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8,720,431 | 1. A mounting frame for supporting sheet-type solar panels comprising: a supporting mast fitted substantially vertically for anchoring by its lower end in the ground or by a fixed anchoring location; a supporting structure coupled to the supporting mast and supporting the solar panels resting on a plane panel support, the supporting structure rotatable about an axis of the mast for azimuthal tracking, the supporting structure including at the upper end of the mast a central supporting base plate securing three central struts forming a supporting delta permanently positioned in a plane substantially perpendicular to the axis of the mast, wherein one of the central struts forms the hypotenuse of this supporting delta and is oriented substantially parallel to the plane of the panel support, the one central strut being directly secured substantially in the middle of the rear side of the central supporting base plate facing away from the panel support, wherein the two other central struts are substantially equal in length and form sides of the supporting delta, the two other central struts being directly secured by their ends to the front side of the central supporting base plate facing the panel support; two first inclined supporting struts disposed between an upper rear portion of the plane panel support and a supporting location at the lower end of the mast and in contact with at least one of the central struts therebetween; second front and rear inclined supporting struts extending between the plane panel support and the supporting location and in contact with the central supporting base plate therebetween, the second front inclined supporting strut supporting the lower middle rear portion of the panel support and the second rear inclined support supporting the upper middle rear portion of the plane panel support, wherein two lower side portions of the plane panel support are further supported at the rear side of the panel support by third inclined struts extending from these two portions to the supporting location; and retaining struts, each retaining strut oriented between the associated side portion at the rear side of the panel support and an end of the one central strut; and a plurality of supporting struts configured to support the panel support, the supporting struts disposed between the upper rear portion of the panel support and the one central strut, wherein, to achieve a fixed set angle of elevation of the solar panels resting on the panel support, the supporting struts have a fixed length and are fixedly connectable by their one end to the one central strut and by their other end to the upper rear portion of the panel support. | 5,814 |
8,449,352 | 1. A carbon electrode grinding apparatus for shaping a front end of an arc discharge carbon electrode, comprising: front end grinding blades configured to grind a front end surface of the carbon electrode; lateral surface grinding blades configured to grind a lateral periphery surface from the front end surface to a base end of the carbon electrode; and a rotator configured to rotate and drive the front end grinding blades and the lateral surface grinding blades around a rotation axis line coincident with an axis line of the carbon electrode, wherein the rotator has four guide sections at positions divided in quarters with respect to the rotation axis line, the guide sections include two front end blade-guide sections to which the front end grinding blades are attached and two lateral periphery blade-guide sections to which the lateral surface grinding blades are attached, a first attachment section is formed in the front end blade-guide section to attach each of the front end grinding blades, and a second attachment section is formed in the lateral periphery blade-guide section to attach each of the lateral surface grinding blades. | 15,241 |
9,006,133 | 1. An electrochemical catalyst supported by a network of interconnected nanowires, the electrochemical catalyst comprising a nanoparticle comprising Pt and Ru, or an alloy including Pt and Ru, wherein the atomic ratio of oxygen in the nanoparticle to Ru in the nanoparticle is in the range of more than 3 to not more than 6. | 15,080 |
9,448,352 | 1. A surface light source apparatus comprising: a point light source which emits light; an end face which takes in light emitted from the point light source; a main surface which emits the light; an opposed surface disposed opposite to the main surface; and a plurality of structure bodies having reflecting surfaces formed on the opposed surface, the reflecting surfaces facing the point light source, wherein each structure body has a cut-off portion which is an area where the reflecting surface is not present in a longitudinal direction of the structure body and in a height direction, wherein each structure body is formed on the opposed surface in an approximately circular arcuate shape around the point light source as a center, and wherein the cut-off portion has an approximately trapezoidal shape when the cut-off portion is viewed from the point light source side. | 16,231 |
8,684,123 | 1. A two-wheeled personal vehicle, comprising: a first and a second wheel arranged substantially side-by-side about a center plane; first and second foot platforms respectively coupled on the exterior side of each of the first and second wheels; a linkage assembly coupled to the first and second wheels and configured to hold the wheels in a substantially parallel arrangement as the wheels tilt from side to side; first and second motors respectively coupled to the first and second wheels; a side-to-side tilt sensor; and control logic coupled between the sensor and the first and second motors; wherein in response to a sensed sideways tilt of the wheels, the control logic drives the first and second motors at different speeds so that the vehicle affects a turn. | 20,696 |
8,655,989 | 1. A computer-implemented method performed by one or more processors for providing access to business network data, the method comprising the following operations: identifying a logical graph from a set of linked graph data associated with a business network to be transformed into a resource graph, the logical graph including at least two nodes and at least one edge, each edge connecting a pair of nodes, the edge defining a connection between the pair of nodes; converting each identified node into a resource; generating a resource graph associated with the identified logical graph, where generating the resource graph comprises, and for each identified node in the identified logical graph: storing the generated resource graph in memory. | 44,361 |
9,807,052 | 1. A method of binding shared storage in an information handling system, comprising: obtaining, by a first server cluster, a unique identifier for a storage device, wherein the unique identifier includes information associated only with the storage device; determining, by the first server cluster, if the unique identifier for the storage device is shared by a first node and a second node of the server cluster; in response to determining that the unique identifier for the storage device is shared by the first node and the second node, determining, by the first server cluster, whether the storage device is bound with the first node by an existing binding label; determining whether the existing binding label is associated with a second server cluster; in response to the existing binding label being associated with the second server cluster, deleting, by the first server cluster, the existing binding label; and in response to determining that the existing binding label is associated with the first server cluster, binding, by the first server cluster, the storage device using the existing binding label. | 3,759 |
9,705,371 | 1. A generator, comprising: winding arrangements of the generator, each winding arrangement comprising at least an inner coil and an outer coil, wherein the inner coil is constituted by an inner conductor and the outer coil is constituted by an outer conductor, wherein the inner conductor is wound around a tooth and the entire outer conductor is wound around the entire inner conductor and the tooth such that a concentric structure of coils is defined by the inner conductor wrapped around the tooth and the outer conductor wrapped around the inner conductor, wherein the inner and outer conductors are connected in series, and wherein the inner conductor has a constant cross-section and a smaller electrical resistance per unit length than the outer conductor. | 15,980 |
8,631,366 | 1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising integrated circuit libraries, which when executed by a computer, is configured to produce a circuit by the computer, wherein the integrated circuit libraries comprise: a first standard cell comprising a first left boundary and a first right boundary; and a second standard cell comprising a second left boundary and a second right boundary, wherein the first standard cell and the second standard cell are of a same cell variant, wherein a first active region in the first standard cell has a different length of diffusion than a second active region in the second standard cell, the first active region extends to the first left boundary or the first right boundary, and the first active region and the second active region are corresponding active regions represented by a same component of a same circuit diagram representing both the first standard cell and the second standard cell. | 26,052 |
8,611,709 | 1. A coupled waveguide photo detector device, comprising: an input waveguide; an output waveguide optically coupled to the input waveguide with a nonuniform coupling coefficient, the nonuniform coupling coefficient being set to control the maximum intensity of output power in the output waveguide for a predetermined rate of absorption within a predetermined limit; and a transmission line collector with a phase and group velocity to match an optical wave in the output waveguide such that currents collected by the transmission line collector add in phase as the optical wave propagates in the output waveguide. | 19,645 |
9,293,326 | 1. A liquid phase process for producing an indium oxide-containing layer, comprising: applying to a substrate, a composition comprising i) an indium oxo alkoxide of the generic formula where with the proviso that b+c=1-20, and ii) solvent; and converting the coated substrate to an indium oxide-containing layer. | 41,644 |
8,391,331 | 1. A method of charging a bulk material including fine-grained metal, metal compounds or a mixture of two or more metals or metal compounds, into an electric-arc furnace, in which the bulk material is supplied essentially continuously via at least one downpipe to one or more openings provided in the furnace roof, is introduced into the furnace through said at least one opening as a bulk material stream, and falls onto the melt merely by gravity, wherein before entering the furnace after the downpipe the bulk material stream is passed through a dosing orifice to control a material flow rate so as to maintain at least a portion of the downpipe filled with the bulk material so that the bulk material stream enters the furnace essentially undisturbed, so that the bulk material stream is not substantially enlarged during the fall onto the melt. | 40,239 |
9,428,566 | 1. A method for treating an infectious disease or condition in a subject in need of such treatment comprising administering to the subject an effective amount of a peptide which (a) is 50 amino acid residues or less in length, (b) comprises a C-terminal portion α-helical amino acid sequence of a kinocidin and a γKC core motif of the formula: wherein X represents any amino acid, and (c) has antimicrobial activity, wherein said kinocidin is a CXC, CX | 4,370 |
