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9,044,713 | 1. A filter, comprising: a porous polymer terminating on one side in a polymer skin, wherein the porous polymer and the polymer skin comprise the same polymer; and open-ended nanotubes embedded in the polymer skin, at least a portion of the nanotubes each having two open ends protruding through opposite surfaces respectively of the polymer skin to provide fluid communication through each of the nanotubes; and wherein the porous polymer has pores increasing in diameter with increasing distance from the polymer skin; and wherein the polymer skin is completely impervious to fluid. | 30,548 |
9,358,285 | 1. A method of enhancing an immune response against a target antigen in a subject in need thereof, said method comprising co-administering a target antigen and 15 kD granulysin to the subject. | 38,292 |
9,389,135 | 1. A system for performing in situ testing of a load cell of a disk burnishing machine, the system comprising: the disk burnishing machine configured to burnish a disk, the disk burnishing machine comprising: a preselected weight; and a weight holder configured to receive the preselected weight, wherein the weight holder is configured to be mounted to the load cell bracket and to be aligned with the load cell, wherein the preselected weight is configured to be positioned within the weight holder and on the force measuring surface of the load cell. | 32,785 |
8,502,655 | 1. A method of avoiding protocol misinterpretation in a tire pressure monitoring system, the method comprising: determining whether a frame to be transmitted according to a first protocol is susceptible to being incorrectly interpreted by a receiver in a vehicle as being transmitted according to a second protocol; when the frame is determined to be susceptible to an incorrect interpretation, adjusting an internal value of the frame, the adjusting being effective to prevent an incorrect interpretation of the frame being transmitted from the tire pressure monitor to the receiver. | 18,386 |
9,672,796 | 1. An electronic device comprising: a flexible display; a sensing unit configured to obtain a number of bending times of the flexible display; and a controller configured to: display a first image with a first transparency and a second image with a second transparency on the flexible display when the flexible display is in a flat state, wherein the first transparency is 0% and the second transparency is 100% in the flat state, wherein each time a bending of the flexible display is detected in a bending state, the first transparency is increased by a preset amount to a first value and the second transparency is complementarily reduced by the preset amount to a second value according to each bending, wherein each time the flexible display is restored to the flat state from the bending state, the first transparency of the first image and the second transparency of the second image are maintained as the respective first and second values by the preset amount, wherein when the number of bending times is increased to a predetermined number, the first image is finally invisible with 100% transparency and the second image is finally full-visible with 0% transparency, and wherein the preset amount is 20% such that each time the flexible display is bent, the first transparency of the first image is increased by 20% and the second transparency of the second image is reduced by 20%. | 1,869 |
9,019,457 | 1. A segment type liquid crystal display element, comprising: a first substrate on which a first electrode is formed; a second substrate on which a second electrode is formed and which is arranged in parallel to the first substrate such that the first and second electrodes face each other; a first vertical alignment film formed on the first substrate and the first electrode; a second vertical alignment film formed on the second substrate and the second electrode; a vertical alignment liquid crystal layer placed between the first substrate and the second substrate; a first polarizer positioned on the first substrate on an opposite side from the liquid crystal layer; and a second polarizer positioned on the second substrate on an opposite side from the liquid crystal layer and arranged in substantially crossed Nicols to the first polarizer; wherein: | 5,635 |
9,257,619 | 1. A light-emitting device comprising: a light-emitting element having a semiconductor layer and an optical member, wherein the optical member is bonded to the light-emitting surface of the light-emitting element with a metal film being interposed therebetween, and wherein the metal film has one or more regions having a thickness not more than 2 times of an atomic diameter of metal atoms forming the metal film. | 20,992 |
8,906,025 | 1. A surgical instrument, comprising: a shaping instrument for shaping a bone; a housing having an internal wall defining a longitudinal cannula; a central shaft positioned in said longitudinal cannula of said housing, said central shaft having a longitudinal axis and a longitudinal bore, said central shaft moveable within said longitudinal cannula of said housing relative to said housing along said longitudinal axis of said central shaft, said central shaft having a proximal end and a distal end securable to said shaping instrument; an impaction surface facing proximally, away from a distal end of the surgical instrument, said impaction surface forming said proximal end of said central shaft, whereby impacting said impaction surface applies a proximal to distal force to said central shaft; an extraction lever pivotally connected to said housing, said extraction lever having an extraction lever impaction surface facing proximally, away from the distal end of the surgical instrument, said extraction lever impaction surface moveable relative to said central shaft, said extraction lever having an extraction arm opposite said extraction lever impaction surface, said central shaft having an extraction surface facing distally away from a proximal end of the surgical instrument, said extraction arm positionable to contact said extraction surface, whereby impacting said extraction lever impaction surface positions said extraction arm in contact with said extraction surface and applies a distal to proximal force to said central shaft; and a locating feature moveably positioned in said longitudinal bore of said central shaft; wherein said shaping instrument includes a protrusion having a ramp positioned to contact the locating feature, wherein movement of said shaping instrument causes the locating feature to ride along the ramp and be displaced from a biased position. | 6,516 |
9,016,770 | 1. An assembly comprising a framework for the front face of a motor vehicle, and a bracket, wherein the assembly includes means for positioning the bracket on the framework and wherein the bracket includes rigid-attachment means to hold an actuator able to drive one or more members to be mounted on the framework; wherein the positioning means include pre-positioning means and attachment means. | 24,819 |
9,273,425 | 1. A laundry treating apparatus comprising: a cabinet defining an external appearance and having a laundry loading hole for laundry; a drum housing the laundry and rotatably installed; a motor rotating the drum; a door rotatably coupled to the cabinet to open and close the laundry loading hole; a door switch to open or close the door; a hook provided in the door to latch on the door switch for closing the door; a rotation sensing unit to sense the rotation of the motor; a vibration sensing unit to sense the vibration of the drum; a controller to release the hook from the door switch to open the door when the rotation sensor does not sense the rotation of the motor and the vibration sensor senses the vibration of the drum; and a support unit mounted in the door to contact the cabinet and maintain a certain separation gap between the door and the cabinet when the door is opened. | 39,262 |
9,257,723 | 1. An electrolytic solution comprising: a diazonium salt devoid of hydroxyl functions, the diazonium salt having the following general formula: | 22,036 |
8,768,777 | 1. A system comprising: a network of auto-id nodes, wherein each auto-id node comprises index data that defines a hierarchical relationship between the auto-id node and another auto-id node within the network, and wherein the auto-id nodes comprise a storage for storing dynamic data that includes status data and history data about one or more assets that have been read by the auto-id node, the dynamic data further including expected actions related to the status data about the one or more assets, the index data comprising pointers that are determined based on each of the one or more assets, the pointers being changeable to provide different hierarchical relationships between auto-id nodes, each hierarchical relationship representing a distribution of an asset within the network that is different from distributions of other hierarchical relationships, the index data providing a path for locating and recovering data about the one or more assets; and a processor operable to extract the data from the network of auto-id nodes by following the index data within the auto-id nodes to query only selected auto-id nodes within the network, wherein the selected auto-id nodes are arranged in a hierarchical network defined by indices of the auto-id nodes. | 44,417 |
9,757,473 | 1. A cell penetrating carrier peptide, wherein the carrier peptide is 20 amino acids in length and consists of the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1. | 46,666 |
8,664,458 | 1. A process for converting mixed polyethylene waste to make waxes and grease base stock through catalytic depolymerization, comprising: preheating the mixed polyethylene waste to form a molten mixed polyethylene waste; starting depolymerization reaction of the molten mixed polyethylene waste using a catalyst in a pressurized reactor at a desired temperature using heaters in the pressurized reactor and wherein the catalyst is disposed inside the pressurized reactor; allowing progression of the depolymerization reaction of the molten mixed polyethylene waste to continue until a pressure in the pressurized reactor reaches a desired value; and turning off the heaters and stopping the depolymerization reaction of the molten mixed polyethylene waste upon the pressure in the reactor reaching the desired value, wherein the mixed polyethylene waste is converted to wax or a grease base stock, and wherein the catalyst is [Fe—Cu—Mo—P]/Al | 33,739 |
9,457,240 | 1. A golf ball comprising: a core, a mantle layer surrounding the core; a cover layer surrounding the mantle layer; wherein at least one of the core and the mantle layer comprises a member selected from the group consisting of nitrogen blowing agents subject to activation with heat; magnetic materials entrained within heat labile materials that undergo polymerization upon heating; and combinations thereof, wherein each of the core and the mantle layer independently comprises a member selected from the group consisting of agents subject to activation with heat; magnetic materials entrained within heat labile materials that undergo polymerization upon heating; and combinations thereof. | 7,257 |
8,431,354 | 1. A method of stimulating growth of high G+C Gram-positive bacterial cells or of resuscitating dormant, moribund or latent high G+C Gram-positive bacterial cells, the method comprising (i) contacting the high G+C Gram-positive bacterial cells or the dormant, moribund or latent high G+C Gram-positive bacterial cells in vitro with a composition comprising an isolated polypeptide purified to essential homogeneity and having at least 50% sequence identity with amino acid residues 117 to 184 of SEQ ID NO:2, wherein said polypeptide is capable of stimulating growth of the high G+C Gram-positive bacterial cells or of resuscitating the dormant, moribund, or latent high G+C Gram-positive bacterial cells; and (ii) incubating said high G+C Gram-positive bacterial cells or said dormant, moribund or latent high G+C Gram-positive bacterial cells in culture medium containing the polypeptide, thereby stimulating the growth of said high G+C Gram-positive bacterial cells or resuscitating said dormant, moribund or latent high G+C Gram-positive bacterial cells; wherein the high G+C Gram-positive bacterial cells and the dormant, moribund or latent high G+C Gram-positive bacterial cells are selected from the group consisting of Micrococcus ssp. and Mycobacterium ssp. | 14,672 |
