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9,599,499 | 1. A computer implemented method for controlling flow of fluid by predicting linepack delays, the method comprising: receiving, by a processing unit of a supervisory control and data acquisition system, temporal sensor measurements of a first fluid-delivery pipeline network, wherein the temporal sensor measurements comprises a series of sensor measurements from each respective station from the stations of the fluid-delivery pipeline network; generating, by the processing unit, a causality graph of the first fluid-delivery pipeline network based on the temporal sensor measurements, wherein the causality graph comprises a set of nodes and a set of links, wherein the nodes are representative of the stations, and a pair of nodes is connected by a link in response to the pair of stations being temporally dependent; determining, by the processing unit, a topological network of the stations based on the causality graph, wherein the topological network identifies a temporal delay between a pair of stations in the first fluid-delivery pipeline network, wherein determining the topological network comprises: generating, by the processing unit, a temporal delay prediction model based on the topological network associated with the first fluid-delivery pipeline network; predicting, by the processing unit, the linepack delays of a second fluid-delivery pipeline network based on the temporal delay prediction model generated using the first fluid-delivery pipeline network, wherein the second fluid-delivery pipeline network is a non-monitored pipeline network; and compressing, by a compressor station of the second fluid-delivery pipeline network, fluid being transported by the second fluid-delivery pipeline network based on the predicted linepack delays to maintain at least a predetermined pressure in the second fluid-delivery pipeline network. | 30,906 |
9,527,504 | 1. A method for driving a vehicle and starting a combustion engine in a propulsion system of the vehicle, wherein the propulsion system comprises: a combustion engine including an output shaft, an electric machine including a stator and a rotor, a gearbox including an input shaft, a planetary gear comprising three components including a sun gear, a ring gear and a planet wheel carrier, the output shaft of the combustion engine is directly connected and secured to a first of the three components of the planetary gear such that rotation of the output shaft of the combustion engine causes rotation of the first component, the input shaft of the gearbox connected to a third of the three components of the planetary gear such that rotation of the input shaft of the gearbox causes rotation of the third component and the rotor of the electric machine is connected to a second one of the three components of the planetary gear, such that rotation of the rotor causes rotation of the second component, locking means movable between a locking position in which two of the three components of the planetary gear are interlocked for causing the three components to rotate as a unit with a same rotational speed and a releasing position in which the three components are allowed to rotate with different respective rotational speeds, and a component brake being so located and being movable between a braking position in which the rotation of the first component of the planetary gear is braked by the component brake, and an open position in which rotation of the first component of the planetary gear is not affected by the component brake; the method comprising steps of: a) driving the vehicle forward using the electric machine by engaging a reverse gear in the gearbox while the electric machine drives the third component of the planetary gear to rotate with a negative rotational speed, with the locking means in the releasing position and with the component brake in the braking position, and b) moving the component brake to the open position, such that the output shaft of the combustion engine, via said the first component of the planetary gear, is rotated with a positive rotational speed, such that the combustion engine is in condition to be started. | 33,742 |
9,111,838 | 1. A method comprising: perturbing a sensor with photons to create an extraordinary optoconductance (EOC) effect by the sensor, wherein the sensor comprises (1) a metal shunt, and (2) a planar semiconductor material in electrical contact with the metal shunt, the metal shunt located on a surface of the semiconductor material, thereby defining a semiconductor/metal interface for passing a flow of current between the semiconductor material and the metal shunt in response to the sensor being under an electrical bias, wherein a portion of that semiconductor material surface is not covered by the metal shunt, wherein the semiconductor material and the metal shunt lie in different planes that are substantially parallel planes, the semiconductor/metal interface thereby being parallel to the plane of semiconductor material, and wherein the semiconductor/metal interface is configured to exhibit a change in resistance corresponding to the EOC effect in response to the perturbing step. | 49,021 |
8,900,092 | 1. A planetary gear mechanism for converting a slow rotational movement of a drive shaft into a rapid rotational movement of an output shaft, the planetary gear mechanism comprising: a planetary gear carrier; a planetary gear; and a bearing arrangement arranged on the planetary gear carrier and configured to rotatably mount the planetary gear, the bearing arrangement including: | 42,953 |
8,494,220 | 1. A temporal thermal method for detecting thermal inertia differences comprising: using an empirical method to determine a first imaging time and a second imaging time; imaging two different IR wavelength bands at the first imaging time at a first location and a second location to obtain a first temperature map; imaging the two different IR wavelength bands at the second imaging time at the first location and the second location to obtain a second temperature map; and using a computer to determine the existence of a thermal inertia difference between the first location and the second location using the first and second temperature maps, wherein the first imaging time occurs before the first location reaches its daily low thermal response or annual low thermal response, and wherein the second imaging time occurs before the first location reaches its daily high thermal response or annual high thermal response. | 18,390 |
9,557,966 | 1. A method for generating a predictive data structure for an application when operating offline in a network connected data processing system, the application comprising source code having an execution path, the method comprising: determining an exit point within the source code of the application, wherein the exit point is a line of code at which the source code could not execute because of a determined loss of network activity; determining, from the exit point, at least one prior conditional statement preceding the exit point; identifying one or more branches of the at least one prior conditional statement; determining, for each respective branch, a respective data element associated with the at least one prior conditional statement and corresponding to a respective branch of the at least one prior conditional statement; generating a data structure for the at least one prior conditional statement containing each respective determined data element; replacing the at least one prior conditional statement with a pointer to the generated data structure for the at least one prior conditional statement; determining from the exit point, an execution path comprising at least one conditional statement; identifying one or more branches of the at least one identified conditional statement and for each identified branch determining an expected response by testing each branch of the conditional statement with one or more logic rules in order to determine the expected response; for each determined expected response, generating a data structure from the response; continuing along the execution path of the source code from the exit point and replacing each request for a resource in the source code with a pointer to the generated data structure; and executing the source code with the pointer to the generated data structure from the determined exit point. | 6,372 |
9,560,586 | 1. A method for communicating in a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) system, the method comprising: receiving, by a relay station (STA) from an Access Point (AP), a first beacon frame including a first traffic indication map (TIM) element; generating, by the relay STA, a second beacon frame by including a part of the first TIM element, which is allocated for a receiving STA; and transmitting, by the relay STA, the second beacon frame to the receiving STA after receiving the first beacon frame, wherein the second beacon frame includes a second TIM element generated based on the first TIM element, wherein the first TIM element includes a first bitmap indicating whether buffered data for at least one STA associated with the AP is present or not, and wherein the second TIM element includes a second bitmap indicating whether buffered data for the receiving STA is present or not, wherein the method further comprises: | 45,821 |
9,636,986 | 1. A driveline for a vehicle, comprising: a power source; a planetary gearset having a sun gear, a carrier having a plurality of planet gears rotatably disposed thereon, and a ring gear, the power source in driving engagement with the ring gear; a lockout clutch disposed axially within the planetary gearset, axially between the ring gear and the carrier, the lockout clutch positioned to place the planetary gearset in a locked out condition when the lockout clutch is placed in an engaged position; a transmission in selective driving engagement with the carrier; and a kinetic energy recovery system comprising an accessory clutch and a flywheel, wherein the accessory clutch facilitates selective driving engagement between the flywheel and the sun gear when the accessory clutch is placed in an engaged position, and the lockout clutch and the accessory clutch are selectively engaged to facilitate a transfer of energy from one of the transmission and the flywheel to a remaining one of the transmission and the flywheel. | 43,170 |
8,608,136 | 1. A dust seal structure for a valve stem in a rotary throttle valve carburetor, having a cylindrical throttle valve provided with a metering needle and a throttle through-hole, and disposed perpendicularly with respect to an air intake passage in a carburetor main body; and a fuel nozzle disposed on the central axis of the throttle valve, made to open into the throttle through-hole, and provided with the metering needle inserted therein, so that the valve stem of the throttle valve, which protrudes at one end from the shaft hole formed in the cover body of the valve hole in the carburetor body, is caused to rotate in accordance with the operation of the accelerator pedal, whereby the throttle valve moves in the direction of a central axis thereof while rotating as a whole, and controls an airflow rate and a fuel flow rate; wherein a dust-proof member composed of a sealing ring is fitted within the shaft hole formed in the body between the valve stem and the shaft hole. | 47,299 |
8,580,635 | 1. A method of replacing semiconductor material with metal, said method comprising: forming a patterned semiconductor layer on a dielectric layer; forming a field dielectric layer filling between shapes in the patterned semiconductor layer; depositing metal on said shapes; patterning said deposited metal; and annealing said patterned semiconductor layer shapes and said patterned metal, said patterned metal replacing semiconductor in each of said patterned semiconductor layer shapes. | 30,742 |
8,945,878 | 1. A method of producing a cell library expressing heterodimeric molecules on the cell surface, comprising: (a) fusing a first population of cells that express a first polypeptide with a second population of cells that comprise a plurality of polynucleotides that encode for a plurality of second polypeptides; wherein the first polypeptide comprises (i) an extracellular portion comprising an immunoglobulin heavy chain constant region comprising CH2 and CH3 domains; and (ii) a non-immunoglobulin transmembrane portion, wherein the first polypeptide comprises a sequence at least 80% identical to SEQ ID NO:10, SEQ ID NO:12, SEQ ID NO:22, SEQ ID NO:23, SEQ ID NO:26, SEQ ID NO:28, SEQ ID NO:30, SEQ ID NO:31, or SEQ ID NO:32; and wherein the second polypeptide comprises an immunoglobulin heavy chain constant region comprising CH2 and CH3 domains; (b) incubating the fused cells to allow expression of heterodimeric molecules on the surface of the cells, wherein the heterodimeric molecules comprise the first polypeptide and one of the second polypeptides. | 27,066 |
9,139,592 | 1. A pharmaceutical composition comprising the compound of the formula: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. | 16,384 |
8,376,199 | 1. An apparatus configured to couple with a user's belt for detachably engaging a multi-function tool, said apparatus comprising: an elongate body member having opposing first and second ends; an upstanding boss member provided in close proximity to said second end of said elongate body member configured to receive within a belt hole on a user's belt; an elongate rod member extending substantially parallel from said second end of said elongate body member and spaced therefrom to receive a user's belt strap therebetween; and engagement structure provided on said elongate body member configured to detachably engage said multi-function tool, wherein said multi-function tool includes opposing front and rear surfaces with said rear surface including a channel portion configured to slidably receive at least a portion of said elongate body member of said apparatus wherein said belt clipping member is disposed in said channel portion. | 20,510 |