9,012,984 | 1. A transistor device, comprising: a drift layer having a first conductivity type; a body layer on the drift layer, the body layer having a second conductivity type opposite the first conductivity type; a source region on the body layer, the source region having the first conductivity type; a trench extending through the source region and the body layer and into the drift layer, the trench having an inner sidewall; a channel layer on the inner sidewall of the trench and on the drift layer, the channel layer having the second conductivity type and having an inner sidewall opposite the inner sidewall of the trench; a gate insulator on the inner sidewall of the channel layer and on the drift layer without the channel layer being disposed between the gate insulator and the drift layer; a gate contact on the gate insulator; a body contact region haying, the second conductivity type, wherein the body contact region is adjacent to and spaced apart from the trench and extends through the source region and the body layer and into the drift layer; and a termination region having the second conductivity type and extending through the source region and the body layer and into the drift layer, wherein the body contact region is between the termination region and the trench. | 1,033 |
8,374,417 | 1. An image processing method for performing dynamic range compression processing to a source image, comprising: a band image generation step for generating band images through extracting a portion of frequency components in the source image having a subject image falling thereon; a lowest-frequency image generation step for generating a lowest-frequency image having a lowest-frequency component extracted from the source image; a lowest-frequency image control step for performing conversion processing to the lowest-frequency image in accordance with a lowest-frequency function to generate a lowest-frequency controlled image; a controlled band image generation step for performing conversion processing to the band image in accordance with a high-frequency function, that is different from the lowest-frequency function, to generate a controlled band image; and an image processing step for performing dynamic range compression processing to the source image using the lowest-frequency controlled image and the controlled band image. | 9,120 |
9,617,429 | 1. An air electrode comprising: a carbonaceous material having an electrolyte-philic ion-dissociative functional group disposed on a surface thereof; a lithium salt; and an electrolyte, wherein the carbonaceous material has a specific surface area of about 500 square meters per gram or greater, and the electrolyte-philic ion-dissociative functional group is electrochemically stable in a voltage range of about 1.5 volts to about 4.5 volts with respect to lithium, wherein the air electrode is configured to use oxygen as an electrode active material. | 20,343 |
8,954,850 | 1. A computer-implemented method for assisting a user in applying a business process pattern, the computer-implemented method comprising: providing a graphical user interface (GUI) adapted for displaying a first representation of a business process and for allowing user editing of the business process and user selection of any fragment of the business process; receiving a user selection of a fragment of the business process as displayed in the first representation; calling a second representation of the business process, the second representation comprising a hierarchy of fragments of the business process, wherein the second representation comprises fragments each having a single entry and a single exit; searching the second representation and checking whether the fragment selected by the user corresponds to a single entry and single exit of one of the fragments of the second representation; and if the fragment selected corresponds to the single entry and single exit of one of the fragments of the second representation, instantiating a business process pattern using the selected fragment, whereby the selected fragment is re-usable within the business process pattern. | 45,118 |
8,524,591 | 1. A method of processing a material system of a semiconductor device, the method comprising: depositing a dielectric material on at least some exposed surface areas of a titanium nitride material, said titanium nitride material being formed above a substrate of said semiconductor device; after depositing said dielectric material, passivating at least one exposed surface area of said titanium nitride material by exposing said substrate to an oxygen plasma; after exposing said substrate to said oxygen plasma, removing contaminants from said dielectric material by performing a cleaning process on the basis of sulfuric acid; and performing one or more further processes on said semiconductor device in the presence of said dielectric material and said passivated titanium nitride material. | 36,726 |
9,778,831 | 1. A vehicle, comprising, one or more computers of the vehicle, the one or more computers configured to interface with electronics of the vehicle to access status data for systems of the vehicle and to make input settings to one or more of the systems; wireless communication circuitry of the vehicle, the wireless communication circuitry providing connection to the Internet and to one or more wireless devices when paired with the vehicle; an occupancy sensor of the vehicle configured to interface with the one or more computers of the vehicle, the occupancy sensor is configured to produce sensor data that is indicative of is occupancy of seats of the vehicle; and a processor of the one or more computers of the vehicle is provided to receive and process data to and from a wireless device that is paired with the vehicle, the data is used to identify a seat in the vehicle that is associated with a passenger, the processor executes instructions to provide data to a user interface accessed by the wireless device, the user interface exposing a plurality of systems of the vehicle, the plurality of systems include systems that relate to an environment zone in which the seat is located in the vehicle, the user interface further includes controls to enable input of settings to one or more of the plurality of systems, the processor of the one or more computers of the vehicle executes instructions to process one or more settings input via the user interface to make changes to the one or more of the plurality of systems, wherein the changes made relate to one or more of the plurality of systems that relate to the environment zone of the seat. | 12,413 |
8,621,458 | 1. A method for optimizing performance of an operating system executing on a guest computer system comprising a virtual machine on a host computer system, the method comprising: continuously executing the operating system in the guest computer system, the guest computer system having a virtual processor topology; during the continuous execution of the operating system, determining a change to a resource allocated by the host computer system to the guest computer system, the change in the resource causing a change in the virtual processor topology; and thereafter, during the continuous execution of the operating system, updating the operating system with an update based on the change in the virtual processor topology, the operating system scheduling the use of virtual processor resources based on the change in the virtual processor topology during the execution of the operating system. | 17,576 |
9,686,160 | 1. A method for providing a status of a wireless network, comprising: receiving a wireless signal from an access point and status information of the access point; determining processing capacity information of the access point based on the status information of the access point; and displaying wireless network information with respect to the access point, the wireless network information comprising the processing capacity information of the access point and signal strength information of the received wireless signal, wherein the signal strength information of the received wireless signal and the processing capacity information of the access point are displayed together in a graphic object. | 10,497 |
9,767,570 | 1. A system for parametric background modeling in a computer vision system for enabling foreground object detection, comprising: a video acquisition module for receiving video data from a sequence of frames acquired from an associated image capture device monitoring a scene of interest, wherein the video acquisition module includes an at least one video capture device; a fit test module for performing pixel-wise goodness of fit tests for pixel values in the incoming frames received from the video acquisition module, wherein the fit test module identifies the pixels associated with the foreground object from the video data obtained from the at least one video capture device where the identified pixels are determined to belong to the foreground or to the background according to the individual pixel's RGB value and to the individual pixel's corresponding mixture model, the identified pixels defining a foreground mask representative of the identified foreground object; and a foreground-aware background estimation module for maintaining a parametric background model wherein the foreground-aware background estimation module includes a processor for updating individual pixel models in accordance with incoming pixel values of the current frame, whereby only the pixels outside of the foreground mask are updated with a new individual pixel model, leaving the models for pixels in the foreground mask unchanged. | 39,456 |
9,330,797 | 1. A lock plate for a locking device of a jet pump beam, the locking device including a locking sleeve including a bore extending from a first end to a second end of said locking sleeve, and a lower portion having a plurality of locking sleeve ratchet teeth around the periphery of the locking sleeve, the lock plate comprising: a beam bolt opening sized to receive the locking sleeve; and an integral beam spring arm including, the integral beam spring arm being structured such that the spring arm has both i) an engaged position where the locking sleeve is in the beam bolt opening and at least a portion of the capture feature overlaps vertically with an upper surface of the lower portion of the locking sleeve, and ii) a disengaged position where the locking sleeve is in the beam bolt opening and the capture feature does not overlap vertically with the upper surface. | 14,707 |
9,773,933 | 1. A solar energy system comprising: a plurality of photovoltaic modules, each oriented at a same angle relative to horizontal, wherein each of the photovoltaic modules comprises a frame having two upper extensions, including one upper extension extending from each of two upper corners of the photovoltaic module and having two lower extensions, including one lower extension extending from each of two lower corners of the photovoltaic module; and a racking assembly mechanically interconnecting the photovoltaic modules together, the racking assembly comprising: wherein the system is devoid of structural support elements vertically between the plurality of rails and the photovoltaic modules except: 1 where the lower extensions of each of the photovoltaic modules are coupled to the plurality of rails through the plurality of fins, and 2 where the upper extensions of each of the photovoltaic modules are coupled to the plurality of rails through the plurality of struts; wherein the two upper extensions and the two lower extensions define a plane oriented at the angle relative to horizontal; wherein the frame along two edges has extensions in a direction normal to the plane defined by the two upper extensions and the two lower extensions; and wherein the extensions of the frame along the two edges have notches formed therein to receive a corresponding one of the two upper extensions or two lower extensions of another photovoltaic module when the photovoltaic modules are nestably stacked. | 16,900 |
8,719,913 | 1. A method of handling redundant entries in an access control list usable in a computer network, the method comprising: obtaining an access control list and storing it in memory, the access control list including a plurality of entries; converting the plurality of entries from an order-dependent format into one or more order-free equivalents; storing the order-free equivalents in the memory; performing redundancy detection on the order-free equivalents to identify any redundant entries in the access control list; removing the redundant entries to create a modified access control list for use by a firewall of the computer network; and quantifying an extent of partial order dependence of each entry in the access control list, wherein performing the redundancy detection includes: | 11,127 |
