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8,653,222 | 1. An addition compound suitable as a wetting and dispersing agent prepared by reacting A) one or more polyepoxides containing two or more epoxide groups with B) at least one aliphatic or araliphatic primary amine of the general formula I wherein R is alkyl, cycloalkyl, aryl, or aralkyl, and wherein the at least one aliphatic or araliphatic primary amine of the general formula I optionally comprises —OH, tertiary amine, or carboxyl groups, to form an intermediate, which is subsequently reacted with C) at least one modified isocyanate of the general formula IIa or IIb wherein R R X is alkylene, cycloalkylene, or aralkylene; Y is alkylene or cycloalkylene; and n and m are independent of one another, wherein the sum of n+m is greater than or equal to 2, to form a urethane. | 75 |
9,248,052 | 1. A wound care bandage for use with a vacuum source, the wound care bandage comprising: a collagen matrix configured to be placed by a caretaker on a wound of a patient and to integrate into the wound, a cover configured for placement over the wound to provide a sealed environment around the wound, and a porous pad configured for placement between the collagen matrix and the cover and removable from the wound after sufficient integration of the collagen matrix into the wound, the porous pad having an aperture defined by an inner wall to provide a vacuum space defined by the collagen matrix, the cover, and the inner wall; and wherein the vacuum source is coupleable to the vacuum space and operable to provide negative pressure to the vacuum space in a magnitude over a duration period sufficient to hold the porous pad in place without sutures or staples during communication of negative pressure to the vacuum space. | 40,683 |
9,620,828 | 1. A process for the recycling of electrical storage batteries having hazardous anode, cathode and electrolyte combinations comprising: a) supplying a source of batteries, b) comminuting the batteries to generate a comminuted material and expose the volatile components thereof, c) introducing the comminuted material into a neutralizing medium to form a neutralized material; d) forming a substantially homogenous material from the neutralized material; and e) sampling of the substantially homogenous material. | 30,552 |
8,768,454 | 1. A portable, non-invasive device for providing therapeutic treatment to a joint to promote healing of the joint, the device comprising: a cuff positionable around the joint, the cuff including: a receptacle coupled to the cuff proximate the electromagnetic stimulator; and a disposable housing including the single-use thermal exchange component, wherein the disposable housing is configured to be mechanically coupled to the receptacle; wherein the disposable housing, when mechanically coupled to the receptacle, is configured to enable the electromagnetic stimulator to generate the electromagnetic field within the joint. | 4,556 |
9,412,991 | 1. A secondary battery, comprising: an electrode assembly having an electrode uncoated portion; a current collector having a body part extending vertically and a pair of collecting parts extending vertically from a bottom portion of the body part and coupled to the electrode uncoated portion; a case accommodating the electrode assembly; and a cap plate sealing an opening of the case, wherein: each of the collecting parts includes a first surface facing an inner wall of the case and a pair of side surfaces perpendicular to the first surface, a molded retainer part extends toward the inner wall of the case from the first surface of each of the collecting parts, the pair of collecting parts face each other, the retainer part surrounds the first surface of the collecting parts, the retainer part having a pair of side surfaces parallel to each of the side surfaces of the collecting parts, each of the side surfaces of the retainer part and each of the side surfaces of the collecting parts are located on a same plane, and the retainer part is moldingly integrated with each of the collecting parts such that the retainer part does not extend above a top portion of the collecting parts and does not contact the side surfaces of each of the collecting parts. | 6,843 |
9,372,993 | 1. An apparatus to manage power states in a processor system, comprising: a first memory to remain powered when a processor system is in a low-power mode, the first memory to store: a processor in communication with the first memory, the processor to: | 35,244 |
8,578,130 | 1. A method for physically partitioning an entity of a multiple-entity system into more than one partition, each entity of the multiple-entity system including a plurality of processors, a plurality of memory, and one or more controllers interconnecting the processors to the memory, the entities interconnected to one another via an interconnection network, such that the memory of each entity is accessible within the entity via the controllers without having to traverse the interconnection network and is accessible to other of the entities by traversing the interconnection network, the method comprising: physically partitioning a plurality of first resources among the more than one partition, in that the plurality of first resources physically partitioned to each partition are directly inaccessible by other partitions of the entity, and in that each first resource is accessible over the multiple-entity system through the partition to which the resource has been physically partitioned; and, internally logically partitioning a plurality of second resources among the more than one partition, in that each of the plurality of second resources internally separates transactions