9,654,032 | 1. Torque control apparatus for an electric vehicle, the apparatus comprising: a controller coupled to receive a torque demand signal from a driver user interface and a sensor signal from a motor speed sensor, wherein the sensor signal is based on an angular speed of an electric motor and comprises an indication of a rate of change of angular speed of the motor; wherein the controller is configured to provide a modified torque demand signal by subtracting a subtraction signal from the torque demand signal, wherein the subtraction signal is based on the sensor signal and has a magnitude, and wherein the controller further comprises: a limiter that limits the magnitude of the subtraction signal to not exceed a reference signal level; and a sign checker that compares the torque demand signal with the modified torque demand signal and outputs a substitute torque demand signal based on the comparison. | 13,778 |
8,698,893 | 1. A device for monitoring an area of coverage on a work tool, comprising: a sensor, comprising: | 49,097 |
9,825,320 | 1. A process for the manufacture of a membrane electrode unit (MEU) having (i) two gas diffusion layers that are each in contact with a catalyst layer and being separated by a polymer electrolyte membrane, (ii) both surfaces of the polymer electrolyte membrane that is in contact with a catalyst layer are provided each with a polymer frame, each of said polymer frames having an inner area which is provided on the surfaces of the polymer electrolyte membrane, and an outer area which extends outwards and which is not provided on the surface of a gas diffusion layer, comprising the following steps a) placing a base on which the manufacture is performed, said base having holes for placing an alignment tooling and said holes being arranged at least at the peripheral edges of the MEU being manufactured, b) placing a tray with matching alignment tooling holes on top of the base provided in step a), c) placing pins as alignment tooling in the alignment tooling holes, said pins insert through the holes of the tray into the base, said pins protrude rectangular of the base and tray, d) placing a first polymer sheet with matching alignment tooling holes on top of the tray, said polymer sheet covering at least the entire area of the tray otherwise coming into contact with the two gas diffusion layer furnished later, e) placing a first shim frame with matching alignment tooling holes on top of the polymer sheet provided in step d), f) placing a first gas diffusion layer being in contact with a catalyst layer into the aperture formed by the shim frame provided in step e), said gas diffusion layer having the same size or a size being slightly smaller than the aperture size and form as the aperture and said catalyst layer facing upwards, g) placing a first polymer frame subgasket with matching alignment tooling holes on top of the arrangement of step f), said polymer frame subgasket overlapping with the peripheral area of the gas diffusion layer/catalyst layer being and thereby creating an aperture being smaller that the aperture formed by the shim frame, h) placing a cutting plate with matching alignment tooling holes on top of the arrangement of step g), said cutting plate having a frame shape and said frame having an aperture which is at least about 1 mm smaller than the size of the polymer electrolyte membrane to be furnished subsequently, i) placing the polymer electrolyte membrane over the aperture of the cutting frame, said membrane covering the entire aperture and overlapping the peripheral area of the aperture by at least about 1 mm, j) placing an alignment cutting die with matching alignment tooling holes on top of the arrangement of step i), said cutting die having a cutting die at the peripheral area, k) pressing the alignment cutting towards the polymer electrolyte membrane and cutting off thereby the area of the polymer electrolyte membrane extending outwards of the cutting die and removing the alignment cutting and polymer electrolyte membrane scrap, l) removing the cutting plate and leaving the cut polymer electrolyte membrane overlapping with the peripheral area of the polymer frame subgasket, m) placing a second polymer frame subgasket with matching alignment tooling holes on top of the arrangement of step 1), said second polymer frame subgasket overlapping with the peripheral area of the polymer electrolyte membrane and thereby creating an aperture, said second polymer frame subgasket having an outer area extending outwards and not being provided with the surface of a second gas diffusion layer to be furnished later or polymer electrolyte membrane, n) placing a second shim frame with matching alignment tooling holes, said second shim frame overlaps with the peripheral area of the subgasket, leaving an inner area to which the gas diffusion layer will be bonded, preferably said overlap being about 1 mm to about 5 mm, o) placing a second gas diffusion layer being in contact with a catalyst layer into the aperture formed by the shim frame provided in step n), said gas diffusion layer having the same size or a size being slightly smaller than the aperture size and form as the aperture and said catalyst layer facing downwards towards the polymer electrolyte membrane, p) placing a second polymer sheet with matching alignment tooling holes on top of the tray, said polymer sheet covering at least the entire area of the second gas diffusion layer furnished in step o), q) removing the alignment tooling pins placed in step c) from the alignment tooling holes, r) pressing the arrangement from step q). | 8,157 |
8,699,340 | 1. A radio resource management apparatus, the apparatus comprising: a memory, the memory configured to store data associated with a user device; a processor in communication with the memory, the processor configured to: | 618 |
8,707,913 | 1. A spark ignition engine which is fueled with gasoline and ethanol where ethanol is introduced into at least one engine cylinder in such a way that the vaporization of ethanol provides an octane enhancement at a rate of at least 20 octane numbers for an increase in the ethanol energy fraction from 0 to 100%. | 7,536 |
8,718,842 | 1. A hydroplaning vessel comprising: a non floatable outer hull with an open transom; a floatable inner hull; a suspension and inner hull lift system; wherein said inner hull is partially cradled within, and movably affixed to said outer hull by said suspension and inner hull lift system; two linear series of base plates that lie substantially parallel to each other and along a longitudinal axis of the vessel and are rigidly affixed to said outer hull; at least two struts having a lower end pivotally connected to said base plate and an upper end pivotally connected to said rail box; | 26,872 |
9,023,518 | 1. A battery comprising: an anode containing a lithium material; a cathode containing sulfur and a porous conducting medium; an electrolyte containing: a protective layer on the anode, wherein a composition of the protective layer is the same composition of the fluorosurfactant. | 47,351 |
8,387,631 | 1. A machine for cleaning a head-disk assembly (HDA) of a hard disk drive (HDD), the machine comprising: an HDA nest having an upper portion and a lower portion; at least one screw hole vacuum coupled to the HDA nest and configured to remove particles from a screw hole of the HDA, wherein the screw hole vacuum comprises a blow tube coupled to a source of gas and a vacuum tube coupled to a vacuum inducing source, the vacuum tube being substantially concentric with the blow tube; an net port coupled to the HDA nest to receive a gas; an exhaust port coupled to the HDA nest to exhaust the gas and entrained particles; and a shock drive coupled to the HDA nest to deliver mechanical shocks to the HDA nest. | 31,397 |
9,632,640 | 1. A transparent laminate comprising a region where a transparent substrate; a first transparent film which contains a metal oxide and has a film thickness of 55 nm to 110 nm; a transparent electrode pattern; and a second transparent film which contains 5 mass % to 80 mass % of metal oxide particles and has a film thickness of 55 nm to 110 nm are laminated in this order; wherein the region is included in a plane. | 24,480 |
9,494,130 | 1. A yaw control-by-rudder type tidal stream power generation apparatus for converting flowing energy of a tidal stream into electric power, the apparatus comprising: a nacelle located in a tidal stream; a first rotating shaft rotatably coupled to the nacelle, the first rotating shaft being coupled in a perpendicular direction to a longitudinal direction of the nacelle, wherein the nacelle is configured to rotate about the first rotating shaft by a change in the tidal stream; a rotor provided at one side of the nacelle with reference to the first rotating shaft, and configured to be rotated by the flowing energy of the tidal stream; a power transmission shaft within the first rotating shaft, wherein the power transmission shaft is configured to be cooperatively rotated with the rotating shaft of the rotor by a first bevel gear set; a rudder unit provided at the other side of the nacelle with reference to the first rotating shaft, and including a rudder fixed to the nacelle and a variable rudder rotatably connected to the nacelle; and a control unit configured to control the rotation of the variable rudder, wherein, when the flow direction of the tidal stream is changed, the rotation of the variable rudder is controlled by the control unit so that drag and lift are generated on the rudder unit to rotate the nacelle about the first rotating shaft. | 8,854 |
8,978,622 | 1. An automatic choke apparatus for an engine that operates a choke valve in an intake system by utilizing a heat of an exhaust system, the automatic choke apparatus comprising: a bimetal coupled to the choke valve, the bimetal being disposed in a vicinity of an outer wall face of a muffler that is mounted to the engine; a plurality of expansion chambers defined in the muffler; a connection channel that connects a number of the plurality of expansion chambers with each other in order to sequentially guide an exhaust gas from an upstream expansion chamber toward a downstream expansion chamber through the connection channel; and a bypass channel provided to the muffler in such a manner that an upstream expansion chamber is communicated with a downstream expansion chamber so as to bypass the connection channel, wherein the exhaust gas is guided from the bypass channel to an expansion chamber that is defined at the inside of the outer wall face, wherein the plurality of expansion chambers comprises three or more expansion chambers defined in the muffler, and the bypass channel guides the exhaust gas in such a manner that the exhaust gas bypasses one or more expansion chambers. | 34,963 |
9,664,524 | 1. A method, comprising: receiving, by at least one wireless device, audio information from at least one remote source; broadcasting an audio identifier to said at least one wireless device, using said audio information; determining, by a processor, at least one characteristic of at least one user based on at least one of at least one user search history and at least one user preference selection; and determining, by the processor, at least one probable route of at least one transport based on said at least one characteristic and at least one of at least one route history and at least one input destination. | 31,035 |
9,676,930 | 1. A laminated glass comprising, as an intermediate film of the laminated glass, a plasticized polyvinyl acetal film, the plasticized polyvinyl acetal film comprising 15 to 60 parts by mass of a plasticizer and 100 parts by mass of a polyvinyl acetal resin, and the plasticized polyvinyl acetal film having an acid value after heating at 140° C. for 4 hours of 10.0 meq/kg or less, as measured in accordance with JIS 6728:1977; wherein the plasticized polyvinyl acetal film has an acid value before heating at 140° C. for 4 hours of 5.0 meq/kg or less, as measured in accordance with JIS 6728:1977. | 6,508 |
9,625,713 | 1. A method for joining together a first and a second optical component, each or said first and second optical components having a respective bonding surface, the method comprising the steps of: a) assembling the first and second optical components by direct bonding of the respective bonding surfaces thereof together, thereby defining a direct-bonded interface therebetween; and b) reinforcing said direct-bonded interface with a weld seam comprising at least one reinforcing weld line forming a closed shape enclosing a sealed direct-bonded region, said sealed direct-bonded region forming an optical transmission window, said reinforcing comprising, for each of said at least one weld line, the steps of: | 29,364 |
8,876,477 | 1. A wind turbine, comprising: a rotor including at least one wind turbine blade connected to a rotor hub through at least one blade pitch bearing; said at least one pitch bearing comprising at least one outer ring, at least one center ring and at least one inner ring, and said at least one pitch bearing further comprising a first rolling element arrangement arranged between said at least one outer ring and said at least one center ring and a second rolling element arrangement arranged between said at least one center ring and said at least one inner ring, wherein at least one of said first and said second rolling element arrangements comprises at least two rows of rolling elements; and wherein said at least two rows of rolling elements are arranged at different axial positions in relation to an axis of rotation of said pitch bearing so that a first row of said at least two rows of rolling elements is arranged closer to the wind turbine part, to which said inner ring and said outer ring are connected, and a second row of said at least two rows of rolling elements is arranged closer to the wind turbine part to which said center ring is connected; and wherein the play of said rolling elements in said first row of rolling elements is greater than the play of said rolling elements in said second row of rolling elements. | 30,457 |
