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8,592,249 | 1. A photovoltaic solar cell for generating electricity from sunlight, comprising: a plurality of spaced-apart point contact junctions formed in a semiconductor body to receive the sunlight and generate the electricity therefrom, the plurality of spaced-apart point contact junctions having a first plurality of regions having a first doping type and a second plurality of regions having a second doping type; a first electrical contact electrically connected to each of the first plurality of regions; a second electrical contact electrically connected to each of the second plurality of regions; and a passivation layer covering major surfaces and sidewalls of the photovoltaic solar cell. | 7,649 |
9,045,549 | 1. A nucleic acid molecule comprising a nucleic acid sequence selected from the group consisting of: (a) a nucleic acid sequence comprising the sequence of SEQ ID NO: 14; (b) a nucleic acid sequence exhibiting at least 90% sequence identity to SEQ ID NO: 14 and that encodes a WRKY transcription factor; (c) the full-length complement of (a) or (b); (d) a nucleic acid fragment comprising at least 18 contiguous nucleotides of (a), wherein expression of the fragment in a plant down-regulates the WRKY transcription factor encoded by the nucleic acid sequence of (b) in the plant and increases the lignin, cellulose, hemicellulose, and/or xylan content of said plant; wherein the nucleic acid sequence is operably linked to a heterologous promoter sequence. | 43,497 |
8,913,730 | 1. A communication system comprising: a storage module configured to store a contact list entry; and a control module, coupled to the storage module, configured to: identify a contact list entry from a communication event; calculate an urgency based priority for reflecting the degree of urgency based on a scaling factor associated with the communication event; generate a pending communication list including the urgency based priority for displaying on a display device; and select a communication event indicator, for the contact list entry, including the largest instance of the urgency based priority from the pending communication list with the communication event indicator for displaying on a device. | 7,422 |
9,084,989 | 1. An enhanced photocatalyst comprising: TiO polyhydroxyfullerenes (PHFs) comprising a fullerene (C | 9,225 |
8,708,831 | 1. A U-joint arrangement for attaching a propeller shaft to a pinion flange, at least one of the pinion flange and the propeller shaft having a pair of full-round receivers, the U-joint arrangement comprising: a U-joint including a cross member and a plurality of bearing cups rotatably mounted to the cross member, a pair of bearing cups of the plurality of bearing cups having an outer diameter that is substantially less than an inner diameter of the pair of full-round receivers; and a pair of retaining members engaging the pair of bearing cups, each retaining member of the pair of retaining members engaging both an axial end and a circular periphery of a corresponding bearing cup of the pair of bearing cups, the pair of retaining members configured to engage the pair of full-round receivers, the pair of retaining members further configured to support the pair of bearing cups within the pair of full-round receivers when the pair of retaining members are engaged with the pair of full-round receivers. | 26,568 |
8,456,297 | 1. A portable electronic device, comprising: a display; one or more processors; memory; and one or more programs, wherein the one or more programs are stored in the memory and configured to be executed by the one or more processors, the one or more programs including instructions for: | 23,440 |
9,225,010 | 1. A silicon-containing particle that is used as a negative electrode active material for a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery, wherein the silicon-containing particle has diffraction lines with peaks at 2θ=28.4°, and 2θ=28.6° in X-ray diffractometry. | 26,182 |
8,784,726 | 1. An apparatus comprising: electrical circuitry for determining an annealing temperature range for at least a portion of at least one metallic component of a nuclear fission fuel assembly of a nuclear fission reactor; and means for establishing at least the portion of the nuclear fission fuel assembly within the annealing temperature range by adjusting operational parameters of the nuclear fission reactor to establish, while the nuclear fission reactor is operating, operating conditions of a region of the operating nuclear fission reactor containing the at least one metallic component: (i) within the determined annealing temperature range for a period of time selected to produce annealing of at least the portion of the at least one metallic component, (ii) lower than the determined annealing temperature range in a quenching temperature range, and (iii) above the determined annealing temperature range in a tempering temperature range, responsive to the electrical circuitry for determining an annealing temperature range. | 41,362 |
8,725,584 | 1. A computer-implemented method, implemented on a computer system comprising a computer having a processing device operatively connected to a physical memory device and a communication device, the computer system being programmed to perform acts comprising: determining, using the processing device, a set of vehicles in a dealer inventory; determining, using the processing device, a subset of the vehicles in the dealer inventory for which a dealer has not purchased a vehicle history report online; transmitting, using the communication device, a summary report to the dealer, wherein the summary report includes information about at least some of the vehicles in the subset of the vehicles in the dealer inventory and information about a number of consumers that have accessed a vehicle history report online associated with the at least some of the vehicles in the summary report; receiving, from the dealer, using the communication device, a selection to purchase a vehicle history report online for at least one of the at least some of the vehicles in the subset of the vehicles in the dealer inventory in the summary report; and transmitting, using the communication device, the vehicle history report online corresponding to the selection to the dealer. | 15,330 |
9,094,636 | 1. A method of dynamically adjusting the power level of at least one local audio device wearable by a creator of audio, wherein a remote recorder is equipped to remotely record said audio comprising: querying at least one audio recording status of said remote recorder, said at least one audio recording status associated with one of said at least one local audio device, said at least one audio recording status being set to recording when said remote recorder is recording audio generated by said wearer of said one of said at least one local audio device, said audio recording status being set to not recording when said remote recorder is not recording audio generated by said wearer of said one of said at least one local audio device; generating a power command, said power command being a high power command if said audio recording status is recording and said power command being a low power command if said audio recording status is not recording; transmitting said power command to said one of said at least one local audio device wearable by said creator of said audio; processing of said power command by said one of said at least one local audio device, said processing including adjusting at least one power parameter of said one of said local audio device. | 13,298 |
8,819,964 | 1. A sandal with removable straps, the sandal comprising: a sole having an upper surface, a lower surface, a front portion, a rear portion, a left side edge, a right side edge, and a sole longitudinal axis; a holding body located at the sandal upper portion, and configured in a “Y” shape having at least three integral straps, each integral strap having an end; a first plurality of orifices located at the sole having a longitudinal axis parallel to said sole longitudinal axis, which extend from the upper surface to the lower surface passing throughout the sole thickness; and a second plurality of orifices located at the sole having a longitudinal axis perpendicular to the sole longitudinal axis, which extend from the lower surface to the inside of the sole thickness without passing throughout the sole entirely; wherein the orifices of the first plurality are perpendicularly oriented to the orifices of the second plurality in a “cross” configuration; and wherein the integral straps are fixed to the sole by inserting the strap ends in the orifices forming a cross, and rotating said strap ends. | 19,436 |
8,709,262 | 1. A method of using a photocatalyst, comprising: adjusting a pH of a toxic organic material comprising of one or more dyes in aqueous solution; adding the photocatalyst for a specific time and a specific concentration, wherein the catalyst is Fe doped ZnO nano-particle photocatalyst; stirring the mixture of the photocatalyst and the toxic organic material; and irradiating the mixed solution to a solar light for a specific time to degrade a specific percentage of the toxic organic material, wherein the specific time is between 60 minutes to 150 minutes. | 45,278 |
9,614,116 | 1. An electronic device for receiving at least one electromagnetic wave of a given frequency, the electronic device comprising: at least one first field effect transistor, and at least one antenna configured to receive the at least one electromagnetic wave and connected to a gate of the at least one first field effect transistor, wherein a length of the gate is in a same order of magnitude as an oscillation length of an oscillation regime of the at least one first field effect transistor at the given frequency, and a width of the gate is such that an impedance presented by the at least one first field effect transistor in the oscillation regime is adapted to an impedance of the at least one antenna. | 42,918 |
9,085,666 | 1. A method for decomposing a polymer material, comprising: providing a polymer material containing a resin component composed of a first monomer which is a phenolic compound, and a second monomer which is an aldehyde compound; providing a plurality of sample mixtures, each of which includes said polymer material and said first monomer or a derivative of said first monomer, and has a different second/first monomer ratio from each other, the second/first monomer ratio being a molar ratio of an amount of the second monomer to an amount of the first monomer and the derivative of said first monomer in a reaction system for decomposing said resin component; decomposing chemically said resin component in the plurality of sample mixtures to obtain a plurality of sample chemical raw materials; measuring an average molecular weight of each of the plurality of sample chemical raw materials; acquiring data of a correlation between an average molecular weight of each of the plurality of sample chemical raw materials and a second/first monomer ratio in each of the plurality of sample mixtures which generates the each of the plurality of sample chemical raw materials; determining a first range of the second/first monomer ratio in which when the second/first monomer ratio becomes small, the molecular weight of the chemical raw material becomes small; determining a second range of the second/first monomer ratio which is smaller than and adjacent to the first range of the second/first monomer ratio, in which when the second/first monomer ratio becomes small, the molecular weight of the chemical raw material substantially does not change; determining a threshold value as a boundary value between the first range of the second/first monomer ratio and the second range of the second/first monomer ratio; determining a target average molecular weight of said chemical raw material; determining an addition amount of said first monomer or the derivative of said first monomer to be added to said polymer material based on said data of the correlation so that said chemical raw material having the target average molecular weight is obtained by decomposing said resin component and so that the second/first monomer ratio is not less than the threshold value and less than 1.0; mixing said first monomer and the derivative of said first monomer in said addition amount with said polymer material to provide a mixture of said polymer material and said first monomer and the derivative of said first monomer; and decomposing chemically said resin component in the mixture to produce said chemical raw material. | 5,601 |
