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8,697,393 | 1. A fatty material enzyme interesterification process comprising the steps of: a) providing a fatty material that has optionally undergone at least one prior purification treatment; b) introducing soap into said fatty material to form a soap-containing fatty material mixture, c) homogenising said soap-containing fatty material mixture by mixing, d) contacting said soap-containing fatty material mixture with lipase to produce a soap-containing interesterified fatty material, e) removing soaps from said soap-containing interesterified fatty material to yield interesterified fatty material, wherein said soap is either formed in-situ by addition of aqueous alkali to said fatty material or said soap is introduced directly into said fatty material. | 26,271 |
8,523,764 | 1. A remote viewing device comprising: a control unit sized and shaped to be hand held, said control unit comprising: an insertion tube comprising a proximal end and an articulated tip at a distal end; an inspection head associated with said articulated tip, said inspection head configured for imaging the interior of an object; and a connector assembly removably engaged with said control unit and removably interconnecting said control unit and said proximal end of said insertion tube, said connector assembly operable, when connected, to convey the mechanical power from said drive assembly for moving said articulated tip in response to a user input at said control unit, and to convey images from said inspection head to said display device, wherein said user input is performed by the operator while grasping said control unit. | 25,231 |
9,694,712 | 1. An apparatus for use in a tractor-trailer vehicle configuration as a hybridizing suspension assembly, the apparatus comprising: a suspension assembly including a frame, suspension, and one or more drive axles, the suspension assembly suitable for attachment beneath a trailer of the tractor-trailer vehicle; the suspension assembly including at least one electric motor-generator coupled to at least one of the one or more drive axles to provide, in a first mode of operation, a motive rotational force and to provide, in a second mode of operation, a regenerative braking force; a battery array from which stored energy is supplied to power the motor-generator in the first mode of operation and to which regenerated braking energy is supplied in the second mode of operation; and a controller operatively coupled between the motor-generator and one or more sensor inputs to transition between the first, the second and at least a third mode of operation based on determination of an uphill or downhill angle of inclination in a direction of travel over a roadway, during motion of the tractor-trailer vehicle over the roadway, using the one or more sensor inputs. | 39,979 |
9,800,368 | 1. A method for adaptively adjusting a modulation and coding scheme and a reference signal pattern, the method comprising: determining a modulation scheme and reference signal pattern scheme (MCPS) index from a MCPS look-up table based on channel status information; transmitting at least one reference signal based on a reference signal pattern indicated by the MCPS index; and transmitting or receiving a data signal based on the modulation scheme, and a transport block size (TBS) indicated by the MCPS index, wherein the MCPS look-up table comprises a plurality of MCPS indexes, each of the plurality of MCPS indexes indicates a combination of a reference signal pattern, a modulation scheme, and a TBS, and wherein, from the MCPS look-up table, a same modulation scheme corresponds to at least two different reference signal patterns, and different TBSs correspond to different reference signal patterns. | 5,511 |
9,420,013 | 1. A communication server, comprising: at least one network interface; and at least one processor in communication with the network interface and configured to: receive a request to add one or more new participants to a communication group from a first participant of the communication group; receive, from one or more members of the communication group, one or more selections indicating one or more selected portions of communication content for providing to the one or more new participants, wherein the communication content includes information transferred between a plurality of participants of the communication group prior to the one or more new participants being added to the communication group, and wherein receiving the one or more selections comprises receiving, from the first participant, a first selected portion of the communication content for providing to the one or more new participants after receiving the request to add the one or more new participants; determine, based on the one or more selections, a portion of the communication content for providing to the one or more new participants; and provide the portion of the communication content to one or more user devices associated with the one or more new participants. | 9,119 |
8,722,357 | 1. A method for laser microdissection, comprising: applying a layer of biological material to a surface of a first substrate; identifying a targeted portion of biological material located on the first substrate, wherein the targeted portion of biological material includes a desired sample for further analysis and an undesired portion of biological material; bringing a polymer layer into juxtaposition with the first substrate on the side of the biological material in the location of the targeted portion of biological material; activating a laser source to describe a closed or substantially closed path around the targeted portion of biological material or to deliver energy directly to the targeted portion of biological material; transferring a portion of biological material of the targeted portion to the polymer layer by activating a capture laser directed at a region of the undesired portion included in the targeted portion, wherein the portion of biological material includes the desired sample and the undesired portion of biological material; moving the polymer layer to a quality control station configured for viewing the portion of biological material that is present on the polymer layer, generating an image of the portion of biological material, further ablating or capturing portions of the portion of the biological material, or any combination thereof; identifying the desired sample present on the polymer layer while the polymer layer is located in the quality control station; and activating the laser source and directing it at the portion of biological material that is present on the polymer layer while the polymer layer is located in the quality control station. | 34,306 |
9,713,824 | 1. A method for lining interior of a pipe comprising: a) providing a pipe having an interior, a first end, and a second end distal from said first end; b) establishing a unidirectional pipe gas stream flowing throughout the pipe from the first end to the second end; c) introducing a liquid liner into the pipe gas stream through the first end of the pipe; d) introducing a distributive body into the pipe such that the distributive body moves through the pipe from the first end toward the second end in the pipe gas stream, said distributive body being shaped and sized to permit a partial gas stream clearance between said interior and said distributive body; and e) aerodynamically flowing said liquid liner within said pipe around said distributive body at said partial gas stream clearance so as to coat said interior of said pipe with a uniform thickness of said liquid liner from said interior top to bottom and end to end, wherein the step of aerodynamically flowing comprises the steps of: radially outwardly displacing and distributing the liquid liner at said partial gas stream clearance as the liquid liner and the pipe gas stream pass the distributive body, maintaining said partial gas stream clearance as constant around the distributive body, said distributive body being separate from said interior. | 4,199 |
9,453,235 | 1. A double-stranded nucleic acid construct for expressing multiple genes in a plant cell and/or a plant tissue, the construct comprising a bidirectional promoter comprising: a first strand comprising a minimal core promoter element; and a second strand comprising a Sugar Cane Bacilloform Virus (SCBV) promoter, wherein the bidirectional promoter comprises the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO:5, wherein the minimal core promoter element drives expression of a first gene expression cassette; and wherein the SCBV promoter drives expression of a second gene expression cassette. | 32,023 |
9,381,493 | 1. A method of producing a carbon absorbent material, the method comprising: providing a quantity of anaerobic digestate; heating the quantity of anaerobic digestate to at least 400° C.; humidifying a flow of activation gas; after said heating, activating the anaerobic digestate thereby producing activated carbon by directing the humidified activation gas into contact with the quantity of anaerobic digestate; and using exhaust gas to fuel heating of anaerobic digestate, the exhaust gas being the flow of activation gas after contacting the quantity of anaerobic digestate and including volatile hydrocarbons captured from the quantity of anaerobic digestate. | 33,523 |
9,065,572 | 1. A method for transmitting information with light, comprising the steps of: amplifying a first plurality of longitudinal modes of light in a first spectral band using a first gain medium, operative to provide light amplification across the first spectral band and a second spectral band; modulating the amplified first plurality of longitudinal modes according to first information; amplifying a second plurality of longitudinal modes of light in the second spectral band using a second gain medium, operative to provide light amplification across the first spectral band and the second spectral band; modulating the amplified second plurality of longitudinal modes according to second information; and transmitting the modulated first plurality of longitudinal modes and the modulated second plurality of longitudinal modes in an optical medium. | 792 |
8,361,561 | 1. A method of manufacturing a silicon (Si) film by using a Si solution process, the method consisting essentially of: preparing a Si forming solution; irradiating ultraviolet rays (UV) on the prepared Si forming solution; after the irradiating, coating the Si forming solution on a substrate; removing a solvent in the Si forming solution coated on the substrate; and irradiating an electron beam on remaining materials of the Si forming solution from which the solvent is removed. | 7,580 |
8,692,027 | 1. A process for producing aldehydes, comprising contacting an olefin, with hydrogen and carbon monoxide in the presence of a catalyst composition to produce said aldehydes, wherein the catalyst composition comprises: a mixture of tris(3-pyridyl)phosphine, a metal ion centered tetraphenylporphyrin coordination complex and a rhodium precursor, and wherein the ratio of CO:H wherein the reactor temperature is between 0 and 40° C. and wherein the aldehydes have an N:I ratio of from about 0.6:1 to about 0.1:1. | 8,722 |
9,406,931 | 1. A positive active material comprising: a first active material and a second active material, | 31,823 |
9,496,728 | 1. A portable backup charger, comprising: a set of batteries; a charging circuit connected to an input end of the set of batteries for charging the set of batteries; a charge-discharge protection circuit connected to the two ends of the set of batteries for protecting the set of batteries in the process of charging or discharging; multiple DC-DC voltage adjusting circuits comprising a DC-DC 19 V-output boost circuit, a 12 V output circuit, and a DC-DC 5 V-output buck circuit; a MCU circuit; a 12 V output circuit outputting a current in the range of 100 A to 400 A; and a 150 A-250 A fuse; wherein: said charging circuit is connected to the input end of said set of batteries for charging said set of batteries; said charge-discharge protection circuit is connected to the two ends of said set of batteries for protecting said set of batteries in the process of charging or discharging; the input ends of said multiple DC-DC voltage adjusting circuits are connected in parallel to the connecting point between the output end of said set of batteries and one end of said charge-discharge protection circuit; one end of said 150 A-250 A fuse is connected to said set of batteries, and the other end of said 150 A-250 A fuse is connected to said 12 V output circuit outputting a current in the range of 100 A to 400 A; said MCU circuit is connected to the output ends of said multiple DC-DC voltage adjusting circuits, respectively; said set of batteries is composed of lithium iron phosphate batteries and lithium cobalt oxide batteries. | 10,979 |