8,589,066 | 1. A method of operation of a navigation system comprising: obtaining a first coverage location; determining a first coverage quality at the first coverage location is below a predefined threshold with a control unit; generating an adaptive coverage area around the first coverage location for displaying on a device; selecting a preferred mode for positioning fix associated with the adaptive coverage area; and operating the preferred mode inside the adaptive coverage area. | 37,339 |
8,674,483 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a multi-memory die that comprises multiple individual memory dies, wherein a semiconductor die coupled to the multi-memory die, wherein the semiconductor die is coupled to the multi-memory die via an adhesive such that the semiconductor die is located between input/output pads located on two of the individual memory dies, and wherein the semiconductor die is coupled to the multi-memory die via a wire bonding process that couples the semiconductor die to the input/output pads. | 37,576 |
9,421,926 | 1. A vehicle bumper protection device comprising: a chamber having a top wall, a bottom wall, a first side wall, a second side wall, a front wall and a rear wall, said first and second side walls being coupled to and extending between said top and bottom walls and said front and rear walls, said chamber being configured for attaching to a bumper of a vehicle; a bladder being positioned in and lining an interior of said chamber, said bladder being inflatable, said bladder having a pair of lateral sides and a pair of longitudinal sides coupled to and extending between said pair of lateral sides; and a compression assembly positioned within said bladder, said compression assembly being configured to absorb shock upon impact of said chamber. | 42,552 |
9,306,396 | 1. A utility distribution control system comprising: a plurality of energy resources including a utility service network; an energy distribution network in communication with the plurality of energy resources, the energy distribution network comprising: wherein the controller is positioned within a central control location of the utility service network. | 46,868 |
8,632,057 | 1. A diaphragm carburetor of a multi-purpose machine, wherein fuel pumped by a pump chamber of the carburetor is divided into two branches so that one branch extends toward a constant-pressure fuel chamber and is a main fuel channel for feeding a fuel-air mixture needed for normal engine operation, and the other branch is a fuel circulation channel that extends toward an engine body or cylinder as a heat source, passing through while cooling the inside of an insulator and a portion of the carburetor closer to the heat source than the constant-pressure fuel chamber of the carburetor, and then returns to a fuel tank; wherein fuel pumped by the pump chamber of the carburetor is passed through a cooling channel that extends toward the engine body or cylinder, which acts as the heat source for the carburetor, and is divided into two branches so that one branch is the main fuel channel, and the other branch is the fuel circulation channel for returning to the fuel tank, wherein the fuel warmed by the insulator is adequately cooled to or below the temperature of the insulator by the inside of the fuel tank. | 41,383 |
9,841,001 | 1. A banded wind turbine configuration of a horizontal axis wind turbine, comprising: a plurality of blades having respective roots mounted on a shaft hub assembly of the horizontal axis wind turbine and blade tips opposite said roots, the mounting of said blade roots to said shaft hub assembly providing primary support for the plurality of the blades; and an integral outer band that rotates with said shaft hub assembly, said integral outer band being primarily supported by said plurality of blades at the blade tips, and said integral outer band having a connection with each said blade tip that permits rotation of the blades about an axis along a length of each of the blades to permit induced deflections and bending stresses of each of the blades that accommodates thermal expansion/contraction of each of the blades. | 35,603 |
9,812,887 | 1. A secondary-battery monitoring device comprising: first and second battery connection terminals to which a secondary battery is to be connected; first and second external terminals to which a load or a charger is to be connected; a first current path arranged between the first battery connection terminal and the first external terminal; a second current path arranged between the second battery connection terminal and the second external terminal; a switch circuit including a pair of FETs that control a flow of a charge current and a flow of a discharge current, respectively, the switch circuit being inserted in the second current path so as to control the charge current and the discharge current flowing in the secondary battery; and a switch control unit, wherein the switch control unit is provided with: a second power-supply terminal connected to the second current path connecting the second battery connection terminal with a terminal of the switch circuit; a first power-supply terminal to which a first power supply voltage from the secondary battery is supplied via the first current path with using the second power-supply terminal as a reference; a pair of control terminals; a driver circuit configured to supply a control voltage increasing along with an increase in the first power supply voltage, to a gate of the corresponding FET via the control terminal; a detection terminal connected to the second current path connecting another terminal of the switch circuit with the second external terminal; a detection circuit configured to monitor the charge current or the discharge current flowing in the second current path based on a detection voltage detected at the detection terminal, and to output a detection signal when the detection voltage reaches a predetermined value; and a control circuit configured to supply the control voltage via the corresponding driver circuit in response to the detection signal, and to carry out control of shutting off the corresponding FET, wherein an on resistance of the FET decreases along with an increase in the first power supply voltage, wherein the detection circuit is provided with: a comparator circuit configured to determine, based on a voltage of one input node serving as a reference voltage, magnitude of a voltage of another input node, and to output the detection signal based on a result of the determination; and a voltage correction circuit configured to include a unit to generate a correction voltage having a characteristic that varies along with an increase in the first power supply voltage, and a unit to generate a correction detection voltage by adding the correction voltage to the detection voltage with such a polarity as canceling the slope of variation caused in the detection voltage, or a unit to generate a correction reference voltage by adding the correction voltage to a reference power supply voltage with such a polarity as canceling the slope of variation caused in the detection voltage, wherein the comparator circuit has the one input node applied with the reference power supply voltage, and the other input node applied with the correction detection voltage, or has the one input node applied with the correction reference voltage, and the other input node applied with the detection voltage. | 8,963 |
9,163,583 | 1. A thrust reverser system, comprising: a translating sleeve configured to expose a flow path in response to the thrust reverser system being activated; a movable shelf comprising a body having a length in a longitudinal direction, the body disposed between a forward edge and an aft edge, a track configured to position the body in a transverse orientation relative to the flow path and carry and translate the movable shelf; and a bucket door configured to inhibit airflow through a fan air duct, the bucket door being capable of directing the airflow to interact with the movable shelf. | 23,691 |
8,927,153 | 1. A cathode active material for lithium secondary batteries, comprising: a lithium metal oxide secondary particle core portion formed by aggregation of lithium metal oxide primary particles; and a shell portion formed by coating the secondary particle core portion with an olivine-structured lithium iron phosphate oxide; wherein a weight ratio of the olivine-structured lithium iron phosphate oxide to the core portion is 0.5% to 1.5%, wherein the shell portion further includes a metal oxide of 1 to 100 nm size, and wherein a weight ratio between the olivine-structured lithium iron phosphate oxide and the metal oxide is in the range 1:1 to 5:1. | 46,357 |
9,369,971 | 1. A mobile station apparatus for communicating with a first base station apparatus and a second base station apparatus, the mobile station apparatus comprising: reception processing circuitry that receives a first reference signal from the first base station apparatus, and receives a second reference signal from the second base station apparatus; path loss calculation circuitry that calculates first and second path losses, each of the first and second path losses being based on one of first and second types of reference signals, the first type of reference signals corresponding to the first reference signal received by the reception processing circuitry and the second type of reference signals corresponding to the second reference signal received by the first reception processing circuitry; transmit power setting circuitry that sets a desired transmit power for an uplink signal using the first and second path losses calculated by the path loss calculation circuitry; and power headroom control circuitry that generates a power headroom using the desired transmit power set by the transmit power setting circuitry, the power headroom being information concerning transmit power to spare, and that controls transmission of the power headroom, wherein the power headroom control circuitry independently controls first and second power headroom transmission processes that use each of the first and second path losses calculated based on the first and second types of reference signals, using an independent parameter for each of the first and second power headroom transmission processes. | 31,331 |
9,717,050 | 1. A method of receiving data at a wireless station, the method comprising: transmitting an association request; receiving an association identifier from an access point, the access point transmitting a plurality of association identifiers to respective ones of a plurality of wireless stations; if the association identifier is in a list of association identifiers received from the access point, then polling the access point for data; and if the association identifier is in a range of association identifiers corresponding to respective ones of a subset of the plurality of wireless stations, as indicated by data indicative of the range received from the access point, then entering a power-save mode, waking up from the power-save mode at a scheduled time, and receiving data from the access point, the data indicative of the range comprising association identifiers corresponding to a first number of wireless stations, wherein the first number of wireless stations is less than the number of wireless stations in the subset. | 2,672 |