9,675,719 | 1. A staging control process for an evaporative media cooling system having a plurality of media stages, the staging control process including the steps of: a. defining or receiving a leaving air dry bulb temperature setpoint for air exiting the evaporative media cooling system; b. calculating an expected media exit dry bulb temperature for each media stage based on a dry bulb temperature and a wet bulb temperature of air entering the media cooling system and based on a measured or assigned condition of the media; c. calculating an estimated combined leaving dry bulb temperature for different combinations of activated and deactivated media stages; and d. activating the media stage(s) associated with the combination that has an estimated combined leaving dry bulb temperature that is nearest to but less than or equal to the leaving air dry bulb temperature setpoint. | 252 |
8,934,706 | 1. A device comprising: a robotic arm having an end effector for handling a wafer, the robotic arm including one or more encoders that provide encoder data identifying a position of one or more components of the robotic arm; a linear array of charge coupled devices coupled to the robotic arm, the linear array of charge coupled devices being configured to capture edge data from the wafer, resting on the end effector, to provide an actual position of the wafer; and a processor configured | 14,248 |
9,337,955 | 1. A mobile communication device, comprising: an antenna configured to receive a radio frequency (RF) signal, wherein the RF signal includes data encoded with an Error Correction Code (ECC); a front-end unit coupled to the antenna, wherein the front-end unit is configured to digitize the received RF signal; a modem coupled to the front-end unit, wherein the modem is configured to de-modulate the digitized RF signal to create a plurality of code words; and an ECC decoder coupled to the modem, wherein the ECC decoder is configured to: | 22,523 |
8,890,880 | 1. A method, comprising: determining a current ratio of computing instructions retired divided by memory instructions retired via a central processing unit, graphics processing unit, or any combination thereof; comparing the current ratio to a lower ratio threshold value; and configuring a next draw command to be performed using a memory efficiency mode in response to the current ratio being below the lower ratio threshold value, wherein the memory efficiency mode is to increase a block size to be operated on. | 11,002 |
8,846,442 | 1. A method for producing semiconductor layers and coated substrates treated with elemental selenium and/or sulphur, in which the substrates contain at least one conducting, semiconducting, and/or insulating layer, the method comprising: inserting a stack of substrates, each of which has at least one metal layer or at least one layer containing metal, into a processing chamber, wherein an inner side of the processing chamber has a thermal insulation material that is resistant under processing conditions; heating the stack of substrates to a predetermined substrate temperature; and guiding elementary selenium and/or sulphur vapor past the metal layers or layers containing metal in the stack of substrates, from a source located inside or outside the processing chamber by way of a carrier gas, under rough vacuum conditions or ambient pressure conditions or overpressure conditions, in order to react chemically with said layers with selenium or sulphur in a controlled manner, wherein the stack of substrates is heated by way of forced convection by at least one gas conveying device in the processing chamber in which the elementary selenium and/or sulphur vapor is mixed and guided past the substrate by way of the forced convection in a homogeneous manner, and wherein a heating device is arranged in a gas flow circuit generated by the gas conveying device in order to heat the carrier gas containing the elementary selenium and/or sulphur vapor in the processing chamber. | 49,439 |
8,858,313 | 1. A computer-based method of synchronizing activity across a network including mobile devices with a live event, the method comprising: synchronizing a plurality of backend servers to a trusted time source; transmitting, from the backend servers, a first electronic message to a plurality of mobile devices, the first electronic message comprising a first server timestamp, and a question timer; receiving a request for a second server timestamp from a mobile device; transmitting the second server timestamp to the mobile device in a second electronic message from one of the plurality of backend servers; a total in-transit time interval for the first electronic message calculated as: [(the second server timestamp−the first server timestamp)+(a factor)]. | 44,981 |
8,896,391 | 1. An impedance matching circuit, comprising: a matching network to couple to a variable load; wherein the matching network comprises a first port and a second port; wherein the variable load is coupled to one of the first port or the second port; wherein the matching network comprises one or more variable dielectric capacitors; wherein the one or more variable dielectric capacitors are operable to receive one or more variable voltage signals to cause the one or more variable dielectric capacitors to change an impedance of the matching network; wherein at least one of the one or more variable dielectric capacitors comprises: a tunable dielectric material having a top surface and a bottom surface positioned between the first conductor and the second conductor, wherein at least one of the first conductor or the second conductor, or both are adapted to receive the one of the one or more variable voltage signals to cause the change in the impedance of the matching network; a sensor coupled to the matching network for providing sensing data; and a voltage source used to produce the one or more variable voltage signals to change the impedance of the matching network, wherein the voltage source receives voltage values for producing the one or more variable voltage signals, and wherein the voltage values are determined from comparisons of the sensing data. | 4,528 |
9,147,885 | 1. A process for making a composite comprising an electrically conductive matrix and one or more nanoparticles comprising: (α) forming a gel from preselected amounts of: (β) pyrolyzing the gel of step (α) in a reducing atmosphere and/or inert atmosphere to form a composite including an electrically conductive matrix and nanoparticles; (γ) reducing the composite of step (β) to composite particles; (δ) subjecting the composite particles of step (γ) to one or more of metallizations; and (ε) hardening or tempering the composite particles of step (δ) in a reducing atmosphere and/or inert atmosphere. | 39,032 |
8,603,237 | 1. A composition comprising: at least one of a molar ratio of magnesium oxychloride cement comprising MgO: MgCl at least one alkali metal phosphate selected from the group consisting of sodium mono hydrogen phosphate, sodium di-hydrogen phosphate, magnesium mono hydrogen phosphate, magnesium di-hydrogen phosphate, lithium mono hydrogen phosphate and lithium di-hydrogen phosphate. | 41,280 |
8,852,477 | 1. A method for producing a cable-sealing member comprising: forming a formed rubber including a first plane and a second plane that oppose in a thickness direction and a side plane that bridges a peripheral edge of the first plane and a peripheral edge of the second plane and having a durometer A hardness of greater than 0 up to 30, and rotating the formed rubber with one axis in the thickness direction as a rotary axis while a holder is applied over the side plane of the formed rubber and, meanwhile, inserting a cutting blade from the first plane into the formed rubber to form a ring-form slit portion and stopping the cutting blade just in front of the second plane, leaving a slit-form ring unbored on one side. | 39,208 |
9,021,757 | 1. A concrete tower construction comprising; a foundation, a plurality of prefabricated concrete tower elements each comprising an outside wall having an outside, an inside, a material thickness provided there between, and top and bottom surfaces, said tower elements having a hollow centre, said tower elements are arranged one tower element on top of another forming a column on top of the foundation, a plurality of tendons arranged in the hollow centre or within the material thickness, for applying a tension force to the column, wherein the tower construction further comprises an upper force distribution element arranged on top of the column and a lower force distribution element arranged in the foundation, wherein each tendon is connected to the upper force distribution element and to the lower force distribution element by co-operating attachments, wherein the foundation includes at least one prefabricated concrete foundation element comprising an outside wall having an outside, an inside, a material thickness provided there between, and top and bottom surfaces, said at least one prefabricated concrete foundation element having a hollow centre, wherein said at least one foundation element is arranged between the column and the lower force distribution element, wherein the at least one prefabricated concrete foundation element together with the lower force distribution elements are positioned below the surface of the ground, and wherein the foundation further comprises in-situ cast concrete in which the at least one foundation element together with the lower force distribution element are embedded. | 28,886 |
9,335,015 | 1. A solar collector, comprising: a parabolic reflector having a vertex, a parabolic focal point, and a first axis therebetween; and a hyperbolic reflector having a first focal point coincident with the parabolic focal point, a second focal point, and a second axis including the first and second focal points; wherein the first axis can be aligned at an elevation angle and an azimuth angle without movement of the second axis, such that solar radiation incident upon the parabolic reflector and reflecting from the hyperbolic reflector, propagates within an output collimation angle of the second axis, further comprising an exit aperture disposed in the parabolic reflector, along a line passing through the vertex of the parabolic reflector, wherein the exit aperture comprises a slot that extends to a rim of the parabolic reflector. | 34,035 |
8,805,102 | 1. A method comprising: in processing circuitry: | 20,862 |