9,783,071 | 1. Device for providing electrical energy to a consumer electrical circuit, comprising a protection and monitoring device assigned individually to the consumer, to the output of which the consumer electrical circuit can be connected via connecting means, wherein the protection and monitoring device has sensor means for detecting at least one electrical quantity, and an analysis device controlled by the sensor means, which contains parameterisation means for specifying in a presettable manner at least one safety relevant triggering criterion, wherein on the at least one safety relevant triggering criterion being reached, a switching device for the consumer electrical circuit is automatically controlled, wherein a plurality of previously stored protection characteristics is provided from which, in each case, one of the plurality of previously stored protection characteristics is automatically selectable during the operation of the device. | 30,851 |
9,515,565 | 1. A hybrid high voltage direct current (HVDC) converter system comprising: at least one alternating current (AC) conduit; at least one transformer coupled to said at least one AC conduit; at least one direct current (DC) conduit; at least one capacitor commutated converter (CCC) configured to convert AC voltages and AC currents to a DC voltage and DC current, said at least one CCC coupled to said at least one AC conduit through said at least one transformer; at least one self-commutated converter (SCC) configured to convert AC voltages and AC currents to a regulated DC voltage and DC current, said at least one SCC comprising at least one AC/DC stage and at least one DC/DC stage coupled to said at least one AC/DC stage; at least one CCC bypass switch coupled in parallel with said at least one CCC; wherein the at least one AC/DC stage comprises a plurality of switching power poles coupled to plurality of AC terminals and plurality of DC terminals of the at least one AC/DC stage; and wherein each switching power pole of said plurality of switching power poles comprises a plurality of switching devices coupled in series, wherein said each switching power pole of said plurality of switching power poles defines and is coupled to a coupling terminal, said at least one AC/DC stage further comprises a plurality of branched conduits coupled to said plurality of switching power poles, each branched conduit of said plurality of branched conduits comprising a plurality of capacitive sub-modules, said plurality of branched conduits and said plurality of switching devices define a plurality of floating terminals therebetween, each capacitive sub-module of said plurality of capacitive sub-modules configured to be selectably placed in service between said plurality of floating terminals and said plurality of AC terminals, said at least one SCC coupled to said at least one CCC through said at least one transformer and said at least one AC conduit, and said at least one SCC and said at least one CCC coupled in series to said at least one DC conduit. | 45,688 |
9,425,334 | 1. A laser assembly, comprising: a picosecond laser beam shaping assembly for shaping a picosecond laser beam for use in patterning photovoltaic devices, the assembly including | 15,066 |
9,746,511 | 1. A method for event detection for a system comprising a plurality of phasor measurement units (PMUs), the method comprising: estimating a propagation speed for each PMU in a set of PMUs indicating an anomaly from the plurality of PMUs, the propagation speed based on one or more events stored in a database; determining a first event location based on the estimated propagation speed for the each of the PMUs in the set of PMUs; adjusting the estimated propagation speed for each of the PMUs in the set of PMUs based on a distance between the first event location and one or more event locations stored in the database; and determining a second event location from the adjusting of the estimated propagation speed for each of the PMUs in the set of PMUs. | 12,274 |
9,690,471 | 1. A mobile terminal, comprising: a touch screen configured to receive a touch input command from a user; and a controller configured to: display a first icon together with a second icon on a home screen of the touch screen, the first icon being an attribute-giving icon, and the second icon being an application icon or a widget, such that the first icon is generated on the home screen after the second icon is displayed on the home screen, display an attribute icon on or with the second icon to indicate that an attribute of the first icon displayed on the home screen is applied to the second icon displayed on the home screen, in response to a first touch input received via the touch screen, wherein the first touch input is to bring the first icon and the second icon into contact with each other, and determine whether or not the first icon disappears after the attribute of the first icon is applied to the second icon in response to the first touch input, depending on a duration of the contact between the first icon and the second icon, wherein the controller is further configured to: in response to transferring a plurality of attributes to the second icon, display the second icon together with relevant attribute icons corresponding to the plurality of attributes, and in response to a single predetermined touch input received via the touch screen, remove all of the plurality of attributes from the second icon such that the second icon is displayed without the relevant attribute icons corresponding to the plurality of attributes, wherein the attribute applied to the second icon relates to executing an application associated with the second icon, and wherein whether or not the first icon disappears is determined such that the first icon disappears after the attribute of the first icon is applied to the second icon if the duration of the contact between the first icon and the second icon is less than a predetermined time, and the first icon does not disappear after the attribute of the first icon is applied to the second icon if the duration of the contact between the first icon and the second icon is equal to or longer than the predetermined time. | 19,277 |
8,769,895 | 1. A subfloor component comprising: an insulating rigid foam panel having first and second opposing faces and a plurality of intersecting grooves to define, in cross-section, a plurality of pedestals having at least one wall extending into the panel from the first face toward the second face; a film of substantially moisture-impervious material attached to the first face of the panel and that conforms to the tops and walls of the pedestals and to the bottoms of the grooves; and a hardboard layer on the second face of the panel. | 5,498 |
9,378,054 | 1. A computing device comprising: memory; one or more processors operatively coupled to the memory; a test application stored in the memory and executable by the one or more processors; and a reflector application stored in the memory and executable by the one or more processors; wherein the test application is configured to send a test message to the reflector application, the test message indicating that a test of the test application is to be conducted while the test application is in a foreground execution state; wherein receipt of the test message by the reflector application causes the reflector application to respond to the test message from the test application by sending a reflected message, to the test application, that causes: wherein the test application is configured to send the test message after entering the background execution state; wherein the test message indicates that the test to be conducted is to be conducted at least in part by the reflector application; wherein the reflector application is further configured to perform at least part of the test to be conducted in response to receiving the test message; wherein at least part of the test to be conducted comprises the test application being in the background execution state for at least a specified period of time; and wherein the reflector application is further configured to wait for at least the specified period of time before sending the reflected message in response to receiving the test message. | 14,618 |
9,571,671 | 1. A management device comprising: a processor and a memory operatively coupled to provide: a manager configured to manage device information which includes at least a power status and an existence or non-existence of a power status notification function of an image forming device, wherein the power status of the image forming device having the power status notification function is managed according to a notification from the image forming device using the power status notification function; a requestor configured to transmit a response confirmation request to at least one of multiple image forming devices; a receiver configured to receive a response from any one of the multiple image forming devices; and an acquirer configured to acquire, from the image forming device that provided the response, data that shows an operational status of an image forming device by sending a data acquisition request different from the response confirmation request to the image forming device that provided the response, wherein the device information further includes a compulsory acquisition standby status as one of pieces of status information about the data that shows the operational status of the image forming device, wherein the requestor does not transmit the response confirmation request in a case where the power status managed by the manager is a power conservation mode for the image forming device having the power status notification function, wherein, in a case where the requestor does not transmit the response confirmation request to the image forming device which the power status managed by the manager is the power conservation mode and the status information of the image forming device indicates the compulsory acquisition standby status, the acquirer sends the data acquisition request to the image forming device, wherein the requestor transmits the response confirmation request to the image forming device in a case where the power status managed by the manager is a standby mode for the image forming device having the power status notification function, and wherein the acquirer does not send the data acquisition request to the image forming device which does not perform a response for the response confirmation request by the requestor. | 35,091 |
8,689,664 | 1. A backhoe loader comprising: a front wheel; a rear wheel having a diameter greater than a diameter of the front wheel; and a multi-axis transmission configured to transmit power to the front wheel and the rear wheel, the multi-axis transmission including the first gear set being configured to reduce a speed of rotation of the intermediate shaft and to transmit the speed-reduced rotation of the intermediate shaft towards the front output shaft, and the second gear set being configured to reduce a seed of rotation of the intermediate shaft and to transmit the speed-reduced rotation of the intermediate shaft towards the rear output shaft, a reduction ratio of the second gear set being larger than a reduction ratio of the first gear set. | 48,373 |
8,640,471 | 1. A control method for a refrigerator including a compressor, a fridge evaporator and a freezer evaporator connected in parallel to an outlet of the compressor, and a valve member selectively opening and closing a refrigerant passage to allow refrigerants to flow to any one side of the fridge evaporator and the freezer evaporator, the method comprising: actuating the compressor; opening a refrigerant passage at the fridge evaporator by operating the valve member at the same time when or just after the compressor is actuated; determining an operation time of a freezer fan as a function of a fridge valve opening time of a previous cooling cycle; at the same time when or just after the refrigerant passage at the fridge evaporator is opened, controlling the freezer fan to actuate and operate for the determined operation time of the freezer fan; and actuating the fridge fan at a predetermined time after an opening time of the refrigerant passage at the fridge evaporator. | 44,662 |
