechanism to fix the battery, and that, when the actuation member is electrified, causes the lock mechanism to discontinue fixture of the battery; an electric power source that supplies electric power to the relay and to the actuation member; and a switch that (1) in a first connection state, switches on the electrification of the relay and off the electrification of the actuation member which, in conjunction with the lock mechanism, results in the fixing of the battery and (2), in a second connection state, switches off the electrification of the relay and on the electrification of the actuation member which, in conjunction with the lock mechanism, results in the discontinuation of the fixture of the battery, wherein the relay and the actuation member are provided in parallel with each other, with respect to the electric power source. | 37,178 |
9,048,373 | 1. Evaporation apparatus, comprising: a chamber configured to contain therein at least one substrate to be coated and at least one dispensing nozzle coupled to an evaporation source; the chamber having at least one adjustable shielding member defining an adjustable aperture, the adjustable shielding member positioned between the dispensing nozzle and a location of the substrate, the aperture being adjustable in at least one of the group consisting of area, shape, and orientation, the at least one adjustable shielding member having a heater thereon. | 16,302 |
9,739,284 | 1. A centrifugal pump comprising: a single impeller having two separate halves which face each other within a volute; at least one impeller half having an inlet tube which rotates with the impeller; the impeller halves held together by pins with blades floating on the pins, the blades not being connected to the impeller halves; a housing having three components, one housing component containing the two impeller halves and comprising an outlet, and two outer housing components, each one adjacent to one of the two impeller halves and at least one outer housing component having an inlet; a motor mounted on the housing, the motor driving at least one impeller half, to pump fluid or material from the inlet to the outlet; the impeller half having the inlet tube and also having an impeller ridge between the inlet tube and the impeller half, and a seal which slides over said inlet tube and sits perpendicular between the impeller ridge and the housing; the centrifugal force of the two impeller halves forcing the inlet fluid or material outward, pushing the two impeller halves apart, the impeller half with an inlet tube forced against its adjacent housing. | 32,594 |
8,703,875 | 1. A process for manufacturing an actinically crosslinkable prepolymer, comprising: (1) obtaining a reaction mixture comprising a first hydrophilic monomer, at least one polysiloxane-containing crosslinker, a second hydrophilic monomer, and a chain transfer agent having a first functional group and present in an amount to have a desired initial concentration, wherein the second hydrophilic monomer has a free radical chain reaction slower than that of the first hydrophilic monomer, wherein the first hydrophilic monomer is (C1-C4-alkyl)acrylamide, N,N-di-(C1-C4-alkyl)acrylamide, or mixture thereof; (2) adjusting the temperature of the reaction mixture in order to start the polymerization reaction; (3) dosing the chain transfer agent to the reaction mixture at a rate sufficient to have a concentration comparable to the desired initial concentration until a desired total amount of the chain transfer agent is added; (4) following the completion of the chain transfer agent dosing maintaining the reaction mixture at the reaction temperature in order to complete the reaction so as to obtain a copolymerization product with first functional groups; and (5) reacting an organic compound with the copolymerization product to form the crosslinkable prepolymer having ethylenically unsaturated groups, wherein the organic compound comprises an ethylenically unsaturated group and a second functional group, wherein the second functional group of the organic compound reacts with one of the first functional groups of the copolymerization product, wherein said crosslinkable prepolymer can be crosslinked to form a silicone hydrogel material, wherein the silicone hydrogel material having about 10% or less of non-volatile extractables. | 31,085 |
9,771,155 | 1. A passenger seat, comprising: a rigid top seat pan having a corrugation pattern; and a bottom seat pan; wherein the rigid top seat pan is disposed above the bottom seat pan for partially absorbing a downward loading applied to the rigid top seat pan through deformation of the corrugation pattern of the rigid top seat pan as a result of a counter force applied by the bottom seat pan. | 11,759 |
8,908,622 | 1. A method for assigning a scheduling grant, comprising: receiving a grant value, an enhanced dedicated transport channel transport format combination indication (E-TFCI) offset value, and a data stream identifier corresponding to the E-TFCI offset value, wherein the grant value, the E-TFCI offset value, and the data stream identifier are returned by a Node B, and wherein the E-TFCI offset value is determined by the Node B according to data transmitted by a User Equipment through two data streams; setting transport block sizes for the two data streams in accordance with the E-TFCI offset value such that the two data streams exhibit similar demodulation performance, wherein setting the transport block sizes comprises determining a first transport block size for carrying a first data stream in a current transport time interval (TTI) according to the grant value, and determining a second transport block size for carrying a second data stream in the TTI according to the first transport block size and the E-TFCI offset value; and communicating, over the TTI, the first data stream using the first transport block size and the second data stream using the second transport block size, wherein the first data stream and the second data stream exhibit similar demodulation performance by virtue of a difference in transport block sizes specified by the E-TFCI offset value. | 2,154 |
8,413,973 | 1. A clamping fixture comprising a chuck ( 1 ) for chucking a clamping pallet ( 6 ), with first centering members ( 3 ) arranged at the chuck ( 1 ) cooperating with second centering members ( 9 ) arranged at the clamping pallet ( 6 ) such that the clamping pallet ( 6 ) when chucked in the chuck ( 1 ) is oriented in the X and Y direction, the first centering members being formed by centering pins ( 3 ) devised to engage the second centering members configured as centering openings ( 9 ), characterized in that: the clamping fixture comprises at least three centering openings ( the centering openings ( | 34,473 |
8,982,956 | 1. A picture coding device adapted to code each of blocks obtained by partitioning each picture of moving pictures, by using motion vectors, comprising: an acquisition unit configured to acquire coding information on a plurality of reference block candidates for the block subject to coding; a first mode detection unit configured to construct, in a first inter prediction mode that uses information on a motion vector provided in the coding information of a reference block identified by an index, a first candidate list from the plurality of reference block candidates in accordance with a first predetermined order, to assign indices for identifying reference block candidates added in the first candidate list, and to output the indices of the plurality of reference block candidates; a second mode detection unit configured to construct, in a second inter prediction mode that uses a motion vector predictor difference between a motion vector predictor based on information on a motion vector provided in the coding information of a reference block identified by an index and a motion vector of the block subject to coding, a second candidate list from the plurality of reference block candidates in accordance with a second predetermined order, to assign indices for identifying reference block candidates added in the second candidate list, and to output the indices of the plurality of reference block candidates and the motion vector difference; a prediction method decision unit configured to decision a reference block and an inter prediction mode for each block subject to coding, based on outputs from the first and second mode detection units; and a bitstream generation unit configured to code the index of the reference block decisioned by the prediction method decision unit, prediction mode information indicating the inter prediction mode decisioned by the prediction method decision unit, and the motion vector difference corresponding to the reference block, the motion vector difference being coded when the prediction method decision unit decisions on the second inter prediction mode, wherein the first and second mode detection units use a plurality of common blocks as the plurality of reference block candidates, and wherein the first predetermined order of arranging the reference block candidates in the first candidate list constructed by the first mode detection unit differs from the second predetermined order of arranging the reference block candidates in the second candidate list constructed by the second mode detection unit. | 4,915 |