9,585,607 | 1. A method of analyzing data from an analyte sensor using a continuous analyte monitoring system, comprising: receiving data from an analyte sensor, the data comprising at least one sensor data point; filtering the received data to generate filtered data; comparing the received data with the filtered data to obtain at least one residual; determining a first signal artifact event has occurred when the at least one residual is exceeds a first threshold value; determining a second signal artifact event has occurred when the at least one residual exceeds a second, different threshold value; disabling or enabling display of a first graphical representation of the received data based on the determination that the first signal artifact has occurred, wherein the first graphical representation is selected from a group consisting of a graphical indication of glucose trend, a numerical estimated analyte value, and a range of glucose values; and disabling or enabling display of a second graphical representation of the received data based on the determination that the second signal artifact has occurred, wherein the second graphical representation is selected from the group consisting of the graphical indication of glucose trend, the numerical estimated analyte value, and the range of glucose values, wherein the selected second graphical representation is different than the selected first graphical representation, and wherein the selected second graphical representation is according to the second threshold value that is higher than the first threshold value, and corresponds to the second signal artifact event that indicates a higher severity than the first signal artifact event. | 38,146 |
9,136,542 | 1. An electrode for reduction of an oxidant, the electrode coating an electrolyte and comprising: a layer including a plurality of particles of a phosphorus-doped carbon-containing catalyst having a nanostructure of at least one of a herringbone structure, a stacked platelet, a ribbon, a stacked cup, or a graphene sheet, the layer being a self-supporting layer of the particles on the electrolyte or the layer including additional particles of a different catalyst material and/or particles of a non-catalyst material on the electrolyte, the phosphorus-doped carbon-containing catalyst represented by the chemical formula CN | 1,984 |
9,849,721 | 1. A structurally supported tire comprising a ground contacting annular tread portion; an annular hoop structure for supporting a load on the tire; a clamp for attachment to a vehicle rim; and a ply structure secured to a first axial limit and extending radially outward and between the hoop structure and the tread portion and further extending radially inward from between the hoop structure and tread portion to a second axial limit, the ply structure being secured to both the first axial limit and the second axial limit, the tread portion being secured to a radially outer surface of the ply structure, the hoop structure being secured to a radially inner surface of the ply structure, the ply structure consists of one single sheet of material extending repeatedly between the vehicle rim and adjacent the hoop structure. | 20,935 |
9,579,961 | 1. An electrically-operable vehicle, that comprises plural separate battery modules, including a first battery module at a first location in the vehicle, and a second battery module at a second location in the vehicle, and wherein each of said first and second battery modules are operative to produce drive for the vehicle, and a plurality of switches, and a controller for said plurality of switches, said plurality of switches being controlled by said controller for switching said modules into a parallel connection at a first time based on a condition of said battery modules, a serial connection at a second time based on said condition of said battery modules, and a configuration at a third time where one of said battery module replaces another of said battery modules based on said condition of said battery modules. | 818 |
8,985,272 | 1. An exhaust muffler for a vehicle comprising: a muffler body including: wherein each of the upstream side cover and the downstream side cover has a peripheral flange portion that externally holds the sleeve portion, the peripheral flange portion of each of the upstream side cover and the downstream side cover having an outer sleeve holding portion holding the outer sleeve and an inner sleeve holding portion holding the inner sleeve, the inner sleeve holding portion being positioned further radially inward than the outer sleeve holding portion, wherein a first end portion of the inner sleeve abuts on the inner sleeve holding portion of the peripheral flange portion of a first one of the upstream side cover and the downstream side cover so as to be slidable in a longitudinal direction of the inner sleeve, wherein a first end portion of the outer sleeve is fixed to the outer sleeve holding portion of the peripheral flange portion of the first one of the upstream side cover and the downstream side cover, and wherein a second end portion of the outer sleeve and a second end portion of the inner sleeve are fixed to the outer sleeve holding portion and the inner sleeve holding portion, respectively, of the peripheral flange portion of a second one of the upstream side cover and the downstream side cover. | 8,909 |
9,040,210 | 1. A carbon supported catalyst composition comprising a catalyst composition finely dispersed on a carbon containing support wherein the catalyst composition comprises PtCoNb alloy and Nb 2 O 5 . | 33,093 |
9,160,175 | 1. An apparatus ( 120 ) for controlling the power generation of a distributed power generation system ( 100 ) including a plurality of small power plants ( 110 ), characterized in that the apparatus comprises a first communication interface unit ( a second communication interface unit ( a central data processing unit ( | 4,740 |
9,540,050 | 1. A cover for a truck bed having a left wall, a right wall, and a floor, the cover comprising: a) a left frame that is movable through and retainable in a stowed position within the truck bed, a horizontal position, and an extended position above the truck bed; b) a right frame that is movable through and retainable in the stowed position within the truck bed, the horizontal position, and the extended position above the truck bed; c) wherein the left and right frames are shaped to leave an opening between the frames when in the horizontal position, the shape configured to permit an object in the truck bed to extend above the left and right frames. | 7,417 |
9,139,625 | 1. A Clostridium difficile detection kit, the kit comprising: an isolated polyclonal or monoclonal antibody which specifically binds to a polypeptide comprising the amino acid sequence as set out in SEQ ID NO: 5. | 11,203 |
9,065,295 | 1. A method for controlling AC frequency of electrical power being distributed to a power distribution grid, wherein the power distribution grid includes a plurality of electrical loads interconnected with a plurality of power generation facilities, and wherein a power generated by at least one of the plurality of power generation facilities is being adjusted, based on a grid parameter, to control the AC frequency, the frequency control method comprising the steps of: electrically coupling an energy storage subsystem to the power distribution grid, said energy storage sub system comprising a plurality of flywheel energy storage systems; receiving a signal that depends on the grid parameter, wherein the signal specifies an amount of electrical power to be added to the power distribution grid from the energy storage subsystem or absorbed from the power distribution grid by the energy storage subsystem, the amount being an amount established to regulate the AC frequency of the electrical power on the power distribution; and controlling, by an array controller and based on the received signal, the plurality of flywheel energy storage systems so the energy storage sub-system adds the amount of electrical power when the received signal indicates that electrical power is to be added to the power distribution grid and absorbs the amount of electrical power when the received signal indicates that electrical power is to be absorbed from the power distribution grid. | 9,998 |
9,016,238 | 1. A teat cup for stimulating discharge of milk from an animal's teat in a milking operation, comprising: a shell supporting a flexible liner for engaging about a teat of an animal to be milked; a head portion at one end of said flexible liner having a mouth through which said teat is engageable with said flexible liner; a milk discharge passageway at an opposite end of said flexible liner; at least one nozzle for discharging treatment fluid into the head portion of said flexible liner upon termination of said milking operation; said at least one nozzle being within said head portion of said flexible liner and configured to discharge treatment fluid internally into said head portion; a delivery tube and a fluid supply tube collectively adapted to supply liquid treatment and other treatment fluids; said at least one nozzle connected to and being in fluid communication with said delivery tube; and a non-return valve via which treatment fluid is supplied to said at least one nozzle, said non-return valve being disposed within a valve chamber and positioned intermediate said at least one nozzle and said fluid supply tube, wherein: | 6,529 |
9,425,451 | 1. A method for manufacturing a separator for lithium battery, comprising: providing a polymer film having two surfaces, each of the surfaces having a release film; punching the polymer film by a mechanical punching machine or a laser punching machine to form a microporous structure in the polymer film; removing the two release films from the two surfaces of the polymer film; respectively providing a first polyolefin film and a second polyolefin film both having microporous structure on each of the two surfaces of the polymer film; and thermally pressing and bonding the first polyolefin film and the second polyolefin film to the two surfaces of the polymer film, respectively. | 44,260 |
8,844,489 | 1. A roller follower interposed between a rocker arm and a cam for opening and closing a valve of an engine and arranged in contact with said cam, comprising: an outer ring having an annular shape; a shaft arranged such that a rolling contact surface formed on its outer circumferential surface is opposed to a rolling contact surface formed on an inner circumferential surface of said outer ring; and a plurality of rolling elements coming in contact, at a rolling contact surface formed on an outer circumferential surface thereof, with the rolling contact surfaces of said outer ring and said shaft and arranged on an annular raceway, at least any one of said outer ring, said shaft and said rolling elements being a steel member made of SUS440C steel defined under JIS containing carbon not lower than 0.7 mass % and not higher than 2.4 mass % and chromium not lower than 10.0 mass % and not higher than 20.0 mass %, with remainder iron and impurities, carbide containing at least any one of iron and chromium as well as carbon and having an area of 12.6 μm the number of carbides each containing at least one of iron and chromium as well as carbon, and each having an area exceeding 530.7 μm | 18,037 |