9,094,768 | 1. A method for use in performing acoustic calibration of at least one audio output device for a plurality of listening locations, said method comprising the steps of: an audio input device generating a data signal based on a series of one or more audio tones output by said at least one audio output device; and said audio input device wirelessly transmitting said data signal to a calibration device; wherein said audio input device is one of a plurality of audio input devices deployed at respective ones of said plurality of listening locations; and wherein said data signal is one of a plurality of data signals generated by respective ones of said plurality of audio input devices based on said series of one or more tones output by said at least one audio output device; and wherein said plurality of data signals are wirelessly transmitted by said respective ones of said plurality of audio input devices to said calibration device. | 36,558 |
9,593,768 | 1. A power transmitting apparatus for a vehicle comprising: a first input shaft adapted to selectively receive torque of an engine; a second input shaft disposed without rotational interference with the first input shaft, adapted to selectively receive the torque of the engine, and having at least one input gear fixedly disposed thereon; a third input shaft disposed in a row with the second input shaft, and having at least one input gear fixedly disposed thereon; a motor/generator operated as a motor or a generator; a planetary gear set including a first rotation element directly connected to the motor/generator, a second rotation element directly connected to the third input shaft, and a third rotation element directly connected to the first input shaft; a first speed output shaft adapted to convert torque input from the second input shaft or the third input shaft and output a converted torque; and a second speed output shaft adapted to convert torque input from the second input shaft or the third input shaft and output a converted torque, wherein a first input gear for achieving a reverse speed or a second forward speed and a second input gear for achieving a fourth forward speed or a sixth forward speed are fixedly disposed on the second input shaft, and wherein a third input gear for achieving a seventh forward speed, a fourth input gear for achieving a first forward speed, a fifth input gear for achieving a third forward speed, and a sixth input gear for achieving a fifth forward speed are fixedly disposed on the third input shaft. | 11,356 |
8,410,774 | 1. An electromagnetic motion sensor comprising: a base; an electromagnetic induction layer arranged on the base; a plurality of induction coils arranged on the induction layer; and a magnetic field emission member comprising: wherein the block moves with the jerk of the motion sensor when the motion sensor is jerked, causing the elastic members to be distorted, the relative movement between the block and the magnetic induction layer causes more than one of the induction coils to generate and output voltage signals according to the change of magnetic flux through the plurality of induction coils caused by the moving of the emitting coil. | 33,320 |
8,656,020 | 1. A method of providing a secondary resource to a client device on a computer network, the method comprising: receiving, from a client device, a first request for information; transmitting, in response to the first request for information, a first version value, a location of a secondary resource associated with the first version value, and an indication that the first requested information is not to be stored; transmitting, by a server, the secondary resource associated with the first version value, the first version value, and an indication that the secondary resource associated with the first version value and the first version value are to be stored; receiving, by the server, a second request for information from the client device; transmitting in response to the second request for information a second version value, a location of a secondary resource associated with the second version value, and an indication that the second requested information is not to be stored; receiving a request, if the first version value is different from the second version value, for difference information based on the differences between the secondary resource associated with the first version value and the secondary resource associated with the second version value; identifying the difference information; and transmitting the difference information to the client device for generating the secondary resource associated with the second version value from the difference information and the secondary resource associated with the first version value. | 2,363 |
8,811,322 | 1. A method for informing an eNodeB of a transmit power status of a user equipment (UE) in a mobile communication system using component carrier aggregation, in which two or more component carriers (CCs) are aggregated, wherein the method comprises the following steps performed by the UE: generating a power status report that includes: (i) a power headroom report indicative of a difference between a nominal UE maximum transmit power and an estimated UE transmit power, per each configured and activated uplink CC, and (ii) a CC specific maximum transmission power, P wherein the CC specific maximum transmission power, P transmitting the power status report to the eNodeB. | 18,985 |
9,303,200 | 1. A sealing element for a flow channel comprising: an expandable section; and a swellable composition disposed in the expandable section and comprising: a base polymer comprising polyethylenes, polypropylenes, poly(ethylene-co-propylene), polyamides, polyesters, polyurethanes, polyvinylchlorides, ethylene-propylene-diene monomer rubber, butadiene rubber, styrene-butadiene rubber, natural rubber, or a combination comprising at least one of the foregoing; an acrylic copolymer comprising an acidic monomer and an amide monomer present in a weight ratio of 95:5 to 5:95; acrylic copolymer being present in an amount of 30 to 200 parts by weight per hundred parts by weight of the base polymer; and a refined oil in which the acrylic copolymer to form a liquid dispersed polymer; | 2,261 |
8,356,168 | 1. An article of manufacture including program code, stored on a non-transitory computer readable medium, which, when executed by a machine, causes the machine to perform the operations of: initializing at least a portion of memory in the machine; performing an early connect operation during a pre-initialization phase of the machine to build a path to represent a plurality of path nodes preceding a boot target; and initializing the plurality of path nodes during a second initialization phase subsequent to the pre-initialization phase partially in parallel to initializing another plurality of path nodes of another path, wherein the pre-initialization phase includes a Pre Extensible-Firmware-Interface (PEFI) and the second initialization phase includes a Driver Execution Environment (DXE) phase. | 4,375 |
9,287,585 | 1. A rechargeable lithium battery comprising: a positive electrode comprising a positive active material; a negative electrode comprising a negative active material; and a non-aqueous electrolyte, comprising: | 30,572 |
8,576,043 | 1. A surface-mount type over-current protection element, comprising: two single-layer PTC multiple chips ( 10 ) ( 10 ′), the chip ( 10 ) is made up of the first PTC chip material ( 12 ) the first metal foil layer ( 11 ) and the second metal foil layer ( 13 ), which are pasted on both surfaces of the first PTC chip material ( 12 ), the other chip ( 10 ′) is made up of the second PTC chip material ( 16 ) the third metal foil layer ( 15 ) the fourth metal foil layer ( 17 ), which are pasted on both upper and lower surfaces of the second PTC chip material ( 16 ), comprising: There is the third insulation layer ( There are the etching figures ( There is the isolating layer ( The first insulation layer ( The first insulation layer ( The second insulation layer ( There are the copper plates ( There is the inner through hole ( There are the end through holes ( There are the blind holes ( There are metallic conductors being located on the inner surface of the inner through hole ( The first metallic conductor ( The third metallic conductor ( The second metallic conductor ( The fourth metallic conductor ( The fifth metallic conductor ( The fourth insulation layer ( The fifth insulation laver ( | 44,445 |
8,968,488 | 1. A solder cream for a dual-temperature solder connection, in which two steps of high and low temperature soldering are conducted in a reflow process, employing at least two kinds of solders having different reflow temperatures, the solder cream being obtained by kneading an Sn—Ag—Cu alloy with a flux, the Sn—Ag—Cu alloy comprising a mixture of a first powder alloy for a high melting point and a second powder alloy for a low melting point, the first powder alloy comprising, 10 to 30% by weight of Ag, and 2 to 20% by weight of Cu, with a balance consisting of Sn and unavoidable impurities; and the second powder alloy comprising smaller amounts, in percent by weight, of Ag and Cu than the first powder alloy, wherein the second powder alloy has a melting point lower than that of the first powder alloy, and wherein the Sn—Ag—Cu alloy mixture comprises a total amount of Ag and Cu of not more than 35% by weight, and the Sn—Ag—Cu alloy mixture after melting comprises a total amount of Ag of more than 10% by weight. | 32,561 |
9,725,318 | 1. A process for preparing a fluorinated compound of formula (II), comprising at least one step of reacting a compound of formula (I) with anhydrous hydrofluoric acid in at least one organic solvent according to the following scheme: in which: R where R M is selected from the group consisting of a hydrogen atom, an alkali metal, an alkaline-earth metal and a quaternary ammonium cation. | 542 |
8,445,145 | 1. A method of purging residual hydrogen from a hydrogen fuel cell stack, comprising: providing an air stream; providing an adsorbent material comprising CeO; providing a nitrogen stream by removing oxygen from said air stream by passing said air stream through said adsorbent material; and passing said nitrogen stream through said fuel cell stack anode. | 24,095 |
8,984,859 | 1. A gas turbine engine, comprising: a longitudinal axis lying along an axial direction, and a reheat combustion system; a flowpath structure located in a reheat combustion system flowpath, wherein the flowpath structure includes: a body radially spanning said flowpath, said body having a tip portion nearest a radially outward boundary of said flowpath and a hub portion nearest a radially inward boundary of said flowpath, wherein the body includes a cavity therein spanning said flowpath in a spanwise direction; wherein the cavity includes an inlet portion operative to receive a reheat flow into the cavity; and an elongate exhaust port arrangement spanning said cavity in a spanwise direction and opening in a circumferential direction, with respect to said axial direction, into the flowpath and operative to expose the cavity to the flowpath, wherein the exhaust port arrangement is configured with a width in a flowpath direction that narrows from the hub portion to the tip portion in the spanwise direction. | 11,393 |
8,766,707 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a system on chip (SOC) integrated circuit comprising a first region having a processing core and a second region comprising an always on domain power island with a power control block, the second region electrically isolated from the first region; a first power supply module adapted to apply power to the first region; and a second power supply module adapted to supply power to the second region, the second power supply module comprising a main switch between the first power supply module and a host input power terminal, wherein the power control block initiates a low power mode by transitioning the main switch to an open state so that the first region receives no electrical power and the second region continuously receives power during said low power mode. | 7,273 |