8,672,915 | 1. A wearing article having a longitudinal direction (Y), a transverse direction (X), comprising: an inner side facing the wearer's skin; an outer side facing a wearer's garment; a front waist region; a rear waist region; a crotch region extending between said front and rear waist regions and being contiguous one to another in said longitudinal direction; waist belt members defining said front and rear waist regions, respectively, and a crotch member defining said crotch region partially inclusive of said front and rear waist regions, wherein said waist belt members include a pair of waist line defining ends and a pair of ends on a side of said crotch member both pairs extending in said transverse direction and opposed to each other in said longitudinal direction, said waist belt members further include a plurality of waist elastic members provided under tension and extending in said transverse direction and spaced one from another in said longitudinal direction and said waist belt members are partially formed with non-contractile regions free from contractile force of said waist elastic members, each of said waist belt members includes an inner sheet defining an inner side facing said wearer's skin and an outer sheet defining an outer side facing said wearer's garment and said waist elastic members being interposed between said inner and outer sheets, said non-contractile regions is formed along at least said waist line defining ends of said waist belt members or said ends of said waist belt members on said side of said crotch member; said inner and outer sheets are not bonded to each other in said non-contractile regions; and said waist line defining ends of said waist belt members and said ends of said waist belt members on said side of said crotch member both formed with said non-contractile regions are formed with joint zones along which said inner and outer sheets are joined together. | 45,287 |
8,903,582 | 1. A method of controlling a hybrid automobile including a motor and an engine for outputting drive forces to wheels, and a catalyst arranged in an exhaust passage of the engine, wherein only a drive force of the motor is outputted to the wheels by stopping the engine while operating the motor when a required drive force is below a predetermined switch value, and on the other hand, at least a drive force of the engine is outputted to the wheels by operating at least the engine when the required drive force is above the switch value, the method comprising: estimating, when the required drive force is below the switch value, a switching possibility that the required drive force will increase above the switch value; operating the engine so that a temperature of the catalyst becomes a first temperature when the estimated switching possibility is above a predetermined level; and operating the engine so that the temperature of the catalyst becomes a second temperature lower than the first temperature when the estimated switching possibility is below the predetermined level. | 12,776 |
8,602,795 | 1. An electrical connector comprising: a first connector having a first magnetic body and at least one first conductive body, and a second connector to be detachably coupled to the first connector, the second connector having a second magnetic body and at least one second conductive body; wherein the first magnetic body is capable of magnetically attracting the second magnetic body to form an enclosure to receive the at least one first conductive body and the at least one second conductive body, and the at least one first conductive body electrically connects to the at least one second conductive body when the first magnetic body is magnetically bound to the second magnetic body, the cross section of the first magnetic body is lower than that of the at least one first conductive body when viewed from a side of the first connector facing the second connector, the cross section of the second magnetic body is higher than that of the at least one second conductive body when viewed from a side of the second connector facing the first connector. | 29,648 |
9,119,628 | 1. A method of treating a nerve in a tissue region, the method comprising: positioning a working end of a device into the tissue region, where the device includes an energy delivery mode and a stimulation mode, where the stimulation mode comprises at least a first parameter setting that stimulates the nerve within a first distance from the working end, and a second parameter setting that stimulates the nerve within a second distance from the working end; stimulating the nerve at the first parameter setting; repositioning the working end of the device in the tissue region to move the working end closer to the nerve; activating the device in the stimulation mode at the second parameter setting to observe stimulation of the nerve and confirm positioning of the working end of the device closer to the nerve; and activating the device in the energy delivery mode to create a first treatment location on the nerve; repositioning the working end of the device on a distal section of the nerve between a muscle controlled by the nerve and the first treatment location; and activating the device in the energy delivery mode to create a second treatment location on the nerve. | 7,020 |
8,951,828 | 1. A method for making thin film materials, comprising: dissolving the Py-BBL in an acid solution; removing traces of said acid via solvent exposure; and forming of at least one semiconducting ladder polymer films. | 4,488 |
8,952,249 | 1. A photovoltaic cell comprising a 1,4 fullerene derivative having the formula: wherein: the fullerene comprises at least 60 carbon atoms; at least one of R1-R10 is hydrogen; and at least one of R1-R10 is independently selected from alkyl, aryl, amino, oxo, thio, alkyl, halogen, and silanes; wherein the derivative is selected from the group consisting of PEHOB, PCVM, PTHOB, and PFTFP. | 49,906 |
8,806,793 | 1. A hand guard assembly for installing on a firearm, the firearm having a barrel nut, the barrel nut having a flange, the hand guard assembly comprising: a plurality of hand guard members; a coupling mechanism configured to couple at least some of the hand guard members together; and a securing mechanism configured to secure at least one of the hand guard members to the barrel nut, the securing mechanism applying a clamping force in a direction generally parallel to a longitudinal axis of the firearm, the securing mechanism comprising: a connector comprising a forward plate, a rear plate, and an annular groove formed between the forward plate and the rear plate, the annular groove being sized and shaped to receive at least a portion of the flange; and a clamping device adapted to clamp the forward plate and the rear plate about at least a portion of the flange. | 46,616 |
9,033,192 | 1. An electrical rotary actuator comprising: an output shaft; a DC permanent magnet motor providing a rotating motor shaft; a reducing gear train including a first gear attached to the motor shaft to rotate therewith and a last gear attached to the output shaft to rotate the output shaft with rotation of the motor; a stop limiting rotation of the output shaft in a first direction as driven by the motor through the gear train when power is applied to the motor; a spring biasing rotation of the output shaft in a second direction opposite the first direction, the spring sized to rotate the output shaft in the second direction when power is not applied to the motor; and wherein the gear train and motor retain engagement with the output shaft with movement of the output shaft in the first and second directions and further including a shunting element allowing current flow through the shunting element as generated by the motor with movement of the output shaft in the second direction whereby a damping of that movement may be obtained by electrical resistive dissipation. | 6,362 |
9,835,343 | 1. An exterior stadium temperature control system comprising: a plurality of stadium chairs located within an exterior stadium, each of said stadium chairs including a chair back and a chair seat; said stadium chairs being mounted in proximity with a vertical face of a stadium riser; a plurality of phase change material (PCM) units, wherein at least one unit of said plurality of PCM units being mounted to each of said plurality of said stadium chairs respectively, said PCM units each having a melting point between 23 degrees and 27 degrees Celsius (68 degrees to 80 degrees Fahrenheit); whereby an ambient temperature of said stadium is thereby controlled via said plurality of PCM units; said stadium chairs having hollow interior cavities; and said PCM units being placed within said interior cavities. | 26,553 |
9,250,297 | 1. A method for testing a lithium ion battery comprising steps of: providing an under-test lithium ion battery comprising a cathode active material; setting a reference voltage value according to the cathode active material; over charging the under-test lithium ion battery, while testing a voltage change of the under-test lithium ion battery during the over charging, and a first voltage decrease occurs during the over charging before an internal short circuit occurs; recording a maximum voltage value before the first voltage decrease in the voltage change during the over charging of the under-test lithium ion battery; and comparing the maximum voltage value with the reference voltage value. | 48,563 |
8,557,476 | 1. A fuel cell system comprising: a fixing unit comprising a casing and a fixing member that is stored in the casing, the fixing member being made of a synthetic resin that fixes or releases hydrazine, a hydrazine supply unit that supplies the hydrazine to the fixing unit, the hydrazine supply unit comprising: a releasing liquid supplying unit that supplies a water-based releasing liquid for releasing hydrazine fixed in the fixing unit to the fixing unit, the releasing liquid supplying unit comprising: a fuel cell to which hydrazine released in the fixing unit is supplied as fuel, a fuel supply line that is made of a pipe and connects the casing and the fuel cell so as to supply the hydrazine released from the fixing member and present in the casing to the fuel cell, a sensing unit configured to detect an amount of hydrazine supplied to the fuel cell, the sensing unit being provided in the fuel supply line, and a detection unit configured to detect an amount of hydrazine fixed in the fixing unit based on a predetermined theoretical hydrazine supply amount to the fuel cell and a hydrazine supply amount detected by the sensing unit, the detection unit including an indicator configured to display the amount of hydrazine fixed in the fixing unit, the amount being detected by the detection unit. | 4,022 |
8,398,896 | 1. An aluminum paste comprising particulate aluminum and an organic vehicle comprising organic solvent(s), wherein the particulate aluminum comprises 50 to 90 wt. % of spherical-shaped aluminum powder and 10 to 50 wt. % of nodular-shaped aluminum powder, the wt. % being based on the sum of the spherical-shaped aluminum powder and the nodular-shaped aluminum powder, wherein both the spherical-shaped aluminum powder and the nodular-shaped aluminum powder have a D50 particle size of 4 μm to 12 μm. | 45,450 |
9,452,582 | 1. An aircraft dismantling method comprising: a cutting-off step for separating horizontal wings and a vertical wing from a fuselage of an aircraft body; a collapsing step for sequentially collapsing a circumferential surface of the fuselage from which the wings have been separated from one longitudinal end to an other end; and a cutting step for cutting a collapsed object collapsed in the collapsing step by a certain longitudinal length to form waste masses, wherein the collapsing step comprises: a first collapsing step for pressing at least one portion of a circumference of at least one of annular frames juxtaposed in a longitudinal direction of the fuselage toward a center of the fuselage by use of a wedge-shaped pressing member; and a second collapsing step for pressing the fuselage simultaneously from two directions crossing a pressing direction of the wedge-shaped pressing member at the center of the fuselage after the first collapsing step. | 30,944 |