9,713,159 | 1. A communication control method used in a cellular mobile communication system that supports inter-terminal communication that is direct radio communication capable of being performed between user terminals in a state where a radio connection with a network is established, comprising: a step of determining, by the network, a method for assigning a radio resource in the inter-terminal communication in accordance with a load characteristic that affects at least one of a traffic throughput amount and duration between terminals, wherein the radio resource includes at least a frequency band, a step of acquiring, by the network, an identifier of an application from a user terminal, the identifier being used in the inter-terminal communication, and a step of recognizing, by the network, a characteristic of an application used in the inter-terminal communication on a basis of the identifier and a table in which the identifier is correlated with a characteristic of the application, wherein in the step of determining, the network determines the method for assigning the radio resource in accordance with the recognized characteristic. | 8,258 |
8,406,014 | 1. A method for controlling a resonant DC/DC converter, which adjusts an output voltage by changing a turn-on frequency of at least one input switch device of a resonant circuit of the converter, comprising: adjusting a duty ratio of the at least one input switch device based on a feedback signal from a load circuit wherein the at least one input switch device of the resonant circuit is controlled by a driving pulse through a drive circuit, where acquisition of the driving pulse includes: otherwise using a pulse signal as the driving pulse of the drive circuit wherein the duty ratio is stable and the frequency varies in accordance with the change of the feedback signal, so as to have the resonant circuit operate in a PFM control mode. | 43,338 |
9,703,686 | 1. A method for testing software, the method comprising: receiving, by one or more computer processors, a series of two or more revisions to a set of software code; identifying, by one or more computer processors, modifications between the series of two or more revisions; categorizing, by one or more computer processors, the series of two or more revisions into one or more categories of revisions based on the identified modifications; identifying, by one or more computer processors, one or more critical revisions within the categorized series of two or more revisions; determining, by one or more computer processors, a critical revision from the identified one or more critical revisions; testing, by one or more computer processors, the determined critical revision; determining, by one or more computer processors, whether the tested critical revision passed; responsive to determining the tested critical revision failed; determining, by one or more processors, whether a previous untested critical revision remains in the identified one or more critical revisions; identifying, by one or more computer processors, the previous untested critical revision respective to the tested critical revision; and testing, by one or more computer processors, the identified previous untested critical revision. | 31,330 |
9,755,090 | 1. A quantum photodetection element for an incident radiation in a spectral band centered around a central wavelength λ 0 , exhibiting a front face intended to receive said radiation, and comprising: a stack of layers made of semi-conducting material forming a PN or PIN junction and comprising at least one layer made of an absorbent semi-conducting material with a cutoff wavelength λ a structure for coupling the incident radiation with the optical cavity comprising a diffraction grating on a front face and/or a rear face define as on a side of the optical cavity opposite to a side supporting the front face, to form: | 12,395 |
8,709,239 | 1. A process for converting a solid or highly viscous carbon-based energy carrier material to liquid and gaseous reaction products, said process comprising the steps of: a) sensitizing the carbon-based energy carrier material to produce a sensitized material, wherein the carbon-based energy carrier material is a solid biomass; b) contacting the sensitized material with a particulate catalyst material, wherein the step of contacting is carried out in a fluidized bed; c) converting the sensitized material at a reaction temperature between 200° C. and 450° C., thereby forming reaction products in the vapor phase, in the presence of a reductive gas and wherein the reductive gas comprises iso-butane, naphthene, a volatile organic acid, or combination thereof; d) separating at least a portion of the reaction products from the particulate catalyst material within 10 seconds after the reaction products are formed; and e), optionally quenching the reaction products to a temperature below 200° C. | 3,843 |
9,392,661 | 1. A lighting system comprising: a plurality of light emitting diode, LED, circuits; a power source for providing a drive voltage to the plurality of LED circuits; for each LED circuit, a first variable resistance element connected between the respective LED circuit and ground; for each LED circuit, a first feedback circuit configured to control a voltage at a first node between the respective LED circuit and the respective first variable resistance element to a first voltage; a current source; and a second variable resistance element connected between the current source and ground, wherein each first variable resistance element is configured to attain a resistance value depending on a resistance value attained by the second variable resistance element. | 25,675 |
9,782,751 | 1. A hydrocarbon gas reforming supported catalyst comprising: (a) a catalytic material capable of catalyzing the production of a gaseous mixture comprising hydrogen (H (b) a clay support material comprising a clay mineral, wherein the catalytic material is chemically bonded to the clay support material, and wherein the chemical bond is a M1-M2 bond, where M1 is a metal from the catalytic material and M2 is a metal from the clay support material, or the chemical bond is a M1-O bond, where M1 is a metal from the catalytic material and oxygen (O) is from the clay support material, wherein the supported catalyst comprises at least 70% or more by weight of the clay support material. | 22,436 |
8,597,842 | 1. A fuel cell module comprising: a fuel cell stack formed by stacking a plurality of fuel cells, the fuel cells each formed by stacking an electrolyte electrode assembly and a separator, the electrolyte electrode assembly including an anode, a cathode, and an electrolyte interposed between the anode and the cathode; a heat exchanger for heating an oxygen-containing gas before the oxygen-containing gas is supplied to the fuel cell stack; an evaporator for producing a mixed fuel of a raw fuel chiefly containing hydrocarbon and water vapor obtained by evaporating water; a reformer for producing a reformed gas by reforming the mixed fuel; and a combustor for at least heating any of the fuel cell stack, the heat exchanger, the evaporator, and the reformer, wherein the fuel cell module is surrounded by a housing formed of a plurality of heat insulating layers, the heat insulating layers include an inner heat insulating layer and an outer heat insulating layer, the inner heat insulating layer is higher in metal content than the outer heat insulating layer, and the outer heat insulating layer forms an external surface of the housing. | 11,122 |
9,732,672 | 1. A method of augmenting power output by a gas turbine engine using a computing device including at least one processor, said method comprising: channeling fuel into the gas turbine engine at a first fuel flow rate corresponding to a predetermined firing temperature limit to generate a first power output, wherein firing temperature is a temperature of combustion gases located at an inlet to a turbine of the gas turbine engine; determining a first steam flow rate; injecting steam into the gas turbine engine at the first steam flow rate; calculating a firing temperature bias based on the first steam flow rate; calculating a suppressed firing temperature limit based on the predetermined firing temperature limit and the firing temperature bias; and channeling fuel into the gas turbine engine at a second fuel flow rate corresponding to the suppressed firing temperature limit to generate a second power output greater than the first power output. | 36,456 |
9,797,047 | 1. A method of removing copper oxide from copper surfaces, comprising: (a) providing a substrate on which a copper layer with a top surface has been formed; (b) applying vapor consisting of water and a weak organic acid at a temperature of about 20 to 25° C. to said top surface, said vapor is generated by an ultrasonic wave nebulizer; and (c) rinsing the top surface of said copper layer with deionized water. | 34,168 |
8,478,875 | 1. A method for processing data streams, the method comprising: receiving at least two data streams into respective sliding windows of memory; calculating a cost of executing processing logic for processing the at least two data streams, wherein the cost indicates an amount of processing resources that is consumed by the executing; calculating a throttling fraction based on input rates associated with said at least two data streams and on currently available processing resources, wherein the throttling fraction specifies an amount by which to reduce the cost of executing the processing logic; and selecting tuples from said at least two data streams for processing by applying said throttling fraction to all of said respective sliding windows of memory such that a cost of processing said subset of all tuples is less than or equal to a cost of processing all tuples multiplied by the throttling fraction, where said selected tuples represent a subset of all tuples contained within said sliding windows, wherein said selecting comprises: wherein at least one of: the calculating the cost, the calculating the throttling fraction, or the selecting is performed by a processor. | 35,824 |
9,780,402 | 1. A method of joining together two frames of a bipolar battery, the method comprising: interposing an inductive heating element between the two frames, wherein the frames are plastic frames which are supports for bipolar electrode substrates; applying a low frequency current of less than 275 kHz to the inductive heating element to generate localised heat to melt plastic material in the vicinity of the heating element to join the two frames together. | 48,715 |
9,748,584 | 1. A fuel cell assembly comprising: an enclosure having a fuel cell stack mounted therein, the fuel cell stack having an inlet face for receiving coolant/oxidant fluid and an outlet face for expelling said coolant/oxidant fluid, the fuel cell stack further including a pair of end faces extending transversely between the inlet face and outlet face, the enclosure defining: | 2,897 |
8,895,570 | 1. A compound or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. | 29,680 |
9,051,849 | 1. A stator assembly coupled to an engine shroud of a gas turbine engine, the stator assembly for preventing circumferential movement of stator segments, the stator assembly comprising: an endless case fixedly coupled to the engine shroud, the case including a forward portion, an aft portion and a central portion disposed therebetween, the case extending around an axis, the forward and aft portions of the case extending towards each other and forming forward and aft pockets with the central portion respectively, a locking stator segment, the locking stator segment including a shroud connected to a vane, the shroud of the locking stator segment including a forward hook and a pair of aft hooks, the forward and aft hooks being retained in the forward and aft pockets respectively, the shroud of the locking stator segment including a slot that extends between the aft hooks and accommodates a lug, the lug including an inner block that is received in the slot, the lug further including an outwardly protruding stud being fixedly coupled to the central portion of the case. | 4,745 |