of one partition from transactions of other partitions, in that each second resource of all the second resources has a direct connection to at least one other second resource of the plurality of second resources, and in that the second resources are not physically partitioned among the more than one partition, where physical partitioning of a given resource to a first given partition requires that the given resource not be directly connected to any resource physically partitioned to a second given partition, and each second resource is accessible over the multiple-entity system through the partition to which the resource has been logically partitioned, wherein each second resource is a shared resource insofar as each second resource is not physically partitioned among the more than one partition, wherein each second resource of all the second resources is a resource of an entity of the multiple-entity system and is not a whole entity of the multiple-entity system, and wherein the plurality of second resources comprises a plurality of primary controllers, each primary controller logically partitioned to all of the more than one partition and to manage a cache, each primary controller to receive transactions from each of the more than one partition, each primary controller directly connected to each of the more than one partition. | 44,049 |
9,650,392 | 1. A power storage device comprising: a positive electrode; a negative electrode; and an electrolyte that includes a non-aqueous solvent and a supporting salt comprising an anion and a cation dissolved in the non-aqueous solvent, wherein an electrode active material included in at least one of the positive electrode and the negative electrode is an electrode active material comprising a polymer that includes a repeat unit X represented by the following general formula (X) and a repeat unit Y, where the repeat unit X and the repeat unit Y are components of a main chain, adjacent two repeat units Y are linked by one or two repeat units X, and the repeat unit Y is at least one selected from the group consisting of repeat units Y1, Y2, Y3, and Y4 represented by the following general formulae (Y1), (Y2), (Y3), and (Y4), respectively, and wherein the electrode active material does not include a charge transfer complex composed of a fulvalene derivative and iodine, where in the formula (X), A represents a divalent aliphatic group or a divalent group represented by the formula -E-D-E- where D represents a divalent alicyclic group, a divalent aromatic group, or a carbonyl group, and two Es each independently represent a divalent aliphatic group; in the formula (Y1) and the formula (Y3), R | 41,885 |
9,426,403 | 1. A system for playing videos, comprising: a streaming media server, configured to buffer and send a video stream to a real-time video intelligent analysis system and a video surveillance center, and receive and buffer a text stream corresponding to the video stream sent by the real-time video intelligent analysis system, and send the text stream to the video surveillance center; the real-time video intelligent analysis system, configured to perform real-time analysis on the video stream output by the streaming media server, and output the text stream corresponding to the video stream to the streaming media server; the video surveillance center, configured to request for and receive the video stream and the text stream output by the streaming media server, compensate for a lost text frame in the text stream according to the video stream, and output mixed videos after overlaying the video stream and the text stream after compensation; wherein the video surveillance center comprises: a matching unit, configured to match the video stream received from the streaming media server with the text stream corresponding to the video stream; a video frame overlaying format determination unit, configured to determine a video frame overlaying format of the video frame according to a matched result of the matching unit; and a text frame compensation unit, configured to compensate for the lost text frame according to a result of determining the overlaying format; wherein the matching unit is further configured to, when a quantity of the buffered video frames received by the video surveillance center reaches a preset threshold, match the video frame in the video stream with the text frame having a timestamp equal to the timestamp of the video frame in the text stream; wherein, if there are corresponding text frames matching with all of three consecutive video frames, the matching is successful, otherwise, the matching is failed. | 43,808 |
8,633,397 | 1. An electronic device embedded printed circuit board, comprising: a core substrate; a first inner circuit formed on one surface of the core substrate, wherein a first area is demarcated on one surface of the core substrate by the first inner circuit; a second inner circuit formed on an other surface of the core substrate, wherein a second area is demarcated on the other surface of the core substrate by the second inner circuit and the second area is wider than the first area; a cavity formed to penetrate the core substrate on the basis of the first inner circuit, wherein a shape and a size of a transverse section of the cavity are the same as the first area, an upper area of the cavity has a same position as the first area and a lower area of the cavity is positioned inside the second area; an electronic device being embedded in the cavity, an electrode being formed on a surface of the electronic device; a first insulation layer being stacked on the one surface of the core substrate; and a second insulation layer being stacked on the other surface of the core substrate, the second insulation layer having a same thickness as the first insulation layer, wherein the second inner circuit is separated from an inner wall of the cavity in an outward direction. | 39,628 |