8,781,350 | 1. An image forming apparatus comprising: a first photosensitive member; a second photosensitive member; a third photosensitive member; a first scorotron-type charger that is configured to charge the first photosensitive member; a second scorotron-type charger that is configured to charge the second photosensitive member; a third scorotron-type charger that is configured to charge the third photosensitive member; a first voltage applying circuit, which is connected to the first scorotron-type charger, and which is configured to apply a voltage to the first scorotron-type charger; and a second voltage applying circuit, which is commonly connected to the second scorotron-type charger and the third scorotron-type charger, and which is configured to apply a voltage to the second scorotron-type charger and the third scorotron-type charger, wherein the first scorotron-type charger, the second scorotron-type charger and the third scorotron-type charger comprises a wire and a grid, respectively, wherein the image forming apparatus further comprises: wherein the controller is further configured to: | 38,892 |
8,615,675 | 1. An image forming apparatus comprising: an upper layer control unit that controls a function for forming an image on a printing material; a first lower layer control unit and a second lower layer control unit that are controlled by said upper layer control unit and that control loads for implementing the function; and a sensor that outputs a detecting result to said first lower layer control unit and said second lower layer control unit, wherein said first lower layer control unit and said second lower layer control unit each include: wherein said first lower layer control unit further includes a correction unit that acquires a correction coefficient from said upper layer control unit, and corrects, based on the correction coefficient, a clock count value, and wherein said upper layer control unit includes a determining unit that (1) determines the correction coefficient for said first lower layer control unit to correct an error between said clock oscillators in said first lower layer control unit and said second lower layer control unit based on the measured time periods of said first lower layer control unit and said second lower layer control unit, and (2) transmits the determined correction coefficient to said first lower layer control unit. | 16,908 |
8,476,772 | 1. A method of making a semiconductor device, comprising: providing a base substrate including first and second opposing surfaces and a plurality of recesses formed in the first surface of the base substrate; forming a first conductive layer over the first surface of the base substrate and into first recesses of the plurality of recesses; forming a second conductive layer over the second surface of the base substrate opposite the first recesses; providing a first semiconductor die including a plurality of bumps formed over a surface of the first semiconductor die; disposing the first semiconductor die over the base substrate with the bumps partially disposed within the first recesses over the first conductive layer; depositing an encapsulant over the first semiconductor die and base substrate; and removing a portion of the base substrate from the second surface between the second conductive layer down to second recesses between the first recesses while retaining a portion of the base substrate to form electrically isolated base leads for the bumps. | 37,329 |
9,240,293 | 1. A circuit tracer system for associating each of a plurality of power consuming devices with a respective one of a plurality of circuit breakers comprising: a plurality of self-powered power sensors (SPPSs), each SPPS being wrapped around a wire providing current solely to a circuit breaker or to a wire providing current solely to a power consuming device of the plurality of power consuming devices without being electrically connected to the respective wire and using a current flowing through the respective wire for current measurement as well as an independent source of power for the SPPS, each SPPS having a unique identification (UID), each SPPS comprising: a current transformer having the wire as a primary winding of the current transformer and a secondary winding to harvest energy and sense current from the primary winding; a sense resistor; an energy harvester, the energy harvester connected to the secondary winding to supply power to the SPPS responsive of harvesting energy from the secondary winding; a switching circuitry connected to a first terminal of the secondary winding, the switching circuitry either connecting the energy harvester to the first terminal of the secondary winding for harvesting of energy or connecting the sense resistor to the first terminal of the secondary winding for current sensing; a radio frequency wireless transceiver powered by the energy harvester; and, a microcontroller connected to the sense resistor, the energy harvester, the switching circuitry and the radio frequency transceiver, the microcontroller configured when the SPPSs are in a trace mode to: a) determine sufficiency of energy in the energy harvester; b) measure current flowing in the current wire upon determination of at least a first level of energy in the energy harvester; c) transmit data collected respective of at least the current flowing in the current wire and the UID of the SPPS using the radio frequency wireless transceiver upon determination of at least a second level of energy in the energy harvester; and, d) control the switching circuitry respective of determination of sufficiency of energy in the energy harvester; the circuit tracer system further having; a communication bridge for at least receiving signals respective of the measured current from each of the plurality of SPPSs that are wirelessly transmitted by each SPPS over a first network; a second network communicatively connected to the communication bridge; and, a server communicatively coupled to the second network, the server comprising: a processor for processing a circuit tracer utility stored in a memory; a user interface displayed on a display communicatively coupled to the server configured to: receive current measurements from a first SPPS of the plurality of SPPSs, the first SPPS associated with a circuit breaker; receive current measurements from a second SPPS of the plurality of SPPSs, the second SPPS associated with a power consuming device; and, make an association between the first SPPS and the second SPPS upon determination that a change in current measured by the first SPPS and a change in current measured by the second SPPS occurred concurrently. | 31,586 |