9,494,127 | 1. A pumped storage power plant that performs a pumping operation by using a pump turbine, an upper regulating reservoir, and a lower regulating reservoir located at a position geographically lower than the upper regulating reservoir, wherein an upper space of one of the upper regulating reservoir and the lower regulating reservoir is sealable, the pumped storage power plant comprising: an air pressure adjustment unit configured to adjust an air pressure in the upper space of the one regulating reservoir; a first water level detector configured to detect a first water level of the one regulating reservoir; an air pressure detector configured to detect the air pressure in the upper space of the one regulating reservoir; a second water level detector configured to detect a second water level of other of the upper regulating reservoir and the lower regulating reservoir; and a controller configured to: obtain information of the first water level from the first water level detector, information of the air pressure from the air pressure detector, information of the second water level from the second water level detector, and information of a pumping input that is an electrical energy input from an external grid and used during the pumping operation; set a water level calculated by using the first water level and the air pressure, as a regulating reservoir calculation water level of the one regulating reservoir; and control the air pressure adjustment unit to adjust the air pressure such that a water level difference between the second water level and the regulating reservoir calculation water level becomes a desired water level difference that is determined by a characteristic of the pump turbine depending on the pumping input. | 39,490 |
8,587,113 | 1. A thermal plate, configured to overlay a temperature controlled base plate of a substrate support assembly used to support a semiconductor substrate in a semiconductor processing apparatus, the thermal plate comprising: an electrically insulating plate; planar thermal zones comprising at least first, second, third and fourth planar thermal zones, each comprising one or more Peltier devices as thermoelectric elements, the planar thermal zones laterally distributed across the electrically insulating plate and operable to tune a spatial temperature profile on the substrate; positive voltage lines comprising first and second electrically conductive positive voltage lines laterally distributed across the electrically insulating plate; negative voltage lines comprising first and second electrically conductive negative voltage lines laterally distributed across the electrically insulating plate; common lines comprising first and second electrically conductive common lines laterally distributed across the electrically insulating plate; wherein: the first common line is connected to both the first and third planar thermal zones; and the second common line is connected to both the second and fourth planar thermal zones. | 45,190 |
8,629,715 | 1. A circuit configured to propagate local oscillator signals from a local oscillator to a communication unit, the circuit comprising: a first pair of lines connected to receive differential in-phase signals generated by the local oscillator and output those signals to the communication unit; and a second pair of lines connected to receive differential quadrature signals generated by the local oscillator and output those signals to the communication unit; said lines being arranged such that at least once along a length of the first pair of lines, one of the first pair of lines crosses the other one of the first pair of lines to create a first twist, at least once along a length of the second pair of lines, one of the second pair of lines crosses the other one of the second pair of lines to create a second twist, and the first twist is offset from the second twist along the length of the first pair of lines such that: a first line of the first pair is, in use, magnetically coupled to a first line of the second pair for a first portion of its length with a coupling coefficient K, and magnetically coupled to a second line of the second pair for a second portion of its length with a coupling coefficient −K; and a second line of the first pair is magnetically coupled to the second line of the second pair for a third portion of its length with coupling coefficient K, and magnetically coupled to the first line of the second pair for a fourth portion of its length with coupling coefficient −K; the sum of the first and third portions being substantially equal to the sum of the second and fourth portions. | 48,054 |
8,838,083 | 1. A wireless phone comprising a processor configured to switch an Instant Messaging (IM)-based voice call to a cellular-based voice call, an IM phone agent comprising software or a processor operable to process an IM-based voice call from a service gateway via an IM voice network using an IM user identity, a cellular phone agent comprising software or a processor operable to process a cellular-based voice call from the service gateway via a cellular voice network using a cellular phone number, and to receive a call reference and to send the call reference to a switchover agent, and a switchover agent comprising software or a processor operable to receive a call reference from at least the service gateway and the cellular phone agent and operable to create a call record including the call reference and information about the IM-based voice call, retrieve the call record that matches the call reference, and determine whether a voice call is associated with the IM-based voice call, wherein the switchover agent further comprises software or a processor operable to send a response to the cellular phone agent, indicating that the voice call is for switch over purpose, and wherein the switchover agent comprises storage capacity to store information about the IM-based voice call in the call record, wherein the information about the voice call includes transport information for the cellular-based voice call for connecting the voice call to a voice module, wherein the cellular phone agent is operable to automatically establish a cellular voice call with the service gateway upon receiving a response from the switchover agent. | 44,360 |
8,492,440 | 1. A compound of formula I in which R R R A denotes alkyl having 1-6 C atoms, in which 1-5 H atoms are each optionally replaced by F, or cycloalkyl having 3-7 C atoms, Hal denotes F, Cl, Br or I, or a pharmaceutically usable salt or stereoisomer thereof, including mixtures thereof in all ratios. | 11,379 |
9,063,734 | 1. A microcontroller operable in a low-power mode, the microcontroller comprising: one or more I/O connectors; an I/O controller operable to provide control signals for controlling a state of a particular one of the I/O connectors, wherein the I/O controller is powered off or deactivated during the low-power mode; and I/O connector state control logic operable to control the state of the particular one of the I/O connectors in accordance with the control signals from the I/O controller, wherein the I/O connector state control logic includes I/O connector state retention logic that retains states of the control signals and maintains the particular I/O connector in a corresponding state in accordance with the retained control signals while the microcontroller is in the low-power mode. | 11,289 |
9,441,860 | 1. A double-medium circulation air conditioner for cooling, heating and humidifying, comprising: a machine body having an air inlet and an air outlet provided thereon, wherein a heat exchanging fan, a water circulation system, a refrigerant circulation system, a heat exchanger and a humidification system are provided in the machine body, wherein the heat exchanger comprises a water heat exchanging pipe and a refrigerant heat exchanging pipe, wherein the water heat exchanging pipe and the refrigerant heat exchanging pipe are winded or overlapped together without communicating with each other, the water circulation system is communicated with the water heat exchanging pipe of the heat exchanger; wherein the water circulation system comprises a water circulating pump, an inlet pipe, a water-evaporator, a return pipe and an outlet pipe, wherein a first end of the inlet pipe has a water circulating pump provided thereon and is inserted in underground water source, and a second end thereof is connected with the water-evaporator, the water-evaporator is connected with the return pipe, the return pipe is connected with an inlet end of the water heat exchanging pipe in the heat exchanger, an outlet end of the water heat exchanging pipe is connected with a first end of the outlet pipe, and a second end of the outlet pipe is connected with underground water source and communicated with the inlet pipe; wherein a downhole heat exchanger is connected between the inlet pipe and the outlet pipe, wherein the downhole heat exchanger is provided below dynamic water level of the underground water source; wherein the refrigerant circulation system comprises a refrigerant recirculating line, a four-way valve, a refrigerant evaporating pipe, a liquid storage tank and a compressor, wherein a four-way connector of the four-way valve is respectively connected with the refrigerant evaporating pipe, the liquid storage tank, the compressor and a first end of the refrigerant heat exchanging pipe, a second end of the refrigerant heat exchanging pipe is connected with the refrigerant evaporating pipe, the liquid storage tank is connected with the compressor; and wherein the humidification system comprises a humidifying water-storage grill set, a filler pipe, a drain pipe, a water pump and a water tank, wherein the water pump is provided in the water tank, the water pump is provided in the water tank, the water pump is connected with the filter pipe, wherein the filter is communicated with an upper portion of the humidifying water-storage grill set, a lower portion of the humidifying water-storage grill set is connected with the drain pipe, and the drain pipe is connected with a return tank. | 4,639 |
9,721,685 | 1. A nuclear reactor comprising: a nuclear reactor core comprising a fissile material; a pressure vessel containing the nuclear reactor core immersed in primary coolant disposed in the pressure vessel; and an isolation valve assembly including: | 30,066 |
8,691,470 | 1. A glass ceramic seal comprising: silica containing glass cores located in a crystalline matrix comprising barium aluminosilicate; and calcium aluminosilicate crystals located in the glass cores; wherein the seal contains zero to about 0.5 molar percent of boron oxide and phosphorus oxide and wherein the seal is formed from a composition comprising barium oxide, calcium oxide, alumina and silica in an amount such that a molar percent of silica in the composition is at least 5 molar percent greater than two times a combined molar percent of the barium oxide and the calcium oxide, and the seal is located in a fuel cell stack between a surface of an interconnect and an electrolyte of a solid oxide fuel cell. | 40,790 |
8,386,881 | 1. A storage device comprising: a nonvolatile semiconductor memory configured to store a plurality of detecting codes to respectively detect errors in a plurality of data items, a plurality of first correcting codes to respectively correct errors in a plurality of first data blocks each of which comprises one of the data items and a corresponding detecting code, a second correcting code to correct errors in a second data block which comprises the first data blocks, and the second data block; a first corrector configured to correct errors in the first data blocks using the first correcting codes; a detector configured to detect, using the detecting codes, errors in the data items corrected by the first corrector, respectively, and generate first error information representing presence/absence of an error in each of the corrected data items; and a second corrector configured to correct errors in, of the corrected data items, a number of data items containing errors using the first error information and the second correcting code. | 46,248 |