9,698,596 | 1. A power converter module, comprising: a DC input terminal configured to receive an input voltage from a DC source; an intermediate circuit coupled directly to the DC input terminal; a DC output terminal configured to provide an output direct voltage; an AC output terminal configured to provide an output alternating voltage; a DC converter coupled between the intermediate circuit and the DC output terminal in order to draw an input voltage from the intermediate circuit; an inverter coupled between the intermediate circuit and the AC output terminal in order to draw an input voltage from the intermediate circuit; and a regulating device coupled to the DC converter and to the inverter, wherein the regulating device is configured to regulate the input voltage of the inverter and the input voltage of the DC converter to a maximum power drain from the DC source, wherein: | 36,014 |
8,702,767 | 1. A method of localized delivery of a therapeutic agent to surrounding tissue, the method comprising: providing a therapeutic agent; providing a screw having a reservoir and a plurality of porous bands in fluid connection with said reservoir and extending from said reservoir to an outside surface of the screw, said plurality of porous bands being separated by at least one non-porous region of the screw; positioning said screw at a predetermined location in the body of a patient; and delivering a predetermined amount of said therapeutic agent from said reservoir through said plurality of porous bands to said surrounding soft tissue. | 40,291 |
9,066,540 | 1. A smokeless tobacco product comprising, smokeless tobacco; and structural fibers forming a network, in which smokeless tobacco is entangled, to form a tobacco-entangled fabric, said structural fibers having a composition different from the smokeless tobacco, wherein the tobacco-entangled fabric surrounds a mass of the smokeless tobacco that is free of structural fibers. | 6,886 |
9,162,924 | 1. A mortar mix comprising: lime; sand; cement; and microtubes mixed in with the lime, sand and cement. | 26,662 |
8,538,596 | 1. A lighting controller for adjusting a timeout value of a lamp, which illuminates a lighting area, the lighting controller comprising: a memory comprising sensor data that includes a plurality of motion trips; and an occupancy model configured to determine a plurality of durations from the plurality of motion trips, wherein each respective one of the durations is a time difference between two consecutive motion trips that are in the plurality of motion trips, wherein the occupancy model is further configured to determine a false-negative rate for the lamp based on a detection of a peak in a frequency of the durations that are in a predetermined time range as compared to a frequency of the durations that are outside of the predetermined time range, the predetermined time range including values larger than the timeout value of the lamp, the false-negative rate representing a frequency at which the lamp is timed out when the lighting area is occupied; and a demand model configured to increase the timeout value of the lamp in response to the false-negative rate being above a threshold false-negative rate, and to decrease the timeout value of the lamp in response to the false-negative rate being below the threshold false-negative rate. | 36,248 |
9,470,127 | 1. A structure for use in a pollution control device, said structure comprising: at least one inorganic layer comprising inorganic fibers suitable for use in a pollution control device, with said at least one inorganic layer having opposite sides, and each said side defining a major surface area; a friction-inducing inorganic material disposed on at least a portion of the major surface area, of at least one of the sides of said at least one inorganic layer, so as to define a higher friction area; and a lower friction layer comprising organic material disposed so as to cover at least a portion of said higher friction area and define an exposed surface area of said structure, with said exposed surface area exhibiting a lower static coefficient of friction than that of said higher friction area, wherein said lower friction layer is operatively adapted so as to no longer cover a substantial portion of said higher friction area, sometime after said structure has been used in a pollution control device. | 35,571 |
9,263,951 | 1. A converter arrangement, comprising: a) at least two single LLC converters, b) a pulse generator per single LLC converter, wherein each pulse generator is configured to supply switching pulses to one single LLC converter, c) an output controller configured to use a switching frequency control and/or a phase-shift control to control the pulse generators, d) a load balancing control for controlling load balancing of the converter arrangement, e) a source converter, particularly a PFC boost converter, per LLC converter, f) wherein each source converter is connected to an input of exactly one LLC converter to supply a supply voltage to the LLC converter, and g) wherein each source converter is configured to be fed by a common voltage source, and h) wherein the load balancing control is configured to balance an input power of the source converters, and i) wherein the load balancing control comprises a current regulator per source converter for balancing an input current of the source converters by comparing each input current to a common reference current and matching the input currents to the common reference current. | 9,318 |
9,624,508 | 1. A polynucleotide encoding a double stranded ribonucleotide molecule, the ribonucleotide molecule comprising: (a) a fragment of at least 23 contiguous nucleotides of SEQ ID NO:40; and (b) the reverse complement of the fragment of (a), wherein uptake by a plant-parasitic nematode of the ribonucleotide molecule inhibits plant-parasitic nematode infestation. | 10,453 |
8,405,703 | 1. A television conference apparatus that transmits display data to a plurality of terminals, the display data being data for displaying an image in a display area, the plurality of terminals being configured to be connected to the television conference apparatus, the television conference apparatus comprising: a first receiving device that receives terminal-specific data that are one of terminal image data and edit data, the terminal image data being image data transmitted from each of the plurality of terminals, and the edit data being editable data transmitted from each of the plurality of terminals; a first display data creation device that creates first display data that are display data for displaying the terminal-specific data transmitted from each of the plurality of terminals in each of a plurality of terminal-specific areas, the plurality of terminal-specific areas being included in the display area and respectively corresponding to the plurality of terminals; a second receiving device that receives position information transmitted from each of the plurality of terminals, the position information being information that specifies a position indicated by a pointer in the display area, and the pointer corresponding to each of the plurality of terminals; a second display data creation device that creates second display data by combining pointer image data with the created first display data, the pointer image data being image data of the pointer that is located at the position specified by the received position information; a display data transmission device that transmits the second display data created by the second display data creation device to the plurality of terminals; an edit authority storage device that stores edit authority information in association with identification information, the identification information being information that identifies each of the plurality of terminals, and the edit authority information being information that indicates whether each of the plurality of terminals identified by the identification information has authority to edit edit data displayed in each of the plurality of terminal-specific areas; a first determination device that determines whether each of the plurality of terminal-specific areas includes the position specified by the position information transmitted from a terminal that has the authority to edit the edit data displayed therein based on the position information received by the second receiving device and on the edit authority information stored in the edit authority storage device; and a command transmission device that transmits a first request information to a terminal corresponding to a first area and that transmits a second request information to a terminal corresponding to a second area, the first request information being information for requesting that the edit data be transmitted as the terminal-specific data, the first area being a terminal-specific area which the first determination device has determined includes the position specified by the position information transmitted from the terminal that has the authority to edit the edit data displayed therein, the second request information being information for requesting that the terminal image data be transmitted as the terminal-specific data, and the second area being a terminal-specific area which the first determination device has determined does not include the position specified by the position information transmitted from the terminal that has the authority to edit the edit data displayed therein. | 40,351 |
9,086,493 | 1. A device for the sensitive detection of X-ray photons comprising a structured scintillator screen optically coupled to a monolithically integrated semiconductor image sensor wherein: the scintillator screen is structured into columnar elements whose surfaces are partially covered with highly reflective material; the semiconductor image sensor comprises individual pixels, and each of the scintillator screen's columnar elements emits its scintillation light onto one or several of these pixels; and the pixel comprises a photoconversion device in which incident light is converted into a corresponding packet of charges, a charge collection device in which a lateral electric field is employed for transporting the photogenerated charge packets to a readout node, and an electronic circuit for converting these charge packets to voltage signals responsive to which arrival-time and/or energy of detected X-ray photons is determined, wherein the charge collection device is a lateral drift field device, and wherein the lateral drift field device is a multi electrode device comprising a series of closely spaced or overlapping electrodes. | 17,234 |
9,678,989 | 1. A method performed by a system of one or more computers for selecting image content, the method comprising: performing image analysis on a collection of image content items to obtain information about each image content item, including one or more of (i) identification of one or more objects in one or more image content items, and (ii) identification of a feature for each identified object; detecting content that is to be used for image selection; providing, to a user, one or more image selection results from the collection of image content items based on (i) the detected content and (ii) the information obtained from the image analysis; receiving, from the user, user-input associated with an user-interactable interface element associated with a first image selection result of the one or more image selection results, the user input specifying selection of a parameter indicated by the user-interactable interface element and referring to one or more properties of first image content of the first image selection result; and providing, to the user, one or more additional image selection results based on (i) the detected content, (ii) the information obtained from the image analysis, and (iii) the selected parameter associated with the first image selection result. | 15,190 |