8,829,628 | 1. A MEMS package structure, comprising: a substrate; an interconnecting structure disposed on the substrate; a MEMS structure disposed on the substrate and within a first cavity; an upper metallic layer disposed above the MEMS structure and the interconnecting structure, so as to form a second cavity between the upper metallic layer and the interconnecting structure, the second cavity communicating with the first cavity, the upper metallic layer having at least a first opening and at least a second opening, the first opening located above the interconnecting structure, the second opening located above the MEMS structure, area of the first opening being greater than that of the second opening; a deposition element disposed above the upper metallic layer to seal the second opening; and a packaging element disposed above the upper metallic layer to seal the first opening. | 34,826 |
8,676,627 | 1. A method for identifying and resolving differences between business process models, the method comprising: receiving, in a processor, a first business process model project; identifying, in the processor, a second business process model project; performing, in the processor, changes to the second business process model project; creating, in the processor, a first delta model configured to auto-applying, in the processor, the low-level changes and the conflict-free application sequence of change operations of the first business process model project to generate a new business process model project, wherein the low level changes are auto-applied by inserting single-entry-single-exit fragments into the first and second business model projects, wherein the auto-applying of the low level changes of the first business process model project identifies conflicts between the first and second business process model projects prior to merging the first and second business process model projects; applying, in the processor, hierarchical process merging to inspect and create a consolidated business modeler language model of the first and second business process model projects; creating, in the processor, a clone of the consolidated business modeler language model, wherein the new business process model project is the consolidated business modeler language model equivalent of an integration developer model; computing, in the processor, the auto-applied low-level changes to create a second delta model configured based on the first delta model; applying, in the processor, the second delta model to the integration developer model to generate an updated integration developer model, wherein a high-level model is changed when the low level changes are applied; responsive to changes in the business modeler language model occurring at same time as changes to the updated integration developer model: | 24,474 |
9,379,987 | 1. A computer-implemented method to send media, the method comprising: encoding a first portion of media at an encoding rate; streaming the first portion of the media over a network from a sending device to a receiving device; receiving feedback data related to packet events occurring during transmission of the first portion of the media over the network; generating, by a computer processor, adjusted feedback data by applying a median filter to the feedback data, wherein applying the median filter eliminates one or more bursts of packet events reported across a first quantity of the packet events; adjusting the encoding rate of the media based on the adjusted feedback data; and encoding an additional portion of the media at the adjusted encoding rate. | 5,467 |
8,453,610 | 1. A hot water tank comprising: a sleeve; a removable top lid; at least one changeable water holding compartment adapted to be stacked vertically within said sleeve, stacked compartments being connected by a connecting pipe; and at least one heating means provided with one of the compartments; wherein said changeable compartments are configured to be removable from said sleeve upon removal of said top lid in case of failure and wherein space between said sleeve and said changeable compartments is adapted to hold the contents of said compartments during a leak. | 39,719 |
9,832,730 | 1. A method for reducing power consumption in a communication device, comprising: receiving, by the communication device, at least a portion of a packet; determining a subset of components of the communication device for which to reduce power based, at least in part, on a length of the packet, wherein the components include at least one component selected from a group consisting of a radio transmission unit, a radio receiver unit, a synthesizer and a clock in a physical layer of the communication device; and reducing the power to the subset of the components for a time period based, at least in part, on the length of the packet and on determining by the communication device that the packet includes padded data to be discarded by the communication device, wherein the components in the subset of the components vary based, at least in part, on the length of the packet. | 47,321 |
9,393,742 | 1. A fiber holding device, comprising: a bobbin supported to be rotatable about an axis and configured to have a main unit that holds a fiber wound thereon and a plate member that is rotatable independently of the main unit; a release member configured to apply a force to the fiber drawn from the main unit in a direction from the axis of the bobbin toward outer periphery; a tension applying member configured to apply tension to the fiber drawn from the main unit; an extended section extended from the plate member and arranged to integrally hold the release member and the tension applying member in a sequence of the release member and the tension applying member toward downstream in a drawing direction of the fiber; and wherein the extended section is rotatable in the opposite direction from a rotating direction of the main unit during drawing of the fiber from the main unit, together with rotation of the plate member. | 21,389 |
8,705,859 | 1. A computer-implemented method, comprising: an imaging system quantifying, within an image, an occupancy of pixels corresponding to particles having fluorescence material associated therewith, wherein the quantifying includes determining whether the occupancy of pixels corresponding to particles within the image is greater than or equal to an occupancy threshold; the imaging system separating the image into a plurality of subsections; the imaging system identifying pixels within a subsection that exhibit an optical parameter value above an optical parameter threshold; the imaging system determining a particular set of pixels within the subsection, wherein determining whether the particular set of pixels includes the pixels identified to exhibit an optical parameter value above the optical parameter threshold is based on the determining whether the occupancy of pixels corresponding to particles within the image is greater than or equal to the occupancy threshold; the imaging system determining a statistical value of an optical parameter for the particular set of pixels; and the imaging system assigning the determined statistical value as a background signal for the corresponding subsection. | 8,177 |
9,847,659 | 1. A battery charger for a portable electronic device, the battery charger comprising: a battery charger housing including an enclosed chamber, the enclosed chamber forming a portion of a protective case cover of a protective case such that the portable electronic device fits therein; a pair of capacitors located within the battery charger housing, each of the pair of capacitors including opposing spaced plates having contact segments thereon, the opposing spaced plates including electret; the contact segments forming at least a portion of the enclosed chamber; an output power increasing, electrically resistive fluid held within the enclosed chamber, the output power increasing, electrically resistive fluid partially filling the enclosed chamber such that a fluid motion varies a fluid-contact segment contact within the enclosed chamber; in response to a movement of the portable electronic device, an induced relative motion between the output power increasing, electrically resistive fluid and contact segments varies the fluid-contact segment contact within the enclosed chamber, thereby inversely alternating the capacitance between the pair of capacitors and triboelectrically generating an electrical charge; an electronic circuit coupled to the opposing spaced plates of the pair of capacitors, the electronic circuit configured to transfer the electrical charge to a battery associated with the portable electronic device; and a moveable element disposed within the enclosed chamber, the moveable element being an output power increasing, electrically resistive object partially filling the enclosed chamber such that motion of the moveable element varies a moveable element-contact segment contact within the enclosed chamber, thereby inversely alternating the capacitance between the pair of capacitors and triboelectrically generating the electrical charge. | 34,508 |