9,775,364 | 1. A method of making a powder of serum extracted from a Greek style yogurt comprising: increasing the total solids concentration of the serum to at least 35% by weight to produce a concentrated serum; crystallizing the concentrated serum by: preheating the crystallized serum to a temperature between 14° C. and 20° C. to improve its rheological properties; spray drying the crystallized serum to produce a free-flowing, non-hygroscopic serum powder with an acidity level of at least 0.35% without using any acid neutralizing agent so as to maintain the acidity level of the serum. | 33,081 |
9,710,956 | 1. A three-dimensional map display system comprising: a display terminal that displays a three-dimensional map; a memory that stores a map database including three-dimensional polygon data representing geography and a three-dimensional shape of each feature; and a display controller that reads data from the memory and generates the three-dimensional map to be displayed on the display terminal, the display controller including: wherein the offset setting section shifts the first polygon and the second polygon such that the height difference therebetween when the first and second polygons are at a position farther from the viewpoint position of the perspective projection is greater than the height difference between the first and second polygons when the first and second polygons are at a position closer to the viewpoint position, thereby effectively suppressing Z-fighting in the overlapping area at the position farther from the viewpoint position in the three-dimensional map displayed on the display terminal. | 45,961 |
9,325,188 | 1. A method of charging a battery: determining a resonant frequency of the battery; feeding a series of current pulses through the battery at a frequency that corresponds to the resonant frequency, wherein the series of current pulses comprises constructive resonant ringing that is constructive with respect to charging the battery; and artificially enhancing the constructive resonant ringing of each pulse before feeding the pulse through the battery. | 31,920 |
8,667,548 | 1. A system comprising: an input interface; output interfaces to individual communication channels; and logic in communication with the input interface and the output interfaces, the logic configured to: | 3,016 |
9,001,721 | 1. A first wireless communication device including: a wireless communication unit to transmit to a control point of a wireless network an information request frame identifying a second wireless communication device in the wireless network; wherein the wireless communication unit is to receive from the control point a response including wakeup information indicating a wakeup schedule of the second wireless communication device; wherein, based on the wakeup information, the wireless communication unit is to transmit a wireless transmission to the second wireless communication device during a wakeup period indicated in the wakeup schedule; and wherein the wireless communication unit is to operate in an active mode to communicate over the wireless network during a contention-based period of a beacon interval and to switch from the active mode to a power-save mode during the contention-based period after transmitting to the control point a message containing a power-mode bit set to a 1 to indicate a request to switch from the active mode to the power-save mode and after receiving from the control point an acknowledgment of the message; wherein said transmitting the information request frame to the control point and said receiving the response from the control point are to be over a 60 GHz frequency band. | 25,277 |
9,343,817 | 1. A system, comprising: a phased array antenna comprising a plurality of slot loop antenna elements, said plurality of slot loop antenna elements configured in a planar array disposed on a flexible single layer dielectric substrate, wherein each of said plurality of slot loop antenna elements is configured to generate a beam pattern orthogonal to the plane of said planar array; and driver circuitry coupled to each of said plurality of antenna elements, wherein said driver circuitry comprises a plurality of transceivers, said plurality of transceivers configured to provide independently adjustable phase delay to each of said plurality of slot loop antenna elements; wherein: | 33,562 |
8,446,328 | 1. An antenna, comprising: (a) a conducting sheet having a slot defined therein, the conducting sheet defining a single protrusion into the slot; and (b) an electrical microstrip feed line crossing the slot, the microstrip feed line being electrically-connected to the conducting sheet on one side of the slot, at the protrusion, to form a magnetically coupled LC resonance element. | 23,844 |
9,484,120 | 1. A method of axially repositioning an annulus spacer having an inner cylindrical surface in contact with an inner tube and an outer cylindrical surface in contact with a generally coaxial outer tube, which method comprises the steps of: (a) vibrationally isolating a section of the wall of the inner tube adjacent to the annulus spacer; (b) causing said annulus spacer to go from a loaded condition to an unloaded condition; (c) vibrating the annulus spacer by vibrating the isolated section of the wall at a desired frequency such that the annulus spacer is displaced longitudinally from an initial position to a required position, whereby the vibration of the annulus spacer produces accelerations sufficient to overcome the tension of the annulus spacer on the inner tube. | 29,825 |