8,440,869 | 1. Method for the liquid-liquid extraction of alcohols from aqueous solutions using at least one ionic liquid containing tricyanomethide anions as solvent. | 10,791 |
8,919,577 | 1. In combination, a bocce ball game caddy with a pallina ball and eight bocce balls, the caddy, comprising: a frame having laterally spaced posts extending substantially vertically upward from a base, said base comprising a pair of legs extending fore and aft of said posts with one end of said pair of legs supporting wheels such that the caddy is rollable in said fore or aft direction; a pallina rack supported by said posts and having a pallina retainer sized to securely yet removably receive the pallina; a plurality of vertically spaced bocce ball racks supported by said posts, each bocce ball rack supporting bocce ball retainers, each bocce ball retainer sized and spaced horizontally and vertically on said racks from adjacent ones of said bocce ball retainers such that each of the bocce balls is securely yet independently removably received within one of said bocce ball retainers without interference with an adjacent one of the bocce balls; said pallina retainer spaced with respect to said bocce ball retainers such that the pallina is independently removably received within said pallina retainer without interference with the bocce balls received within the bocce ball retainers. | 41,812 |
9,626,530 | 1. A method for protecting application programs of an electronic apparatus comprising a touch screen, a storage device and a processor, comprising: providing a screen sharing program to the storage device for installation on the electronic apparatus; and the electronic apparatus running the screen sharing program to share a screen between two electronic apparatuses to enable the screen sharing program displays contents displayed on the touch screen of the electronic apparatus on a screen of another electronic apparatus synchronously; wherein the processor performs steps of: generating a touch track of a user when the user touches on the touch screen of the electronic apparatus, and sensing the touch track on the touch screen of the electronic apparatus, determining whether the touch track is a first touch track, a second touch track, or a point touch, when the touch track of the user is the first touch track, adding an application program corresponding to the first touch track into a prohibited list; when the touch track of the user is the second touch track, deleting an application program corresponding to the second touch track from the prohibited list; and when the touch track of the user is the point touch, searching an application program corresponding to the point touch in the prohibited list and determining whether the application program corresponding to the point touch is in the prohibited list; if the application program corresponding to the point touch is in the prohibited list, stopping screen sharing caused by the screen sharing program and then running the application program corresponding to the point touch; if the application program corresponding to the point touch is not in the prohibited list, running the application program corresponding to the point touch, and maintaining normal screen sharing caused by the screen sharing program. | 7,050 |
9,487,094 | 1. An electric vehicle charging system comprising: a drive pulley attached to an axle of an electric vehicle; a belt interconnecting said drive pulley to a transfer pulley; an alternators belt connecting said transfer pulley to a first alternator pulley and a second alternator pulley, said alternators belt also interfacing with an idler pulley so as to form said alternators belt into the shape of a v with said transfer pulley at a base of said v and one of said first alternator pulley and said second alternator pulley at a top of each arm of said v; a first alternator connected to said first alternator pulley so that said first alternator obtains energy upon rotation of said drive pulley; and a second alternator connected to said second alternator pulley so that said second alternator obtains energy upon rotation of said drive pulley. | 43,844 |
9,161,720 | 1. A method of assessing treatment of a patient comprising the steps of: acquiring a scan of a molecular imaging agent uptake of tissue of the patient, the molecular imaging agent uptake identifying diseased tissue; processing the scan using an electronic computer executing a stored program to: providing an output indicating disease progression/regression based on measures of molecular imaging agent uptake within the multiple disease locations isolated from molecular imaging agent uptake outside of the multiple disease locations. | 18,487 |
9,118,089 | 1. An ionic exchange material comprising a polymer derivatized with one or more cations; wherein the polymer is represented by the following formula: where n is an integer from 1 to about 100,000. | 26,641 |
9,505,364 | 1. A guard apparatus for mounting on a vehicle, the apparatus comprising: a guard structure comprising a plurality of bars joined together, the guard structure having opposite ends for positioning adjacent to opposite sides of the front end of the vehicle, the guard structure having a top and a bottom, the guard structure having a major plane; a guard mounting structure configured to mount the guard structure to the vehicle in a manner permitting movement of the major plane of the guard structure between a first position and a second position; and a guard securing structure configured to secure the guard structure in the first position and release the guard structure to move toward the second position, the guard securing structure being configured to secure the guard structure in the first position using magnetic attraction force. | 26,708 |
9,571,653 | 1. A system for managing and routing calls from users comprising: i) a telephonic interface switch via which incoming phone calls are received; ii) an automatic call distributor (ACD) coupled, via the telephonic interface switch, to multiple function endpoint stations; iii) an interactive voice response (IVR) system, coupled to the ACD, the IVR including at least one processor; and iv) storage, accessible by the at least one processor of the IVR system, the storage including at least one data structure associating individual unique keys with both automatic number identification (ANI) information and one of the multiple function endpoint stations; v) wherein, in response to receipt of an incoming call from a user's telephone, identified by a specific ANI, the processor will cause the IVR to provide the user with an option to input a routing key, and | 26,319 |
8,895,847 | 1. A photovoltaic device, comprising: an interface layer comprising a Group III-V compound semiconductor; a p a n-doped layer below and in direct contact with the p a window layer disposed below the n-doped layer, wherein the window layer is textured prior to applying an antireflective coating; and an antireflective coating disposed below the window layer. | 11,388 |
9,718,371 | 1. A computer program product for recharging a number of battery electric vehicles, the computer program product comprising: a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having computer usable program code embodied therewith, the computer usable program code comprising a computer usable program code configured to: transmit to at least one battery electric vehicle of the number of battery electric vehicles, a recommended recharging station among the number of recharging stations for actual usage by the at least one battery electric vehicle, wherein actual usage of the recommended recharging station by the at least one battery electric vehicle provides a more even distribution of the anticipated electrical loads on the electrical grid system than actual usage of a recharging station that is closest to the current location, wherein the recommended recharging station has more recharge capacity than the recharging station that is closest to the current location of the at least one battery electric vehicle. | 40,072 |
8,365,004 | 1. A configuration arrangement comprising: means for providing a group of function blocks defining at least a part of a configuration of an intelligent electronic device, wherein each function block is for executing a function in the intelligent electronic device; means for defining connection lines between the function blocks; means for locating, in the group of function blocks, a fixed function block having a fixed cycle time value; and means for defining configuration settings of the configuration by setting a configuration setting for a function block connected to the fixed function block, wherein: the defining means is comprised in a processor of a computer processing device; the defining means is configured to set a cycle time of the function block connected to an input of the fixed function block to a cycle time value which is the same as or smaller than the cycle time value of the fixed function block; and the defining means is configured to set an execution order of the function blocks of the configuration such that a function block connected to an input of the fixed function block is executed before the fixed function block. | 19,573 |
9,386,182 | 1. A method for assembling an optical unit provided to a document reading apparatus for reading a document, the method comprising: adjusting a positional relation between a first holding member to which an imaging lens is fixed and a second holding member to which a sensor substrate mounted with a sensor is fixed, so as to adjust a focus; fixing the first holding member and the second holding member of which the positional relation are adjusted by using an adhesive; and soldering the first holding member and the second holding member which are fixed using the adhesive, wherein the first and second holding members are steel plates treated with coating processing. | 10,482 |
9,508,943 | 1. An organic light emitting diode display device comprising: an organic light emitting diode array formed on a flexible substrate; a cover film formed to cover the organic light emitting diode array; a bottom film attached to a lower surface of the flexible substrate, the cover film and the bottom film being formed of the same material, wherein the bottom film and the cover film have the same coefficient of thermal expansion; and a plurality of moisture absorbents formed between the bottom film and the flexible substrate and disposed on an upper surface of the bottom film, the plurality of moisture absorbents having different shapes and being in direct contact with an upper surface of the bottom film, wherein the bottom film is attached to the lower surface of the flexible substrate via an adhesive layer in portions where the plurality of moisture absorbents are not provided, and the bottom film is attached to the lower surface of the flexible substrate via the adhesive layer and the plurality of moisture absorbents in portions where the plurality of moisture absorbents are provided, wherein the organic light emitting diode array is configured to emit light in a path toward the cover film and the plurality of moisture absorbents are disposed between the flexible substrate and the bottom film and outside of the path of light emitted from the organic light emitting diode array, and wherein the plurality of moisture absorbents are disposed in regions corresponding to each corner of the bottom film and at least two moisture absorbents disposed at opposite corners of the bottom film have different shapes from each other while a center region of the bottom film remains free of the plurality of moisture absorbents. | 25,211 |
9,826,636 | 1. A transparent electrode, comprising: a conductive layer; and a transparent substrate, wherein the conductive layer comprises: conductive nanowires forming networks, and nanoparticles binding the conductive nanowires to one another, wherein the conductive nanowires are silver (Ag) nanowires and the nanoparticles are porous nanoparticles attached to junctions of the networks and bonding the Ag nanowires to one another, and wherein the conductive layer is formed as a composite mesh including the silver (Ag) nanowires and the porous nanoparticles and embedded in the transparent substrate. | 30,361 |