9,247,003 | 1. A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable storage medium implementing code for indicating a server write activity level for a server in communication with a storage server having a write cache, wherein the code executes to perform operations, the operations comprising: gathering server write activity information on server write activity to a cache; processing the server write activity information to determine a server write activity level comprising one of multiple write activity levels indicating a level of write activity; and transmitting the determined server write activity level to the storage server, wherein the storage server uses the determined server write activity level to determine whether to adjust a size of the storage server write cache. | 20,516 |
9,537,116 | 1. A light emitting device, comprising: an organic light emitting diode (OLED) device having a top electrode and an opposing bottom electrode disposed on a backplane, wherein each of the top electrode, the opposing bottom electrode and the backplane are substantially transparent to light emitted by the OLED device; a capping layer disposed immediately adjacent the top electrode; and a light extraction film disposed adjacent the capping layer, wherein the light extraction film comprises a substrate comprising a material substantially reflective to light emitted by the OLED device, such that a portion of the light emitted by the OLED device reflects from the substrate and passes through the backplane, a layer of nanostructures applied to the substrate, and a backfill layer disposed over the nanostructures and adjacent the capping layer, the backfill layer having an index of refraction greater than the index of refraction of the nanostructures. | 38,427 |
9,176,496 | 1. A substrate treating system comprising: a substrate treating apparatus having a substrate treating unit for carrying out predetermined treatments of substrates, a load port with physical load ports for receiving pods for storing the substrates, the load port transferring the pods to and from the substrate treating unit, and an internal buffer interposed between the substrate treating unit and the load port for transferring the substrates to and from the substrate treating unit, transferring the pods to and from the load port, and temporarily storing the pods in time of transfer; a carrier transport system for transferring the pods to and from the load port; and a host computer for communicating with the substrate treating apparatus and the carrier transport system, and instructing the carrier transport system to transport the pods according to a situation of the substrate treating apparatus; wherein the substrate treating apparatus includes a transport-related control unit arranged, when the load port is being used by one of the pods and a vehicle of the carrier transport system approaches to transfer another of the pods to the load port, to suspend a notice of transfer disapproval until completion of the use by the one of the pods. | 6,102 |
8,590,498 | 1. A camshaft adjustment device, comprising: a driving wheel; a output part arranged rotatably relative to the driving wheel; a regulating device; a pressure medium supply device; at least one pressure medium inflow connection formed between the regulating device and the pressure medium supply device; and at least two nonreturn valves disposed in the at least one pressure medium inflow connection, the driving wheel and output part being operatively connected by at least one pressure space which can be acted upon by a pressure medium, and the regulating device regulating a supply of the pressure medium to the pressure space and a removal of the pressure medium from the pressure space, wherein a passage of the pressure medium through the nonreturn valves, which are connected parallel to each other, in the pressure medium inflow connection can be blocked in a direction of the pressure medium supply device; and | 25,022 |
9,254,461 | 1. A method of direct liquid hydrocarbon fuel production comprising: heating a compound comprising carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen, wherein the compound is selected from a group consisting of biomass and waste product, to a temperature of at least 800 degrees Celsius such that the compound comprising carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen has a residence time of at least 100 seconds and reacts through a pyrolysis reaction to generate at least a hydrocarbon aerosol that includes at least naphthalene or a component of a hydrocarbon fuel, wherein the hydrocarbon fuel includes at least gasoline, diesel, or aviation fuel; and bubbling the hydrocarbon aerosol through a liquid fuel to gather the hydrocarbon aerosol and produce the liquid hydrocarbon fuel, wherein the liquid fuel includes at least gasoline, diesel, or aviation fuel and the liquid hydrocarbon fuel includes at least gasoline, diesel, or aviation fuel. | 28,710 |
9,789,772 | 1. A method for controlling a synchronous electrical machine with a permanent magnet powered by a battery delivering a power supply voltage at its terminals, the method comprising: computing, via processing circuitry, an initial direct voltage component Vdc and an initial quadratic voltage component Vqc in a revolving reference frame having a plurality of axes; verifying, via the processing circuitry, a saturation condition by verifying, in an orthogonal reference frame having the direct voltage components for X-axis and the quadratic voltage components for Y-axis, that a point of coordinates Vdc and Vqc is outside of a range dependent on Vbat and delimited by a contour, Vbat denoting a power supply voltage at terminals of the battery; computing, when the saturation condition is verified and via the processing circuitry, an angle generating, via the battery and when the saturation condition is verified and if α varies negatively and Vdc is positive or if α varies positively and Vdc is negative, a direct axis voltage and quadratic axis voltage by determining a point of intersection between the contour and a straight line passing through the origin of the orthogonal reference frame and the point of coordinates Vdc and Vqc, the direct axis voltage corresponding to the X-axis of the intersection and the quadratic axis voltage corresponding to the Y-axis of the intersection; and applying to the electrical machine, via the battery and based on the saturation condition, Vdc and α, one of Vdc and Vqc, direct axis voltage and quadratic axis voltage, and a preceding direct axis voltage and preceding quadratic axis voltage. | 22,183 |
9,386,610 | 1. A computer implemented method, comprising: starting, by a wireless beacon, an advertisement timer; transmitting advertisement packets, wherein advertisement packets include an advertisement transmission power that is sufficient for the advertisement packets to be detected by wireless devices located inside a target area, and wherein the advertisement transmission power of the advertisement packets is insufficient for the advertisement packets to be detected by wireless devices located outside the target area; starting an announcement timer when the advertisement timer elapses; and transmitting announcement packets until the announcement timer elapses, wherein announcement packets include a transmission power that is greater than the advertisement transmission power, wherein the transmission power of the announcement packets is sufficient for the announcement packets to be detected by wireless devices located outside of the target area, and wherein receiving transmitted announcement packets at a wireless device facilitates a status identification corresponding to the wireless beacon. | 22,529 |
8,368,233 | 1. A semiconductor device comprising: a wiring substrate including a wiring pattern; a first semiconductor chip being mounted on a first surface of the wiring substrate so that a first surface of the first semiconductor chip opposes the first surface of the wiring substrate; a first pad disposed on the first surface of the first semiconductor chip; a first resin layer disposed on the first surface of the wiring substrate, the first resin layer including a first opening disposed on a first part of the wiring pattern, the first part of the wiring pattern overlapping the first pad; a conductive member disposed in the first opening of the first resin layer and connecting the first pad and the first part of the wiring pattern; a second resin layer disposed between the first semiconductor chip and the first resin layer; a third resin layer disposed on a second surface of the wiring substrate opposing the first surface of the wiring substrate, a material of the third resin layer being the same material of the first resin layer; a second semiconductor chip mounted on the second surface of the wiring substrate so that a first surface of the second semiconductor chip opposes the second surface of the wiring substrate; and a fourth resin layer disposed between the third resin layer and the second semiconductor chip. | 34,237 |
8,784,007 | 1. Apparatus for covering a large land area with wide width, flexible sheeting, comprising: an elongated rotatable framework adapted for mounting engagement into the end of a movable work arm of a powered construction vehicle, and including an elongated support member; a downwardly extending bushing assembly supported at one end section of said support member and having a pivotable free lower end section; a downwardly extending elongated bearing arm assembly pivotably secured to the other end section of said support member; an arbor assembly including an elongated mandrel sized and shaped for receiving and supporting a roll of sheeting and having one end thereof journalled in said pivotable lower end of said bushing assembly and its opposite other end removably received in a lower end section of said bearing arm assembly; and wherein when said bearing arm assembly is pivoted away from said other end section of said support member, said mandrel is released from said bearing arm assembly and is pivoted downwardly and when said bearing arm assembly is pivoted toward said other end section of said support member, said other end of said mandrel is received in said lower end section of said bearing arm assembly. | 43,194 |
9,136,710 | 1. A method for converting power from a photovoltaic (PV) panel having substrings of PV cells, the method comprising: converting power from a first substring of the PV panel to generate a first DC output having a fixed portion in series with a variable portion; converting power from a second substring of the PV panel to generate a second DC output having a fixed portion in series with a variable portion; and combining the first and second DC outputs to generate a combined DC output. | 36,264 |
8,648,248 | 1. A photovoltaic assembly comprising: a photovoltaic cell having a light incident surface and a mounting surface thereon, an array of conductive lines being disposed over the light incident surface, each conductive line having a predetermined line width substantially equal to a width dimension “g”, adjacent conductive lines in the array being separated from each other by a pitch dimension “p”; an optical element, the optical element having: a layer of an adhesive material having an index of refraction n the optical element being positioned with respect to the photovoltaic cell such that substantially all of the conductive lines on the light incident surface of the cell lie within a respective groove formed on the light output surface of the optical element, the optical element being improved in that it is operative to collect light incident upon the light incident surface thereof at an incident angle β up to a maximum operating angle β the improved optical element being characterized in that: | 11,532 |
9,502,446 | 1. A method of preparing a poly-silicon thin film transistor (TFT) which comprises a doped region, comprising the following steps: forming a poly-silicon layer on a substrate, and forming an active layer by a patterning process; forming a first insulating layer covering the active layer; forming, by a patterning process, via holes exposing the active layer in the first insulating layer at preset positions for forming a source electrode and a drain electrode in subsequent steps; using only the first insulating layer having the via holes and directly contacting the active layer as a mask without using a photoresist mask, doping the active layer through the via holes by a doping process to form a doped region; and forming a source-drain metal layer, and forming the source electrode and the drain electrode by a patterning process, forming a second insulating layer entirely covering the source electrode, the drain electrode and the first insulating layer having the via holes; and forming a gate metal layer over the second insulating layer, and forming a gate electrode by a patterning process of the gate metal layer, wherein the second insulating layer is provided between the source and drain electrodes and the gate electrode and the via holes do not extend into the second insulating layer. | 45,419 |