9,529,769 | 1. A computer system, comprising: a computer with wherein the graphics subsystem directly couples to a unidirectional differential signal channel to output digital video data; and wherein the unidirectional different signal channel conveys Transition Minimized Differential Signaling (TMDS) signals as digital video data. | 45,102 |
9,224,020 | 1. A method comprising: generating at a transponder by a random number generator a random number in an operating mode for generating random numbers; switching, in response to receiving a selection command from a base station, the random number generator to a counter operating mode, the random number generator configured, in the counter operating mode, as a counter without using a separate counter for implementing the counter operating mode; modifying, when the random number generator is in the counter operating mode and in response to receiving from the base station a signal corresponding to a start of a time slot, a count state of the random number generator from an initial value to a modified value without using a separate counter for implementing the counter operating mode; and transmitting, when the count state is a predetermined value, an identification corresponding to the transponder. | 17,087 |
8,474,244 | 1. A method for controlling an injector intended for injecting a pollution-control liquid additive into exhaust gases of an internal combustion engine at a flow rate governed by a given frequency and opening time of the injector, the injector having a calibration curve that establishes, at given frequency, pressure, temperature and nature of the liquid, an amount of liquid injected during an opening of the injector as a function of the duration of the opening time, the curve comprising at least one linear zone (calibration line) and a non-linear zone, said method comprising: determining whether a predetermined flow rate falls within the linear zone of the calibration curve; if said predetermined flow rate falls within the linear zone of the calibration curve, using a set frequency and determining a variable opening time to obtain the predetermined flow rate on the basis of the calibration line; if said predetermined flow rate does not fall within the linear zone of the calibration line, using a set opening time and determining a variable frequency on the basis of at least one calibration point; controlling said injector in accordance with the determined opening time and frequency, wherein said set opening time is greater than or equal to a minimum time (t wherein, to achieve increasing flow rates, use is made of the set opening time and the variable frequency until a certain flow rate is obtained, then use is made of the given frequency and the variable opening time until a second flow rate is reached; next, use is also made of a given, but higher, frequency and a second variable opening time and finally, if necessary, use is made of another set opening time and a third variable frequency. | 8,376 |
8,468,004 | 1. A method of modeling interactions with keratinous tissue, comprising the steps of: a) providing a nonwoven mimic having a surface energy representative of keratinous tissue; the nonwoven mimic comprising: b) applying an amount of substance to the mimic as may be applied to keratinous tissue; and c) analyzing the nonwoven mimic to assess interaction of the substance with the mimic. | 20,222 |
8,406,063 | 1. A method for programming non-volatile storage including a set of word lines connected to a group of connected non-volatile storage elements, the set of word lines include a selected word line, a set of unselected word lines that are adjacent to the selected word line and a set of other unselected word lines, the method comprising: raising the selected word line and the set of other unselected word lines to a first voltage during a first time period from a first time to a second time; raising the set of unselected word lines that are adjacent to the selected word line to one or more second voltages different from the first voltage during the first time period; raising the selected word line to a program voltage causing at least one of the non-volatile storage elements to experience programming during a second time period from the second time to a third time; raising the set of unselected word lines that are adjacent to the selected word line to a third voltage during the second time period; and maintaining the set of other unselected word lines at the first voltage during the second time period. | 23,432 |
8,853,502 | 1. A seed of hybrid maize variety X08A233, produced by crossing a first plant of variety PHPAR with a second plant of variety PH12TP, wherein representative seed of said varieties PHPAR and PH12TP have been deposited under ATCC Accession Number PTA-12009 and PTA-13266, respectively. | 16,661 |
9,802,230 | 1. A method for decreasing an amount of at least one perchlorate compound in a contaminated environmental medium, the method comprising the steps of: (a) contacting an effective amount of a consortium culture of (b) providing a carbohydrate to the consortium-contacted medium of step (a) under conditions that result in a decreased amount of the at least one perchlorate compound in the environmental medium. | 9,315 |
8,401,768 | 1. A method for controlling an engine coupled to a transmission in a vehicle comprising: under a first operating condition, shutting-off the engine and spinning-down the engine to rest while the vehicle is traveling; and in response to a second operating condition, restarting the engine by at least partially engaging the transmission and transferring wheel torque through the transmission to the at-rest engine to assist in spinning-up the engine from rest while the vehicle is traveling. | 20,060 |
8,473,328 | 1. A system for determining an interaction strategy with at least a first consumer, comprising: a computer database comprising first information about plural consumers and second information about predetermined products, wherein the plural consumers include the first consumer, and wherein each of the plural consumers is associated with a current product mix comprising certain ones of the predetermined products independent of an association of another consumer with the predetermined products; a computer processor; and a computer readable storage medium comprising computer-executable instructions stored thereon, said instructions when executed causing said processor to: (a) for a time variable product in the current product mix for a one of the plural consumers: (b) repeat (a) for each one of the plural consumers; (c) for a finite duration product in the current product mix for a one of the plural consumers: (d) repeat (c) for each one of the plural consumers; (e) individually for each of the plural consumers, determine an aggregate third RLTV estimate from that consumer's aggregate first RLTV estimate and from that consumer's aggregate second RLTV estimate; (f) calculate the likelihood of a one of the plural consumers to acquire one or more of the predetermined products not in the current product mix for said one consumer; (g) for a preselected product not in the current product mix of a one of the plural consumers: (h) repeat (f) and (g) for each one of the plural consumers; (i) analyze a distribution of the aggregate third RLTV estimates for the plural consumers; (j) analyze a distribution of the aggregate PLTV estimates for the plural consumers; and (k) evaluate the first consumer as a function of the distribution of the third aggregate RLTV estimates and as a function of the distribution of the aggregate PLTV estimates, wherein the evaluation results in a determination of an interaction strategy with the first consumer. | 38,424 |
9,013,060 | 1. A system for measuring, monitoring and controlling electrical power directed through one or more electricity directing devices, wherein the one or more electricity directing devices comprises one or more electrical sockets supplying power to one or more devices, the system comprising one or more circuits, each circuit comprising: a potential transformer configured to receive single phase AC voltage directed through a socket and further configured to relay the voltage, wherein relaying the AC voltage comprises stepping down the voltage using a precise value of transformation ratio; a current sensor configured to sense current drawn from the socket and further configured to relay the current; a microcontroller configured to receive analog or digital values of voltage and current corresponding to the single phase AC voltage delivered by the potential transformer and current sensed by the current sensor, wherein the microcontroller is further configured to: a coupling device configured to transmit the generated control signal to a switching device; and a switching device operationally connected to the socket and configured to terminate power flow through the socket based on the received control signal. | 11,707 |
8,458,483 | 1. A method of message-passing using shared memory, the method comprising: storing a message in the shared memory while a security processor is in a sleep mode, the security processor being constructed and arranged to access the shared memory when the security processor is in a wakened mode; transitioning the security processor from the sleep mode to the wakened mode; and after the security processor has transitioned from the sleep mode to the wakened mode, processing the message from the shared memory using the security processor; wherein: the method further comprises receiving the message from an external transmitter via local radio frequency (RF) transceiver circuitry while the security processor is in the sleep mode; the method is performed by an RF tag device comprising, within an enclosed housing, the local RF transceiver circuitry, the shared memory, and the security processor; when the security processor is in the sleep mode, the security processor is in an inactive unpowered state; the message includes a password; storing is performed in response to receiving if and only if the password matches an expected password; storing includes storing a particular value in a particular address of the shared memory while the security processor is in the sleep mode; transitioning the security processor to the wakened mode from the sleep mode is performed in response to detecting that the particular value has been stored in the particular address of the shared memory; when the security processor is in the wakened mode, the security processor is in an operative powered state in which the security processor is configured to be able to read from and write to the shared memory; the password includes a memory address and a value to be stored at the memory address; and the password matches the expected password if and only if: | 18,593 |
9,201,478 | 1. A method of charging a battery associated with a portable device, the method comprising the following operations performed by one or more processors: storing power rate data reflecting a value at which power is purchasable at a particular time from a power source; storing an association between a set of power rates and a respective charging threshold; determining whether a charge level associated with the battery is below a predetermined battery-power threshold by comparing the charge level to the charging threshold corresponding to the stored power rate data; enabling the power source to provide power to the battery for charging when the power source is available to the battery for charging and the charge level associated with the battery is below the predetermined battery-power threshold and the value of the power rate data is not above a predetermined amount; and enabling the device to draw power from the battery for operation, when the charge level associated with the battery is above the predetermined battery-power threshold. | 40,389 |