9,509,158 | 1. A power supply configuration system comprising: (a) primary power source (PPS) means; (b) secondary power source (SPS) means; (c) power condition sensing (PCS) means; (d) digitally controlled switching network (DSN) means; (e) power supply unit (PSU) means; (f) protected device load (PDL) means; and (g) AC+DC power supply (ADP); wherein said PCS means is configured to sense the power state condition (PSC) of said PPS means and generate a phase power condition (PPC) status that is electrically coupled to said DSN means; said DSN means is configured to electrically couple said PPS means or said SPS means to said ADP based on the state of said PPC status; said PSU means comprises an AC+DC power supply (ADP); said ADP comprises a boost converter (BCV) further comprising: a BCV input port and BCV output port; said BCV is configured to accept AC or DC voltage input at said BCV input port; said ADP comprises a DC-DC converter (DDC) further comprising: a DDC input port and DDC output port; said BCV output port is electrically coupled to said DDC input port; said PDL means comprises a DC-DC power supply (DDP) electrically coupled to a protected load device (PLD); and said DDC output port is electrically coupled to and supplies power to said DDP. | 37,525 |
8,772,285 | 1. A method of treating obesity comprising administering to a human subject a compound selected from the group consisting of: [2-(4-isopropylpiperazin-1-yl)benzothiazol-6-yl]piperidin-1-ylmethanone, 2-(4-isopropylpiperazin-1-yl)benzothiazole-6-carboxylic acid dimethylamide, [2-(4-isopropylpiperazin-1-yl)benzothiazol-6-yl]morpholin-4-ylmethanone, 2-(4-isopropylpiperazin-1-yl)-6-piperidin-1-ylmethylbenzothiazole, 2-(4-isopropylpiperazin-1-yl)-6-(morpholin-4-ylmethyl)benzothiazole, [2-(4-isopropylpiperazin-1-yl)benzothiazol-6-ylmethyl]dimethylamine, [2-(4-cyclopropylpiperazin-1-yl)benzothiazol-6-ylmethyl]dimethylamine, 2-(4-cyclopropylpiperazin-1-yl)-6-(pyrrolidin-1-ylmethyl)benzothiazole, 2-(4-cyclopropylpiperazin-1-yl)-6-(morpholin-4-ylmethyl)benzothiazole, 2-(4-cyclopropylpiperazin-1-yl)-6-(piperidin-1-ylmethyl)benzothiazole, cyclopropyl-[2-(4-cyclopropylpiperazin-1-yl)benzothiazol-6-ylmethyl]amine, 2-(4-isopropylpiperazin-1-yl)-5-(pyrrolidin-1-ylmethyl)benzothiazole, [2-(4-isopropylpiperazin-1-yl)benzothiazol-5-ylmethyl]dimethylamine, and [2-(4-isopropylpiperazin-1-yl)benzothiazol-5-yl]pyrrolidin-1-ylmethanone; or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. | 13,821 |
8,343,063 | 1. A vital sign measurement device comprising: a sensor fixation device adapted to be placed against an anatomical location of a subject, within which is an artery; an optical sensing system comprising an optical source device and an optical detector, both of which are held by the sensor fixation device and move with movement of the sensor fixation device, the optical source device configured to produce a speckle pattern output, the optical detector positioned to detect at least a portion of the speckle pattern output and generate therefrom a signal indicative of the detected portion of the speckle pattern output; a sensor pad held by the sensor fixation device on a cantilevered beam so that it is placed against the anatomical location when the sensor fixation device is placed against the anatomical location, wherein the sensor pad on the cantilevered beam is attached to or presses against at least one portion of the optical sensing system such that an arterial pulse results in the movement, bending, or compression of the at least one portion of the optical sensing system relative to other portions of the optical sensing system resulting in a change in an optical energy received within the detected portion of the speckle pattern output, wherein the optical detector comprises an optical energy receiving portion having a smaller surface area than the area of the speckle pattern output; and an output unit that generates a measure of the vital sign using the signal indicative of the optical signal received within the detected portion of the speckle pattern output. | 23,312 |
8,608,189 | 1. A fold-away wheelbarrow comprising: a) a body having an inner volume, b) said inner volume defined by a bottom planar surface; a front planar surface; a rear planar surface; a first side planar surface; and a second side planar surface; c) a plurality of hinges; d) at least one wheel; e) a fork-mounted axle; f) a lower frame; and g) a handle-stand; h) wherein said body is mounted on said lower frame; i) wherein said plurality of hinges provide swingably-rotatable relationships between said front planar, said first side planar surface, said second side planar surface and said rear planar surface; j) wherein handle-stand comprises two handles protruding outwardly from said rear planar surface about 2 feet; k) wherein said two handles completely fold under said body during storage condition; l) wherein and handle-stand provides a lifter whereby an operator may manipulate said fold-away wheelbarrow during a load-moving period and said handle-stand provides a rester while in a stationary position; m) wherein said fold-away wheelbarrow is carried by said fork-mounted axle designed to distribute a carried-weight-load between said wheel and said operator thereby enabling convenient carriage of said carried-weight-load by said operator; n) wherein all components of said body are approximately ¼ inch thick; and o) herein fold-away wheelbarrow is foldable into a flat profile to provide said suitable storage condition. | 7,539 |
8,764,889 | 1. A silica membrane filter comprising a porous substrate and a silica membrane provided on a surface of the porous substrate, wherein the ratio of a He gas permeation amount to an N | 35,220 |
9,643,863 | 1. An electrolysis water-making apparatus for generating electrolyzed products by supplying a raw material solution into an electrolytic cell to perform electrolysis, and generating electrolyzed water by diluting the electrolyzed products, the electrolysis water-making apparatus comprising: a casing configured to accommodate the electrolytic cell and a bracket to which the electrolytic cell is integrally attached, wherein the bracket is configured to be fixed to the casing in a freely detachable manner, wherein the bracket comprises first and second rigid walls, the first rigid wall attached to a first side plate of the electrolytic cell at one end and the second rigid wall attached to a second side plate of the electrolytic cell at the other end of the electrolytic cell, and wherein the first and second rigid walls have a dimension therebetween that is adjustable according to a linear dimension of the electrolytic cell. | 6,868 |
8,888,627 | 1. A tensioner for a power transmitting element in a drive system comprising: a threaded shaft defining a pivot axis and comprising threading and at least one non-threaded end; an arm rotatable about the pivot axis on the at least one non-threaded end of the threaded shaft; a torsion element biasing the arm to rotate about the pivot axis, the torsion element being attached to a base; a threaded nut threadedly connected to the threaded shaft, the threaded nut having a first surface in frictional engagement with the arm; wherein the threaded nut is rotatable relative to both the arm and the base; and wherein the threaded nut is rotatable about the threading on the threaded shaft to provide asymmetric damping to the arm. | 44,569 |
8,797,819 | 1. An integrated circuit device comprising: a plurality of memory cells each comprising a transistor having a body region configured to be electrically floating for storing data; and refresh circuitry coupled to the plurality of memory cells, the refresh circuitry configured to refresh data stored in each transistor by reading the data from the transistor and writing the data to the transistor during a single clock cycle with no intervening hold state therebetween. | 767 |
8,710,838 | 1. A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus, comprising: a data gathering unit configured to gather magnetic resonance data in a non-contrast manner by applying a first readout gradient pulse having a zero-order moment of 0 and a second readout gradient pulse having a zero-order moment of 0 and a first-order moment of a value different from a value of a first-order moment of the first readout gradient pulse to a region of interest including a fluid in motion, wherein the first readout gradient pulse is a gradient pulse formed by adding to a pulse main body a flow dephasing pulse having a same polarity as the pulse main body, and the second readout gradient pulse is a gradient pulse formed by adding to the pulse main body a flow rephasing pulse having an opposite polarity to the pulse main body; and an image generating unit configured to periodically arrange first magnetic resonance data read out with the first readout gradient pulse and second magnetic resonance data read out with the second readout gradient pulse in at least one of a phase encoding direction and a slice encoding direction in a k-space to generate k-space data and reconstruct the k-space data, and to generate an image in which a fluid image and a static part image surrounding fluid are spatially separated from each other. | 14,126 |
9,367,121 | 1. A Universal Serial Bus (USB) 3.0 compatible host with lower operation power consumption, the USB 3.0 compatible host comprising: a super speed circuit for transmitting data at a first transmission speed; a non-super speed circuit for transmitting data at a second transmission speed, a third transmission speed, or a fourth transmission speed, wherein the first transmission speed is higher than the second transmission speed, the third transmission speed, and the fourth transmission speed; a control circuit coupled to the super speed circuit and the non-super speed circuit for determining to turn on or off the super speed circuit of the USB 3.0 compatible host, during the USB 3.0 compatible host being connected to a USB 3.0 compatible peripheral device, based on whether transmission data quantity between the USB 3.0 compatible host and the USB 3.0 compatible peripheral device is greater than a predetermined value; and wherein the control circuit further determines whether to keep controlling the super speed circuit to perform the data transmission with the USB 3.0 compatible peripheral device and turn off the non-super speed circuit, or to turn off the super speed circuit and control the non-super speed circuit to perform the data transmission with a USB 3.0 compatible peripheral device according to whether switching transmission loss between the USB 3.0 compatible host and the USB 3.0 compatible peripheral device meets a power management policy. | 28,673 |
8,536,996 | 1. A vehicle display method comprising: receiving driver input corresponding to a selected content level of vehicle information associated with one of a plurality of selectable information display levels; and displaying the vehicle information associated with one of the plurality of selectable information display levels corresponding to the selected content level, the plurality of selectable information display levels including at least a first selectable information display level and a second selectable information display level, the first selectable information display level and the second selectable information display level including at least one visual gauge having at least a first content level state and a second content level state, the second content level state including additional vehicle content associated with the at least one visual gauge than the first content level state, wherein the first selectable information display level is associated with the at least one visual gauge in the first content level state and the second selectable information display level is associated with the at least one visual gauge in the second content level state. | 36,137 |