9,163,521 | 1. A gas turbine engine, comprising: (a) a compressor section, said compressor section comprising: (b) a gas turbine section, said gas turbine section comprising | 29,117 |
8,628,598 | 1. A system for continuous in situ fertilizer-manufacturing fertigation of an agricultural field under the irrigation of an active agricultural irrigation system, wherein said in situ fertilizer-manufacturing fertigation includes continuously charging a fertilizer-nutrient feedstock to said active agricultural irrigation system, said active agricultural irrigation system having flowing irrigation water upstream of said agricultural field, wherein said fertilizer-nutrient feedstock is comprised of a plurality of co-reactant fertilizer-nutrient-feedstock raw materials, wherein said plurality of co-reactant fertilizer-nutrient-feedstock raw materials generate an exotherm upon intermixing with each other and with said irrigation water, said system comprising: a plurality of fertilizer-nutrient raw-material feed points open to a stream of said flowing irrigation water, wherein said plurality of feed points are sufficiently proximate each other and wherein said stream of said flowing irrigation water has sufficient flow to intermix said plurality of co-reactant fertilizer-nutrient-feedstock raw materials with each other and with said stream of said flowing irrigation water, generating at least one dissolution exotherm and at least one reaction exotherm, and wherein said stream of said irrigation water has sufficient flow to dampen said dissolution and reaction exotherms; and means for separately and simultaneously feeding said plurality of co-reactant fertilizer-nutrient-feedstock raw materials to said stream of said flowing irrigation water whereby treated irrigation water is formed, wherein said irrigation system includes means for irrigating said agricultural field with said treated irrigation water. | 184 |
9,321,454 | 1. A method for operating a vehicle, comprising: specifying a time-related target power demand for the vehicle to an internal combustion engine powering the vehicle, the time-related target power demand being dependent on a vehicle diagnosis to be carried out on the internal combustion engine; switching in an additional powering device for the vehicle in addition to the internal combustion engine when a time-related actual power demand of the vehicle on the internal combustion engine deviates from the time-related target power demand; estimating the time-related actual power demand of the internal combustion engine on a route to be driven with the vehicle; scheduling the vehicle diagnosis to be carried out based on a probability that a difference between the time-related actual power demand and the time-related target power demand can be compensated for by switching in the additional powering device in addition to the internal combustion engine; and prohibiting vehicle diagnosis when the probability falls below a predetermined threshold value. | 34,012 |
8,489,390 | 1. A method, comprising: receiving data propagating in a network environment; sorting the data into a first group and a second group, wherein the first group includes Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) compressed data, and wherein the first group is ignored; separating the data in the second group into one or more fields; evaluating, using a processor, at least some of the fields in order to identify nouns and noun phrases within the fields; identifying selected words within the nouns and noun phrases based on a whitelist and a blacklist, wherein the whitelist includes a plurality of designated words to be tagged and the blacklist includes a plurality of rejected words that are not to be tagged; dropping the data if certain words in the data are included in the blacklist; generating a first resultant composite of selected nouns and noun phrases that are tagged; identifying selected words within the first resultant composite of selected nouns and noun phrases based on a list of administrator stop words; removing the identified selected words to create a second resultant composite of selected nouns and noun phrases; presenting the second resultant composite of selected nouns and noun phrases to an administrator; and incorporating selected nouns and noun phrases from the second resultant composite into the whitelist if the selected nouns and noun phrases are approved by the administrator. | 43,902 |
9,003,631 | 1. A process for placing a floating unit in water, the floating unit comprising a mast which, when floating, extends from above to below the water surface, the process comprising: providing a vessel having a deck having an edge, a pivotable unit rotatably mounted at a fixed location on the deck adjacent said edge for rotation about a horizontal axis, and a slidable unit slideably mounted on the pivotable unit comprising a base member and two clamping members mounted on the base member and spaced apart from the each other; clamping the mast with the clamping members, thereby holding the mast in a substantially horizontal position above the deck; transporting the vessel and mast to a location where the floating unit is to be deployed; sliding the slidable unit relative to the pivotable unit towards one end of the vessel from which the mast is to be deployed, thereby causing the slidable unit to approach said one end of the vessel; pivoting the pivotable unit and mast until the mast is in a substantially vertical position; and releasing the mast from the clamping members, thereby allowing the floating unit to float; wherein the floating unit further comprises a nacelle section having a nacelle axis, the nacelle section having a plurality of blades mounted for rotation about said nacelle axis, which is horizontal when the mast is in a substantially vertical position, and wherein the slidable unit further comprises a nacelle holder arranged to hold the nacelle section with said nacelle axis substantially horizontal while the mast is held in a substantially horizontal position above the deck. | 17,599 |
9,401,893 | 1. A method for protecting sensitive data in a hosted service system, wherein the hosted service system includes a host system adapted to receive data from a tenant system, the tenant system being communicatively coupled to the host system via a communication network, and wherein the sensitive data is some of the data of the tenant system, the method comprising: receiving a database query result (DB query result) from a database, wherein the host system includes the database; determining if a part of the DB query result is associated with the sensitive data, wherein the determination is performed by a metadata service system (MSS), and wherein the MSS is adapted to maintain metadata of the sensitive data, wherein the metadata includes encryption information; generating a query result using at least one of the DB query result or the modified DB query result; transmitting the query result; generating a host response; determining if a part of the host response is associated with the sensitive data, wherein the determination is performed by the MSS; generating a client response by manipulating at least one of the host response or the modified host response, wherein the manipulation is performed using a data exchange format; and transmitting the client response. | 14,978 |