9,503,007 | 1. A method for controlling a power generation system connected to a weak grid, the power generation system being subject to a power factor operating requirement, the method comprising: operating a power converter of the power generation system connected to the weak grid so as to produce current at or above a power factor threshold associated with the power factor operating requirement; detecting that a generator speed of the power generation system has increased over a period of time; detecting that a local reference voltage for the power generation system has decreased within the same period of time over which the generator speed has increased; and adjusting the operation of the power converter to produce current at a reduced power factor below the power factor threshold so as to increase a real power output of the power generation system. | 11,420 |
9,136,941 | 1. An optical layer monitoring apparatus in a passive optical network (PON), comprising: an optical time domain reflectometer (OTDR) signal transceiver unit that transmits an OTDR signal that is a monitoring signal to an optical path, and receives the OTDR signal backscattered or reflected from the optical path; and an OTDR signal processing unit that distributes a received power monitoring section of the received OTDR signal, measures reverse diffusion energy of each of reception pulse trains for each received power monitoring section, and adds the measured reverse diffusion energy of each of the reception pulse trains, while processing the OTDR signal transmitted or received through the OTDR signal transceiver unit, wherein the OTDR signal processing unit determines an adjacent peak point by sampling the added reverse diffusion energy of each of the reception pulse trains, and decomposes the reception pulse trains with reference to the determined adjacent peak point. | 8,374 |
8,431,783 | 1. A seed of soybean variety A1024748, wherein a sample of seed of soybean variety A1024748 has been deposited under ATCC Accession No. PTA-132008. | 28,075 |
8,733,086 | 1. A tail trim assembly for a vehicle exhaust pipe that discharges exhaust gas and condensed water from a vehicle muffler, the tail trim assembly comprising: an exhaust pipe extending from the rear of a vehicle muffler; a main body radially spaced from and encircling a rear portion of the exhaust pipe, a rear end of the main body axially spaced from a terminal end of the exhaust pipe forming a predetermined gap between the terminal end of the exhaust pipe and the rear end of the main body; at least a welding part formed at a front end of the main body and welded to the exhaust pipe; and a collecting part formed adjacent the rear end of the main body to collect the condensed water discharged from the exhaust pipe passing through the predetermined gap; wherein the at least a welding part protrudes toward an outer circumference of the exhaust pipe, from an external circumference of the main body; wherein the at least a welding part include upper welding portions formed at opposing upper sides of the front end of the main body and a lower welding portion formed adjacent the collecting part of the main body; and wherein the collecting part extends from the external circumference of the main body toward the lower welding portion to define a storage space collecting the condensed water that has passed through the predetermined gap. | 5,780 |
8,398,728 | 1. A process for making a dialkyl ether composition comprising two or more ethers of the formula R 1 —O—R 2 , wherein each R 1 and R 2 is independently C 2 - C 10 straight-chain or branched alkyl groups, comprising: a) contacting a reactant comprising ethanol with a base catalyst to make a first reaction product comprising 1-butanol and water, and optionally comprising unreacted ethanol; b) optionally removing a substantial portion of the water from said first reaction product; c) optionally removing a substantial portion of the unreacted ethanol from said first reaction product; d) contacting the product of either step (a), step (b), step (c), or steps (b) and (c), optionally in the presence of a solvent, with at least one acid catalyst at a temperature of about 100° C. to about 250° C. and a pressure 4.8 MPa to produce a second reaction product comprising two or more ethers of the formula R e) recovering said dialkyl ether composition from said second reaction product, wherein the selectivity to the ethers is at least about 74%. | 34,736 |
9,725,134 | 1. A ship breaking down arrangement comprising: at least two waterborne platforms each having at least one removing device for removing dismantled parts and/or fluids from a ship that is to be broken down; a midsection placed between and connectable to said two waterborne platforms, said midsection is constructed to lift and lower the ship placed thereupon between said platforms by means of lifting means provided on the platform, the waterborne platforms and midsection being separable so that each waterborne platform and the midsection can be separately towed to a desired site; longitudinal side wall sections provided on longitudinal sides of the midsection and movable end wall sections provided on ends of the midsection so that when the end walls are fixed in an upright position the midsection forms a trough that can collect and contain poisonous or polluted material and toxic particles that can fall down from the ship when the ship is in the midsection; and at least one transporting means for receiving and transporting said dismantled parts and/or fluids to a receiving location, wherein breaking down can be performed while the ship is still located at sea. | 30,514 |
9,172,808 | 1. A method for authentication, comprising: obtaining identifying data and a voice print from a caller; obtaining account behavior information pertaining to a financial account, wherein the account behavior information uniquely identifies historic financial transaction patterns for a previously authenticated user associated with the account; comparing the voice print to one or more stored voice prints; calculating four or more initial scores that each indicate a likelihood that the caller is the previously authenticated user, wherein the four or more initial scores comprise: calculating a confidence interval score that accounts for any change in confidence that the four or more initial scores are correct; determining whether to authenticate based on differences between the four or more initial scores and the confidence interval score. | 5,193 |
8,798,132 | 1. A video apparatus, comprising: a separation section to separate audio, video, and additional data from a received data signal; a conversion section to convert a frame rate of the video using motion estimation and motion compensation (MEMC); a graphical user interface (GUI) combination section to generate a GUI without using MEMC, and to combine the generated GUI with a predetermined area of the converted frame rate video, the predetermined area having a different frame rate than the frame rate of the converted frame rate video; a display unit to display images according to the GUI combined with the converted frame rate video, wherein the GUI generated without using MEMC is combined with the video after the frame rate conversion using MEMC is performed on the video; and a control section to control the conversion section and the GUI combination section to provide a desired GUI and the converted frame rate video to the display unit according to the additional data from the separation section. | 33,500 |
9,519,894 | 1. A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving, by a first server from a user device, a request for a transaction; receiving, by the first server from a second server, an authentication request associated with the transaction and the user device, wherein the user device is allowed to proceed with the transaction in response to the user device providing an authentication of credentials based on the authentication request; receiving, by the first server, transaction data associated with the transaction, the transaction data comprising executable commands associated with a programming language; scanning, by the first server, the transaction data to identify the executable commands in the transaction data; rendering, by the first server, the executable commands in the transaction data unexecutable by a network client by removing a character from the executable commands or replacing particular characters within the executable commands; and sending, from the first server to the user device, the transaction data comprising the executable commands rendered unexecutable by the network client, wherein the transaction data sent to the user device is usable by the user device to conduct an electronic transaction. | 9,389 |
8,753,635 | 1. A method of neutralizing Bacillus anthracis protective antigen (PA) in an individual comprising administering to said individual an effective amount of a pharmaceutical composition comprising a Bacillus anthracis neutralizing monoclonal antibody that binds Bacillus anthracis PA, said antibody selected from the group consisting of: F20G75, comprising a light chain variable region consisting of the amino acid sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NO: 10 and a heavy chain variable region consisting of the amino acid sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO: 16; F20G76, comprising a light chain variable region consisting of the amino acid sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NO: 12 and a heavy chain variable region consisting of the amino acid sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NO: 18; and F20G77, comprising a light chain variable region consisting of the amino acid sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NO: 14 and a heavy chain variable region consisting of the amino acid sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NO: 20; and wherein the pharmaceutical composition comprises a suitable excipient. | 38,592 |
8,374,010 | 1. A power supply circuit for receiving an input voltage to drive a first load and a second load, the power supply circuit comprising: a first switch circuit connected with the first load; a second switch circuit connected with the second load; a first power conversion circuit connected with the first load and the first switch circuit; a second power conversion circuit connected with the second load and the second switch circuit, the first power conversion circuit and the second power conversion circuit converting the input voltage into a driving voltage and transmitting the driving voltage to the first load and the second load, respectively, when the first switch circuit and the second switch circuit are conducted; and a phase delay circuit connected with the first switch circuit, the second switch circuit and a system circuit for generating a first delay signal and a second delay signal in response to a switch signal from the system circuit and transmitting the first delay signal and the second delay signal to control terminals of the first switch circuit and the second switch circuit, respectively, so as to make the first switch circuit and the second switch circuit be conducted or shut off, wherein the first delay signal and the second delay signal are converted into an enabling status from a disabling status at different time points so that the first switch circuit and the second switch circuit are conducted at different time points. | 33,676 |
9,127,615 | 1. A control system for an engine having a combustion chamber, at least one engine valve that includes an intake valve and an exhaust valve associated with the combustion chamber, and a variable valve actuator configured to selectively open and close the at least one engine valve, the control system comprising: a fuel injector configured to selectively inject fuel into the combustion chamber; and a controller in communication with the variable valve actuator and the fuel injector and being configured to: | 28,902 |