9,277,792 | 1. A method for forming a multicolored single crystal gemstone (SCG) structure, the method comprising: (a) providing a first SCG layer having (i) a growth surface and (ii) a first color; (b) removing a portion of the first SCG layer from the growth surface thereof, thereby forming a recess in the first SCG layer; (c) depositing a second SCG layer into the recess and onto the growth surface of the first SCG layer, the second SCG layer having a second color different from the first color; (d) removing a portion of the second SCG layer so that at least a portion of the second SCG layer remains in the recess as a patterned second SCG layer, thereby forming a multicolored SCG composite structure; (e) depositing a third SCG layer having a third color above the patterned second SCD layer, thereby enlarging the multicolored SCG composite structure; and (f) reshaping the multicolored SCG composite structure into a gemstone shape; wherein the first SCG layer, the second SCG layer, and the third SCG share the same single crystal structure, wherein depositing the second SCG layer and depositing the third SCG layer comprises performing single crystal homoepitaxial deposition of the second SCG layer and the third SCG layer. | 35,795 |
8,942,014 | 1. A cascaded electric power converter comprising: a converter cell including a cell capacitor and at least one phase leg having at least two electric valves, the at least one phase leg being connected in parallel to the cell capacitor, the at least two electric valves each having a unidirectional switch, the converter cell further comprising a clamping circuit connected so as to limit voltage across the valves while switching off the valves; a control system for controlling switching of the electric valves of the at least one phase leg, the control system being configured to, upon detection of a need to by-pass the converter cell, control the switching of the electric valves of the converter cell by turning on the unidirectional switch of each of the at least two electric valves at the same time, so that the cell capacitor is short circuited via the at least one phase leg, so as to obtain a current surge through the at least one phase leg, thereby creating a permanent current path through the at least one phase leg to by-pass the converter cell; and a reactor connected in series between the cell capacitor and the at least one phase leg in order to limit peak current upon short-circuiting of the cell capacitor. | 17,760 |
8,851,151 | 1. A method for producing a cast component, comprising: forming a thin shell ceramic casting mold with a core integral therein by photopolymerization of a ceramic filled resin, wherein a portion of the mold formed by the photopolymerization of a ceramic filled resin extends to the core and is configured to provide orientation of the core during a molten metal pouring operation; pouring a molten metal into the thin shell ceramic casting mold; and actively moving a thermal gradient through the molten metal within the thin shell ceramic casting mold to cause solidification into a cast component with a single crystal or directionally solidified microstructure, wherein the actively moving involves one of varying a flow rate of a fluid through a conduit in a conductive thermal relationship with the molten metal to provide heat conduction into the metal poured into the thin shell ceramic casting mold. | 49,993 |
9,121,548 | 1. A sliding member, comprising: a substrate which comprises a sliding surface sliding under the presence of lubricating oil; and a film which is fixed to at least a part of the sliding surface, wherein the film has a hardness of 18 GPa or more, the film comprises carbon (C), titanium (Ti), and boron (B), the film is obtained by repeatedly and alternately layering a first layer comprising amorphous C as a principal component and a second layer comprising C and Ti as principal components, and the second layer further comprises B and a Ti—B—C layer which is formed on at least one side of boundary face portions between the second layer and the first layer so as to have a B content higher than B contents of the other portions. | 26,712 |
9,246,161 | 1. An all-solid battery comprising: a positive electrode that includes a positive electrode current collector and a positive electrode active material layer, wherein the positive electrode active material layer is formed on the positive electrode current collector and contains a positive electrode active material and a solid electrolyte material; a negative electrode that includes a negative electrode current collector and a negative electrode active material layer, wherein the negative electrode active material layer is formed on the negative electrode current collector and contains a negative electrode active material and the solid electrolyte material; and a solid electrolyte layer that is formed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode; wherein | 8,803 |
9,102,413 | 1. A fastening device between a first conduit of an aircraft nacelle air intake and a second conduit of a powerplant installed in said nacelle, the two conduits being installed end-to-end, said fastening device including: a first annular flange, linked to the air intake, a second annular flange linked to the powerplant pressed up against said air intake annular flange, wherein holes are arranged in the first and second annular flanges, respective holes in the first and second annular flanges being aligned with one another, fastening elements whose shanks are inserted into the holes, allowing link up of said first and second annular flanges, at least a first fastening element of said fastening elements having a shank with a diameter and the hole of one of the first and second annular flanges into which the first fastening element is inserted has a diameter greater than that of the shank allowing play of said shank, and at least one blade interposed between said first fastening element and said second annular flange, the blade comprised of at least two parts comprising at least one central part linked to the first fastening element, radially mobile relative to said second annular flange and at least one offset whose centripetal radial displacements at least are limited relative to said second annular flange, the two parts being offset in the direction of a circumference of the connecting device, wherein: the blade exerts a force on the first fastening element that is proportional to radial movement, towards the exterior, of the first fastening element, the central part comprises a passage hole through which the shank of the first fastening element passes and whose diameter corresponds to that of the shank of the first fastening element, the second annular flange supports at least one stop to limit movement of the offset part along a centripetal radial direction, said stop comprises a shank of a second fastening element of said fastening elements integral to the second annular flange, and the offset part of the blade includes a passage hole whose dimension in the radial direction is adjusted in diameter to that of the shank of the second fastening element. | 15,291 |
8,896,878 | 1. A non-transient computer readable storage medium storing a computer executable program, which is to be installed into either a computer device that instructs a printing operation or an image forming apparatus that implements the printing operation, so as to conduct an operation for displaying a print preview image of a document, serving as a printing object, onto a display screen, the program being executable by a computer to cause the computer to perform a process comprising: displaying, in the display screen, a slider controller for accepting a designation of a display magnification factor which is inputted by sliding a pointer movable on a slider indicating a plurality of display magnification factors allotted thereon, and which is to be employed for displaying the print preview image, wherein a position of the pointer indicates a current magnification factor; displaying, in the display screen, at least one button for accepting a designation of a display mode which is inputted by depressing one of the at least one button, and in which the print preview image is to be displayed, wherein the at least one button is displayed while correlating with a respective position on the slider corresponding to the display magnification factor of the display mode, wherein the at least one button includes a button of a display mode in which an overall content included in one page of a document is displayed onto the display screen; accepting the designation of a display magnification factor via the slider controller or the designation of a display mode via the at least one button; creating the print preview image, based on either the display magnification factor designated via the slider controller, or a display magnification factor which is calculated based on the display mode via the at least one button; and displaying, in the display screen, the print preview image created in the creating step; wherein the slider and the at least one button are displayed onto the display screen, in such a manner that either lines or arrow symbols are employed for connecting the at least one button to positions on the slider corresponding to the display magnification factors of the display modes, so as to correlate the at least one button with a position on the slider corresponding to the display magnification factor of the display mode. | 44,227 |
9,606,971 | 1. In a computerized environment comprising an auditing system and a website having one or more web pages that have one or more parent and child relationships, a method of the auditing system automatically identifying at least one page tag from scanned web page information for at least one web page and validating that the page tag conforms to at least one vendor validation rule, the method comprising the acts of: requesting one or more web pages of an identified website pursuant to validating at least a portion of each of the one or more web pages; scanning page code of at least one of the web pages to identify scanned web page information; accessing one or more vendor validation rules, wherein the vendor validation rules are configured to verify that the web page information conforms to vendor requirements; accessing one or more user-created validation rules, wherein the user-created validation rules specify user-specific policies for validating web page information, the user-created validation rules being created by selecting a particular tag vendor type against which the one or more user-created validation rules are to be run, wherein the particular tag vendor type corresponds to the vendor type of the page tag, and further specifying one or more requirements to be met for the at least one user-created validation rule to pass validation; validating the web page information against the one or more vendor validation rules and the one or more user-created validation rules, including at least one of applying the vendor validation rules in a set of one or more domains specific to the vendor validation rules, and applying the user-created validation rules in a set of one or more domains specific to the user-created validation rules; and reporting results of the validation. | 15,009 |
9,445,876 | 1. A surgical control system, comprising: a glove including a plurality of sensory elements disposed therein, the plurality of sensory elements configured to transmit signals; and at least one handheld surgical instrument having an end effector and configured to receive the signals transmitted from the plurality of sensory elements of the glove such that the end effector is controlled directly from motions of the glove as the glove moves directly over one or more surfaces of the at least one handheld surgical instrument. | 26,852 |
9,451,255 | 1. An image decoding method using intra prediction, the method comprising: a first step for performing inverse variable length coding processing; a second step for inverse quantization processing the data that has been processed in the first step; a third step for decoding prediction residuals by inverse frequency conversion processing the data obtained by inverse quantization in the second step; and a fourth step for obtaining a decoded image as a cluster of decode target pixels by performing a decoding process using the prediction residuals and a decoded pixel, wherein, processes in the fourth step include: wherein a decode target pixel is obtained by using the prediction pixel generated by the first process or the second process and the prediction residuals. | 25,674 |