9,099,744 | 1. A composite material, comprising: elemental sulfur; and at least one particulate porous carbon material, comprising: wherein the carbon phase forms, with the pore phase, co-continuous phase domains with irregular arrangement, and wherein a distance between adjacent domains of the pore phase is not more than 50 nm. | 13,928 |
9,030,398 | 1. A shift register circuit, comprising: a plurality of shift registers configured to generate latch clock signals by sequentially shifting input signals according to a first clock signal and a second clock signal, the first clock signal and the second clock signal each comprising a period longer than a period of a shift register clock signal; and the first clock signal and the second clock signal having phases different from each other, wherein odd shift registers among the plurality of shift registers are configured to be driven by the first clock signal; even shift registers are configured to be driven by the second clock signal; and at least one shift register among the plurality of shift registers comprises an output controller comprising a NOR gate configured to control an output signal of the at least one shift register by generating a reset signal of a dynamic latch based on an output signal of a next shift register and a shift register reset signal applied to the plurality of shift registers. | 46,678 |
9,717,819 | 1. A method for sealing, connecting, bonding or covering cellular tissue comprising applying a tissue adhesive composition comprising a polyurea system comprising A) isocyanate-functional prepolymers obtained by reacting B) amino-functional aspartic esters of formula (I) optionally C) organic fillers and optionally D) reaction products of the isocyanate-functional prepolymers of A) with aspartic esters B) and/or organic fillers C), wherein said system comprises water and tertiary amine as E), and wherein the system when cured has no cytotoxicity in accordance with ISO 10993, to a cellular tissue to be sealed, connected, bonded, or covered. | 33,652 |
8,838,319 | 1. A vehicle, comprising: a drive shaft for rotating a drive wheel; an internal combustion engine; a first rotating electric machine; a power transmission device capable of transmitting, by mechanically coupling said drive shaft, an output shaft of said internal combustion engine, and a rotation shaft of said first rotating electric machine as three elements and setting any one of said three elements as a reaction force element, motive power between two other elements; an input portion for receiving an instruction for stopping a system of the vehicle from a driver; and a control unit for controlling a braking force application portion such that said vehicle is decelerated when said input portion receives said instruction during running of said vehicle, said control unit controlling said first rotating electric machine such that rotation of said internal combustion engine in which fuel injection has been stopped does not stop by using said first rotating electric machine until a speed of said vehicle becomes lower than a first speed, and ending control of said first rotating electric machine when the speed of said vehicle becomes lower than said first speed. | 5,621 |
8,512,154 | 1. An elastic joint body for a shaft arrangement for the articulated connection of two shaft sections, comprising: a plurality of bushings which are arranged in the circumferential direction in predetermined angular intervals with respect to a centre axis of the joint body, a plurality of loop packets, with each loop packet wrapping around two adjacent bushings each, and a rubber-elastic casing, in which the loop packets and the bushings are at least partially embedded, wherein one support arrangement composed of a different material than the rubber-elastic casing is at least partially embedded in the rubber-elastic casing, the support arrangement comprising an insert body which is located in a spaced relationship between adjacent bushings and at least one support body, each of which is located between the insert body and one of the adjacent bushings, wherein each of the insert body and the support body is supporting at least part of a loop packet between adjacent bushings to prevent frictional contact between multiple loop packets and to reinforce the loop packets by increasing resistance to loads and torques applied to the loop packets, thereby increasing the load carrying proportion of the loop packets, and wherein the insert body and the support body include external facing surfaces defining corresponding opposite shapes, which allow a correspondence between the support body and the insert body. | 41,320 |
9,224,081 | 1. An image recording apparatus comprising: at least one container, each being configured to contain consumables; a recorder configured to record an image with the consumables on a recording medium; a communication unit configured to communicate with an external device; an input device configured to receive information corresponding to user operation; a memory; a display configured to display information; a controller coupled with and configured to control the recorder, communication unit, input device, and the display, the controller being configured to perform: | 24,977 |
9,193,645 | 1. A process for the isomerization of a paraxylene-depleted aromatic hydrocarbon feedstream comprising phenol, wherein said isomerization of a paraxylene-depleted feedstream is conducted in the presence of a catalyst comprising HZSM-5, wherein said HZSM-5 is characterized by an average crystal size of <0.1 micron and a SiO 2 /Al 2 O 3 molar ratio in the range of about 20-100, in a reactor at a temperature of less than 295° C., and a pressure sufficient to maintain the xylenes in liquid phase to produce an isomerization product. | 8,098 |
9,735,592 | 1. A battery control system comprising: a measurement unit configured to measure voltages and currents of a plurality of battery units, which are connected in series to each other; a battery control unit configured to control discharge of the battery units on the basis of the voltages measured by the measurement unit; and a terminal, which is connected to the battery control unit, configured to communicate with an external device, wherein the battery control unit is further configured to: | 43,362 |
9,728,658 | 1. A solar cell module comprising: a first solar cell; a second solar cell electrically connected with the first solar cell and placed in an array direction with the first solar cell; and a wiring member electrically connecting the first solar cell and the second solar cell, wherein the first solar cell and the second solar cell each comprise: wherein the thickness of the facing part of each of the first-type electrodes facing the wiring member in the first solar cell is thinner than the thickness of the connecting end of each of the second-type electrodes in the first solar cell such that the facing part of each of the first-type electrodes does not contact the wiring member in the first solar cell and the connecting end of each of the second-type electrodes connects the wiring member in the first solar cell, the thickness of the facing part of each of the second-type electrodes facing the wiring member in the second solar cell is thinner than the thickness of the connecting end of each of the first-type electrodes in the second solar cell such that the facing part of each of the second-type electrodes does not contact the wiring member in the second solar cell and the connecting end of each of the first-type electrodes connects the wiring member in the second solar cell, a portion of each of the first-type electrodes between the connecting end and the facing part thereof in the array direction has the same thickness as the thickness of the connecting end thereof, and the portion thereof does not connect the wiring member, and a portion of each of the second-type electrodes between the connecting end and the facing part thereof in the array direction has the same thickness as the thickness of the connecting end thereof, and the portion thereof does not connect the wiring member. | 7,466 |