9,785,428 | 1. An internal software updating method for a mobile terminal, comprising: periodically determining whether the mobile terminal is simultaneously connected with a Wi-Fi network and in a charging mode every preset fixed time interval; when a Wi-Fi network connection is detected, and the mobile terminal is not charging: determining a threshold data size based on a power consumption factor and according to a type or a model of the mobile terminal, the threshold data size further being an amount of data that can be downloaded within a preset time duration according to a bandwidth of a currently connected Wi-Fi network, wherein the threshold data size is determined to be 20 megabytes, when an overall size of a plurality of update packages corresponding to a plurality of to-be-updated software is less than the threshold data size of 20 megabytes, automatically performing an update processing, and when the overall size of the plurality of update packages is larger than the threshold data size of 20 megabytes, prompting a user of the mobile terminal to plug in a power adapter to update software; receiving, by the mobile terminal, the plurality of update packages from a server and storing the received update packages; automatically rearranging, by the mobile terminal, corresponding update package of each to-be-updated software in an order of updating time of each to-be-updated software and caching the rearranged, updated packages in a cache memory; and sequentially installing, by the mobile terminal, the update package corresponding to each to-be-updated software in the rearranged order. | 27,052 |
9,353,996 | 1. A pressure difference driven heat spreader, comprising: a main body; a chamber being defined in the main body; a lower vaporizing section being arranged in the chamber, and including a plurality of first flow-guiding portions and a guiding portion; the first flow-guiding portions each being formed from a plurality of arrayed and spaced first flow-guiding members, such that at least one first flow passage is formed between any two adjacent first flow-guiding members; the first flow passages each having at least one end being a free end communicating with a free zone; the guiding portion having a first guiding member and a second guiding member; the first and second generally V-shaped guiding members being located between the first flow-guiding members and the free zone and extended respectively from two lateral walls of the chamber toward a center to define a necked opening; and the necked opening being positioned between the vaporizing section and the free zone; an upper condensing section being arranged in the chamber opposite to the vaporizing section, and including a plurality of second flow-guiding portions; the second flow-guiding portions each being formed from a plurality of arrayed and spaced second flow-guiding members, such that at least one second flow passage is formed between any two adjacent second flow-guiding members; an interconnecting section comprising a member arranged between the vaporizing section and the condensing section to divide the vaporizing section and the condensing section into two independent sections at two sides of the interconnecting section, respectively, said member including at least one set of first communicating holes near a first end thereof and at least one set of second communicating holes near a second end thereof; and the sets of first and second communicating holes being respectively disposed in the free end and the free zone, and communicating the vaporizing section with the condensing section; and a working fluid, wherein the working fluid in the first flow passages of the vaporizing section is heated, and part of the working fluid boils and becomes vaporized to produce vapor bubbles, then when the vapor bubbles become overheated and produce pressure, the structure of the interconnecting section causes the working fluid to be pushed by the pressure toward and into the condensing section to release heat and condense, finally, the condensed working fluid is caused to flow back to the vaporizing section via a low pressure zone of the condensing section communicating with the vaporizing section to complete a continuous circulation path. | 4,956 |
9,738,172 | 1. A power generation device for a vehicle configured to perform an idling stop at a predetermined vehicle speed or less by a stop/start system, the power generation device comprising: a power generator configured to be driven by an internal combustion engine to generate power; a battery to be charged by the power generated by the power generator; and a power generation controller to control power generation so as to reduce an amount of fuel to be consumed by the internal combustion engine for the power generation, the power generation controller comprising: (a) performing the power generation during operating regions, (b) interrupting the power generation in the operating regions when the charged state of the battery has recovered to the charged state before a start of the idling stop, based on the state of the battery obtained by the battery state calculating unit, and (c) repeatedly performing (a) and (b) within the operating regions, wherein the operating regions are regions to perform the power generation involving fuel consumption in response to the vehicle restart request after the idling stop has been initiated. | 45,086 |
9,175,561 | 1. A resin injection apparatus for use in connection with a drilling apparatus for installing ground anchors, the injection apparatus comprising: a fluid injector, adapted to be connected in fluid communication with a hollow drill shaft of the drilling apparatus, for injecting one or more resin fluids into the drill shaft, the fluid injector comprising a rotatable engaging means for rotatably engaging with the drill shaft whereby, in use, when a hole has been drilled in a rock strata, resin can be injected into the hole via the drill shaft prior to inserting a ground anchor, the rotatable engaging means comprising first and second sealed bearings which provide a fluid-tight seal between an outer surface of the drill shaft and an interior of the rotatable engaging means, and further comprising an outer housing enclosing a mixing chamber within the interior of the rotatable engaging means wherein, in use, the fluid injector remains stationary while the drill shaft rotates. | 47,343 |
9,053,957 | 1. A reusable template for creating a plurality of detachable thin semiconductor substrates comprising: a semiconductor material comprising silicon; a surface having a three-dimensional (3-D) surface topography comprising a plurality of raised areas comprising a rounded top, said raised areas separated by a plurality of depressed areas; wherein said 3-D surface topography is substantially preserved after a plurality of substrate release cycles. | 40,192 |
8,554,770 | 1. A computer-implemented method comprising: determining one or more location and time period pairs for a subject user, each location and time period pair of the one or more location and time period pairs defining a previous location of the subject user and a time period during which the subject user was at the previous location; obtaining historical aggregate profile data for the one or more location and time period pairs, wherein the historical aggregate profile data for the one or more location and time period pairs comprises, for each location and time period pair of the one or more location and time period pairs, a plurality of historical aggregate profiles for a corresponding plurality of sub-bands within the time period defined by the location and time period pair; and creating a user profile for the subject user based on the historical aggregate profile data for the one or more location and time period pairs, wherein creating the user profile comprises, for each location and time period pair of the one or more location and time period pairs: | 49,605 |
9,099,746 | 1. An electricity storage device comprising: a first electrode containing, as an active material, a polymer compound that is an organic compound having an ortho-quinone skeleton; a second electrode having a polarity opposite to that of the first electrode; and a non-aqueous electrolyte solution containing a lithium salt and a solvent represented by the following formula (1): where R and R′ are saturated hydrocarbons having the same structure and each having 1 to 5 carbon atoms, and n is 3 or 4, wherein the non-aqueous electrolyte solution contains 0.8 to 1.5 moles of the solvent represented by the formula (1) per mole of the lithium salt. | 11,093 |
8,939,835 | 1. A method for providing a visual indication of user proficiency at interacting with an application program that is executable by a processing unit, the method comprising: initiating execution of the application program; receiving input device signals generated in response to user interaction with at least one input device during execution of the application program, the input device signals directed to user control of the application program; determining at least one from the group of a count of input device signals generated during a predetermined time interval and a count of application program actions initiated during the predetermined time interval in response to the received input device signals; comparing, the at least one from the group of the count of input device signals and the count of application program actions, to a plurality of predetermined threshold values; and associating the comparison of, the at least one from the group of the count of input device signals and the count of application program actions, with a set of illumination parameters; providing a set of illumination signals using a set of illumination devices separate from a display screen configured to provide a visual user interface for the application program, the set of illumination signals corresponding to the set of illumination parameters; providing a graphical user interface (GUI) for programming at least one of, the plurality of predetermined threshold values and the set of illumination parameters; wherein the set of illumination parameters is downloadable from the processing unit into the at least one input device. | 28,732 |
9,338,017 | 1. A method for controlling a transmitter, comprising: an awaking step of awaking and initiating the transmitter by a trigger signal generated by a timer; an input control parameter updating step of detecting whether the transmitter receives an input control parameter from outside of the transmitter, and if yes, updating an input control parameter stored in the transmitter by using the received input control parameter; an input control parameter reading step of reading the input control parameter currently stored in the transmitter; a sensor signal acquiring step of performing operations based on the read input control parameter so as to control the transmitter to select one sensor signal from a plurality of sensor signals, amplify the selected sensor signal with a gain within a first gain of a first variable gain amplifier, and output the amplified sensor signal; and a sleeping step of, after determining that the transmitter has accomplished a task specified by the read input control parameter, resetting the timer, and entering into a sleeping state until the timer generates the trigger signal. | 4,028 |
8,616,562 | 1. An adapter for coupling an accessory tool to any of a plurality of power tools, each of said plurality of power tools having a distinct tool drive structure in comparison to tool drive structures of the rest of said plurality of power tools, said adapter comprising a body that includes: a first side surface, a second side surface positioned opposite to said first side surface, an inner peripheral surface extending from said first side surface to said second side surface, said inner peripheral surface defining a central opening, an outer peripheral surface extending from said first side surface to said second side surface, wherein said first side surface has defined therein a plurality of recesses positioned around said central opening, wherein said body has a first adapter drive structure, a second adapter drive structure, and a third adapter drive structure, wherein said first adapter drive structure defines a first plurality of recesses of said plurality of recesses positioned around said central opening and said second adapter drive structure defines a second plurality of recesses of said plurality of recesses positioned around said central opening, each of said second plurality of recesses being non-contiguous with each of said first plurality of recesses, wherein said third adapter drive structure defines said central opening, wherein said first adapter drive structure, said second adapter drive structure, and said third adapter drive structure each possesses a distinct configuration in comparison to each other, wherein said first adapter drive structure is configured to mate with a first tool drive structure of a first power tool of said plurality of power tools, wherein said second adapter drive structure is configured to mate with a second tool drive structure of a second power tool of said plurality of power tools, wherein said third adapter drive structure is configured to mate with a third tool drive structure of a third power tool of said plurality of accessory tools, and wherein at least a single one of said second plurality of recesses of said second adapter drive structure is disposed immediately adjacent to and between two of said first plurality of recesses of said first adapter drive structure. | 7,715 |