8,492,923 | 1. A lamp circuit, comprising: a direct current (DC) power supplier adapted to provide a supply voltage; a driving unit coupled to the DC power supplier so as to receive the supply voltage and to generate a constant DC current; and a light-radiating module-coupled to the driving unit for the constant DC current to pass through and having a DC output side wherein the DC output side is electrically coupled to a DC load in parallel and a DC voltage is built at the DC output side by the constant DC current, wherein the driving unit comprises: a switching unit coupled to the DC power supplier; a transformer having a primary side and a secondary side, wherein the primary side is coupled to the switching unit; a rectifying and filtering element coupled to the secondary side of the transformer, generating the constant DC current, and having an output end coupled to and sending the constant DC current to the light-radiating module; and a feedback unit coupled to the switching unit and the light-radiating module. | 25,051 |
9,689,020 | 1. A method for determining whether or not a test sample contains a phytopathogenic oomycete , the method comprising: (a) putting the test sample on a front surface of a cellulose film; wherein the cellulose film has a thickness of not less than 0.5 micrometers and not more than 3.7 micrometers; and the cellulose film comprises no through hole; (b) leaving the test sample at rest for more than 8 hours and not more than 12 hours after the step (a); (c) observing a back surface of the cellulose film after the step (b); and (d) determining that the test sample contains the phytopathogenic | 19,990 |
9,747,125 | 1. A system comprising: one or more processors configured to: associate a first virtual machine of a plurality of virtual machines on a server computer system with a first user wherein the plurality of virtual machines comprises a pool of active but disconnected virtual machines, the pool having a maximum of N virtual machines; limit use of the first virtual machine to the first user; receive a request from a client device of the first user to establish a communication session between the client device and a virtual machine on the server computer system; in response to a receipt of the request: assign the first virtual machine to the first user; and establish a communication session between the client device and the first virtual machine. | 15,164 |
8,826,589 | 1. A method of growing a plant or a plant propagule, comprising: obtaining said plant or said plant propagule and an electrically-powered light source; powering said electrically-powered light source with an amount of input power to generate an incident light; illuminating, for a period of time, a growth area of said plant or said plant propagule with said incident light having a spectral profile defined by a first set of wavelengths, a second set of wavelengths and a third set of wavelengths; achieving, using said incident light, a dry weight from growth of said plant or said plant propagule that is greater than that achieved if said growth area of said plant or said plant propagule was grown by illuminating using another incident light with said amount of input power for substantially said period of time, and said another incident light includes said first set of wavelengths and said third set of wavelengths, but does not include said second set of wavelengths; wherein said dry weight refers to a weight of partial or entire grown said plant or said plant propagule obtained after drying such that grown said plant or said plant propagule is substantially free of moisture, and wherein said first set of wavelengths includes wavelengths that are between about 400 nm and about 470 nm, said second set of wavelengths includes wavelengths that are between about 526 nm and about 570 nm, and said third set of wavelengths includes wavelengths that are between about 626 nm and about 700 nm, and wherein said first set of wavelengths comprises between about 12% and about 16% of said light illuminating said plant or plant propagule and said second set of wavelength comprises between about 19% and about 25% of said light illuminating said plant or plant propagule and said third set of wavelength comprises between about 27% and about 35% of said light illuminating said plant or plant propagule. | 4,334 |
8,369,403 | 1. An image processing device comprising: a difference image data generation section that generates, for each of a plurality of predetermined intra image prediction modes, a difference image data item containing a difference value from pixels surrounding a process-target pixel to be processed; a ranking section that ranks the intra image prediction modes in ascending order of the sum of differences that is based on a generated codes amount of the difference image data item; a back search section that detects, from the difference image data item ranked highest by the ranking section, a quantization factor on which a quantization step used in the previous encoding process is based; a residue value calculation section that calculates a residue value at the time of dividing a target number of difference image data items in descending order of rank by the ranking section by using a scaling factor that is calculated based on the quantization factor detected by the back search section; and an intra image prediction mode decision section that determines the intra image prediction mode in which the difference image data item having the smallest residue value was generated as the intra image prediction mode for the image data item. | 26,901 |