9,803,222 | 1. An animal food product comprising effective amounts of: (i) a comminuted recalcitrance reduced feedstock in densified form suitable for ingestion by an animal, and combined with (ii) at least one isolated enzyme, wherein the feedstock is selected from the group of plant products consisting of lignocellulosic plant materials, cellulosic waste materials, lignocellulosic waste materials, and mixtures thereof, wherein the comminuted recalcitrance reduced feedstock is obtained by treating a comminuted feedstock with an electron beam irradiation dosage of at least 5 Mrad under conditions sufficient to reduce the recalcitrance of the comminuted feedstock, and wherein the electron beam irradiation reduces the average molecular weight of the comminuted feedstock from 200-320 kD to 10-20 kD. | 46,787 |
9,526,183 | 1. Galvanic process for filling through-holes of a workpiece with metals comprising the following steps: (i) bringing in contact the workpiece containing through-holes with a metal-deposition electrolyte and applying a voltage between the workpiece and at least one anode so that a current flow is supplied to the workpiece, wherein the current flow is chosen such that a deposition occurs in the center of the through-holes and, consequently, the through-holes completely or almost completely grow together; (ii) further bringing in contact the workpiece with a metal-deposition electrolyte and applying a voltage between the workpiece and at least one anode so that a current flow is supplied to the workpiece, wherein the through-holes obtained in step (i), which are divided into to halves are filled by the metal, | 20,720 |
9,821,725 | 1. A steering wheel assembly for a golf cart comprising: a steering wheel including a housing having a sidewall, and a top surface which is substantially parallel to a horizontal plane of the steering wheel; an electronic device holder having a sidewall and a bottom wall, at least a portion of the bottom wall being positioned adjacent to the top surface of the housing of the steering wheel; means for freely rotating the holder relative the steering wheel housing provided between the top surface of the housing and electronic device holder bottom wall, wherein the holder includes an opening adapted to receive an electronic device and a cover having an aperture to access the electronic device, the cover including a seal around the aperture to provide a weatherproof seal; and wherein the housing and holder bottom wall each include an aligned central opening therein adapted to receive or access a portion of a steering shaft for attaching the steering wheel assembly to a golf cart steering shaft. | 27,063 |
9,521,243 | 1. A network connectivity device for use in low-resource environments, the device comprising: a plurality of external network interfaces each configured to connect to one of a plurality of external networks, at least a subset of the plurality of external networks having a first type and at least one of the external networks not in the subset of the plurality having a second type differing from the first type; at least one internal network interface configured to connect to one or more user devices; a power connection configured to power the network connectivity device, the power connection having at least a coupled external power source and a battery-based internal power source; one or more processors configured to: | 28,887 |
8,622,811 | 1. A gaming system comprising: one or more input devices; one or more display devices; one or more processors; and one or more memory devices storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the gaming system to: | 2,909 |
9,042,219 | 1. A method for transmitting signals at a communication apparatus in a wireless communication system supporting a plurality of component carriers, the method comprising: transmitting, simultaneously, a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH), a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) with uplink control information (UCI) and a PUSCH without the UCI using the plurality of component carriers, wherein a transmission power of the PUCCH, a transmission power of the PUSCH with the UCI and a transmission power of the PUSCH without the UCI are determined according to a predefined transmission power determination rule, wherein the predefined transmission power determination rule comprises: wherein, if a total transmission power of the PUCCH, the PUSCH with the UCI and the PUSCH without the UCI exceeds a value corresponding to a maximum transmission power configured for the communication apparatus, the determined transmission power of the PUSCH without the UCI is reduced while maintaining the determined transmission powers of the PUCCH and the PUSCH with the UCI, and wherein the PUCCH is transmitted based on the determined transmission power of the PUCCH, the PUSCH with the UCI is transmitted based on the determined transmission power of the PUSCH with the UCI, and the PUSCH without the UCI is transmitted based on the reduced transmission power of the PUSCH without the UCI. | 10,984 |
9,790,154 | 1. A methanol plant comprising: a heat exchanger which makes exhaust heat that is discharged from a process of producing methanol from a feed stock be recovered to seawater; and a seawater desalination device which obtains fresh water from the seawater by using the exhaust heat recovered from the seawater by the heat exchanger, wherein a plurality of the heat exchangers is provided in a distillation process of the process of producing methanol in a flow direction of mixed gas after methanol synthesis, wherein the mixed gas passes through the plurality of heat exchangers, and a temperature of the mixed gas decreases, and a wetness of the mixed gas increases as it flows toward a downstream side in the flow direction of the mixed gas, and wherein heat exchange with the mixed gas having increased wetness is performed in the heat exchanger provided on a downstream side in the flow direction of the mixed gas. | 37,033 |
9,356,537 | 1. An inverter device for a solar module, the inverter device comprising a slave circuit device comprising: an input comprising a DC input from a solar cell group; a preliminary boost circuit coupled to the input, the preliminary boost circuit configured to boost an input voltage from the input from the solar cell group to an intermediary voltage; a boost circuit coupled to the preliminary boost circuit and configured to boost the intermediary voltage to a boosted output having an AC RMS peak voltage; a rectifier circuit coupled to the boost circuit and configured to wave shape the boosted output to a rectified DC waveform, the rectifier circuit comprising an rectifier output; an energy recovery circuit comprises a storage device coupled to the rectifier output, the energy recovery circuit being configured to temporarily store a reverse recovery charge and transfers the reverse recovery charge to an output of a DC bus structure to reduce a diode recovery loss in the rectifier circuit, wherein the rectifier circuit comprises a full bridge diode circuit coupled with the energy recovery circuit; wherein the storage device comprises a storage capacitor coupled to the rectifier output, the storage capacitor being configured between a first terminal and a second terminal of the full bridge diode circuit, the energy recovery circuit further comprising a first p-n junction diode configured in series with the storage capacitor, the energy recovery circuit further comprising an inductor coupled to the first terminal and the first p-n junction diode, the inductor being in parallel to the storage capacitor. | 24,351 |
8,706,996 | 1. A data processor having a CPU operable to run a software program, and an access protection unit operable to provide an access protection to an address space of the CPU based on an operating mode of the CPU, comprising: a domain ID register on which domain ID data for specifying which operating system to run a software program under is set; a domain control register on which mode data for specifying whether to run the software program specified by the domain ID register or to execute management & control for running the software program specified by the domain ID register is set; and a group of attribute information change registers on which attribute-change data for changing attribute information of the CPU operating mode depending on settings of the domain control register and domain ID register on condition that the domain control register specifies execution of the management & control are set, wherein the access protection unit receives attribute information from the CPU and judges validity of an access, provided that the attribute-change data set on the attribute information change register are incorporated in the attribute information. | 41,900 |