8,852,330 | 1. A separator tank for separating oil and gas from water, and comprising an essentially cylindrical vertical tank with at least one separator tank unit, which separator tank unit has an inlet for fluid and a first inner annular wall, at least one first outlet in an upper part of the separator tank unit, and at least one second outlet in a lower part of the separator tank unit; said inlet for fluid being tangentially directed along the inside of a cylindrical sidewall of the tank; and said first inner annular wall extending from the cylindrical sidewall of the tank and having a first conical portion and a first central opening at an end of said first inner annular wall and a first flow opening at the lower end of the first inner annular wall, wherein the separator tank unit has a second inner annular wall positioned in the separator tank unit at a distance from the first inner annular wall and extending from the cylindrical sidewall of the tank, which second inner annular wall has a second conical portion, a second central opening at an end of the second inner annular wall, and a second flow opening at the lower end of the second inner annular wall, and wherein a conical annular intermediate volume is present in between the first conical portion and the second conical portion, fluid being able to flow through the first flow opening and into said intermediate volume. | 5,821 |
8,899,051 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a gas turbine engine flange assembly including: a first flange, a second flange, and a third flange, the second flange being positioned intermediate the first flange and the third flange; and a fluid flow circuit extending intermediate the first flange and the second flange, across the second flange, and intermediate the second flange and the third flange; wherein the fluid flow circuit includes a first flow passage intermediate the first flange and the second flange, at least one opening provided in the second flange, and a second flow passage intermediate the second flange and the third flange; wherein the first flow passage is bordered by a first shim plate, the first flange and the second flange; further comprising a second shim plate positioned intermediate the second flange and the third flange, the second shim plate defining a boundary of a portion of the fluid flow circuit. | 40,641 |
9,046,110 | 1. A crossflow fan, comprising: a rotary impeller formed by curved blades, wherein each blade has an outer peripheral edge arranged at a centrifugal side of the impeller and an inner peripheral edge located at a rotation axis side of the impeller, a plurality of cutouts being formed in at least one of the outer peripheral edge and the inner peripheral edge and spaced apart at predetermined intervals, and a turbulent boundary layer controlling structure that prevents a gas flowing around the blade from separating from the blade by changing a boundary layer from a laminar flow to a turbulent flow is formed in a negative pressure surface of the blade at the peripheral edge in which the cutouts are formed, the turbulent boundary layer controlling structure is a dimple, the dimple is one of a plurality of dimples, the dimples being formed along a flow direction of the gas and in the negative pressure surface of the blade in the vicinity of the peripheral edge in which the cutouts are formed, and the dimples have depths that become smaller from the peripheral edge in which the dimples are formed toward the other peripheral edge, each blade has a cut portion that is cut in at least one of the outer peripheral edge and the inner peripheral edge, and a basic shape portion that is a non-cut portion, and the turbulent boundary layer controlling structure is formed in the basic shape portion. | 6,780 |
9,278,086 | 1. A method for decreasing susceptibility to parasite infection or disease or for preventing or treating parasite infection or disease, in a subject in need thereof, said method comprising administering to said subject an effective amount of (i) (a) a compound of formula I: wherein R is H or S—CH (ii) an artemisinin-related compound selected from the group consisting of artemether, arteether, artelinic acid, artenimol, artemotil, and artemisinic acid. | 39,695 |
9,404,037 | 1. A liquid crystal display device comprising: a first substrate; a second substrate; and a liquid crystal composition layer having positive dielectric anisotropy that is interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, the liquid crystal display device having a plurality of pixels, with each of the pixels being independently controllable and comprising a pair of a pixel electrode and a common electrode, wherein the pair of a pixel electrode and the common electrode are provided on the first substrate, or the second substrate or both the first substrate and the second substrate, the long axis of liquid crystal molecules of the liquid crystal composition layer is aligned substantially perpendicularly to the substrate surface or is in a hybrid alignment, wherein a liquid crystal composition of the liquid crystal composition layer comprises one or more compounds selected from the group consisting of compounds represented by General Formula (LC1) to General Formula (LC5): wherein R 1 represents an alkyl group having 1 to 15 carbon atoms; one or more CH 2 groups in the alkyl group may be substituted by —O—, —CH═CH—, —CO—, —OCO—, —COO—, —C≡C—, —CF 2 O— or —OCF 2 — such that O atoms are not directly adjacent to each other; one or two or more H atoms in the alkyl group may be optionally substituted by halogen; A 1 , A 2 and A 3 each independently represent any one of the following structures: wherein X 1 and X 2 each independently represent H, Cl, F, CF 3 or OCF 3 ; one or more CH 2 groups in A 1 and A 2 may be substituted by —CH═CH—, —CF 2 O— or —OCF 2 —; one or more CH groups in A 1 and A 2 may be substituted by N atoms; one or more H atoms in A 1 and A 2 may be substituted by Cl, F, CF 3 or OCF 3 ; X 1 to X 5 each independently represent H, Cl, F, CF 3 or OCF 3 ; Y represents Cl, F, CF 3 or OCF 3 ; Z 1 to Z 4 each independently represent a single bond, —CH═CH—, —C≡C—, —CH 2 CH 2 —, —(CH 2 ) 4 —, —OCH 2 —, —CH 2 O—, —OCF 2 — or —CF 2 O—; at least one of Z 1 and Z 2 that exist is not a single bond; Z 5 represents a CH 2 group or an O atom; m 1 and m 2 each independently represent an integer from 0 to 3; m 1 +m 2 represents 1, 2 or 3; and m 3 each independently represent an integer from 0 to 2; and the transmittance of light that has penetrated through the liquid crystal composition layer is modulated at the electric field generated by the electrode structure described above wherein the liquid crystal composition does not include a compound having a cyano group. | 13,592 |
9,244,170 | 1. A visual display comprising: a screen surface adapted to display graphical information; at least one waveguide arranged at a periphery of said screen surface; and at least one reference illuminator arranged to emit mainly infrared light into said at least one waveguide such that the infrared light is emitted from said at least one waveguide on an eye watching said screen surface and such that the infrared light is emitted from the visual display separately from the graphical information displayed by the screen surface. | 38,679 |
9,138,241 | 1. An apparatus for modifying a femur for receiving a patellofemoral prosthesis, the apparatus comprising: a distal punch having a cutting edge sized and shaped to penetrate into a patellar groove of the femur in a distal-proximal direction to produce a distal cut; an anterior punch having a cutting edge sized and shaped to penetrate into the patellar groove of the femur in an anterior-posterior direction to produce an anterior cut; and a trochlear punch having a cutting edge sized and shaped to penetrate through an anterior surface of the femur and through the anterior cut to form a trochlear cut in both an anterior portion and a distal portion of the femur, and a first punch of the distal punch, the anterior punch and the trochlear punch includes a first elongated body extending along a first longitudinal axis and including a first cutting edge extending in a first plane that is transverse to the first longitudinal axis and a second punch of the distal punch, the anterior punch and the trochlear punch includes a second elongated body extending along a second longitudinal axis and including a second cutting edge extending in a second plane that is transverse to the second longitudinal axis of the second punch, wherein the first plane and the second plane are not parallel to each other. | 39,698 |
9,502,144 | 1. A nuclear power generating facility having a containment for housing a nuclear reactor for confining radiation leaked from the nuclear reactor, the containment having a ventilation outlet for providing a controlled release for an atmospheric pressure buildup within the containment in event the pressure of an atmospheric effluent within the containment is built up to a level that exceeded a preselected value, including a filter comprising: a filter vessel having an input nozzle connected to the ventilation outlet; a liquid occupying a portion of a lower interior of the filter vessel and configured to function as a scrubber for the atmospheric effluent; an inlet conduit in fluid communication with the inlet nozzle and extending into the lower interior of the filter vessel; a manifold connected to the inlet conduit and extending into the lower portion of the filter vessel, the manifold including a plurality of outlets and designed to operate with the outlets respectively releasing a portion of the containment atmospheric effluent under a pool of the liquid contained within the filter vessel; a first set of a plurality of fiber filters, each fiber filter being submerged in the liquid and having substantially a first density of fibers for filtering the atmospheric effluent exhausted through the corresponding outlet in the manifold with each of the fiber filters in the first set connected to and in fluid communication with one of the manifold outlets and configured, in a steady state operation of the filter, so that the containment atmospheric effluent passes through at least a portion of the fibers before the containment atmospheric effluent contacts the liquid; and a filter vessel outlet in fluid communication with the interior of the filter vessel and operable to exhaust the filtered containment atmospheric effluent to an outside atmosphere exterior of the containment. | 41,994 |
9,397,441 | 1. A connector comprising a connector body, a coupling nut, and a spring pin, the connector body includes an engagement surface, the spring pin engages the engagement surface, the spring pin includes a coil spring and a pin, the coil spring is attached to the pin, the coupling nut includes an opening, a portion of the coil spring is located in the opening, the pin extends outside of the opening, the engagement between the spring pin and the engagement surface prevents rotation of the coupling,. nut below a predetermined rotational force on the coupling nut. | 27,396 |
9,496,452 | 1. A method for manufacturing a photovoltaic device comprising the steps of: forming an absorber layer above a substrate; immersing the absorber layer in a reduction reagent, wherein the reduction reagent is configured to react with a surface structure of the absorber layer to desorb oxygen therefrom; and forming a buffer layer on the absorber layer. | 14,112 |
9,593,671 | 1. Device for transmitting data ( 601 ) between a movable portion and a stationary portion of a wind turbine, intended to be installed on the movable portion or the stationary portion of the wind turbine, and comprising: means for connecting ( means for processing ( | 4,122 |
8,785,343 | 1. A mesoporous carbon supported copper based catalyst, comprising mesoporous carbon, a copper component and an auxiliary element supported on said mesoporous carbon, wherein, the auxiliary element (expressed as oxide) is one or more selected from V the copper component (calculated as CuO) is present in an amount ranging from 2 wt % to 20 wt % based on the total weight of the catalyst, the auxiliary element (calculated as the aforesaid oxide) is present in an amount ranging from 0 wt % to 3 wt % based on the total weight of the catalyst, and the mesoporous carbon is present in an amount ranging from 77.1 wt % to 98 wt % on the total weight of the catalyst, and further wherein the mesoporous carbon has a BET specific surface area ranging from 900 m | 2,670 |
9,164,525 | 1. A photovoltaic device, comprising: at least one photovoltaic cell; a DC/DC converter electrically coupled to the at least one photovoltaic cell, wherein the at least one photovoltaic cell and the DC/DC converter are integrated into a photovoltaic package, wherein the DC/DC converter comprises a transformerless buck converter and a transformerless boost converter or a transformerless buck-boost converter; and a pass-through comprising a low resistance path from the at least one photovoltaic cell to an output of the DC/DC converter. | 16,330 |