8,429,835 | 1. An article of footwear comprising: an upper having a bonded mesh composite panel front portion forming at least a part of lateral forefoot, lateral midfoot, top forefoot, medial forefoot and medial midfoot regions in the upper, and wherein | 21,961 |
8,823,842 | 1. An image processing device for transforming an image, comprising: a frame memory unit configured to store an input image; a coordinate transformation unit configured to transform each of pixel coordinate pairs of an output image into each of pixel coordinate pairs of the input image; a read position determiner configured to determine, for each of horizontal segments, a position of image data to read from the frame memory unit based on vertical coordinates calculated by the coordinate transformation unit; a line buffer unit configured to store a plurality of lines of image data read from the frame memory unit in units of the horizontal segments; a stored-line position memory unit configured to store, for each of the horizontal segments, a line position of the image data stored in the line buffer unit; and a vertical interpolator configured to perform a one-dimensional vertical interpolation operation on each of outputs of the line buffer unit, wherein the read position determiner determines a line position to read based on values, in a target horizontal segment, of the vertical coordinates calculated by the coordinate transformation unit, the vertical interpolator determines vertical interpolation positions for the output of the line buffer unit based on the vertical coordinates calculated by the coordinate transformation unit, and on the line position stored, for each of the horizontal segments, in the stored-line position memory unit, and a result of a one-dimensional vertical interpolation operation performed by the vertical interpolator is output for subsequent use in real-time without being written back to the frame memory unit. | 521 |
8,865,503 | 1. A method for forming a doped region in a solar cell, the method comprising: preparing a first surface of a substrate and a second surface of the substrate opposite the first surface; forming a first doped region doped with a first dopant in a part of the first surface; forming a silicon oxide layer on the first surface, the silicon oxide layer comprising: implanting a second dopant from outside the first surface into the first silicon oxide layer and the second silicon oxide layer; and forming a second doped region adjacent the first doped region by performing heat treatment on the first silicon oxide layer, the second silicon oxide layer, and the substrate. | 43,200 |
8,613,682 | 1. A rotating clutch assembly for a motor vehicle transmission having a balance cavity fill system comprising, in combination, a supply of pressurized hydraulic fluid, a transmission main shaft having an axial fluid passageway in fluid communication with said supply of pressurized hydraulic fluid, a quill disposed about a portion of said transmission shaft, an electric motor having a rotor disposed concentrically about and coupled to said quill, a clutch assembly having an input member coupled to said quill, a first plurality of clutch plates operably coupled to said input member, an output member, a second plurality of clutch plates operably coupled to said output member and interleaved with said first plurality of clutch plates and a hydraulic operator, said hydraulic operator including a piston having an apply face and a balance face disposed in operable relationship with said pluralities of clutch plates, an apply cavity adjacent said apply face of said piston, said apply cavity in fluid communication with a controlled supply of pressurized hydraulic fluid, a balance cavity adjacent said balance face of said piston, said balance cavity in fluid communication with said supply of pressurized hydraulic fluid and a return spring disposed in said balance cavity, and a planetary gear assembly having a sun gear, a plurality of planet gears disposed in a planet gear carrier and a ring gear, said planet gear carrier operably coupled to said output member of said clutch assembly. | 11,561 |
9,386,152 | 1. A system for a contact center, the system comprising: a processor; and memory, wherein the memory stores instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to: an electronic switch coupled to the processor and configured to deliver the interaction to the automated agent and to the agent device; and a non-transitory storage device coupled to the processor and configured to store customer profile data built from previous interactions between the customer and the contact center, wherein the instructions further cause the processor to: invoke the automated agent to retrieve a profile of the customer from the customer profile data during the first portion of the interaction and update the retrieved profile on the storage device to reflect the interaction, and invoke the artificial intelligence engine to learn knowledge from the first portion of the interaction and apply the learned knowledge to future interactions between the customer and the contact center. | 828 |
9,591,638 | 1. An apparatus comprising: one or more storage media having instructions; and one or more processors coupled with the one or more storage media to execute the instructions to: | 44,005 |
8,467,454 | 1. A video decoding apparatus for decoding a bit stream generated by encoding a video signal, comprising: decoding means for performing an arithmetic decoding process using a context value on the bit stream including raw data of the video signal in a unit of encoding; determining means for determining if the unit of encoding in the bit stream is encoded as the raw data; and context operation control means for, when the determining means determines that the unit of encoding includes the raw data, controlling the arithmetic decoding process so as to maintain a context value previously used in the arithmetic decoding process for the unit of encoding that includes the raw data. | 37,236 |
8,597,711 | 1. A method of making enriched rice, comprising the steps of: providing an amount of grains of refined rice, said grains of refined rice being reduced in germ so as to have a starch content of about 90% in weight, said grains of refined rice each having an outer wall; providing an amount of germs of rice in the range 1% to 10% in weight of the grains of refined rice together with the germs of rice; and causing said germs of rice to adhere to the outer wall of said grains of refined rice so as to form an integral body, through a mixing step of said grains of refined rice and said germs of rice, said mixing step being performed in an upright mixer comprising a container having internal smooth walls, so as to reduce abrasive action on said grains of refined rice and said germs of rice, internally equipped with a rotating mixing member comprising an endless helical screw and a distributing member, said container and said mixing member being so arranged that they cooperate in order to give to the mixture a downward movement along the axis of the mixing member and an upward movement along the container walls, said mixing step being performed for a time of 7 to 14 minutes with an increase in the temperature of the mixture up to about 30 to 40° C., and said mixing step being followed without interruption by a packing step, thereby avoiding the risk of separation of the germs of rice from the grains of refined rice because of abrasion or shaking of the enriched rice. | 44,198 |
9,050,896 | 1. A ground transportation system for interacting with one or more vehicles, each vehicle comprising a magnetic element assembly fixedly attached to the vehicle, the magnetic element assembly having an overall magnetic orientation selectively controllable to be in at least a first magnetic orientation and a second magnetic orientation different from the first magnetic orientation, the system comprising: a magnetic coil assembly fixedly positioned near an area traversable by the vehicle and comprising a core and a magnetic wire coil wrapped around the core, the magnetic coil assembly having an overall magnetic orientation selectively controllable to be in at least a third magnetic orientation and a fourth magnetic orientation different from the third magnetic orientation; and an energy storage unit operable to selectively release energy to and store energy from the magnetic coil assembly; wherein the vehicle is operable to accelerate in a first drive direction when: wherein the vehicle is operable to accelerate in a second drive direction different to the first drive direction when: wherein the vehicle is operable to decelerate in the first drive direction when the vehicle is near the magnetic coil assembly and the first magnetic orientation causes the magnetic coil assembly to be in the third magnetic orientation; and wherein the vehicle is operable to decelerate in the second drive direction when the vehicle is near the magnetic coil assembly and the second magnetic orientation causes the magnetic coil assembly to be in the fourth magnetic orientation. | 12,988 |
8,648,766 | 1. A method comprising: receiving a signal from a satellite-based positioning system to a Right Hand Circular Polarization (RHCP) port of a dual port antenna, the dual port antenna having a RHCP port for outputting RHCP signals and a Left Hand Circular Polarization (LHCP) port for outputting LHCP signals; determining a magnitude of a RHCP component of the signal received from the satellite-based positioning system; determining a magnitude of a LHCP component of the signal received from the satellite-based positioning system; calculating a ratio of LHCP and RHCP components in response to the magnitude of the RHCP component and the magnitude of the LHCP component; and determining an estimate of the level of signal multipath in response to a determination that the ratio is beyond a specified value range. | 20,833 |
8,551,220 | 1. A sulfur dioxide absorbent comprising an ionic liquid of formula (I): wherein R | 11,133 |
9,140,211 | 1. A cascade-type thrust reverser comprising: a fixed structure on which a rear cascade frame supporting cascades of vanes is mounted; a mobile structure comprising an outer wall, an inner wall formed at least in part by at least one acoustic panel, and at least one partition fixedly mounted on said outer wall and said acoustic panel; and actuators interposed between said fixed structure and said mobile structure, allowing the mobile structure to be slid in a downstream direction or in an upstream direction of the thrust reverser, said actuators extending through orifices formed in said rear cascade frame and said partition, wherein the fixed structure and the mobile structure move relative to one another, and said rear cascade frame on the fixed structure and said acoustic panel on the mobile structure contact each other when said mobile structure is in a direct-jet position, and said rear cascade frame on the fixed structure and said acoustic panel on the mobile structure do not contact each other when said mobile structure is in an indirect-jet position. | 5,280 |
9,120,511 | 1. A method comprising: spinning a first flywheel about a first axis of the first flywheel, wherein the first flywheel is mechanically coupled to a vehicle via a first gimbal allowing the first flywheel to tilt about a second axis of the first flywheel, wherein the second axis of the first flywheel is perpendicular to the first axis of the first flywheel; controlling rotational speed of the first flywheel with a first electronic speed controller; spinning a second flywheel about a first axis of the second flywheel, wherein the second flywheel is mechanically coupled to the vehicle via a second gimbal allowing the second flywheel to tilt about a second axis of the second flywheel, wherein the second axis of the second flywheel is perpendicular to the first axis of the second flywheel; controlling rotational speed of the second flywheel with a second electronic speed controller; causing a rotational force to be applied about at least one axis of the vehicle by changing an angular momentum of the first and second flywheels. | 35,929 |