9,581,028 | 1. An air cooled turbine stator vane for a gas turbine engine, the stator vane comprising: an airfoil extending from an endwall; the airfoil being a hollow airfoil with a pressure side wall and a suction side wall extending from a leading edge region; an impingement cooling insert secured within the hollow airfoil; the impingement cooling insert having a plurality of cooling air supply channels extending in a chordwise direction of the airfoil and connected together by ribs; each cooling air supply channel including a row of impingement cooling holes directed to discharge impingement cooling air to a backside surface of the pressure side wall; and, each of the ribs including a row of impingement cooling holes directed to discharge impingement cooling air to a backside surface of the suction side wall. | 26,930 |
9,399,209 | 1. A catalyst for the oxidative conversion of hydrocarbon gases to produce carbon monoxide and hydrogen comprising: platinum-group metals, and an oxide composition; wherein the platinum-group metals include one or more of Pt, Pd, and Rh, and wherein the oxide composition is obtained from a sol of a mixture of Al, Si, and Zr hydroxides with particles of one or more of Ni, Mg and Ce oxides with a size of 5-30 nm. | 8,066 |
9,476,381 | 1. A piston for an internal combustion engine, comprising: a piston skirt with a centre axis; and a piston crown disposed adjacent a top of the piston skirt, the piston crown having a diameter D, wherein the piston crown includes: wherein the piston trough includes a piston trough wall with a base diameter and the least one recess with a height h within the piston trough wall, wherein the height h parallel to the direction of the centre axis satisfies the following requirement: | 49,521 |
8,573,111 | 1. An improvement in an active hydraulic down pressure system for an agricultural implement having down pressure cylinder structure and operable in an automatically controlled down pressure mode, the system adapted to be coupled to a source of hydraulic fluid under pressure through a multi-position selective control valve connected between the source and the down pressure system, the selective control valve having a neutral, a raise, a lower and a float position, the system also including: a cylinder structure, an adjustable pressure valve, having an input and an output, connected between the selective control valve and the cylinder structure for maintaining down pressure of the cylinder structure at a preselected level, and a fluid line connected to the fluid output on the source and to the input of the adjustable pressure valve, the fluid line providing a source of hydraulic fluid under pressure to the adjustable pressure valve independently of hydraulic fluid under pressure from the selective control valve so that the selective control valve is operable in the neutral position and the float position while the implement is operating in the automatically controlled down pressure mode, the improvement comprising: | 42,574 |
8,618,108 | 1. A method of making a cyclic triamine of the type comprising first and second nitrogen backbone atoms and an N-amino moiety pendant from at least one of the nitrogen backbone atoms, comprising the steps of: providing a polyfunctional compound comprising at least 4 amine moieties and, optionally, one or more nitrile moieties said polyfunctional compound being selected from the group a) b) one or more tetramines; and c) a polyamine having at least one nitrile moiety; and causing ring closure of the polyfunctional compound in the presence of a transamination catalyst under conditions effective to cause the polyfunctional compound to react with itself to form the cyclic triamine. | 20,206 |
8,448,424 | 1. A system including an integrated unit comprising: a selective catalytic reduction (SCR) unit coated with an iron-containing zeolite; and a particulate filter downstream the SCR unit and coated with a copper-containing zeolite SCR catalyst. | 41,472 |
8,679,893 | 1. A method for forming a semiconductor material on a substrate comprising: forming a first metal precursor film above a surface of the substrate, wherein the first metal precursor film comprises Cu, In, and Ga; converting at least a portion of the first metal precursor film to a chalcogenide film through heating the first metal precursor film in the presence of a chalcogen at a temperature between 100C and 700C during a first converting step in a reaction chamber; forming a second layer above the first metal precursor film, wherein the second layer comprises Al, wherein the second layer is formed while the substrate is within the reaction chamber; and converting the first metal precursor film and the second layer to a chalcogenide film through heating the first metal precursor film and the second layer in the presence of a chalcogen at a temperature between 100C and 700C during a second converting step within the reaction chamber. | 49,750 |
8,498,308 | 1. A method for modifying an open-loop rate adaptation method to produce a hybrid open loop/closed loop rate structure, comprising: receiving a first slot of a first multi-slot packet; decoding the first slot of the first multi-slot packet; and terminating transmission of remaining slots of the first multi-slot packet if the decoding is successful: if decoding of the first multi-slot packet is not successful, the method further comprising: | 11,337 |
8,989,772 | 1. A method of estimating time of arrival information associated with a wireless signal, the method comprising: receiving multiple occurrences of a reference signal; for each occurrence of the reference signal, determining a ratio of a largest peak to a mean of a plurality of other peaks; selecting a minimum ratio; based on the ratio, classifying a channel type as one of (a) a delay-spread channel type, and (b) a non-delay-spread channel type; selecting a time of arrival generator based on the channel type; and estimating the time of arrival information using the selected time of arrival generator. | 14,384 |
9,428,903 | 1. A tile hook and flashing assembly, comprising: (a) a lower flashing having a bottom end dimensioned to mate with a lower building tile, and be received over the lower building tile; (b) an upper flashing having a top end dimensioned to mate with an upper building tile, and be received under the upper building tile; (c) a tile hook, wherein a portion of the tile hook extends through an aperture passing between overlapping edges of the upper and lower flashings; and (d) a seal positioned within the aperture passing between the overlapping edges of the upper and lower flashings. | 33,948 |
8,920,974 | 1. A cathode material comprising a mixture of an oxide powder (a) defined below and oxide powders (b) consisting of a combination of an oxide powder (b1) defined below and an oxide powder (b2) defined below, wherein a mix ratio of the oxide powders (oxide powder (a):oxide powders (b)) is 50:50 to 90:10: [Oxide Powder (a)] an oxide powder represented by Formula 1 below: wherein 0.8≦x≦1.2, 0≦z≦0.3, 1.8≦t≦4.2, (0.8-m-z)≦y≦(2.2-m-z), 0≦m≦0.3, A is at least one selected from Mg and Ca, and D is at least one selected from the group consisting of Ti, Zr, Hf, V, Nb, Ta; Cr, Mo, W, Mn, Tc, Re, Fe, Ru, Os, Co, Rh, Ir, Ni, Pd, Pt, Cu, Au, Ag, Zn, Cd, Hg, B, Al, Ga, In, TI, C, Si, Ge, Sn, Pb, N, P, As, Sb and Bi; [Oxide Powder (b1)] an oxide powder represented by Formula 2a below: wherein 0.05≦a≦0.4, 0.1≦b≦0.4, 0.4≦1-a-b≦0.7, 0.95≦c≦1.05, 1.9≦c+d≦2.3; [Oxide Powder (b2)] an oxide powder which contains a transition metal mixture of Ni, Mn and Co, has an average oxidation number of all transition metals except for lithium, larger than +3 and satisfies Equations 3 and 4 below: wherein m(Ni)/m(Mn) is a molar ratio of nickel to manganese and m(Ni | 2,070 |
8,363,722 | 1. A method of image encoding in a video encoder, comprising: selecting initial reference blocks from distinct portions of image; predicting sets of blocks in the image successively over a plurality of stages based on a respectively plurality of templates, each of the plurality of templates including reference blocks selected from at least one of: the initial reference blocks; or previously encoded and reconstructed blocks of the image; and encoding the image in the video encoder using the initial reference blocks and the sets of blocks as predicted, wherein the plurality of templates used for the predicting are used iteratively starting from a weakest template for prediction to a strongest template for prediction and the number of reference blocks increases successively with the iteration of the plurality of templates. | 24,296 |
9,197,458 | 1. A method for operating a digital link, the method comprising: processing an input signal by a data slicer and a data decision feedback equalizer (DFE), the data DFE comprising a plurality of data weights; and processing the input signal by a crossing slicer and a crossing DFE, the crossing DFE comprising a plurality of crossing weights, a crossing weight of the plurality of crossing weights being equal to a value interpolated between a first data weight of the plurality of data weights and a second data weight of the plurality of data weights of data weights. | 32,407 |
9,230,505 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a transmitter including: wherein the transmitter to transmit the first encoded signal pair with first contacts of a connector and to transmit the second encoded signal pair with second contacts of the connector. | 28,117 |
9,509,503 | 1. A resource provider, comprising: one or more hardware processors configured to perform actions comprising: wherein the virtual server instance is configured to perform actions during at least one of an initial unencrypted boot process or an unencrypted pre-boot process, the actions performed by the virtual server instance comprising: | 47,834 |
8,466,193 | 1. A compound of Formula B: wherein: R X R R R each R or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, pharmaceutically acceptable N-oxide, or pharmaceutically acceptable thereof. | 26,373 |
8,677,488 | 1. A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack detection apparatus comprising: an information collecting unit configured to collect DDoS detection information including rate information about traffic change, variation of a first type flow and a Packet Per Second (PPS) for a second type flow, in which the rate information about traffic change is obtained using packet count of packets input per a unit time, flow count of flows input per the unit time and the byte count of bytes input per the unit time, the first type flow is defined by use of a target IP address, and the second type is defined by use of a target IP address, a source IP address and a type of protocols; and a testing unit configured to calculate a probability of occurrence of the DDoS attack by use of a first probability determined by the rate information about traffic change, a second probability determined by the variation of the first type flow and a third probability determined by the PPS for the second type flow and detect occurrence of the DDoS attack based on the probability of occurrence of the DDoS attack. | 49,254 |
9,498,219 | 1. A stapling system, comprising: a handle; a shaft extending from said handle; a disposable loading unit configured for operable attachment to said shaft; a battery; a staple cartridge comprising a plurality of staples removably stored therein; a translatable member configured to translate within said staple cartridge to eject said staples from said staple cartridge; and a rotary drive comprising a motor configured to drive said translatable member, wherein said rotary drive is configured to selectively receive electrical power from said battery only when said disposable loading unit is attached to said shaft. | 43,305 |