9,522,920 | 1. A method of treating a cancer selected from adenocarcinoma, adenoid cystic carcinoma, adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma, bladder cancer, blastoma, bone cancer, breast cancer, brain cancer, carcinoma, myeloid sarcoma, cervical cancer, colorectal cancer, diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, esophageal cancer, follicular lymphoma, gastrointestinal cancer, glioblastoma multiforme, glioma, gallbladder cancer, gastric cancer, head and neck cancer, Hodgkin's lymphoma, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, intestinal cancer, kidney cancer, laryngeal cancer, leukemia, lung cancer, liver cancer, small cell lung cancer, non-small cell lung cancer, mesothelioma, midline carcinoma, multiple myeloma, neuroblastoma, ocular cancer, optic nerve tumor, oral cancer, ovarian cancer, pituitary tumor, primary central nervous system lymphoma, prostate cancer, pancreatic cancer, pharyngeal cancer, renal cell carcinoma, rectal cancer, sarcoma, skin cancer, soft tissue sarcoma, spinal tumor, small intestine cancer, stomach cancer, T-cell lymphoma, testicular cancer, thyroid cancer, throat cancer, urogenital cancer, urothelial carcinoma, uterine cancer, vaginal cancer, and Wilms' tumor in a patient in need thereof, comprising administering to the patient a compound of formula II-A: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein: R Ring A is benzo; R R R each R each R is independently hydrogen, C each R′ is independently —R, —C(O)R, —C(S)R, —CO each R″ is independently —R, —C(O)R, —C(S)R, —CO R′ and R″, together with the atoms to which each is attached, can form a 3-7 membered monocyclic saturated, partially unsaturated, or completely unsaturated heterocyclic ring having 1-2 heteroatoms independently selected from nitrogen, oxygen, and sulfur; a 7-12 membered bicyclic saturated, partially unsaturated, or completely unsaturated fused heterocyclic ring having 1-3 heteroatoms independently selected from nitrogen, oxygen, and sulfur; a 3-7 membered monocyclic heteroaryl ring; or a 7-12 membered bicyclic heteroaryl; each of which is optionally substituted; each R each R n is 0-5; q is 0, 1, or 2; and p is 1-6. | 6,307 |
9,458,640 | 1. A fall management anchor secured to a surface, a fall force vector being applied thereto, comprising: a base plate secured to the surface and having a threshold tear-off torque; a generally upstanding cantilever post having a post height, a proximal end connected to the base plate and having a distal end forming a moment arm to the base plate, wherein the fall force vector applied adjacent the distal end and multiplied by the post height applies a moment equal to or greater than the threshold tear-off torque, the fall force vector oriented generally parallel to the base plate, the distal end being actuable upon application of the fall force vector to move relative to the base plate between a maximum moment arm and a minimum moment arm in response to the fall force vector; and a constant torque apparatus operative between the distal end and the base plate for applying an increasing resistive force to the post, the resistive force at the maximum moment arm forming a resistive torque being less than or equal to the threshold tear-off torque, the resistive torque remaining generally constant at the base plate as the post's moment arm diminishes from the maximum to the minimum. | 47,928 |
9,034,656 | 1. A method for determining the presence of an antibody in a test sample comprising: (a) contacting the test sample with a first detector and a second detector to form a mixture, wherein the first detector comprises an Fc-binding molecule conjugated to a first detectable entity, said Fc-binding molecule being capable of specifically binding to the Fc region of the antibody, wherein the second detector comprises an antigen or antigenic peptide conjugated to a second detectable entity, said antigen or antigenic peptide being capable of specifically binding to the variable region of the antibody, and wherein binding of the first detectable entity and the second detectable entity to the antibody produces a detectable signal; (b) contacting the mixture with a capture entity immobilized on a test region of a surface, wherein the capture entity is capable of specifically binding to the variable region of the antibody, which, if present in the mixture, forms a complex with the first detector, second detector, and the capture entity, thereby immobilizing the complex in the test region; and (c) detecting the presence of the signal from the complex formed in the test region comprising the first detectable entity and the second detectable entity, wherein the presence of the signal is indicative of the presence of the antibody in the test sample. | 47,915 |
8,511,105 | 1. A water vending system comprising: a housing; a water vapor distillation apparatus located within the housing; and a multi-purpose interface located outside the housing, wherein the multi-purpose interface is in fluid communication with the fluid vapor distillation apparatus and whereby product water from the fluid vapor distillation apparatus is dispensed by the multi-purpose interface, the multi-purpose interface comprising: wherein the multi-purpose interface dispenses water from the water vapor distillation apparatus onto the at least one conductivity sensor and the at least one conductivity sensor sends a signal to the at least one light emitting diode to visually represent the conductivity using the at least one light emitting diode. | 14,177 |
9,455,634 | 1. A power conversion apparatus, which converts power of a DC power supply and provides the converted power to a loading, comprising: a transformer having a primary winding and a secondary winding, wherein the primary winding receives the power of the DC power supply and has an equivalent primary inductor and an equivalent leakage inductor, while the secondary winding outputs the converted power; an electronic switch which either allows the power of the DC power supply to flow to the primary winding or cuts off the power, wherein the electronic switch has two ends electrically connected to the primary winding and the DC power supply respectively; a first inductor electrically connected to the primary winding; a first capacitor electrically connected to the primary winding, and also directly connected to the first inductor in parallel, wherein the first capacitor receives and stores leakage energy of the equivalent leakage inductor of the primary winding, and forms a resonant circuit with the first inductor to feedback the leakage energy to the transformer, which repeatedly and alternatively reverses a polarity of a voltage drop of the first capacitor; and an output circuit electrically connected to the secondary winding to receive the converted power from the transformer, wherein the output circuit has a second capacitor, which has two ends respectively electrically connected to two ends of the loading to provide the converted power to the loading. | 5,964 |
9,574,195 | 1. An RNAi agent for inhibition of Chikungunya virus, particularly by targeting the E2 gene or nsP1 gene of the Chikungunya virus, comprising either: a) a sense strand having 15-30 contiguous nucleotides as set forth in SeqID 1; and b) an antisense strand having 15-30 contiguous nucleotides as set forth in SeqID 9 complementary to said sense strand for inhibition of E2 gene of Chikungunya virus; or a) a sense strand having 15-30 contiguous nucleotides as set forth in SeqID 5; and b) an antisense strand having 15-30 contiguous nucleotides as set forth in SeqID 13 complementary to said sense strand for inhibition of nsP1 gene of Chikungunya virus. | 10,747 |
9,097,177 | 1. A turbocharger comprising: a compressor, and a turbine, the turbine including a turbine housing and a wastegate device, the turbine housing including a turbine housing outlet, the wastegate device including a regulating flap and a regulating flap shaft, the regulating flap being arranged on the regulating flap shaft, the turbine further including a bush, the regulating flap shaft being guided in the turbine housing by the bush, the bush having an annular groove formed on an inner circumference thereof, the annular groove being connected by at least one connecting bore to an annular collecting groove which is provided in the turbine housing, the collecting groove being connected by at least one relief bore to the turbine housing outlet. | 2,073 |
9,402,492 | 1. A convertible mat comprising a planar base and a border extending around the base, the border comprising border sections, the border sections joined together by webs, the webs being single, non-folding web sections joined to the ends of adjacent border sections by respective fold lines located at the ends of the adjacent border sections, which cause the border sections to be movable together between: a first position in which they are coplanar with the base, and a second position in which they are inclined relative to the base whereby to form a tray, wherein the web sections are thinner than the base and border sections, the thickness of the web sections along the respective fold lines at the ends of the adjacent border sections is thinner than the thickness of the ends of the adjacent border sections along the respective fold lines at the ends of the adjacent border sections, and the border sections are repeatably movable between said first position and said second position. | 17,656 |
8,372,430 | 1. A composition comprising: (a) a stiffening agent having a complete melting point of about 33° C. or greater which is selected from the group consisting of R—COOR′, R—OR′, R—CONR′R″, R—NR′R″, salts thereof, and mixtures thereof, wherein: (b) a lipase inhibitor; and (c) a non-digestible, non-absorbable, open-celled high internal phase emulsion (HIPE) foam. | 33,153 |
9,634,261 | 1. An organic photoelectric conversion element having a reverse layer structure comprising a substrate having thereon at least a first electrode, a photoelectric conversion layer and a second electrode in this order, wherein the photoelectric conversion layer is a bulk heterojunction layer comprising a p-type organic semiconductor material and a n-type organic semiconductor material, and the p-type organic semiconductor material comprises a compound that has a linear or branched fluorinated alkyl group having 6 to 20 carbon atoms; and the fluorinated alkyl group is represented by Formula (1) wherein p, q, r, s=0 to 20, m=1 to 3, n=0 to 2, 2≦m+n≦3, and p, q, r, s, m and n each represent an integer. | 22,213 |
9,080,942 | 1. A flexible chemiresistor module for sensing a molecule of interest, said flexible chemiresistor module comprising: a flexible substrate; and a thin film nanoparticle assembly disposed on the flexible substrate, said thin film nanoparticle assembly comprising: wherein the flexible substrate and the thin film nanoparticle assembly are configured to bend from a first orientation to a second orientation, which is different than the first orientation, wherein the thin film assembly adheres to the flexible substrate via hydrophobic interaction between the flexible substrate and the nanoparticle capping ligand of the ligand-capped nanoparticles, wherein the first orientation is planar and the second orientation configures the substrate and the thin film nanoparticle assembly to conformally adapt to a cylinder of a defined diameter by convex bending and concave bending, and wherein the thin film nanoparticle assembly is configured to maintain chemical sensitivity in response to exposure to the molecule of interest to induce an electrical signal across the plurality of microelectrodes in the second orientation. | 10,313 |
8,990,267 | 1. A system for synchronizing artifacts of a first domain with artifacts of a second domain, the system comprising a processor and a memory with instructions executable by the processor thereon, the instructions comprising: an artifact transform module configured to generate: a compare module that evaluates the first artifact map and the second artifact map, and that generates an association model that associates the first object definition and the second object definition with the third object definition and the fourth object definition when the second object definition and the fourth object definition have a common unique identifier; and an update module configured to selectively synchronize the first artifact of the first domain and the first artifact of the second domain based on the traceability mechanism that maintains a cross-domain relationship between the first artifact of the first domain and the first artifact of the second domain. | 8,828 |
8,683,749 | 1. An adjustable support assembly comprising: a front left base support, a front left lower elongated support, a front left upper elongated support, a front right base support, a front right lower elongated support, a front right upper elongated support, a rear hinge support, a rear locking support, a structural wall, and a door, wherein the front left base support is affixed to an outer surface of the structural wall, the front left upper elongated support is affixed to the outer surface of the structural wall, the front left lower elongated support is affixed to the front left upper elongated support in a manner to allow lengthwise adjustment, and a lower portion of the front left lower elongated support is affixed to the front left base support in a manner to allow lengthwise adjustment, and wherein the front right base support is affixed to the structural wall, the front right upper elongated support is affixed to the structural wall, the front right lower elongated support is affixed to the front right upper elongated upper support in a manner to allow lengthwise adjustment, and a lower portion of the front right lower elongated support is affixed to the front right base support in a manner to allow lengthwise adjustment, and wherein the rear hinge support is affixed to an inner surface of the structural wall, and the rear locking support is affixed to an inner surface of the structural wall, and a door opening is present in the structural wall between the rear hinge support and the rear locking support, and the door is hung on the rear hinge support, wherein the rear hinge support is affixed to the structural wall by holding components that extend through the structural wall to engage the front left lower elongated support, and the rear backing support is affixed to the structural wall by holding components that extend through the structure wall to engage the front right lower elongated support. | 4,145 |