8,579,616 | 1. A gear pump comprising: a gear disposed in a pump chamber formed in a housing and adapted to be driven by a drive shaft; a pair of side plate members adjoining side surfaces of the gear, respectively, to restrain leakage of an operating fluid; a tip seal member to seal a gear tip of the gear; and a sealing member formed integrally with a first one of the side plate members and the tip seal member; wherein the sealing member is made of resin; and wherein the sealing member of the resin is an integral member including, as integral parts of the sealing member, the first one of the side plate members and the tip seal member. | 17,442 |
8,669,889 | 1. A computer program product for compressing an input data stream to produce a compressed output data stream, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code embodied therein that is executed to perform operations, the operations comprising: determining whether a number of consecutive data units in the input data stream match the number of consecutive data units in a history buffer of previously received data units in the input data stream; in response to determining that the number of consecutive data units in the input data stream match the number of consecutive data units in the history buffer, generating a copy pointer symbol indicating the copy pointer symbol referencing previously received data units in the history buffer and indicating a location of a start of the consecutive data units in the history buffer; determining from a variable length code table an encoding of the number, wherein the variable length code table has: a first prefix of one bit which indicates that a next following one bit represents two or three data units; a second prefix of two bits which indicates that a next following one bit represents four or five data units; a third prefix of three bits which indicates that a next following one bit represents six or seven data units, and a fourth prefix of four bits which indicates that a next following one bit represents eight or nine data units; indicating in the generated copy pointer symbol the determined encoding of the number; and outputting the copy pointer symbol in the compressed output data stream. | 2,258 |
9,129,005 | 1. A method of searching a hierarchical database and an inverted index, the method comprising: receiving a single search query that has syntax identifying an unstructured search string within a structured search query to automatically cause a search of the inverted index and use of the result to automatically search the hierarchical database; extracting the unstructured search string from the single search query; searching the inverted index according to the unstructured search string, wherein the inverted index includes virtual documents created from data stored in the hierarchical database, wherein each virtual document includes a unique identifier from the hierarchical database used to designate the data in the hierarchical database from which that virtual document was created, wherein the unique identifier identifies the virtual document, wherein the searching includes comparing the unstructured search string to text contained within each virtual document, and wherein a result of the inverted index search includes the unique identifiers of those of the virtual documents that contain text matching the complete unstructured search string; and for each of the virtual documents in the result, generating a separate search query from the single search query by replacing the unstructured search string in the structured search query with the unique identifier identifying the virtual document, wherein the separate search query is different from the single search query and different from the structured search query, and searching the hierarchical database according to the separate search query. | 38,588 |
8,557,118 | 1. A system, comprising: a gasification and scrubbing system configured to produce syngas and a black water from a fuel source; a black water treatment system coupled to the gasification and scrubbing system, wherein the black water treatment system is configured to treat the black water to produce a grey water; and a grey water treatment system coupled to the black water treatment system and configured to receive the grey water, wherein the grey water treatment system comprises: | 4,585 |
9,743,357 | 1. An energy harvesting communication device configured with means for boosting signal reception, the communication device comprising: a. at least a cell platform; b. at least a charging circuit apparatus; c. at least a control apparatus; d. at least a communication apparatus communicatively coupled to said charging circuit apparatus and in association with the control apparatus; and e. said cell platform further disposed with sensors embedded in silicon substrate to provide at least one of a communication medium, a detection platform, a communication clarity, a detection selectivity, and a detection sensitivity. | 19,696 |
9,179,222 | 1. A vibration-based hearing device comprising: a sound input element for receiving a sound signal and converting the sound signal into an electrical signal; a vibrating actuator; a coupling apparatus configured to couple the vibrating actuator to a bone structure of a recipient; and a sound processor for processing the electrical signal to generate a stimulation signal, wherein the sound processor is configured to: and wherein the actuator is configured to apply the frequency shifted stimulation signal as vibration to the bone structure of the recipient. | 32,465 |
8,660,741 | 1. A particulate filter ash loading prediction method, comprising the steps of: determining a service age of the particulate filter; comparing said service age to a predetermined minimum service age; determining, after said service age has reached said predetermined minimum service age, a running average of time between regenerations of the particulate filter; calculating an end-of-service-life value of the particulate filter dependent, at least in part, upon said running average; and comparing said end-of-service-life value to a predetermined minimum end-of-service-life value, if said end-of-service-life value is one of equal to and less than said minimum end-of-service-life value then indicating that at least one of service and replacement of the particulate filter is needed due to ash loading. | 4,986 |
9,793,428 | 1. A photovoltaic cell module for a receiver of a solar radiation-based electrical power generating system comprising: (a) a photovoltaic cell assembly that includes at least one photovoltaic cell having an exposed surface for solar radiation; (b) an electrical connection for transferring an electrical energy output of the photovoltaic cell assembly to an output electrical circuit, and (c) an assembly for extracting heat from the photovoltaic cell, the assembly comprising a coolant chamber positioned behind the exposed surface of the photovoltaic cell assembly and being defined by (a) a housing that comprises a base and side walls extending from the base and (b) the photovoltaic cell assembly connected to upper ends of the side walls of the housing, and the coolant chamber having a coolant inlet and a coolant outlet for coolant to be supplied into the chamber and for heated coolant to be removed from the chamber and a coolant member located in the coolant chamber to support the photovoltaic cell assembly and to facilitate heat transfer from the assembly to coolant in the chamber located in the coolant chamber, the coolant member comprising a plurality of heat transfer fingers of high thermal conductivity material having ends that are connected directly or indirectly to the photovoltaic cell assembly and supporting the photovoltaic cell assembly and for transferring heat from the photovoltaic cell assembly to coolant in the coolant chamber, the coolant member further comprising a partition that divides the chamber into a first compartment that is partly defined by the photovoltaic cell assembly and a second compartment that functions as a manifold for coolant flow into and from the first compartment, and with the fingers extending from the partition within the first compartment to the photovoltaic cell assembly, the fingers being sufficiently flexible to accommodate differences in thermal expansion coefficient between the photovoltaic cell assembly and the fingers and having a relatively high surface area for heat transfer from the fingers to coolant circulating through the coolant chamber, and the side walls being sufficiently flexible to accommodate differences in thermal expansion coefficient between the photovoltaic cell assembly and the side walls. | 14,919 |
8,968,522 | 1. A process comprising the steps: a) introducing a feed comprising: b) condensing the first vaporous overhead stream to produce an optional gas phase and recover a mixed condensate, wherein the mixed condensate comprises c) introducing at least a portion of the butanol phase to the first distillation column; d) introducing a first portion of the first bottoms stream into a second distillation column having at least a stripping section and optionally a rectifying section and operating the second distillation column to produce a second bottoms stream comprising the extractant and being substantially free of the at least one isomer of butanol, and a second vaporous overhead stream comprising the at least one isomer of butanol; and e) introducing at least a portion of the aqueous phase to a fermentation vessel; wherein the extractant preferentially partitions the at least one isomer of butanol over water and is separable from the at least one isomer of butanol by distillation. | 27,474 |
9,356,315 | 1. A sulfide solid electrolyte material comprising an ion conductor having an anion structure of an ortho-composition with a ratio of 70 mol % or more to all anion structures, and LiI, wherein the sulfide solid electrolyte material is glass with a glass transition point, the ion conductor contains Li, X (X is P, Si, Al or B), and S, and a content of the LiI is within a range of 10 mol % to 30 mol %. | 6,188 |
8,615,575 | 1. A device comprising: a controller; and memory, coupled to the controller, the memory having executable instructions stored thereon that when executed by the controller cause the controller to effectuate operations comprising: | 46,367 |
8,677,747 | 1. A method for controlling an internal-combustion engine ( 1 ) supercharged by a turbocharger ( 12 ) and including a turbine ( 13 ) and compressor ( 14 ), said control method comprising steps of: establishing a predetermined lower-limit speed of the turbocharger ( calculating a reduced lower-limit speed (N calculating a reduced higher-limit speed (N determining an over-speed interval of the turbocharger ( calculating a current reduced-limit speed; controlling the turbocharger ( establishing in a preliminary adjustment and set-up phase a first threshold value (S controlling the turbocharger ( | 11,507 |
8,776,397 | 1. An article of footwear comprising: an outer bottom assembly comprising: the outsole, the damping layer, and the reinforcement layer being affixed to one another with adhesive. | 47,800 |
9,446,930 | 1. An emergency stop device with a hand brake system, comprising: brake units which are provided on both sides of a car and selectively interfered with guide rails so as to restrain the movement of the car, the brake units comprising: an operation unit connected with the brake units to manually provide a braking force to the braking units, the operation unit comprising: an interlocking unit which causes the brake unit provided on both sides of the car to be interlocked by operation of the operation unit, the interlocking unit comprising connection pieces which are eccentrically provided on the rotation brackets, respectively, and point-symmetrical to each other and a connection bar that interconnects the connection pieces. | 21,333 |