9,079,845 | 1. A process for obtaining fatty acid alkyl esters, rosin acids and sterols from crude tall oil (CTO), consisting essentially of subjecting crude tall oil, comprising fatty acids, rosin acids and sterols, to the following steps: (a) esterifying said CTO with lower alcohols, wherein said fatty acids present in said CTO react selectively with the lower alcohols and removing lower alcohols and water from the esterified CTO mixture, forming a first CTO mixture comprising fatty acid lower alkyl esters; (b) further esterifying said first CTO mixture with boric acid by adding boric acid to the first CTO mixture to transform all free sterols into sterol borate triesters, forming a second CTO mixture comprising sterol borate triesters, which sterol borate triesters are less volatile and more thermally stable than the starting sterols; (c) separating said second CTO mixture into two fractions by short pass distillation, a first fraction comprising said fatty acid lower alkyl esters and said rosin acids, and a second fraction comprising said sterol borate triesters; (d) further separating said first fraction into fatty acid alkyl esters and rosin acids in a process consisting essentially of short pass distillation or wiped film evaporator distillation; and (e) converting said sterol borate triesters into the free sterols, wherein step (a) is carried out in the liquid phase, optionally under pressure. | 29,398 |
9,807,667 | 1. A method for gateway relocation, comprising: in a process of a mobile relay node, MRN, performing handover of a donor evolved Node B, DeNB, a mobility management entity, MME, of the MRN receiving relocation judgment indication information, and judging whether it is required to execute a relocation of a gateway serving the MRN according to the relocation judgment indication information; wherein, the relocation judgment indication information is sent to the MME after a source DeNB or a target DeNB of the MRN judges whether it is required to execute the relocation of the gateway serving the MRN according to relocation judgment auxiliary information; or the relocation judgment indication information is sent to the MME after a target DeNB of the MRN judges whether it is required to execute the relocation of the gateway serving the MRN according to configuration information; wherein: the relocation judgment auxiliary information comprises: counting information used for counting times of handover occurrence in the MRN after the last gateway relocation occurs; or, indication information in a history accessing cell list of the MRN and used for marking a source cell or a target cell when multiple times of history gateway relocation occurs in the MRN; or, identification information of a source cell or a target cell when multiple times of history gateway relocation occurs in the MRN; or, history accessing cell record information of the MRN after the last gateway relocation occurs; wherein, the source DeNB or the target DeNB of the MRN judging whether it is required to execute the relocation of the gateway serving the MRN according to the relocation judgment auxiliary information comprises: the source DeNB or the target DeNB, according to the relocation judgment auxiliary information, determining the number of cells which the MRN accesses after the last relocation of the gateway serving the MRN; and the source DeNB or the target DeNB judging whether the number of cells which the MRN accesses after the last relocation of the gateway serving the MRN reaches an accessing cell number threshold value, and if the number of cells which the MRN accesses after the last relocation of the gateway serving the MRN reaches the accessing cell number threshold value, judging that it is required to execute the relocation of the gateway serving the MRN. | 28,683 |
9,039,881 | 1. A method for fabricating a working electrode, comprising the following steps: (a) providing a photoelectrode, which comprises a conductive substrate having a semiconductor material; providing a dye solution consisting of a dye and a solvent; (b) putting said photoelectrode into an electrophoresis bath and introducing said dye solution into said electrophoresis bath; and (c) applying a voltage for conducting an electrophoresis to adsorb said dye onto a surface of said semiconductor material. | 1,672 |
8,985,487 | 1. An apparatus for selectively separating polyurethane foam and fiber from Automobile Shredder Residue (ASR), the apparatus comprising: a first section configured to separate fine particles including dust and glass particles from the ASR at a front portion thereof, and to subsequently separate large-sized polyurethane foam and fiber having a size of at least about 100 mm from the ASR at a rear portion thereof, wherein the front portion of the first section comprises a vibration separator and a magnetic separator; and the rear portion of the first section comprises a rake-shaped fiber separator having a plurality of blades of shafts for selectively separating the large polyurethane foam and fiber from the ASR; a second section configured to grind the remaining ASR except the fine particles and large-sized polyurethane foam and fiber after the primary separation by the first section, wherein the second section is disposed between the first section and third section, and comprises a first grinder having one shaft with a blade part disposed at an upper portion thereof and a second grinder having three shafts each with a blade part disposed at a lower portion thereof and, the remaining ASR after the separation from the first section is crushed and ground by the first grinder and the second grinder; and a third section configured to first separate medium-sized polyurethane foam and fiber having a size ranging from about 50 mm to about 100 mm from the ground ASR after the second section, and configured to subsequently separate plastics, rubber, and the remaining ASR materials after separating medium-size polyurethane foam and fiber, wherein the third section comprises: a roller fiber separator configured to separate the medium-sized polyurethane foam and fiber from the remaining ASR after the first section by size according to an interval between rollers; an airflow configured to perform selective separation according to a weight of the ASR using airflow; and mesh plate separator configured to selectively separate the ASR by size according to mesh size of a mesh plate, wherein the first section and the second section are connected to each other so that the remaining ASR after the separation of the first section is transferred from the rear of the first section to the second section through a first transfer conveyer; and the second section and the third section are connected to each other so that the ground ASR in the second section is transferred to the third separator by a second transfer conveyer. | 28,993 |
9,357,245 | 1. A method for providing a visual complement to an audio stream, comprising: transmitting, from a first transmission system to a second transmission system, audio data corresponding to a selected song; and transmitting a data packet that was generated using an identifier identifying the selected song, wherein the data packet includes a media asset identifier identifying a media asset and further includes song information associated with the selected song, the song information comprising the title of the song and the name of the artist who recorded the song, wherein the step of transmitting the data packet comprises transmitting the data packet to a receiving system that is configured such that, in response to receiving the data packet, the receiving system automatically generates a video image using the information included in the data packet and automatically outputs the generated video image such that it is received by a display device that is operable to display the video image to a user of the display device without the user having to select a menu item, and the generated video image includes the song information comprising the title of the song and the name of the artist. | 15,053 |
9,236,813 | 1. An assembly comprising: an inverter configured to provide electrical power to a load; a load sensor having a resistor in series with the load to sense across the resistor a voltage corresponding to a load current of the load; the load sensor further having a low-range amplifier for sensing the load current when the voltage corresponding to the load current falls within a low range between a minimum positive threshold value and an intermediate threshold value and a high-range amplifier for sensing the load current when the voltage corresponding to the load current falls within a high-range between the intermediate threshold value and a maximum threshold value; wherein when the voltage falls within the low range the low-range amplifier amplifies the voltage with a high gain to generate an amplified output, when the voltage falls within the high range the high-range amplifier amplifies the voltage with a low gain to generate an amplified output, and when the voltage is less than the minimum positive threshold value neither amplifier generates an amplified output; an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) configured to generate a digital output, the digital output being based on an amplified output from one of the amplifiers when the one of the amplifiers generates the amplified output and the digital output not being based on an amplified output from one of the amplifiers when neither amplifier generates an amplified output; and a controller configured to determine whether the load is receiving electrical power from the inverter based on the digital output of the ADC, wherein the controller determines that the load is receiving electrical power from the inverter when the digital output of the ADC is based on an amplified output from one of the amplifiers and determines that the load is not receiving electrical power from the inverter when the digital output of the ADC is not based on an amplified output from one of the amplifiers. | 16,168 |
8,554,249 | 1. A computer-implemented method, comprising: receiving, by a location service at a service layer in communication with a communication node via a communication network, a connection identifier that indicates a wireless device is linked to the communication node for wireless communication; querying a database that includes one or more connection identifiers including the connection identifier that indicates the wireless device is linked to the communication node; determining, based on the connection identifier included in the database, that one or more additional wireless devices are also linked to the communication node for wireless communication, the one or more additional wireless devices each configured to identify its geographic location; receiving location data from one or more of the additional wireless devices, the location data indicating the geographic location of the one or more additional wireless devices; determining a location of the communication node from the location data that is received from the one or more additional wireless devices; assigning a current location to the wireless device based on the determined location of the communication node; receiving input information provided by a user of the wireless device, the input information including a name of a point of interest; storing the current location of the wireless device and the input information as an entry with the location service; aggregating the entry with one or more other entries describing the point of interest; and updating a boundary associated with the point of interest. | 43,587 |