9,576,694 | 1. An energy storage device comprising: a. A first and a second electrode, each electrode comprising a body in electrical communication with a current collector; and b. an electrolyte; wherein at least one body comprises a three-dimensionally porous matrix of alliform carbon particles, the alliform carbon particles comprising at least one concentric graphitic shell having at least 25% of the shell comprising sp2 carbon, the alliform carbon particles being substantially spherical in shape, without carbon nanotube appendages, and substantially physically connected; said alliform carbon particles having a substantially unimodal size distribution with a mean particle diameter as measured by TEM photomicrograph image analysis of in a range of from 2 to 30 nanometers and said alliform carbon particles having a mean specific surface area in the range of 250 to 750 m2g-1; wherein the electrolyte physically contacts and is in electrical communication with said three-dimensionally porous matrix of alliform carbon particles; and wherein the energy storage device exhibits capacitance when a voltage polarity is applied across the first and second electrodes. | 41,762 |
8,563,759 | 1. A low energy process for extracting lipids from microalgae comprising: pretreating a quantity of generally non-homogenized microalgae with propanol for a predetermined time for liberating lipids from the microalgae; separately treating the liberated lipids with a transesterification reagent to form fatty acid methyl esters within a resulting mixture; separating the fatty acid methyl esters from the resulting mixture; wherein said process has a low energy requirement. | 23,853 |
8,932,784 | 1. A fuel cell, including: an electrolyte membrane; an anode disposed on one side of said electrolyte membrane; and a cathode disposed on the other side of said electrolyte membrane, wherein said cathode contains a porous carbon material formed with micro pores which function as an electric double layer and derived from a carbide, a reaction gas flowing along the surface of the cathode, perfluoro-organic acid is mixed with the porous carbon material, and a content of the porous carbon material in said cathode on a downstream side of a flow of the reaction gas along the surface of the cathode is larger than that of the porous carbon material in said cathode on an upstream side thereof, and the carbide is selected from a group consisting of molybdenum carbide and tungsten carbide. | 16,605 |
9,374,785 | 1. A method of establishing a wireless ad-hoc network connection between first and second nodes, the method comprising: defining a beacon interval, the beacon interval having a plurality of subintervals, each subinterval corresponding to a position within said beacon interval; sending a network connection request from said first node during a predetermined one of said plurality of subintervals; detecting a network connection request from the second node during one of said plurality of subintervals, wherein said first node enters a sleep mode except when detecting or sending a network connection request, wherein said one of said plurality of subintervals for detecting said network connection request from said second node rotates within said plurality of subintervals in a round-robin fashion following each beacon interval, and wherein if the network connection request from said second node is detected: | 40,455 |
8,647,431 | 1. A catalyst composition for pozzolan compositions, consisting of: a) one or more chlorides, selected from the group consisting of: sodium chloride, potassium chloride, magnesium chloride, calcium chloride, strontium chloride, barium chloride and ammonium chloride; and b) aluminum chloride, and c) one or more metal oxides selected from the group consisting of: oxides from metals from Group II of the Periodic Table, and oxides from metals from Group VIII B of the Periodic Table. | 42,458 |
8,733,126 | 1. A moving vehicle air-conditioning apparatus to be set up on a vehicle, the apparatus comprising: a refrigerant circulation channel through which a refrigerant flows, the refrigerant circulation channel being provided in a refrigeration cycle system including, an air-conditioning heat-transfer medium circulation channel that circulates therein an air-conditioning heat-transfer medium for air-conditioning of a vehicle interior; an equipment heat-transfer medium circulation channel that circulates therein an equipment heat-transfer medium for adjusting a temperature of an in-vehicle equipment; an air-conditioning heat-exchanger that is connected to the refrigerant circulation channel provided in the refrigeration cycle system and to the air-conditioning heat-transfer medium circulation channel and that performs heat exchange between the refrigerant and the air-conditioning heat-transfer medium; an equipment heat-exchanger that is connected to the refrigerant circulation channel provided in the refrigeration cycle system and to the equipment heat-transfer medium circulation channel and that performs heat exchange between the refrigerant and the equipment heat-transfer medium; a first channel-switching valve, through which a discharge pipe and an intake pipe of the compressor are connected, and with which a first connection state where the discharge pipe of the compressor and the outdoor heat-exchanger are connected and, at the same time, the intake pipe of the compressor and the air-conditioning heat-exchanger are connected and a second connection state where the discharge pipe of the compressor and the air-conditioning heat-exchanger are connected and, at the same time, the intake pipe of the compressor and the outdoor heat-exchanger are connected are switchable therebetween; a second channel-switching valve, through which the discharge pipe and the intake pipe of the compressor are connected, in parallel to the first channel-switching valve, and with which a third connection state where the intake pipe of the compressor and the equipment heat-exchanger are connected and a fourth connection state where the discharge pipe of the compressor and the equipment heat-exchanger are connected are switchable therebetween, wherein the air-conditioning heat-exchanger is connected to the first channel-switching valve and, at the same time, the equipment heat-exchanger is connected to the second channel-switching switch, so that the air-conditioning heat-exchanger and the equipment heat-exchanger are connected in parallel to the refrigerant circulation channel provided in the refrigeration cycle system, the air-conditioning heat-exchanger is connected to the expansion valve through an air-conditioning expansion valve that reduces pressure of the refrigerant, the equipment heat-exchanger is connected to the expansion valve through an equipment expansion valve that reduces pressure of the refrigerant, the air-conditioning heat-transfer medium circulation channel includes the equipment heat-transfer medium circulation channel includes the second indoor heat-exchanger is arranged on a downstream side of the flow of air from the first indoor heat-exchanger, so that the air to be introduced into the vehicle interior that has passed through the first indoor heat-exchanger can pass through the second indoor heat-exchanger. | 39,276 |
8,892,931 | 1. An integrated circuit adapted to monitor power supply channels within a multicore processor that includes a plurality of processor cores, the integrated circuit comprising: a plurality of processor cores; a plurality of power supply channels configured to supply power to each of the plurality of processor cores; a power monitor configured to measure power supplied over each of the power supply channels to each of the plurality of processor cores via analog-based inline current sensors in each of the power supply channels; a multiplexer configured to select at least one of the plurality of power supply channels and corresponding inline current sensor for measurement by the power monitor; and a power manager configured to adjust an operational parameter of one or more of the plurality of processor cores based upon the measured power, wherein the power monitor and the power manager are external to the plurality of processor cores. | 33,011 |
8,607,300 | 1. A method for mediating between first and second network security policies, comprising: mapping, by a security policy mediation device (SPMD) including at least one hardware processor, a first security policy to a second security policy, wherein the second security policy is a generic network-independent policy that is devoid of any specific network technology; and mapping, by the SPMD, the second security policy to a plurality of rules, each associated with a target network security policy and collectively executable at the target network, wherein one policy of the first security policy and the target network security policy is operable for an IP-based network and the other policy of the first security policy and the target network security policy is operable for a signaling system number 7 (SS7) network, wherein mapping between the second security policy and the plurality of rules each associated with a target network security policy and collectively executable at the target network includes searching a repository, using the second security policy, for one or more executable security modules for including in the target network security policy; and wherein mapping the second security policy to the plurality of rules associated with the target network security policy comprises: wherein the SPMD provides a consistent end-to-end security policy comprised of the first security policy and the target network security policy, across a convergent network including the SS7 network and the IP-based network. | 37,501 |
9,353,970 | 1. A sun-tracking motor for a solar energy collection device, comprising: a first mounting portion configured to be mounted to a fixed member relative to the Earth; a pivoting motor housing; a motor at least partially disposed within the pivoting motor housing, the motor engaged with the first mounting portion such that the motor drives the pivoting motor housing about a pivot axis relative to the first mounting portion; a motor controller disposed within the pivoting motor housing; and an inclination sensor disposed within the pivoting motor housing, wherein the motor and the inclination sensor pivot with the pivoting motor housing about the pivot axis. | 42,218 |
9,379,263 | 1. A film capable of use in a photovoltaic solar module, comprising: a first low crystalline ethylene/α-olefin copolymer with a DSC peak melting point less than or equal to 50° C.; a second low crystalline ethylene/α-olefin copolymer with a DSC peak melting point greater than 50° C.; a silane; and one or more cross-linking agents. | 17,756 |
8,498,125 | 1. A downhole tool string component, comprising: a body having a first end, a second end, and an annular wall having an inner surface, said first end adapted for connection to a first adjacent tool string component, said second end adapted for connection to a second tool string component, and said inner surface having an annular pocket formed therein and defining a bore having an axis; an instrumentation package disposed at least partially within the annular pocket formed in the inner surface, said instrumentation package including a circuit board assembly having a plurality of rigid layers positioned perpendicular to the axis and an elastomeric material supporting each of said plurality of rigid layers, said elastomeric material being dispersed between each of said rigid layers and encapsulating each rigid layer, said plurality of rigid layers being in electrical communication with each other, and said circuit board assembly having a circular cutout; and a tube disposed within said circular cutout and running the length of the circuit board assembly. | 45,996 |
9,036,924 | 1. Method for classifying an image in two or more dimensions, where an N-dimensional dataset comprising elements is caused to represent the image by at least two of the N dimensions constituting respective image axes, so that a certain pixel in the image corresponds to a certain element in the dataset, and by each element being associated with M numerical values each representing a measure of a property of the element in question, whereof at least one property represents image information in one respective sampled channel, characterized in that the method comprises identifying firstly a certain predetermined, variable geometric structure, the extension of which in at least two of the N dimensions in the dataset is determined in relation to a single element in the dataset and by at least one variable parameter, and secondly at least one geometric measure associated with said variable geometric structure, which geometric measure is arranged to measure a geometric property of a specific geometric structure in relation to other specific such geometric structures, and in that the method also comprises the steps that a computer or several interconnected computers a) is or are caused to store the dataset on a digital storage medium ( b) for at least each element that corresponds to a pixel in the image, and for at least one of the M element properties, firstly is or are caused to determine a specific geometric structure ( c) in a database is or are caused to store an association between each element and the at least one calculated geometric measure for the element for each property for which a specific geometric structure has been calculated in the step b) ( d) is or are caused to carry out a main classification of the dataset, which main classification is caused to be based upon a comparative measure between the respective sets of associated geometric measures of two elements, whereby each element is caused to be associated with a certain class in a main set of classes; ( e) on a digital storage medium is or are caused to store the image classified in the step d) in the form of a set of pixels with the same dimensions as the image, where each pixel is associated with the class in the main set of classes with which the element corresponding to the pixel in the image has been associated in the step d) ( and in that the said variable geometric structure, measure and criterion are not selected so that the measure calculated in the step b) only constitutes a measure of the smallest distance between the element in question and the closest element which is associated with the element property in question. | 11,623 |