8,439,279 | 1. A portable natural stone waterfall with an integrated planter and water distribution system comprising: a planter for holding a living plant; a water distribution system attached to, but hydraulically separate from, said planter; a pedestal made from natural stone blocks, said pedestal built around said planter, and said pedestal having an external face, wherein said natural stone blocks are assembled into said pedestal by means of grout placed between said stone blocks; means for supplying water to said water distribution system; said water distribution system comprising; a water distribution chamber having an inlet and a multiplicity of outlets; wherein said pedestal has a top, and wherein a cap stone ring is mounted at the top of said pedestal, and wherein there are a multiplicity of openings in the grout between said cap stone ring and the top of said pedestal; and wherein an outlet ring is connected to said multiplicity of distribution tubes, said outlet ring located adjacent to said multiplicity of openings, wherein said water flows from said outlet ring, through said multiplicity of openings and down said face of said pedestal to create the appearance of a small natural stone waterfall and provide the sound of cascading water. | 6,080 |
8,446,166 | 1. An integrated circuit comprising: a state machine circuit; a first plurality of composite circuit elements and a second plurality of composite circuit elements adjacent to the first plurality of composite circuit elements, each composite circuit element of the first and second pluralities of composite circuit elements comprising an element interface and a circuit element of a plurality of circuit element types, a first composite circuit element of the first plurality of composite circuit elements configurable to perform a first function, a second composite circuit element of the first plurality of composite circuit elements configurable to perform a second function, a third composite circuit element of the second plurality of composite circuit elements configurable to perform the second function and to perform a third function; a plurality of queues to transfer a data word between the first plurality of composite circuit elements and the second plurality of composite circuit elements; and a first full interconnect bus coupling every output of the first plurality of composite circuit elements to every input of the first plurality of composite circuit elements and to the plurality of queues; wherein the first composite circuit element has a configurable first data link through the first full interconnect bus to the second composite circuit element for performance of a first data operation and a configurable second data link through a queue of the plurality of queues to the third composite circuit element for performance of a second data operation. | 20,723 |
8,440,991 | 1. A phase change memory device comprising: a phase change pattern; and a heating electrode contacted with the phase change pattern wherein the heating electrode includes a smart heating layer formed of at least one thermistor material that exhibits a positive temperature coefficient (PTC), wherein the thermistor material of the smart heating layer is selected from the group consisting a copper oxide-based material, and a nickel oxide-based material, wherein the heating electrode includes a conductive layer underneath the smart heating layer. | 12,035 |
8,535,914 | 1. A kit for conducting at least one of detection and diagnosis of gastric cancer, comprising: an array consisting of eleven probes immobilized on a solid support, the eleven probes being used for detecting eleven target genes; and a plurality of primer sets for amplifying by PCR a partial region of each of the eleven target genes, wherein the eleven target genes consist of: ten genes specific to gastric cancer cells selected from the group consisting of: trefoil factor 1 (TFF1); trefoil factor 2 (TFF2); fatty acid binding protein 1, liver (FABP1); cytokeratins 20 (CK20); mucin 2 (MUC2); carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA); tumor-associated calcium signal transducer 1 (TACSTD1); maspin (MASPIN); protease, serine, 4, (PRSS4); and olfactomedin 4 (GW112); and beta-actin (ACTB) which is a housekeeping gene and with which expression amounts of the other genes are compared, and wherein the kit comprises each of the following eleven combinations, each comprising one of the eleven probes and one of the plurality of primer sets: (Combination for detecting TFF1): Combination of a probe for detecting TFF1 consisting of a nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1 of the sequence listing and a primer set for amplifying TFF1 consisting of nucleotide sequences of SEQ ID NOS: 12 and 13 of the sequence listing, (Combination for detecting TFF2): Combination of a probe for detecting TFF2 consisting of a nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO: 2 of the sequence listing and a primer set for amplifying TFF2 consisting of nucleotide sequences of SEQ ID NOS: 14 and 15 of the sequence listing, (Combination for detecting FABP1): Combination of a probe for detecting FABP1 consisting of a nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO: 3 of the sequence listing and a primer set for amplifying FABP1 consisting of nucleotide sequences of SEQ ID NOS: 16 and 17 of the sequence listing, (Combination for detecting CK20): Combination of a probe for detecting CK20 consisting of a nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO: 4 of the sequence listing and a primer set for amplifying CK20 consisting of nucleotide sequences of SEQ ID NOS: 18 and 19 of the sequence listing, (Combination for detecting MUC2): Combination of a probe for detecting MUC2 consisting of a nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO: 5 of the sequence listing and a primer set for amplifying MUC2 consisting of nucleotide sequences of SEQ ID NOS: 26 and 27 of the sequence listing, (Combination for detecting CEA): Combination of a probe for detecting CEA consisting of a nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO: 6 of the sequence listing and a primer set for amplifying CEA consisting of nucleotide sequences of SEQ ID NOS: 20 and 21 of the sequence listing, (Combination for detecting TACSTD1): Combination of a probe for detecting TACSTD1 consisting of a nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO: 7 of the sequence listing and a primer set for amplifying TACSTD1 consisting of nucleotide sequences of SEQ ID NOS: 22 and 23 of the sequence listing, (Combination for detecting MASPIN): Combination of a probe for detecting MASPIN consisting of a nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO: 8 of the sequence listing and a primer set for amplifying MASPIN consisting of nucleotide sequences of SEQ ID NOS: 32 and 33 of the sequence listing, (Combination for detecting PRSS4): Combination of a probe for detecting PRSS4 consisting of a nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO: 9 of the sequence listing and a primer set for amplifying PRSS4 consisting of nucleotide sequences of SEQ ID NOS: 28 and 29 of the sequence listing, (Combination for detecting GW112): Combination of a probe for detecting GW112 consisting of a nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO: 10 of the sequence listing and a primer set for amplifying GW112 consisting of nucleotide sequences of SEQ ID NOS: 24 and 25 of the sequence listing, (Combination for detecting ACTB): Combination of a probe for detecting ACTB consisting of a nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO: 11 of the sequence listing and a primer set for amplifying ACTB consisting of nucleotide sequences of SEQ ID NOS: 30 and 31. | 21,193 |
8,346,759 | 1. A system in communication, comprising: a processor; and a computer readable storage medium including code executed by the processor to perform operations, the operations comprising: | 46,754 |
9,397,945 | 1. A user equipment (UE) operable to provide conditional physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource allocation in time division duplex (TDD) for a hybrid automatic retransmission re-quest-acknowledge (HARQ-ACK) transmission in a subframe n, having computer circuitry configured to: receive a downlink control channel within a prior specified subframe, wherein the prior specified subframe occurs in time before the subframe n; recognize that a downlink control channel type received within the prior specified subframe is a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) or an enhanced physical downlink control channel (EPDCCH); determine a PUCCH resource for the HARQ-ACK transmission using a lowest control channel element (CCE) index of the PDCCH when the received downlink control channel type is the PDCCH; and determine the PUCCH resource for the HARQ-ACK transmission using a lowest enhanced CCE (ECCE) index of the EPDCCH when the received downlink control channel type is the EPDCCH, wherein the prior specified subframe includes a subframe n−k, where kεK, where a downlink association set index K is defined in a Table 10.1.3.1-1 in a Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Long Term Evolution (LTE) standard Release 11 Technical Specification (TS) 36.213, and K includes a set of M elements {k wherein computer circuitry configured to determine the PUCCH resource using the lowest ECCE index of the EPDCCH is further configured to determine the PUCCH resource for the subframe n−k using a parameter, wherein the parameter is derived from an acknowledgement (ACK)/negative ACK (ACK/NACK) Resource Offset (ARO), and antenna port (AP), a UE specific starting offset value for an EPDCCH set, and an integer m, where a k | 13,510 |
8,611,247 | 1. In a wireless network having a plurality of access points, a method performed by a mobile device for selectively retrieving location information of the access points from an access point location server, the method comprising: negotiating a number of configuration parameters with the location server, wherein one of the configuration parameters comprises a geographic area parameter indicating a preferred retrieval area for the mobile device; determining whether the mobile device is in motion; if the mobile device is not in motion, requesting the location server to provide, in a private fetching operation, location information of access points that are visible to the mobile device; if the mobile device is in motion, requesting the location server to provide, in a public fetching operation, location information of access points that lie within the preferred retrieval area; determining when a current public fetching operation was requested by the mobile device; determining when a previous public fetching operation was requested by the mobile device; comparing a difference in time between the current public fetching operation request and the previous public fetching operation request with a refresh rate of the location server; and selectively reducing a size of the preferred retrieval area in response to the comparing. | 42,080 |
9,341,273 | 1. A sliding stem control valve comprising: a valve body having an inlet and an outlet fluidly connected through a passageway; a seat ring mounted in the passageway, a control element slidably disposed within the valve body, the control element and the valve seat cooperating to control fluid flow through the valve body; and a composite seal assembly having a composite seal ring located between a first backup ring and a second backup ring, a biasing element located adjacent the second backup ring, and a retainer ring holding the biasing element adjacent to the second backup ring, wherein the composite seal ring includes a body portion and a metal reinforcing ring embedded within the body portion and wherein the metal reinforcing ring has a Z-shaped cross-section completely embedded within the body portion. | 16,636 |
9,095,165 | 1. A method for treating an adult disease, comprising administering a composition consisting essentially of 5-aminolevulinic acid (ALA), its ester derivative or acyl derivative, or a salt thereof to a subject in need thereof, wherein adult disease is diabetes. | 19,963 |