8,463,130 | 1. A method comprising: transmitting a communication signal between a base station and a terminal located within a structure via one or more low power distributed antennas, at least one outdoor access point outside of the structure, at least one indoor access point inside of the structure, wherein the communication signal is transmitted on links between the base station and the terminal, in which the links include at least one radio frequency (RF) link, the at least one radio frequency link including both regulated bands and unregulated bands, wherein between at least one of the at least one indoor access point and the terminal there is a relay node configured to receive a communication signal by an RF link and retransmit the communication signal. | 34,506 |
9,223,805 | 1. A non-transient computer readable medium that includes a computer program that, when executed by a processing system, causes the processing system to: create a first snapshot of a state of the database at a first time, maintain a first log of committed transactions applied to the database between the first time and a third time, initiate creation of a second snapshot of the state of the database at a second time that is between the first time and the third time, the creation of the second snapshot consuming time after the second time, and maintain a second log of committed transactions applied to the database that were initiated after the second time, wherein: transactions are written concurrently to the first log and the second log for at least a portion of time after the second time; and in the event of a failure, the program restores the database by causing the processor to: | 5,686 |
8,430,601 | 1. A system comprising: a sled having a first end, a second end, and a partially open bottom surface proximate to the second end; a fabric deployer coupled to and extended from the sled adjacent to the second end, a first side of the fabric deployer comprising a tubular structure having a slot therein extending lengthwise along the tubular structure facing away from the first end, a second side of the fabric deployer comprising a stationary sediment disruption device facing the first end; a conductive fabric cloth disposed on an axle within the tubular structure such that a distal end of the conductive fabric cloth protrudes from the slot; a release mechanism coupled to the sled adjacent to the second end; and an electronics package, releaseably secured to the sled by the release mechanism, comprising an electronics unit and a plate coupled to and extending downward from the electronics unit, wherein the distal end of the plate is connected to the distal end of the fabric cloth by a tether, wherein when the electronics package is secured to the sled by the release mechanism the plate is vertically-oriented above the fabric deployer. | 5,109 |
9,532,105 | 1. A system for recording events comprising: a recording mechanism operable to create an event record of an event at an event venue; a selection device operable by a user, the selection device allowing the user, during performance of the event, to select portions of the event creating user event selections; and a media production mechanism operable to obtain the user event selections, obtain portions of the event record corresponding to the user selected portions, and produce a derivative record containing the user selected portions of the event, wherein the event comprises one or more event portions stored on the event record that each span a time period, wherein user selection of an entire one of the event portions comprises entering a user selection by operation of the selection device during the event, to select a particular one of the event portions, at any time within the time period corresponding to the entire one of the event portions, wherein the media production mechanism obtains the user selected portions of the event by synchronizing the user event selections corresponding to the particular one of the event portions with event content in the event record, and wherein television broadcasted content of the live event portions to be selected is not required to be displayed on the selection device, operated at the event venue, for use in the entering of the user event selection. | 43,685 |
8,459,027 | 1. A combustion engine comprising: interconnected combustion cylinders characterized in at least two sets of each two opposed working combustion cylinders said two cylinders of each set including pistons being interconnected by a common piston rod, said two piston rods being connected by one balance arm, and the exploitable energy is taken from the kinetic energy of said balance arm; a steam engine having at least two sets of each two opposed working steam cylinders including pistons being connected by a common steam engine piston rod, said steam engine piston rods being connected by a steam engine balance arm, said balance arm and said steam engine balance arm being connected by a connection; and a set of heat exchangers being thermally connected to said combustion cylinders and fluidly connected to the steam cylinders. | 42,662 |
8,753,643 | 1. A composition comprising spray dried particles and a pharmaceutically acceptable excipient, wherein the particles comprise polypeptides that are soluble before spray drying and insoluble after spray drying, and wherein the particles comprise a carrier at a ratio of carrier to polypeptide (weight:weight) of no greater than 0.05:1. | 42,269 |
8,830,565 | 1. A continuous wave intra-cavity optical parametric oscillator, comprising: a laser gain medium for generating a pump wave; a non-linear material for generating down converted coherent radiation in response to a pump wave, the down converted radiation comprising a signal wave and an idler wave; two coupled optical cavities, one of said optical cavities being a pump-wave cavity for resonating the pump wave and the other of said optical cavities being a down converted wave cavity for resonating the signal wave or the idler wave, wherein the non-linear material and the laser gain medium are located in the pump-wave cavity and the non-linear material is located in the down converted wave cavity, and a non-linear loss element for providing a continuous non-linear loss for suppressing relaxation oscillations, wherein the non-linear loss element is located in the pump-wave cavity and/or the down converted wave cavity. | 36,308 |
8,576,102 | 1. A method, comprising: (a) sampling an analog input signal; (b) converting the sampled analog input signal to a digital value; (c) sampling a calibration value; (d) calculating from the sampled calibration value a single bit of an N bit offset value; (e) repeating steps (a)-(d) N times so as to calculate all N bits of the offset value. | 3,359 |
9,802,697 | 1. An aircraft landing gear comprising: a strut assembly ( a strut ( a steering tube ( a torque link ( the landing gear ( the landing gear being further equipped with damping means intended to limit the transmission of vibration from the at least one wheel ( characterized in that the body ( in that the damping means extend between the body ( | 10,919 |
9,531,606 | 1. A method comprising: causing, in a first wireless apparatus, transmission of a packet arrival measurement request to a second wireless apparatus; receiving, in the first wireless apparatus, a packet arrival measurement report from the second wireless apparatus, wherein the packet arrival measurement report comprises information on arrival of at least one data packet addressed to the first wireless apparatus at the second wireless apparatus; and determining, in the first wireless apparatus on the basis of the packet arrival measurement report, a timing of triggering data transfer between the first wireless apparatus and the second wireless apparatus. | 16,620 |
8,800,637 | 1. A heat exchanger ( 10 ; 10 ′) for an air supply circuit of a motor vehicle engine, said heat exchanger ( 10 ; 10 ′) comprising a heat exchange core ( 100 ) and at least one header tank ( 210 ; 210 ′), said heat exchanger ( 10 ; 10 ′) includes an air flow rate control valve ( 300 ) arranged in said at least one header tank ( 210 ; 210 ′) of said heat exchanger ( 10 ; 10 ′), said air flow rate control valve ( 300 ) is a valve comprising a body ( 310 ) with a plurality of openings ( 311 , 313 ) and a moving rotary member ( 320 ) configured to rotate inside said body ( 310 ) so as to control the circulation of air through said heat exchange core ( 100 ) and/or through a duct ( 13 ; 13 ′) bypassing said heat exchange core ( 100 ), wherein said air flow rate control valve is configured to control the circulation of the air as a function of the angular position of said rotary member ( 320 ) in said body ( 310 ), wherein said body ( 310 ) is formed as an integral part of said at least one header tank ( 210 , 210 ′). | 5,309 |
8,710,677 | 1. A multi-chip package comprising: a package substrate; a first semiconductor chip arranged on an upper surface of the package substrate and electrically connected with the package substrate; a second semiconductor chip arranged on an upper surface of the first semiconductor chip and electrically connected with the package substrate, the second semiconductor chip having a protrusion overhanging an area beyond a side surface of the first semiconductor chip; a supporting member interposed between the protrusion of the second semiconductor chip and the package substrate to prevent a deflection of the protrusion; and an auxiliary bonding pad extending from the first bonding pad along an upper surface of the supporting member, the first conductive wire connected to the auxiliary bonding pad. | 42,372 |
9,169,304 | 1. A process for purifying recombinant P. falciparum circumsporozoite protein (rCSP), said process comprising: (a) obtaining a bacterial cell lysate preparation comprising recombinant (b) separating the bacterial cell lysate preparation of step (a) into a soluble fraction comprising the recombinant (c) separating the recombinant (d) subjecting the recombinant thereby obtaining purified recombinant rCSP, without a denaturation or refolding step, wherein the recombinant | 12,377 |
9,831,362 | 1. A method, comprising: receiving a foil substrate from a roll; imprinting the foil substrate as the foil substrate is transferred from the roll with a pattern comprising rolling a cylindrical pattern comprising a two-dimensional 2-D array of structures against the foil substrate, wherein the pattern corresponds to predetermined three-dimensional (3-D) nanostructures to be formed on the foil substrate; and forming the predetermined 3-D nanostructures on the foil substrate comprising anodizing the foil substrate resulting in an anodized foil substrate. | 49,434 |
8,423,803 | 1. A method for forcing one or more power states on a display, comprising: receiving ( receiving a lock up signal indicating whether an operating system has locked up; executing control logic ( setting ( sending ( | 2,975 |
9,709,008 | 1. A supercharger exhaust bypass system, comprising: a supercharger comprising an inlet and outlet; a bypass valve connected to the supercharger outlet; a first intercooler connected to receive compressed air from the outlet of the supercharger and connected to cool and expel air; a second intercooler comprising an envelope inlet, an exhaust inlet, an exhaust outlet, an exhaust passage between the exhaust inlet and the exhaust outlet, and an envelope connected to the envelope inlet and surrounding the exhaust passage; an engine system connected to receive expelled air from the first intercooler and further connected to output exhaust to the exhaust inlet of the second intercooler; and a bypass conduit connected to the bypass valve and connected to the envelope inlet. | 26,389 |