9,665,830 | 1. A system for forecast modeling, the system comprising: at least one processor; at least one database that is operably coupled to the at least one processor, wherein the database comprises: a data pre-processor module that is configured to use the at least one processor to identify and select a portion of the plurality of exogenous factors using the feedback data collected from the online users for use in a forecast model in combination with the time series data for the domain; and an auto regressive exogenous (ARX) model module that is operably coupled to the at least one processor and that is configured to create an ARX model and to use the at least one processor to represent coefficients of the selected portion of exogenous factors as a function of input variables in the ARX model. | 17,425 |
9,471,341 | 1. A computer-implemented method for class load optimizing, comprising: identifying a class in which a context can be determined at a compile time, using a compiler; determining whether a caller method within the class has a specific signature call using the context of the class; determining a callee method within the class using the context of the class; determining whether the callee method's receiver is a first argument of the caller method; determining whether the callee method is the same as the caller method; and retrieving a class object of the class and generating the callee method to a second method, in response to the caller method having the specific signature, the callee method being of the specific signature, callee method being the first argument of the caller method, and the callee method being the same as the caller method, wherein generating refers to generating code to call the callee method. | 19,169 |
8,895,202 | 1. A fuel cell membrane electrode assembly comprising: a membrane electrode assembly including a solid polymer electrolyte membrane, an anode provided on one surface of the solid polymer electrolyte membrane, and a cathode provided on another surface of the solid polymer electrolyte membrane, the anode having an anode catalyst layer and an anode diffusion layer, the cathode having a cathode catalyst layer and a cathode diffusion layer, an outer end of the anode catalyst layer protruding outward beyond an outer end of the cathode catalyst layer; and a resin frame member provided around the solid polymer electrolyte membrane, wherein: the outer end of the cathode catalyst layer protrudes outward beyond an outer end of the cathode diffusion layer; the resin frame member includes an inner extension protruding toward an outer periphery of the cathode to contact an outer end of the solid polymer electrolyte membrane; and the inner extension has an overlapped portion overlapped with the outer end of the cathode catalyst layer. | 3,531 |
9,077,805 | 1. A system including for routing communications to a selected platform, comprising: a plurality of service representative platforms; a relational database platform storing a communication routing matrix; and a communications server, including: | 36,763 |
9,088,946 | 1. A method for receiving data from a peer node comprising: transmitting, by a first node to the peer node, a receive window start frame prior to each of one or more scheduled awake periods of the first node and the peer node, wherein the receive window start frame indicates an upcoming awake period and includes a beacon change field indicating whether a change has been made to a beacon; periodically transmitting the beacon, said beacon comprising information about the first node; and receiving data from the peer node during a scheduled awake period. | 23,674 |
9,067,499 | 1. An arrangement for measuring current on a high voltage battery for an electrical vehicle, where the battery comprises a service disconnect switch which is adapted to break the connection between the positive battery terminal and the positive battery output terminals, wherein the connection between the positive battery terminal and the positive battery output terminals comprises an external circuit line extending out of the service disconnect switch and returning to the battery such that a loop is created, which is adapted to receive a current clamp for measuring the current through the circuit line. | 38,059 |
8,965,421 | 1. A method for forwarding a Short Messaging Service (SMS) message by a server system, the server system including a Short Messaging Service Center (SMSC) server in a mobile communication network as a first server, the method comprising the first server performing steps of: receiving an SMS message addressed to a mobile device of a recipient; sending the received SMS message from the first server through the mobile communication network toward the recipient's mobile device; determining whether or not the received SMS message is also to be forwarded to a network connected terminal device other than the recipient's mobile device; and upon determining that the received SMS message is to be forwarded to the network connected terminal device, sending a copy of the SMS message through a network toward the network connected terminal device, wherein at least one of: a) the first server performs steps of at least one of: b) the server system further comprises a second server, | 46,840 |
9,009,541 | 1. A semiconductor chip comprising: a shared memory; a plurality of functional blocks, each configured to access the shared memory; a cache coherence controller configured to provide to the functional blocks a consistent data value for a given data block in the shared memory; a plurality of buses configured to transfer coherent messages between the shared memory and the cache coherent controller; and a trace unit comprising a trace buffer with a plurality of physical partitions assigned to subsets of the plurality of buses; and wherein in response to detecting a traceable bus event on a given bus of the plurality of buses, the trace unit is configured to selectively update a given partition of the plurality of physical partitions assigned to the given bus, wherein said update comprises at least a local time count. | 19,365 |
8,345,712 | 1. A method comprising: intercepting, by a mobile router executing in a first virtual machine of a mobile computing device, a request for an Internet Protocol (IP) address from an operating system (OS) executing in a second virtual machine of the mobile computing device; assigning an internal IP address to a virtual network interface of the OS executing in the second virtual machine of the mobile computing device in response to intercepting the request for the IP address from the OS; translating, by the mobile router, between the internal IP address and an external IP address; requesting, by the mobile router of the mobile computing device, a first external IP address for a first network interface of the mobile computing device from a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) server on an external network; establishing a secure communication tunnel between the OS executing in the second virtual machine of the mobile computing device and a remote gateway device, the secure communication tunnel is established using the first external IP address and the first network interface of the mobile computing device; determining that access to the external network is available through a second network interface of the mobile computing device; requesting, by the mobile router, a second external IP address for the second network interface of the mobile computing device from the DHCP server on the external network; renewing, by the mobile router, a lease corresponding to the first external IP address; storing the first external IP address and a lease time corresponding to the first external IP address in a mobility data structure; and sending, by the mobile router, a routing update message to one or more routers on the external network to route packets destined for the first external IP address to the second external IP address, wherein the one or more routers on the external network are different from the mobile router. | 5,253 |