8,911,903 | 1. A cathode active material comprising: a composite oxide particle including at least lithium and cobalt; a coating layer which is provided in at least a part of said composite oxide particle and includes an oxide containing lithium and a coating element of at least one of nickel and manganese; and a surface layer containing silicon, wherein a construction ratio of said nickel and the manganese in said coating layer ranges from 100:0 to 30:70 as a mole ratio, wherein the surface layer containing silicon is formed on the coating layer containing at least one of nickel and manganese, and wherein the surface layer comprises metal oxide micro-particles having a primary mean diameter of 1.0 nm or more or 100 nm or less. | 28,934 |
8,734,124 | 1. A swash plate type compressor comprising a swash plate rotating with a rotating shaft; a piston which advances and retreats with the rotation of the swash plate and is formed with a hemispherical concave sliding surface; and a shoe formed with a flat end surface part in sliding contact with the swash plate and a spherical surface part in sliding contact with the sliding surface of the piston, wherein a cylindrical part is formed between the spherical surface part and the end surface part of the shoe, and the shoe is formed with a flange part which projects to the outside in the radial direction from the cylindrical part in a boundary portion between the cylindrical part and the end surface part and is in sliding contact with the swash plate; and the flange part and an outer peripheral end thereof are located on the inside of an imaginary spherical surface including the hemispherical concave sliding surface of the piston, and the diameter of the cylindrical part is smaller than the diameter of an opening of the sliding surface of the piston. | 21,704 |
9,115,643 | 1. A control device for an internal combustion engine with a supercharger having an actuator which actively changes a supercharging pressure, the control device controlling an air quantity which the internal combustion engine takes in a cylinder by cooperative manipulation of a throttle and the actuator based on required torque for the internal combustion engine, the control device comprising: target air quantity determining means that separately determines a target air quantity for manipulation of the throttle, and a target air quantity for manipulation of the actuator; throttle manipulation variable determining means that determines a manipulation variable of the throttle in accordance with the target air quantity for throttle manipulation; and actuator manipulation variable determining means that determines a manipulation variable of the actuator in accordance with the target air quantity for actuator manipulation, wherein the target air quantity determining means comprises reference target air quantity calculating means that converts driver required torque which is included in the required torque into an air quantity in accordance with a predetermined conversion rule, and calculates the air quantity which is obtained by the conversion as a reference target air quantity, correction target air quantity calculating means that, when a change occurs to the required torque and cannot be realized under the reference target air quantity, calculates a correction target air quantity capable of realizing the change, actuator manipulation target air quantity determining means that determines the reference target air quantity as the target air quantity for actuator manipulation, and throttle manipulation target air quantity determining means that normally determines the reference target air quantity as the target air quantity for throttle manipulation, and determines the correction target air quantity as the target air quantity for throttle manipulation when the required torque cannot be realized under the reference target air quantity. | 30,334 |
8,428,842 | 1. A speed control device for a vehicle comprising: a vehicle speed obtaining means for obtaining a speed of the vehicle; a shape obtaining means for obtaining a shape of a curve existing ahead of the vehicle; a position obtaining means for obtaining a positional relationship between the curve and the vehicle; a target vehicle speed determining means for determining a target vehicle speed in a case where the vehicle travels through the curve, on the basis of the shape of the curve and the positional relationship; a vehicle speed controlling means for controlling the speed of the vehicle on the basis of the target vehicle speed and the speed of the vehicle; and an acceleration operation quantity obtaining means for obtaining an operation quantity of an acceleration operating member, which is to be operated by a driver of the vehicle, wherein the target vehicle speed determining means includes a modification means for modifying the target vehicle speed on the basis of the operation quantity so that the target vehicle speed in a case where the operation quantity is greater than zero becomes a greater value than the target vehicle speed in a case where the operation quantity is zero, wherein the modification means starts modifying the target vehicle speed when the operation quantity exceeds a predetermined value which is greater than zero. | 26,576 |
8,692,470 | 1. A controller for an LED lighting system, the controller being a first part of a control unit and comprising: a battery charge switch for selectively coupling a solar panel to a battery for selective starting and stopping of charging of the battery; and a battery discharge switch for selectively coupling the battery to a lamp for selectively turning the lamp on and off, a battery discharge set driver that, when triggered, causes the battery discharge switch to be set to an on-state, wherein the battery discharge set driver may be triggered if the battery discharge set driver is in a standby state, but not if the battery discharge set driver is in a resting state; a battery discharge reset driver that, when triggered, causes the battery discharge switch to be reset to an off-state, wherein the battery discharge reset driver may be triggered if the battery discharge reset driver is in a standby state, but not if the battery discharge reset driver is in a resting state; wherein when the battery discharge switch is in an on-state, the battery discharge switch connects power to the battery discharge reset driver to prepare the battery discharge reset driver in the standby state, and disconnects power from the battery discharge set driver to prepare the battery discharge set driver in the resting state, wherein when the battery discharge switch is in the off-state, the battery discharge switch connects power to the battery discharge set driver to prepare the battery discharge set driver in the standby state, and disconnects power from the battery discharge reset driver to prepare the battery discharge reset driver in the resting state, wherein the lamp contains a second part of the control unit for protecting the battery from over-charged and over-drained conditions such that the second part of the control unit is not present within the controller. | 29,309 |
8,555,794 | 1. A casing, comprising: a side wall having a multi-layer structure, and including: an outer wall, and a sheet of fusion-resistant material provided substantially throughout an entire inner side of the outer wall, and having opposing first and second surfaces, the first surface facing the outer wall, and being separated from the outer wall by a gap over its entire area, the fusion-resistant material having a bent configuration so that the first surface has alternating projection portions and dent portions which face the outer wall, with a distance from the outer wall to the first surface of the fusion-resistant material at the respective dent portions being greater than a distance from the user to the first surface of the fusion-resistant material at the respective projection portions. | 35,360 |
8,367,386 | 1. An isolated polypeptide having activity of a cytochrome P450 variant, wherein the variant is characterized as comprising a higher capability than the corresponding wild-type cytochrome P450 to oxidize at least one substrate selected from an alkane comprising a carbon-chain of no more than 8 carbons and an alkene comprising a carbon-chain no more than 8 carbons, and wherein the wild-type cytochrome P450 comprises an amino acid sequence having at least 90% sequence identity to SEQ ID NO: 2, and the cytochrome P450 variant comprises an amino acid substitution at two residues of SEQ ID NO: 2 selected from the group consisting of V78, T175, A184, H236, E252, R255, A290, and L353. | 36,444 |
9,134,085 | 1. A firearm securing apparatus comprising: a first platform including a first securing interface configured and arranged to generate a holding force between the apparatus and a surface in response to an applied pressure; a second platform including a second securing interface configured and arranged to receive and secure a firearm barrel and including a graspable feature; and a support piece physically connected to each of the two securing interfaces and extending between the first and second platforms along a direction that is about perpendicular to the first securing interface, the support piece configured and arranged to provide space between the first and second platforms along said direction that is sufficient to accommodate a person's fingers to permit holding the graspable feature and to allow for application of pressure sufficient to generate the holding force between the apparatus and the surface. | 38,580 |
9,181,886 | 1. A method of operating an engine comprising the steps of: injecting gaseous fuel and liquid fuel directly into an engine cylinder from a gaseous nozzle outlet set and a liquid nozzle outlet set, respectively, of a fuel injector; compression igniting the injected liquid fuel to ignite the gaseous fuel; commanding a transient from a low fuel demand of a first speed and load to a high fuel demand of a second speed and load; obviating a deficit in a gaseous rail pressure during the transient by proactively increasing a mass flow rate of gaseous fuel to a gaseous fuel common rail responsive to the commanding step. | 10,627 |
8,737,143 | 1. A semiconductor device comprising: a command decoder activating a first mode register setting signal in response to a mode register setting command issued from outside; a first latency shifter activating a second mode register setting signal after elapse of predetermined cycles of a clock signal since the first mode register setting signal is activated; and a mode register storing a mode signal supplied from outside in response to the second mode register setting signal. | 41,209 |
9,347,383 | 1. An apparatus for actuating a first engine valve associated with a cylinder of an internal combustion engine, the internal combustion engine further comprising a first motion transfer mechanism for transferring motion from a first motion source to the first engine valve and a second motion transfer mechanism for transferring motion from a second motion source to at least one second motion sink, wherein the first motion source and the second motion source are uniquely associated with the cylinder, the apparatus comprising: a third motion transfer mechanism, configured to be operatively connected to the second motion source and the first engine valve, and further configured to transfer motion from the second motion source to the first engine valve; a motion decoupler, configured to be operatively connected to the first motion transfer mechanism and the first valve, and further configured to selectively discontinue transfer of motion from the first motion transfer mechanism to the first valve; and a reset mechanism, configured to be operatively connected to the second motion transfer mechanism and the third motion transfer mechanism, and further configured to selectively discontinue transfer of motion from the third motion transfer mechanism to the first engine valve based on operation of the second motion transfer mechanism. | 43,393 |
8,898,401 | 1. A method of executing instructions in a computer system, the method comprising the acts of: speculatively executing a first thread of a program code while a second thread of the program code is executing; determining if a load request from the first thread is serviceable from a cache line within a cache; in the event that the load request is serviceable from the cache line, associating a first indicator bit with the cache line; determining if the cache line has been evicted; and in the event that the cache line is evicted, allowing speculative execution of the first thread to continue; and committing changes to one or more lines of memory that occur in response to the speculative execution, including committing changes to the cache line that occur after the cache line has been evicted. | 31,450 |