8,904,995 | 1. A control apparatus of a compression self-igniting internal combustion engine that is provided with an exhaust gas recirculation apparatus that recirculates part of exhaust gas discharged by an exhaust system in an intake system, and that performs, during a combustion process of the internal combustion engine, a main injection that is a fuel injection for torque generation from a fuel injection valve, the control apparatus comprising: a fuel injection control means that sets, as injection periods of the main injection: a “fuel injection period for initial combustion” for initial low-temperature combustion in which fuel is sequentially burnt in a cylinder while performing an encounter rate lowering operation that lowers an encounter rate between oxygen and a fuel spray in the cylinder, a “fuel injection period for diffusive combustion” for performing diffusive combustion by performing, when a temperature in the cylinder is at or greater than a predetermined diffusive combustion starting temperature that leads to diffusive combustion, a fuel injection toward a region where a combustion temperature suppressing effect that is attained by exhaust gas recirculated by the exhaust gas recirculation apparatus can be used, and a “fuel injection period for transitional combustion” that is set between the “fuel injection period for initial combustion” and the “fuel injection period for diffusive combustion”, and that is for performing transitional combustion composed of premixed combustion that continuously connects the initial low-temperature combustion and the diffusive combustion, as fuel, which was injected when the temperature in the cylinder was lower than the diffusive combustion starting temperature after the initial low-temperature combustion had started, undergoes spray-cooling by an endothermic reaction of fuel injected in the subsequent “fuel injection period for diffusive combustion”. | 24,660 |
8,821,614 | 1. A membrane testing system comprising: a plurality of membrane testing configurations, where each membrane testing configuration in the plurality of membrane testing configurations is comprised of, a membrane testing cell, where the membrane testing cell is comprised of, a feed supply configuration comprised of, a retentate collection configuration comprised of, a sweep supply configuration comprised of, a permeate collection configuration comprised of, | 136 |
8,755,880 | 1. A self-contained device for delivering an active agent into an eye of a subject, comprising: a device housing having a shape to conform to the surface of the eye; a first electrode assembly located at least partially within the housing and having a first electrode and a reservoir configured to contain the active agent, said first electrode assembly being oriented within the housing to contact and remain against a surface of the eye during use; a second electrode assembly located at least partially within the housing and having a second electrode, said second electrode assembly being oriented within the housing to contact and remain against a surface of the eye during use, wherein the first and second electrode assemblies are positioned within the housing to deliver electrical current transsclerally into the eye while limiting electrical current flow across the surface of the eye to thus complete an electrical circuit substantially within the eye; and a power source located at least partially within the housing and electrically coupled to the first electrode and to the second electrode, wherein the first electrode and the second electrode are configured to be opposite in polarity to one another during iontophoretic delivery of an active agent into the eye. | 2,113 |
8,838,366 | 1. A hybrid drive apparatus comprising: an input member that is drivingly connected to a rotary electric machine and drivingly connected via an input clutch to an internal combustion engine; an output member that is drivingly connected to the input member and transmits rotation of the input member to a wheel; and a control device that controls at least the rotary electric machine, wherein the input clutch has a plurality of friction materials and an elastic member pressing the plurality of friction materials against each other at a predetermined urging force, and is structured so as to be capable of transmitting torque by the urging force of the elastic member, and the magnitude of the urging force of the elastic member and the opening/closing phases of the valve elements in the advanced phase state are set so that the torque transmittable by the input clutch with the urging force of the elastic member is smaller than the driven torque of the internal combustion engine in an advanced phase state; and the control device is capable of performing valve opening/closing phase control for at least one of advancing and retarding opening/closing phases of valve elements provided in the internal combustion engine via a valve opening/closing phase adjusting mechanism, and, with the internal combustion engine in a stopped state before starting a vehicle, the control device advances the opening/closing phases of the valve elements to bring the opening/closing phases of the valve elements into the advanced phase state, thus starting the vehicle with torque of the rotary electric machine in the advanced phase state. | 39,289 |
9,099,087 | 1. A method for producing speech recognition results on a receiving device, comprising: receiving first speech recognition results from a sending device; obtaining a first language model from a source other than an individual user of the receiving device, wherein the first language model represents information stored on the receiving device, and wherein the first language model is associated with the individual user of the receiving device; generating a second language model by modifying the first language model based on the first speech recognition results; and using the first speech recognition results and the second language model to generate second speech recognition results. | 5,054 |
9,030,651 | 1. A distance measurement method of measuring a distance between a laser range finding device and a target, comprising: (A) transmitting a laser signal of a predetermined wavelength to the target; (B) receiving outside signals in a predetermined period of time T, which comprises a reflected laser signal reflected by the target, and a noise signal of another predetermined wavelength; (C) converting the outside signals into an analog voltage signal; (D) sampling the analog voltage signal to obtain n digital signals, wherein each of the n digital signals corresponds to an numeral value; (E) storing the n digital signals in a memory unit at n storage addresses in a one-to-one relationship, wherein the predetermined period of time T is equally divided by the memory unit, and the n storage addresses of the memory unit are one-to-one correspondence with a plurality of time points; (F) repeating the step (A) to the step (E) m times so that the memory unit has m digital signals stored at each of the n storage addresses; (G) accumulating m numeral values corresponding to the m digital signals at each of the n storage addresses to obtain an accumulated value, comparing the accumulated value with a constant, and outputting the accumulated value when the accumulated value exceeds the constant, wherein the output accumulated value corresponds to a time point among the plurality of time points; and (H) calculating the distance between the laser range finding device and the target in accordance with the time point corresponding to the output accumulated value. | 16,975 |
9,457,585 | 1. A print apparatus comprising: a print head provided with nozzles that are configured to eject an ink onto a printing substrate, the print head being configured to record dots onto the printing substrate in accordance with movement of at least one of the print head and the printing substrate; a memory storing at least a first group and a second group each of which includes dither masks according to ejected amount of ink, the dither masks of the first group being different from the dither masks of the second group in that a proportion at which dots are formed adjacent to one another relative to the ejected amount of the ink is different; and a print control unit configured to perform a control for ejecting droplets of the ink from the nozzles in a first print mode and a second print mode, the number of the droplets per unit time in the first print mode being lower than the number of the droplets per unit time in the second print mode, the print control unit being configured to determine in which of the first and second modes the ejecting is controlled, in response to determining that the ejecting is controlled in the second print mode, the print control unit being configured to determine what range the ejected amount of the ink is within, configured to select a dither mask of the first group when determining the ejected amount of the ink is within a first range to perform the control for the ejecting, and configured to select a dither mask of the second group when determining the ejected amount of the ink is within a second range greater than the first range to perform the control for the ejecting. | 21,416 |
8,532,910 | 1. Method for determining a cylinder air charge for an internal combustion engine, comprising: determining engine operating parameters comprising an intake air charge density, an engine delta pressure comprising a ratio of an exhaust manifold pressure to an intake manifold pressure, and an engine speed; determining an open-throttle volumetric efficiency corresponding to the engine operating parameters; determining a closed-throttle volumetric efficiency corresponding to the engine operating parameters; and determining a cylinder air charge using a selected one of the open-throttle volumetric efficiency and the closed-throttle volumetric efficiency. | 570 |
9,234,666 | 1. A heat transfer AR apparatus comprising: a frame; a heat exchanger the heat exchanger including a body with tubing and fins traversed by a heat transfer fluid, the heat exchanger including a first module and a second module; a plurality of helical fans downstream from the heat exchanger, supplied with direct current, the plurality of helical fans having axes of rotation passing between the first and second modules; and a plate for storing heat, downstream from the plurality of helical fans, each of the axes of rotation passing through the plate, wherein the plate and frame together define an air outlet configured to expel air from the heat transfer apparatus in a direction parallel to the rotation axes, and define an air passage parallel to the plate from the helical fans to the air outlet, and wherein the heat transfer apparatus defines an air inlet configured to draw air in a direction traverse to the rotation axes. | 43,383 |
9,153,282 | 1. A disc clamp assembly comprising: a spring clamp comprising an annular contact portion adapted to contactingly engage a disc stack and a central aperture adapted to facilitate passage of a hub projection of a spindle motor hub therethrough; and a plurality of interlocking semi-annular shim segments adapted to interlock together to form a continuous retention ring assembly, the retention ring assembly adapted to wedge between the spring clamp and a shoulder surface of the spindle motor hub. | 23,635 |
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