9,181,830 | 1. A method of reducing emissions from an internal combustion engine utilizing a six-stroke cycle that includes a first compression stroke, a first power stroke, a second compression stroke, and a second power stroke, the method comprising: introducing a first fuel charge to a combustion chamber during the first compression and/or first power stroke and combusting to produce a stoichiometric lean condition in the combustion chamber; introducing a second fuel charge to the combustion chamber during the second compression stroke and/or second power stroke to produce a second condition stoichiometric lean condition in the combustion chamber and combusting to produce lean exhaust gasses; and periodically increasing the second fuel charge to produce a stoichiometric rich condition in the combustion chamber and combusting to produce rich exhaust gasses. | 37,007 |
8,557,390 | 1. A glass product, comprising a glass substrate with a transparent and conductive indium tin oxide layer having a covering layer, which forms a redox barrier for the indium tin oxide layer, wherein the indium tin oxide layer is obtained by pulsed, highly ionizing high-power magnetron sputtering (HPPMS) in which the pulses of the magnetron have a peak power density that is greater than 1.5 kW/cm the pulses of the magnetron have a time duration that is ≦200 μs, and the mean current flow density rise upon ignition of the plasma within a time interval that is ≦0.025 ms is at least 106 A/(ms cm and wherein the indium tin oxide layer has a crystalline structure, such that the (222)-reflection of an X-ray diffraction spectrum after the production of the indium tin oxide layer is shifted relative to the powder spectrum of indium tin oxide by a maximum of 1° in the direction of compressive stress and is shifted after heat treatment by a maximum of 1° in the direction of the powder spectrum. | 7,822 |
8,888,894 | 1. A method comprising using an element which comprises a monoblock concrete body with a volume greater than 1 L and a surface porosity greater than 8%, which body comprises in the body and/or on a surface thereof a compound having a BET specific surface greater than 100 m 2 /g, and which element does not comprise a photocatalytic agent, to adsorb from the atmosphere nitrogen dioxide, wherein the compound is selected from the group consisting of active carbon, modified active carbon, silica gel, pyrogenic silica, diatomite, zeolite and alumina and porous hybrid solids, and wherein the adsorption rate of nitrogen dioxide per unit surface is greater than 0.5 ppbv/cm 2 . | 9,064 |
9,767,262 | 1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium embodying specific instructions that, when executed, cause a remote computing device to at least: automatically generate a security credential for a user account with a network site according to a security credential specification requested from the network site at a standardized location, the security credential having a maximum security strength as defined by the security credential specification; automatically establish the security credential with the network site as a valid security credential; select a plurality of knowledge-based questions to be presented to a user at a client computing device in response to receiving a request for the security credential from the client computing device; provide the plurality of knowledge-based questions to the client computing device in response to the request; generate a score based at least in part on a comparison of a plurality of received answers to the plurality of knowledge-based questions with a plurality of valid answers to the plurality of knowledge-based questions, the plurality of received answers being received from the client computing device, and individual received answers of the plurality of received answers being weighted with a respective different weight based at least in part on a respective knowledge-based question of the plurality of knowledge-based questions; provide the security credential to the client computing device when the score meets a predetermined threshold; and establish a master security credential received from the client computing device as a valid master security credential when the score meets the predetermined threshold. | 26,745 |
9,304,486 | 1. An image forming apparatus configured to form an image on a recording sheet, comprising: a chassis having a first opening and a second opening, the first opening being formed on a first side of the chassis, the second opening being formed separately from the first opening; a drawer configured to hold a plurality of photosensitive members therein in line and to be slidably installed in the chassis through the first opening and movable between a first position and a second position in the chassis, the plurality of photosensitive members being configured to carry toner images; an intermediate transfer belt unit including an endless belt, the endless belt rolling in a predetermined rolling direction and having a surface which faces the plurality of photosensitive members and being configured to have the toner images on the plurality of photosensitive members transferred onto the surface in cooperation with a plurality of primary-transfer members; a secondary-transfer roller arranged on a second side opposite from the first side within the chassis and configured to transfer the toner images on the surface of the endless belt onto the recording sheet; a first feed roller arranged in a vicinity of the second side and configured to convey the recording sheet toward the secondary-transfer roller; a first feeding path configured to extend in a range between the first feed roller and the secondary-transfer roller; a cleaner device arranged in a position between one of the plurality of photosensitive members being in a most upstream position along the predetermined rolling direction of the endless belt and the secondary-transfer roller, and configured to collect residual toner from the surface of the endless belt; a conveyer configured to convey the collected residual toner toward an outer side of the endless belt; a waste toner container configured to be removably installed in the chassis through the second opening and to store the residual toner collected by the cleaner device; a connector connected to the cleaner device, and to which the waste toner container is detachably attached, the connector being configured to convey the residual toner collected by the cleaner device to the waste toner container; a first cover configured to be rotatably movable about a first axis to a first open position when the drawer is moved in the chassis and to cover the first opening when in a first closed position; and a second cover configured to cover the second opening when in a second closed position and to be rotatably movable about a second axis to a second open position when the waste toner container is moved in the chassis. | 49,897 |
9,604,615 | 1. A method for carrying out a braking procedure in a vehicle having a hydraulic brake system, the method comprising: intermediately storing, when a brake temperature exceeds a first boundary value, a partial volume of hydraulic fluid in a brake circuit in a storage chamber; pumping back, when the brake temperature exceeds a brake fading boundary value, the hydraulic fluid accommodated in the storage chamber into the brake circuit; and pumping back, when the brake temperature is less than a second boundary value, the hydraulic fluid accommodated in the storage chamber into the brake circuit; wherein the first boundary value is less than the brake fading boundary value. | 18,424 |
9,218,990 | 1. A substrate carrier for carrying a substrate having an outside diameter (OD), and first and second substrate faces, comprising: a carrier plate having a substrate recess, a cover plate recess and a substrate support slot, the substrate recess having a protrusion on a recess sidewall, the protrusion including an inset portion; a cover plate rotatably disposed in the cover plate recess; a substrate support slidably disposed in the substrate support slot, the substrate support having a substrate engaging end and an actuation end; and a spring disposed between the actuation end of the substrate support and an end wall of the substrate support slot to bias the substrate support toward the recess; wherein the substrate engaging end and the inset portion of the protrusion are configured to engage the OD of the substrate to lock the substrate within the recess. | 11,665 |
9,255,303 | 1. A method for determining at least one state variable of an electric arc furnace with at least one electrode, comprising: supplying energy to the electric arc furnace and determining said energy with the aid of at least one electric sensor, measuring structure-borne noise oscillations on the electric arc furnace using at least one noise sensor, wherein the electric arc furnace provides for a transfer path between said at least one electrode and said at least one noise sensor and wherein a transfer function characterizes said transfer path, and determining the at least one state variable using the transfer function which is determined from an excitation signal and from an output signal, the excitation signal being determined by evaluating measured data of the at least one electric sensor, and the output signal being determined by evaluating the structure-borne noise oscillations measured on the electric arc furnace, the transfer function being evaluated at discrete frequencies being multiples of a fundamental frequency of the supplied energy to the electric arc furnace, wherein the transfer function is determined in the frequency domain where a Fourier transform of the output signal is equal to a product of the transfer function and a Fourier transform of the excitation signal, wherein the absolute value of a cross-power spectrum of the transfer function is equal to the absolute value of the cross-power spectrum at the output signal divided by the cross-power spectrum at the excitation signal. | 1,682 |
8,544,405 | 1. A ship configured to transport a plurality of aircraft, comprising a flight deck; a payload staging deck under the flight deck; a hull form and installed power that allows the ship to cruise with a speed of at least 20 knots; and a first plurality of aircraft placed on one side of the flight deck and ready for take-off, each of the first plurality of aircraft simultaneously having an orientation angle between 20° and 180° from dead ahead. | 27,946 |
8,888,444 | 1. A steam seal system comprising: a low pressure steam turbine positioned on a shaft; an intermediate pressure steam turbine positioned on the shaft; a high pressure steam turbine positioned on the shaft; a pair of end packings surrounding the shaft, each of the pair of end packings located proximate an axial end of the low pressure steam turbine along the shaft; and a pair of extraction conduits fluidly connected to the low pressure steam turbine and the shaft, the pair of extraction conduits connected to the shaft at a location axially outward of the pair of end packings and the low pressure steam turbine, wherein the pair of extraction conduits provide a flow of only low pressure steam extracted from the low pressure steam turbine to the pair of end packings, wherein the pair of extraction conduits are fluidly isolated from seal systems for the intermediate pressure steam turbine and the high pressure steam turbine. | 39,008 |