9,229,905 | 1. A method, comprising: receiving, by a server, a request to manage a profile for a user account; identifying, by the server, a vehicle type from the profile; receiving, by the server, a plurality of settings for the profile that identifies a vehicle having the vehicle type, the settings being stored on a profile database of a cloud services system that includes the server; transferring, by the server, the profile to the vehicle identified in the plurality of settings, the transferring being via wireless communication transfer over the Internet, the profile configured to be applied so that the settings are implemented by the vehicle; receiving, by the server, communication from the vehicle to update the profile with setting changes made at the vehicle or learned from user input at the vehicle, receiving, by the server, data from the vehicle to detect a violation of a setting in the profile; and automatically sending, by the server, a notification to a predefined administrator of the profile to identify the violation, wherein for updates to the profile based on changes learned from user input at the vehicle, the method further includes, wherein the communication from the vehicle to update the profile based on changes learned from user input occurs after acceptance of the suggestion is received from the user account of the profile, the method being executed by a processor. | 24,214 |
8,567,132 | 1. A modular solar rack support comprising: a base portion; a wedge portion disposed at one end of said base portion; a riser centrally disposed on said base portion; an upper connecting bracket disposed on a top surface of said riser; at least one lower connecting bracket attached to an upper surface of said wedge portion; a connecting strut disposed on an end of said base portion; a connecting strut opening disposed on a other end of said base portion wherein another connecting strut fits therein to connect at least two said modular solar rack supports; and said modular solar rack support adapted to fit within said another rack support to provide stackability. | 37,815 |
9,832,814 | 1. An apparatus, comprising: a transceiver configured to support operation of the apparatus in accordance with a first radio access technology and a second radio access technology; the transceiver being configured to receive an indication conveyed over the second radio access technology, the indication indicating that data is incoming to the apparatus and that the data is to be conveyed over the first radio access technology, and at least one processing core configured to, responsive to the indication, cause the apparatus to receive the data by operating in accordance with the first radio access technology, wherein the indication comprises a relative or absolute indication of a future time instant, when transmission of the data to the apparatus will begin over the first radio access technology. | 13,196 |
8,366,992 | 1. A lance for injecting gas into a vessel, including: a gas flow duct extending from a rear end to a forward end from which to discharge gas from the duct; an elongate central structure extending within the gas flow duct from its rear end to its forward end; a plurality of flow directing vanes disposed about the central structure adjacent the forward end of the duct to impart swirl to a gas flow through the forward end of the duct; cooling water supply and return passages extending through the wall of the gas flow duct and extending from the rear end to the forward end of the gas flow duct for supply and return of cooling water to the forward end of the duct; and an annular duct tip disposed at the forward end of the duct and having an internal cooling water passage connecting with the cooling water supply and return passages so as to receive and return a flow of cooling water to internally cool the duct tip; wherein the lance is made of three modules releasably fastened together by releasable fasteners, said modules comprising: | 34,615 |
9,667,100 | 1. A voltage monitoring control device that is connected, via a communication network, to a first local voltage control device, which is connected to a transformer-type voltage control apparatus that is connected to a power distribution line in a high-voltage system and controls a voltage on the power distribution line and which adjusts an amount of control of the voltage control apparatus every second cycle, which is shorter than a first cycle, such that a voltage value controlled by the voltage control apparatus is maintained within a range between a voltage upper-limit value and a voltage lower-limit value that are updated every first cycle, and a second local voltage control device, which is connected to a reactive-power-modified voltage control apparatus that controls a voltage on the power distribution line and which adjusts an amount of control of the voltage control apparatus every third cycle, which is shorter than the first cycle, the voltage monitoring control device comprising: a load and power-generation-amount estimation unit to estimate, every first cycle, a load and power-generation-amount distribution representing a difference between a pure load and a power-generation amount at each point of a power distribution system under each of a condition of a mean load amount and a mean power-generation amount, a condition of a minimum load amount and a maximum power-generation amount, and a condition of a maximum load amount and a minimum power-generation amount; a voltage-fluctuation-band estimation unit to estimate a voltage fluctuation band of the voltage within the first cycle on a basis of the load and power-generation-amount distribution; a control-target-voltage determination unit to determine a first threshold value for an allowance for an upper limit of an appropriate voltage range and a second threshold value for an allowance for a lower limit of an appropriate voltage range on a basis of the voltage fluctuation band estimated by the voltage-fluctuation-band estimation unit, and to determine a control target value to be indicated to the first local voltage control device on a basis of a difference between the first threshold value and the allowance for the upper limit and on a basis of a difference between the second threshold value and the allowance for the lower limit; a voltage upper-and-lower-limit-value determination unit to determine the voltage upper-limit value and the voltage lower-limit value on a basis of the control target value; and a transceiver unit to transmit the voltage upper-limit value and the voltage lower-limit value to the first local voltage control device via the communication network. | 5,509 |
9,647,224 | 1. A method for manufacturing an organic EL device, comprising: providing a substrate having a strip shape from a substrate feeding unit in which the substrate is wound up in roll shape; forming an organic layer over the substrate moving relative to a nozzle by discharging a vaporized organic layer-forming material through the nozzle; forming a light emitting region comprising the organic layer, wherein the light emitting region has a width A (mm) in a direction perpendicular to a direction in which the substrate is moving, and W≧A+2×h where h≦5 mm is satisfied, where a length of an opening of the nozzle in the direction perpendicular to the direction in which the substrate is moving is denoted by W (mm), and a distance between the opening and the substrate is denoted by h (mm), wherein the opening of the nozzle W does not exceed the width of the substrate; and winding up the substrate by a substrate restoring unit. | 18,164 |
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