9,631,823 | 1. A desiccant air conditioning system for treating an air stream entering a building space, comprising: (a) a conditioner including: (b) a regenerator connected to the conditioner for receiving liquid desiccant from the collectors in the conditioner, said regenerator causing the liquid desiccant to desorb water, and returning the liquid desiccant to the conditioner; (c) an apparatus for moving the air stream through the conditioner; and (d) an apparatus for circulating the liquid desiccant through the conditioner and regenerator. | 40,209 |
8,476,968 | 1. A filter system capable of automatically adjusting bandwidth, the filter system comprising: a gravity sensor for generating a sensing signal; an analog/digital converter for converting the sensing signal into a digital signal; a filter for filtering the digital signal to generate an output signal to an application unit; and an adaptive unit for generating an adjustment signal to the filter according to the digital signal and the output signal; wherein the filter dynamically adjusts bandwidth of the filter according to the adjustment signal. | 13,047 |
9,528,264 | 1. A collapsible structure, comprising: four longerons each having a longeron length disposed between a longeron first end and a longeron second end, said four longerons each configurable along said longeron length between a longeron flat condition having opposed longeron external and internal flat surfaces disposed between a pair of longeron longitudinal edges and a longeron tubular condition having opposed longeron external and internal curved surfaces disposed between said pair of longeron longitudinal edges; and a plurality of cross members each having a cross member length disposed between a cross member first end and a cross member second end, said plurality of cross members each configurable along said cross member length between a cross member flat condition having opposed cross member external and internal flat surfaces disposed between a pair of cross member longitudinal edges and a cross member tubular condition having opposed cross member external and internal curved surfaces disposed between said pair of cross member longitudinal edges, said cross member first end and a cross member second end each correspondingly secured to a pair of said four longerons, said collapsible structure interconverts between a substantially planate condition disposing each of said four longerons and said plurality of cross members in said flat condition and a deployed condition disposing each of said four longerons in said longeron tubular condition and in a substantially fixed relation generally defining a rectangular volume. | 8,842 |
9,319,011 | 1. A Class-D amplifier, comprising: an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) having a first input node, the ADC being configured to: a digital filter configured to generate a second digital signal based on the first digital signal; a digital pulse width modulation (PWM) unit configured to generate a first PWM signal based on the second digital signal; a first pre-driver unit configured to generate a first set of control signals based on the first PWM signal; a first output driver having an output node, the first output driver being configured to generate a first output signal at the output node of the first output driver based on the first set of control signals; and a first feedback unit configured to generate the first feedback signal based on the first output signal, a first feedback path being defined as from the output node of the first output driver through the first feedback unit to the first input node of the ADC, and the first feedback path being free from a low-pass filtering device that has a cutoff frequency lower than a sampling frequency of the ADC. | 42,387 |
9,640,624 | 1. A semiconductor device, comprising: a semiconductor device active region; an electrode shape controlling layer disposed on the semiconductor device active region, the electrode shape controlling layer containing aluminum, the content of aluminum in all or part of the electrode shape controlling layer being changed in a direction from bottom to up from the semiconductor device active region; an electrode region disposed on the electrode shape controlling layer, the electrode region including a groove extended toward the semiconductor device active region and penetrating through the electrode shape controlling layer longitudinally, all or part of a side surface of the groove having a shape corresponding to the content of aluminum in the electrode shape controlling layer; and an electrode disposed in the groove in the electrode region entirely or partially, the electrode having a shape matching with the shape of the groove, a bottom portion of the electrode being contacted with the semiconductor device active region. | 16,535 |
9,218,181 | 1. A processor-implemented method for automatically creating a software catalog content that includes a plurality of software components associated with a computing system, the method comprising: detecting, by a processor, a new release for a specific software product in a software catalog content manager that manages the plurality of software components associated with the computing system; creating a population comprising a plurality of potential software signatures associated with the plurality of software components based on the detection of the new release for the specific software product in the software catalog content manager, wherein the population comprising the potential software signatures includes a software version, a software release, a software name, and a registry entry; ranking the population comprising the potential software signatures based on a highest ratio value; selecting a set of parent software signatures based on the ranking; creating a new population of potential software signatures based on the selected set of parent software signatures; performing recombination on the new population of potential software signatures, wherein recombination is performed using a mutation operation; and predicting at least one potential software signature from the new population of potential software signatures based on a comparison between the performed recombination and the created new population of potential software signatures. | 2,969 |
9,159,021 | 1. A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving input data including a temporal sequence of spatial patterns at a predictive system, the input data in a distributed representation form; spatially pooling the input data to generate sparse vectors in a sparse distributed representation form by a spatial pooler of the predictive system; temporally processing transitions of the sparse vectors to establish relationships between temporal sequences of spatial patterns in the input data by a sequence processor of the predictive system; detecting a state of the predictive system at a first time responsive to receiving the input data; and generating a prediction for a second time following the first time after a plurality of time steps based on the detected state of the predictive system and stored relationships, the stored relationships mapping states of the predictive system at third times to spatial patterns derived from the input data at fourth times, each of the third times preceding a corresponding one of the fourth times by the plurality of time steps, the fourth times preceding the first time, wherein the states of the predictive system comprise states of the sequence processor. | 22,642 |
9,237,462 | 1. A method performed by a network node of a wireless network to provide communication services to a target terminal, the method comprising: determining whether the target terminal is in a data state; determining whether the target terminal is interference cancellation (IC) capable; transmitting interference information to the target terminal when it is determined that the target terminal is in the data state and further that the target terminal is IC capable; and transmitting a plurality of data streams to one or more terminals in a cell being served by the network node, wherein for each data stream, the network node also transmits a corresponding configuration information that identifies air interface resources allocated to that data stream, wherein an interfering stream is a data stream intended for a terminal other than the target terminal, and an interfering configuration is the configuration information corresponding to the interfering stream, and wherein in the step of transmitting the interference information to the target terminal, the interfering configuration and/or an identity of the terminal other than the target terminal are transmitted as the interference information; wherein in the step transmitting the interference information to the target terminal, the interference information is broadcasted over a signal channel, the broadcast being packaged such that a plurality of terminals are able to read the interference information; wherein the signal channel is a shared control channel used by the network node to transmit the configuration information corresponding to the data streams, wherein in the step of transmitting the interference information to the target terminal, the interfering configuration is included in the interference information transmitted over the shared control channel, and wherein the interference information is generated according to a predetermined group ID, the group ID being understood by the plurality of terminals to indicate that the interference information includes the interfering configuration. | 48,999 |
9,346,220 | 1. A film comprising: a layer comprising a polymer alloy composition comprising: where: the polymers P the polymer P the polymers P each fibril extends substantially in one direction, has a mean width less than or equal to about 5 μm, has a mean thickness less than or equal to about 5 μm, are flat, and is substantially parallel to main surfaces of the film. | 30,400 |
8,904,373 | 1. A method for archiving particular data of an application while the application is executing, the method comprising: identifying a set of variables associated with the application, wherein each variable in the set of variables is marked as a persistent variable to be periodically archived to a non-volatile storage, and each variable in the set of variables indicates a particular manner selected from a plurality of manners in which the variable is to be archived to the non-volatile storage; and during execution of the application and when the application is terminating: | 7,826 |
8,567,502 | 1. A method for removing contaminants from a fluid originating from a subterranean reservoir comprising: contacting the subterranean reservoir fluid containing contaminants of at least one type with a structure comprising a substrate and a plurality of nanoparticles coated on the substrate, where the nanoparticles: at least partially removing the contaminants from the subterranean reservoir fluid by an association of the nanoparticles with the contaminants. | 21,787 |
9,797,879 | 1. A method of generating a high resolution image of a cellular sample, comprising: i) labeling a cellular sample with at least one mass tag, thereby producing a labeled sample in which a biological feature of interest is associated with said at least one mass tag; ii) scanning the sample with a continuous or near-continuous primary ion beam to generate sputtered secondary ions and sputtered neutral species; iii) photoionizing the sputtered neutrals to generate ionized neutral species, wherein the sputtered neutrals are photoionized at a site that is proximal to their source on the sample; iv) detecting the ionized neutral species by mass spectrometry, thereby obtaining spatially addressed measurements of the abundance of said at least one mass tag across an area of said sample; and v) producing an image of the sample using the measurements. | 37,907 |
9,568,906 | 1. A method for coating an object, the method comprising: generating a three-dimensional model of the object; forming a segment that represents the object in the three-dimensional model; and generating instructions for coating the object based on the segment, in which the instructions are configured to cause a robotic coating system to coat the object, wherein generating instructions comprises: | 43,578 |
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