9,696,969 | 1. A method, comprising: inferring, by an editing device including a processor, a first industrial programming language of a plurality of industrial programming languages to employ for programming an industrial controller and a second industrial programming language of the plurality of industrial programming languages to employ in combination with the first industrial programming language for programming the industrial controller to create a new programming language that is optimal for programming the industrial controller based upon at least one criteria comprising a code function to be implemented in the industrial controller, wherein the at least one criteria further comprises user tendencies associated with respective industrial programming languages of the industrial programming languages; and integrating, by the editing device, at least a portion of the first industrial programming language with at least another portion of the second industrial programming language to produce the new programming language for programming the industrial controller, wherein the first industrial programming language, the second industrial programming language and the new programming language are different. | 11,405 |
8,380,125 | 1. A method for controlling a Bluetooth module operatively coupled to a slider wireless communication device, the method comprising the steps of: providing the slider wireless communication device with a top housing portion slidably connected to a bottom housing portion having a keypad; associating the Bluetooth module with the slider wireless communication device having a cellular communication module, wherein the slider wireless communication device is operatively coupled to the Bluetooth module; enabling the top housing portion to slide over the bottom housing portion covering the keypad; triggering a mechanical configuration user intervention event when the top housing portion is slidably separated from the lower housing portion revealing the keypad corresponding to the bottom portion and extending the length of the slider wireless communication device; receiving an indication of the mechanical configuration user intervention event from a user intervention sensor that detects the slidable separation between the top housing portion and the bottom housing portion revealing the keypad corresponding to the bottom portion; waking up the Bluetooth module from a passive stand by state, in which a Bluetooth state machine is on but not transmitting or receiving, to an activity state in response to the mechanical configuration user intervention event, where the intervention sensor has detected the slidable separation between the top housing portion and the bottom housing portion revealing the keypad corresponding to the bottom portion; sensing a communication adapter connected to a communication connector with a communication sensor that is connected to the communication connector wherein a Bluetooth module is connected to the communication sensor; sensing a connection of a power source to the slider wireless communication device with a power connection sensor, wherein a Bluetooth module is connected to the power connection sensor; wherein when the communication adapter is connected to the slider wireless communication device and the power source is connected to the slider wireless communication device the Bluetooth module receives notification that the communication adapter is connected to the communication connector and that the power source is connected to the slider wireless communication device and enters the activity state in response to the notification. | 24,008 |
8,767,602 | 1. A method of retransmitting a management message in a Power Saving Class (PSC) mode, the method performed by a mobile station (MS) and comprising: transmitting a first message including a first field indicating whether or not a fast retransmission scheme is supported to a base station; receiving a second message including a second field indicating whether or not the fast retransmission scheme is supported from the base station; transmitting the management message to the base station in an extended listening window of the PSC mode using a Hybrid Automatic Repeat request (HARQ) scheme; and retransmitting the management message to the base station according to the fast retransmission scheme, when a number of received non-acknowledgments (NACKs) for the management message becomes equal to a maximum retransmission number of the HARQ scheme and the transmission of the management message using the HARQ scheme has failed, wherein the fast retransmission scheme further extends the extended listening window so as to immediately retransmit the management message, when the HARQ scheme for the transmission of the management message has failed. | 34,926 |
8,569,869 | 1. A method of manufacture of an integrated circuit packaging system comprising: mounting an integrated circuit over a package carrier; mounting a rounded interconnect on the package carrier; mounting a conductive shield over the package carrier, the conductive shield having an elevated portion and a perimeter portion below the elevated portion, the perimeter portion having a hole, wherein the rounded interconnect is mounted within the hole, and wherein the hole exposes the rounded interconnect from the conductive shield; and forming an encapsulation between the conductive shield and the package carrier with the rounded interconnect exposed from the encapsulation. | 18,326 |
9,591,814 | 1. A light-weight, initially inorganic media-ponic modular hydroponic grow tube system for cultivation of a plurality of plants and beneficial soil organisms in symbiotic combination, including a plurality of dimensionally standardized modular grow tube assemblies that receives liquid nutrient fertigation, each of the dimensionally standardized modular grow tube assemblies comprising: a) a vertically suspended, vertically-oriented grow tube comprising a single elongated thermoplastic poly-vinyl-chloride (PVC) pipe of dimensionally standardized modular dimensions having an outer surface and a media-filled hollow interior filled with a 100% inorganic granular grow media, the grow tube being fully and freely rotatable about its vertical axis, the grow tube having an upper grow tube hanger that is easily demountable by lifting, without disassembly of the grow tube, from an overhead swivel support by simply lifting the grow tube, b) a single elongated tubular, insulating filter-fabric media casing, to retain the granular grow media, that fits within and closely against the hollow interior of the elongated PVC pipe grow tube, has an open upper end for filling with the granular grow media and a closed lower end to retain the granular grow media, c) a plurality of plant ports formed in, and flush with the grow tube outer surface, each of the plant ports defining an aerating plant-pocket void formed proximate to the outer surface within the media-filled grow tube by penetration of the media casing and inward displacement of the granular grow media proximate to the plant port to provide a plurality of such voids within the media-filled grow tube for planting and nurturing of plants and to aid in aeration of fertigation draining by gravity-flow through the granular grow media, d) an open upper end fertigation inlet reservoir fabricated of dimensionally standardized modular PVC pipe and fittings, for receipt and temporary storage of liquid nutrient fertigation from an overhead fertigation distribution piping subsystem, and a removable perforated fertigation inlet basin that is recessed and that conforms to dimensionally standardized modular PVC pipe and fitting dimensions, for graduated dispersal of the liquid nutrient fertigation into the granular grow media; and e) an open lower end outlet assembly, fabricated of PVC pipe and PVC pipe fittings of dimensionally standardized modular dimensions, directed into and both loosely engaged and horizontally restrained by an inlet of a fertigation return subsystem positioned below the grow tube, thereby permitting the grow tube to be both rotated freely and easily demounted from the inlet by simply lifting the grow tube, wherein the open lower end outlet assembly is formed by a dimensionally standardized modular PVC pipe reducer bushing in combination with an open-ended dimensionally standardized modular PVC extension pipe, the open-ended extension pipe being of lesser diameter than a diameter of the elongated dimensionally standardized modular PVC pipe of the grow tube, and whereby the extension pipe terminates within, but is not in contact with, the inlet of the fertigation return subsystem which has a greater diameter than the diameter of the extension pipe, thereby being both freely rotatable and horizontally restrained. | 11,910 |
9,721,584 | 1. A method comprising: sampling an audio signal at a first sampling rate; decomposing the sampled audio signal into a plurality of sub-bands in a fixed point audio crossover filter, the audio signal including wind noise; low-pass filtering a first sub-hand of the plurality of sub-hands; down sampling the sub-band to a second lower sampling rate; removing wind noise from the first sub-band after low-pass filtering and down sampling by first performing a short time Fourier transform to produce a plurality of frequency bins, second determining an energy ratio and centroid value for the transformed sub-bands to detect wind noise, and third estimating the wind noise to be removed using the determined centroid values for the transformed sub-bands; up sampling the first sub-band to the first sampling rate after removing the wind noise; delaying the other sub-bands to accommodate delay in removing wind noise; and combining the first sub-band with the other delayed sub-bands of the plurality of sub-bands after removing wind noise. | 2,415 |
9,383,398 | 1. A motor power simulating system for fuel cell power module evaluation, comprising: a fuel cell power module; a ripple current generator; and an electronic load device for consuming the power generated by the fuel cell power module, wherein the ripple current generator is connected directly to the fuel cell power module and the electronic load device, and wherein the ripple current generator consists of a switching variable resistor and a capacitor, and the switching variable resistor is connected to a positive terminal of the fuel cell power module such that the switching variable resistor changes its resistance while having a predetermined frequency to adjust the amplitude of a generated ripple current, thus simulating the ripple current normally found during operation of a fuel cell vehicle. | 35,610 |
9,333,936 | 1. A method for injection molding of an airbag case comprising a chute channel delimiting a recess at least partially closed by at least one flap, the chute channel being adapted to receive an airbag, with the injection molding being carried out in a mould comprising at least first and second matrices and a wedge movably mounted with regard to the first matrix, with the method comprising the following steps: wherein the displacement of the wedge from its open position to its protective position closes the protective space by pinching the first connecting portion and the second connecting portion between the wedge and the first matrix. | 16,956 |
8,835,028 | 1. A rechargeable battery, comprising: an electrode assembly; a collector plate electrically connected to the electrode assembly; a case accommodating the electrode assembly and the collector plate; a cap plate sealing the case and having a short-circuiting groove arranged at a lower portion thereof; and a short-circuiting member arranged between the cap plate and the collector plate, wherein the short-circuiting member is coupled to the short-circuiting groove of the cap plate, wherein the short-circuiting member includes: | 32,280 |
8,368,816 | 1. A circuit for detecting motion pictures, comprising: a first-stage motion picture detecting unit adapted to analyze a current image frame and a previous image frame to calculate a first motion value associated with the current image frame; and a second-stage motion picture detecting unit adapted to receive the first motion value, compare the current first motion value against an adjusted motion value and output and store the larger one as a second motion value, wherein the adjusted motion value is a value derived by adjusting an adjacent previous second motion value, wherein the adjusted motion value is reduced according to a calculation algorithm on the adjacent previous second motion value, and the algorithm is such that the adjacent previous second motion value is multiplied by a reduction rate and subtracted by a compensation value. | 18,965 |
9,019,883 | 1. A network apparatus for a wireless network, the network apparatus being configured to communicate with wireless mobile terminals and to control communication of the wireless mobile terminals, and the network apparatus comprising at least one controller configured with a memory storing computer instructions to schedule a given wireless mobile terminal in a cell for a first common Enhanced Dedicated Channel (E-DCH) resource selected from a selection of common E-DCH resources available in the cell by: including an information element in a System Information Block (SIB) that is SIB5 or SIB5bis, wherein the information element indicates what Absolute Grant Channel (AGCH) configuration parameters are to be used, the AGCH configuration parameters including for each AGCH a 2 ms transmission time interval (TTI) or a 10 ms TTI, and the information element further indicates the respective TTI and AGCH to be used for each of the selection of common E-DCH resources, wherein some of the common E-DCH resources have an AGCH with the 2 ms TTI, and others of the common E-DCH resources have an AGCH with the 10 ms TTI; and without modifying the information element, selecting for and allocating to the given wireless terminal in the cell the first common E-DCH resource taking into account the respective TTI indicated for the first common E-DCH resource. | 12,941 |
8,594,987 | 1. A computer implemented method for modeling a wellbore trajectory, comprising: calculating a tangent vector interpolation function for each interval between two or more survey points within a wellbore; and determining the wellbore trajectory using a computer processor and each tangent vector interpolation function in a torque-drag drillstring model. | 20,715 |
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