9,304,825 | 1. A data processing system supporting a network interface device for connection to a network, the data processing system comprising: a plurality of sets of one or more data processing cores configured to receive process data received from the network, via the network interface device; and an operating system arranged to support at least one socket configured to accept said receive processed data, the data belonging to one of a plurality of data flows; wherein at least one socket is configured to have a plurality of queues, each queue of the plurality of queues dedicated to a respective one of the sets of data processing cores, a particular one of the sets of data processing cores including a processing core which receive processed said data of said one of the data flows, wherein state associated with said one data flow is provided in one of the queues dedicated to the particular set of data processing cores; and wherein an application thread executing at a particular processing core of the data processing system invokes an operation on the socket using state provided in a queue for the set of processing cores that includes the particular processing core. | 33,284 |
9,762,306 | 1. An apparatus, comprising: an electrical downtilt circuitry to determine an electrical downtilt angle for an antenna port selected from a number of antenna ports based on information from a user equipment (UE); and a codebook circuitry to select a codeword corresponding to the antenna port from a codebook and calculate a weight of an antenna array of an eNodeB (eNB) through inputting the electrical downtilt angle into the codeword, wherein the codebook has a first number of codewords, each of the codewords having a second number of elements to represent the weight of the antenna array, and wherein each of the codewords corresponds to each of the antenna ports and each of the elements corresponds to each antenna of the antenna array. | 38,950 |
9,187,861 | 1. A device for spreading a cable of carbon fibers or carbon yarns, comprising: a disk mounted on a rotary shaft and provided with at least one comb adapted to comb a cable of carbon fibers or carbon yarns in a direction substantially parallel to the longitudinal direction of the fibers or yarns of the cable, said comb including a plurality of teeth protruding radially toward the outside of the disk; means for rotating the disk around its rotary axis; and means for adjusting the orientation of the teeth of the comb including a pivoting link, wherein the comb is mounted on the disk by means of the pivoting link so as to make it possible to adjust the orientation of the teeth of said comb. | 45,261 |
8,811,269 | 1. A method for transmitting a plurality of Scheduling Assignments (SA) through a downlink control channel by a Node B in a wireless communication system supporting carrier aggregation, the method comprising the steps of: transmitting to a User Equipment (UE) a first SA intended for a first Component Carrier (CC) using a first set of Control Channel Elements (CCEs); and transmitting to the UE a second SA intended for a second CC using a second set of CCEs, wherein a location of the second set of CCEs is determined from a location of the first set of CCEs, and wherein a location of a first CCE included in the second set of CCEs is shifted by a predetermined number of CCEs relative to a location of a first CCE included in the first set of CCEs, and wherein the location of the first CCE included in the second set of CCEs, shifted from the location of the first CCE included in the first set of CCEs, is determined by using a CC indicator. | 12,890 |
9,533,589 | 1. A wireless power receiver apparatus, comprising: a coil configured to wirelessly receive power via a magnetic field generated by a transmitter, the wirelessly received power at a level sufficient for powering or charging a load; and a housing comprising: | 26,965 |
8,792,740 | 1. An image encoding method comprising the steps of: receiving a coding unit to be encoded; performing one of inter-frame prediction and intra-frame prediction on the coding unit to generate a prediction block; generating a residual prediction block based on the generated prediction block and the coding unit; and applying one transform matrix among a plurality of predetermined transform matrixes to the generated residual prediction block to transform the residual prediction block, wherein the step of applying one transform matrix among a plurality of predetermined transform matrixes to the generated residual prediction block to transform the residual prediction block includes, in a case where the intra-frame prediction is performed and the transformed residual prediction block has a size of 4×4 or 8×8 pixels, applying all of 9 transform matrixes to each residual prediction block and then transforming the residual prediction block by applying the one transform matrix among the plurality of predetermined transform matrixes. | 49,981 |
8,367,573 | 1. A glass composition being substantially free from lead and bismuth and containing phosphor oxide and up to 45% by weight of V 2 O 5 as main components and manganese oxide and barium oxide, wherein a sintered glass obtained by sintering the glass composition exhibits a resistivity of 10 9 Ωcm or more at 25° C. | 2,811 |
8,974,005 | 1. A child restraint harness comprising: first and second shoulder straps; a first chest clip connector held with the first shoulder strap and having an engaging part the first shoulder strap passing through the first chest clip connector; and a second chest clip connector held with the second shoulder strap and having a catch structure, the second shoulder strap passing through the second chest clip connector, the engaging part being operable to engage and lock with the catch structure selectively at a first position to hold the first and second shoulder straps apart from each other at a first distance, and at a second position to hold the first and second shoulder straps apart from each other at a second distance greater than the first distance. | 31,380 |
9,797,606 | 1. A system for preventing freeze damage to heating system pipes that carry a liquid used to heat a heated space and that are exposed to freezing temperatures outside of the heated space, comprising: a hardware controller configured to: | 13,326 |
9,674,803 | 1. A method of synchronizing compression for communication between a user equipment (UE) and a serving node, comprising: determining that a compressor memory of a compressor and a decompressor memory of a decompressor are out-of-synchronization based on a checksum failure; and resetting the compressor memory and the decompressor memory to a predetermined state in response to determining that the compressor memory and the decompressor memory are out-of-synchronization, wherein the compressor memory and the decompressor memory are synchronized at the predetermined state, wherein resetting the compressor memory and the decompressor memory to the predetermined state further comprises initiating a Radio Link Control (RLC) RESET procedure based on the checksum failure, and wherein the RLC RESET procedure comprises flushing the compressor memory and the decompressor memory. | 45,233 |
9,736,942 | 1. A coil component comprising: a drum-shaped core having a pair of flange portions and a winding core positioned between the pair of flange portions; a plurality of terminal electrodes formed on each of the flange portions; and a plurality of wires wound around the winding core and connected to the terminal electrodes, wherein each of the flange portions includes: the mounting surface has a plurality of convex portions and at least one concave portion positioned between the plurality of convex portions, each of the terminal electrodes is formed at least on an associated one of the convex portions such that the terminal electrodes are isolated by the concave portion, the plurality of convex portions includes a first convex portion closest to the first side surface, the first convex portion having a third side surface that is substantially parallel to the first side surface, the plurality of convex portions includes a second convex portion closest to the second side surface, the second convex portion having a fourth side surface that is substantially parallel to the second side surface, and a level difference between the first side surface and the third side surface is larger than a level difference between the second side surface and the fourth side surface. | 19,439 |
8,415,072 | 1. A membrane electrode assembly for a fuel cell comprising: an electrolyte membrane; an anode catalyst layer and a cathode catalyst layer, each being formed on a respective side of the electrolyte membrane; an anode current collector formed on the anode catalyst layer and a cathode current collector formed on the cathode catalyst layer, wherein the anode current collector and the cathode current collector each independently comprise at least one transition metal selected from the group consisting of Au, Ag, Al, Ni, Cu, Pt, Ti, Mn, Zn, Fe, Sn, alloys thereof and an electrically conductive polymer; and an anode diffusion layer formed on the anode current collector and a cathode diffusion layer formed on the cathode current collector, wherein the anode diffusion layer and the cathode diffusion layer are electrically nonconductive. | 8,336 |
9,841,477 | 1. Method for optimization of a performance of a multi-channel transmitter comprising several transmit elements, wherein the method comprises: a) exciting the transmit elements of the multi-channel transmitter by electric excitation signals comprising a specific power, wherein the power of the excitation signals is partially reflected by the transmit elements of the multi-channel transmitter; b) determining a reflected power which is reflected by the multi-channel transmitter during excitation of the transmit elements; c) determining reflection coefficients S d) determining reflection coefficients S e) calculating a performance criterion representing the performance of the multi-channel transmitter, wherein the performance criterion is based on f) tuning the multi-channel transmitter so that the performance criterion is optimized, with: EF: Optimization criterion w w S S w P p: is a selected number. | 12,421 |
8,501,130 | 1. A system for recovering CO 2 from gas to be processed containing CO 2 , comprising: a CO a regeneration apparatus configured to heat the absorbent that has absorbed CO a condensation apparatus configured to cool CO a condensed water distribution apparatus configured to monitor changes in concentration of the CO | 32,966 |
9,184,442 | 1. A secondary battery comprising: a current collector; and a positive electrode mixture layer coated on the current collector, wherein the positive electrode mixture layer includes a positive electrode active material and an electrically conductive material, the positive electrode active material is made up of secondary particles resulting from aggregation of a plurality of primary particles of a lithium-transition metal oxide, the secondary particles each have a holed hollow structure that has: a hollow portion; and a through-hole penetrating the secondary particles so as to connect the hollow portion and an outside of the secondary particles, a ratio (Vb/Va) of a volume Vb of holes formed inside the positive electrode mixture layer to an apparent volume Va of the positive electrode mixture layer satisfies 0.30≦(Vb/Va), and in a micropore distribution of differential micropore volume with respect to a micropore diameter as measured by a mercury intrusion method, the positive electrode mixture layer has a first peak at which a micropore diameter D1 satisfies D1≦0.25 μm and a second peak at which a micropore diameter D2 is greater than the micropore diameter D1 at the first peak. | 12,087 |
8,678,811 | 1. An apparatus for taking out a molded product, comprising: a metal elevating shaft; a molded product retaining head attached to an end of the elevating shaft; and a fiber-reinforced plastic shaped material fixed with an adhesive onto each of a pair of opposed sidewalls of the elevating shaft that are provided opposite to each other in a direction orthogonal to an axial direction of the elevating shaft, the fiber-reinforced plastic shaped material being made by providing a fiber-reinforced section formed of a plurality of warp threads and a plurality of weft threads, impregnating the fiber-reinforced section with a thermosetting resin, and curing the thermosetting resin, wherein the plurality of warp threads and the plurality of weft threads are disposed on a surface of the sidewalls such that the plurality of warp threads are juxtaposed in a direction orthogonal to the axial direction of the elevating shaft and extend in the axial direction and the plurality of weft threads are juxtaposed in the axial direction and extend in a direction intersecting the axial direction. | 5,282 |