9,540,909 | 1. A system to facilitate drilling of a lateral wellbore, comprising: a drilling diverter latch assembly having a lower latch assembly comprising a tubing with a lower seal positioned to form a seal below a junction with a lateral wellbore and an upper latch assembly with an upper seal positioned to form a seal with an upper tieback receptacle located above the junction with the lateral wellbore, the upper latch assembly comprising: | 22,238 |
8,772,659 | 1. An electronic apparatus comprising: a key top; a lifting/lowering mechanism supporting the key top for free up-and-down motion between a raised position and a lowered position; a contact portion that effects switching in conjunction with the up-and-down action of the key top; a resilient member that, along with being capable of causing the key top to remain on standby in the raised position, can be resiliently deformed during the downward travel of the key top; a substrate that, along with supporting the lifting/lowering mechanism, has the resilient member disposed thereon, and a first sound dampening member arranged on the surface of the substrate where the lifting/lowering mechanism is provided, and abuttable by an edge of the key top when the key top is at the lowered position, wherein the first sound dampening member is formed from a resiliently deformable material and has an opening at a position corresponding to the key top, and the opening extends to a position outside of the key top in aplanar view so that a space under the key top and a space outside the key top communicate with each other when the key top is at the lowered position. | 7,657 |
8,592,622 | 1. A fluorine-containing compound is selected from the group consisting of: wherein R R R R R | 48,412 |
9,213,400 | 1. A method of reducing power consumption in solid-state storage devices, comprising: detecting, by control logic circuitry, whether a solid-state storage device has been enabled to enter a reduced power state, the control logic circuitry being connectable between a host computer and a solid-state storage device; having detected that the solid-state storage device has been enabled to enter the reduced power state: upon detection of negation of the predetermined control signal, controlling, by the control logic circuitry, the power enable component to reestablish a connection between the solid-state storage device and the power rail. | 39,934 |
8,707,682 | 1. An exhaust purification system of an internal combustion engine wherein a hydrocarbon feed valve for feeding hydrocarbons is arranged in an engine exhaust passage, an upstream side air-fuel ratio sensor for detecting an air-fuel ratio of exhaust gas is arranged in the engine exhaust passage upstream of the hydrocarbon feed valve, an exhaust purification catalyst for reacting NO x contained in exhaust gas and reformed hydrocarbons is arranged in the engine exhaust passage downstream of the hydrocarbon feed valve, a downstream side air-fuel ratio sensor for detecting the air-fuel ratio of the exhaust gas is arranged in the engine exhaust passage downstream of the exhaust purification catalyst, the downstream side air-fuel ratio sensor is a type of sensor which has a solid electrolyte, electrodes respectively covering two side surfaces of the solid electrolyte, and a diffusion resistance layer covering one of electrodes and in which exhaust gas is guided onto the diffusion resistance layer, precious metal catalysts are carried on an exhaust gas flow surface of the exhaust purification catalyst and a basic exhaust gas flow surface part is formed around the precious metal catalysts, the exhaust purification catalyst has a property of reducing the NO x which is contained in exhaust gas if a concentration of hydrocarbons which flow into the exhaust purification catalyst is made to vibrate by within a predetermined range of amplitude and within a predetermined range of period and has a property of being increased in storage amount of NO x which is contained in exhaust gas if the vibration period of the hydrocarbon concentration is made longer than the predetermined range, when hydrocarbons are fed from the hydrocarbon feed valve, an air-fuel ratio detected by the downstream side air-fuel ratio sensor changes to a rich side from a reference air-fuel ratio which is detected when hydrocarbons are not fed from the hydrocarbon feed valve, and an amount of hydrocarbons which are fed from the hydrocarbon feed valve and which slip through the exhaust purification catalyst is detected from an air-fuel ratio difference between an air-fuel ratio which is detected by the upstream side air-fuel ratio sensor and the reference air-fuel ratio which is detected by the downstream side air-fuel ratio sensor. | 43,758 |
9,456,417 | 1. A method in a communication terminal configured for operation in a radio communication system, said method comprising: determining whether or not the communication terminal should avoid entering a power saving mode associated with extended periods of radio inactivity; and for a given period of radio inactivity: wherein preventing expiry of the inactivity timer comprises periodically exchanging data between the communication terminal and a network node of the radio communication system. | 26,900 |
9,251,961 | 1. A method of producing an electrolytic capacitor, the method comprising: (i) providing a capacitor body comprising a porous electrode, a dielectric disposed on a surface of the porous electrode, and a solid electrolyte comprising an electrically conductive material covering at least a portion of the dielectric; (ii) applying a first dispersion (a (iii) applying a second dispersion (a wherein the particles of the electrically conductive polymer in the first and the second dispersion comprise a polythiophene/polyanion complex. | 18,130 |
8,565,733 | 1. A computer-based method of transmitting data, comprising: receiving a message from a user mobile device at a server computer system; determining at the server computer system whether the message from the user mobile device includes a search identifier, the search identifier indicating, by its presence, that a search is to be performed; in response to a determination that the message from the user mobile device includes a search identifier: in response to determining that the message from the user mobile device does not include the search identifier, transmitting an error message to the user mobile device. | 15,605 |
8,569,650 | 1. A method of laser material removal, comprising: thermally stressing a region of dielectric material deposited on a substrate by positioning the substrate out of focus of a light emitted from a laser such that a portion of the light strikes the dielectric material above an ablation threshold of the dielectric material and strikes the substrate beneath an ablation threshold of the substrate to remove the dielectric material from the region without damaging the substrate. | 1,269 |
8,924,531 | 1. A method of grouping communication sessions, the method comprising: selecting a plurality of communications sessions from a data stream; searching each of said communication sessions for at least one entity; extracting each occurrence of said at least one entity and at least one context of the at least one entity, wherein each at least one context is a predetermined number of characters before, after, or before and after one of said at least one entity; determining which data structures, of said communication sessions, occur more frequently than chance based on data structures within said contexts; and sorting the communication sessions into groups, wherein communication sessions which have similar data structures, determined to occur more frequently than chance, are sorted into the same group. | 16,564 |
9,357,492 | 1. A method comprising: transmitting a first user input from a first network device to a second network device on a first communication channel, wherein the first user input is for controlling operation of the second network device; determining whether the second network device is operating on the first communication channel based, at least in part, on not receiving an acknowledgment message from the second network device on the first communication channel; and scanning a plurality of communication channels according to a channel scan sequence in response to determining that the second network device is not operating on the first communication channel, wherein the channel scan sequence is determined based, at least in part, on operating state feedback previously received from the second network device. | 19,695 |
8,932,510 | 1. A method of cutting a glass article from a strengthened glass substrate comprising a surface compression layer and a tensile layer, the method comprising: forming an edge defect in the surface compression layer on a first edge of the strengthened glass substrate; and propagating a through vent through the surface compression and tensile layers at the edge defect by creating a tensile stress field within the strengthened glass substrate that is present from the first edge to a second edge of the strengthened glass substrate along an entire length of a cut line, wherein the tensile stress field is formed by scanning a laser beam back and forth along the entire length of the cut line on the surface compression layer at a scanning speed equal to or greater than 0.5 m/s, the tensile stress field is perpendicular to the cut line, and the through vent precedes a region of separation along the cut line between the glass article and the strengthened glass substrate. | 39,517 |
9,660,959 | 1. A method of capturing packets applied to a rule-based security apparatus operatively coupled between an external network and an internal network resource and configured to guard against network threats, comprising steps of: designating a suspicious timeslot based on certain abnormal network behaviors in a certain timeslot; responsive to designating the suspicious timeslot, collecting network packets in the designated suspicious timeslot; automatically associating the network packets in the designated suspicious timeslot to form at least one traffic flow comprising the network packets collected in the designated suspicious timeslot and corresponding to a connection to the external network; analyzing the at least one traffic flow to select at least one suspicious target traffic flow comprising at least some of the network packets of the at least one traffic flow by matching the at least one traffic flow with a known pattern group of existing threats to select the at least one suspicious target traffic flow; outputting the at least one selected suspicious target traffic flow to a rule generating module that generates a rule based on the at least one selected suspicious target traffic flow comprising the at least some of the network packets of the at least one traffic flow, wherein the rule generating module generates the rule by comparing known patterns with at least one suspicious target traffic flow received from the external network to identify at least one pattern matching the at least one suspicious target traffic flow and converting the at least one matched pattern matching the at least one suspicious target traffic flow into the rule; applying the rule to the rule-based security apparatus to adopt a protection measure against the at least one suspicious target traffic flow originating from the external network; and blocking at least one packet received from the external network by the rule-based security apparatus using the rule; wherein a detailed extent for analyzing the at least one traffic flow is set according to a requirement, wherein analyzing the at least one traffic flow comprises analyzing, for the network packets in the at least one traffic flow, at least one of an IP layer protocol, a TCP layer protocol or a data format, and wherein the designation of the suspicious timeslot and the selection of the at least one suspicious target traffic flow is determined by a security information and event management (SIEM) technology. | 36,237 |
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