8,368,552 | 1. A method, comprising: determining, at a first data processing device, a first position of a manhole cover; and in response to determining that the manhole cover is moved to a second position, automatically capturing an image of an area around the second position. | 17,751 |
9,718,129 | 1. A method for forming a three-dimensional article through successive fusion of parts of a powder bed, which parts corresponds to successive cross sections of the three-dimensional article, said method comprising the steps of: providing a predetermined amount of powder on a powder table for forming a first powder layer on a surface; distributing said predetermined amount of powder initially from said powder table to and over said surface for forming said first powder layer on said surface; directing an energy beam over said first powder layer causing said first powder layer to fuse in selected locations according to a model to form a first cross section of said three-dimensional article; capturing at least one image of a shape of at least one portion of said predetermined amount of powder that has yet to be initially distributed, said at least one image being captured with a camera at least one time during said initial distribution of another portion of said predetermined amount of powder from said powder table to said surface, said at least one image being captured with the camera prior to distribution of an entirety of all portions of said predetermined amount of powder over said surface and prior to removal of any portions of said predetermined amount of powder from said surface; and comparing at least one value of at least one parameter in said image detected by said camera with a corresponding reference parameter value, wherein the at least one parameter is associated with the shape of the at least one portion of said predetermined amount of powder that has yet to be initially distributed. | 27,800 |
8,509,685 | 1. A transceiver comprising: a RF analog circuitry that receives and processes analog RF signals from an antenna; an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) that receives and converts the processed analog RF signals to digital RF signals; a digital circuitry that includes a RF power detector that receives the digital RF signals and determines a RF power of the analog RF signals from the antenna based on the digital RF signals; and a computing device that receives the RF power of the received analog RF signals and manages the power consumption of the transceiver based on the RF power, wherein the computing device instructs the RF analog circuitry to operate in a page scanning mode and/or an inquiry scanning mode, wherein in the page scanning mode and/or inquiry scanning mode the computing device reduces the power consumption of the RF analog circuitry by reducing current to at least some or all electrical components in the RF analog circuitry to their respective minimal current limits based on the RF power. | 44,836 |
9,523,165 | 1. A process of manufacturing a bed covering system comprising the steps of: joining a lower sheet and a side panel assembly shaped to fit upon and substantially cover the top, sides and a portion of the underside of any mattress by stitching the side panel assembly to a peripheral edge of the lower sheet to form a lower layer assembly; joining the lower layer assembly and an expansion panel by stitching the expansion panel to an exterior edge of the side panel assembly on opposite sides of the bed; the side panel assembly configured to place the expansion panel along a side of the bed, said joining the lower layer assembly and an expansion panel by stitching at least one attachment means to two side panels thereby forming a releasable side pocket panel, and stitching a releasable pocket layer to said releasable expansion panel thereby forming a releasable expansion panel assembly; joining an upper sheet to the expansion panel so as to attach the expansion panel both the lower sheet and upper sheet forming a vented area at a foot end of the mattress on a transverse side adjacent the side panel assembly on opposite sides of the bed by said joining of said upper sheet to the expansion panel as joined to said exterior edge of the side panel assembly on opposite sides of the bed; and joining the at least one attachment means to the exterior edge of the side panel and the upper sheet so as to allow opening and closing the bed covering system, whereby said joining of said at least one attachment means is on at least one of said opposite sides of the bed. | 30,362 |
9,372,437 | 1. A developing device comprising: a developer carrying member for carrying and feeding a developer; a regulating portion for regulating an amount of the developer carried on said developer carrying member, wherein said regulating portion includes a flat portion including a closest position where said developer carrying member and said regulating portion are closest to each other; and a guiding portion for guiding a flow of the developer, wherein said guiding portion is connected with an upper end of the flat portion in an upstream side of said regulating portion, with respect to a developer feeding direction, wherein said guiding portion and said regulating portion are integrally molded, and wherein in a cross section perpendicular to an axial direction of said developer carrying member, when coordinates are set such that the upper end of the flat portion is an origin E, a direction which is parallel to a contact flat plane contacting the surface of the developer carrying member and the closest position and which is opposite to the developer feeding direction is a positive side of an X-axis, a direction which is perpendicular to the X-axis and which extends away from said developer carrying member is a positive side of a Y-axis, and a closest distance between said regulating portion and said developer carrying member is G, in a region where a component of the X-axis is 3G or less, said guiding portion if formed by a curve or rectilinear line of 0.2 mm or less, so that a gap between said guiding portion and the contact flat plane monotonically decreases toward the downstream side of the developer feeding direction, and said guiding portion has at least a concavely curved surface such that a rate of a decrease in the gap between said guiding portion and the contact flat plane increases toward a downstream side of the developer feeding direction in the region. | 44,929 |
9,831,893 | 1. An information processing device comprising: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and the processor configured to: | 11,926 |
9,429,573 | 1. A marine or freshwater pathogen detection system, comprising: a marine or freshwater pathogen sensor comprising a high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) on a substrate and at least one capture reagent for a marine or freshwater pathogen on a gate region of the HEMT; a wireless transmitter on the substrate and connected to the HEMT for transmitting an output of the marine or freshwater pathogen sensor from a testing location to a receiving location; and a waterproof packaging encapsulating the marine or freshwater sensor and the wireless transmitter, wherein the HEMT is configured such that a change in drain current while a constant drain bias is applied and the gate region is contacted with water being tested indicates that a marine or freshwater pathogen is present in the water being tested, and wherein the marine or freshwater pathogen detection system generates a visual output or an audio output indicating detection of pathogens at the testing location. | 1,168 |
8,540,210 | 1. A low friction and gradually opening butterfly valve vane comprising a tilted disk having an upper half 2 a and a lower half 2 b separated by a central hub 4 dissecting said vane, said hub having a central bore 5 to accommodate a shaft, each disk portion having a horizontal rim 6 extending beyond the thickness of the disks and comprising a flattened portion 7 and two rounded edges 8 along most of the outer circumference of said vane, and wherein the horizontal length of said rims diminish along the circumference of the vane starting from the top of the vane towards the hub and likewise from the bottom of the vane towards the hub and wherein the maximum length of the flattened section 7 of each of the rims 6 extends from the intersection of said flattened portions with an axis 13 centering the tilted vane to a vertical axis 12 , both axes passing through the center of bore 5 , and both flattened rim portions 7 are configured to engage a surface 11 of a butterfly valve passage 10 , when the vane is in the closed valve position, and wherein at least one disk portion together with an extended portion of said rim forming a recess 14 capable to impinge fluid flowing through the valve passage when the valve is in the open position. | 26,259 |
8,474,321 | 1. A device for illuminating a dial of a gauge comprising: a) a dial extending along an axis between an upper portion and a base portion, the upper portion being positioned atop the base portion and comprising a first surface including indicia, the first surface extending parallel to the axis; b) a cover configured and dimensioned to fit around the upper portion and the base portion of the dial, the cover comprising a second surface extending perpendicular to the axis that covers the first surface; c) a light source mounted to the second surface and positioned to face the first surface so as to illuminate the first surface when said cover is fitted around the dial; and d) a regulator electrically connected to the light source, said regulator switching on said light source either (i) automatically in response to actuation of the gauge, or (ii) manually in response to actuation of a regulator first switch associated with said regulator. | 27,349 |
9,232,625 | 1. An inverter device comprising: a switching device configured to perform on-off switching of an input voltage in accordance with on-off control provided by a control circuit; a step-up transformer including an excitation winding and an output winding and configured to apply an excitation current to the excitation winding during a period in which the switching device is on but output an output voltage exhibiting a half-wave alternating-current waveform from the output winding during a period in which the switching device is off; an input-voltage detector configured to detect a state of the input voltage by detecting a voltage value of the input voltage; an output voltage detector configured to detect a state of the output voltage by detecting an instantaneous voltage value of the output voltage; an output-produced-period detector configured to detect an output produced period during which the output voltage is produced based on the output-voltage detection signal output from the output-voltage detector; a comparator configured to detect an output-high period during which the output-voltage detection signal exceeds the input-voltage detection signal by making comparison between the input-voltage detection signal output from the input-voltage detector and the output-voltage detection signal output from the output-voltage detector; and a shifting unit configured to shift the information indicating the output-high period detected by the comparator to a next period in which the output-produced-period detector detects absence of the output produced period, wherein the control circuit is configured to adjust the period in which the switching device is to be switched on based on information indicating a shifted output-high period, the shifted output-high period being the output-high period shifted by the shifting unit. | 20,042 |
9,852,621 | 1. A method for a crossing aid on a mobile device, the method comprising: determining, by a first computer processor, a unique ID associated with a crossing signal, wherein determining the unique ID associated with the crossing signal includes scanning a machine-readable tag of the crossing signal via near field communication; searching, by the first computer processor, for a wireless access point (WAP) having the unique ID; determining, by the first computer processor, whether the WAP having the unique ID is found, wherein determining whether the WAP having the unique ID is found includes determining a service set identifier (SSID) of the WAP includes the unique ID extracted from a machine-readable tag of the crossing signal; responsive to determining that the WAP having the unique ID is found, determining, by the first computer processor, haptic feedback. | 40,024 |
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