9,734,926 | 1. A hybrid reactor operable to produce a medical isotope, the reactor comprising: an ion source operable to produce an ion beam from a gas; a target chamber including a target that interacts with the ion beam to produce neutrons via a fusion reaction, wherein the target comprises deuterium, tritium, or helium, or a combination thereof; and an annular activation cell positioned proximate the target chamber and including a parent material that interacts with the neutrons to produce the medical isotope via a fission reaction, wherein the parent material is in an aqueous solution, wherein the water of the aqueous solution acts as a moderator, and wherein the fission reaction is maintained at a subcritical level with neutron multiplication. | 33,207 |
8,533,439 | 1. A microcontroller comprising: a first memory configured to store instructions; a second memory configured to store data; a third memory including a contiguous first portion configured to store instructions and a contiguous second portion that is distinct from the first portion and configured to store data, wherein the first portion includes memory elements of a first width configured into one or more pairs to store instructions of a second width for output onto an instruction bus of the second width, and wherein the second portion includes memory elements of the first width configured to individually store data for output onto a data bus of the first width; and a central processing unit configured to execute instructions and process data, wherein the instructions are selected from the instructions stored in the first memory and the instructions stored in the first portion of the third memory, the data are selected from the data stored in the second memory and the data stored in the second portion of the third memory, wherein the central processing unit is coupled to the first memory and the first portion of the third memory via the instruction bus, and the central processing unit is coupled to the second memory and the second portion of the third memory via the data bus that is separate from the instruction bus. | 13,296 |
9,851,850 | 1. A touch panel, comprising: a substrate; a plurality of first electrodes disposed on a lower surface of the substrate and extending in a first direction; a plurality of second electrodes disposed on an upper surface of the substrate and extending in a second direction intersecting with the first direction; and a plurality of dummy electrodes respectively disposed between the first electrodes, wherein the first and second electrodes include conductive lines formed in a mesh pattern a width of the second electrodes is wider than a width of the first electrodes, and a pitch of conductive lines of the second electrodes is greater than a pitch of conductive lines of the first electrodes, wherein the first electrodes and the second electrodes, and a plurality of pads connected to the first electrodes and the second electrodes, are disposed on different regions of the substrate, wherein the width of the second electrodes is equal to two times the width of the first electrodes, and wherein the pitch of the conductive lines of the second electrodes is equal to two to three and half times the pitch of the conductive lines of the first electrodes. | 37,434 |
9,036,374 | 1. A switching mode power supply having primary and secondary induction coils inductively coupled to each other and converting a voltage applied to the primary induction coil to supply the converted voltage to the secondary induction coil, the switching mode power supply comprising: a power switching unit switching the voltage applied to the primary induction coil; a load information obtaining unit obtaining load information relating to a load connected to the secondary induction coil; a bias current controlling unit controlling a switching driving current based on the load information; and a driving unit driving the power switching unit based on the load information and the switching driving current; wherein the load information obtaining unit outputs a load voltage; wherein the bias current controlling unit includes: an amplifier outputting a control current or a control voltage based on the load voltage; and a current source controlling the switching driving current based on the control current or the control voltage. | 7,415 |
8,901,825 | 1. A method of operating an illumination system including at least one light source, the method comprising: determining by a controller, an expected ambient environment illumination condition for a current location at a defined date and time; comparing by the controller, an actual ambient environment illumination condition detected in the ambient environment at the current location with the determined expected ambient environment illumination condition; in response to determining an existence of a difference between the actual ambient environment illumination condition and the determined expected ambient environment illumination condition, producing by the controller, at least one of a notification or a record indicative of an aberrant event; and receiving a location signal by the controller, the location signal indicative of the current location of the illumination system, wherein determining by a controller an expected ambient environment illumination condition includes determining at least one of an expected time of dusk or an expected time of dawn for the current location based at least in part on the current location indicated by the location signal. | 15,493 |
8,478,547 | 1. A system, comprising: a turbine including a compressor having at least one row of a plurality of blades; a sensor for sensing a blade passing signal of at least one of the plurality of blades; an analog signal transmitter for transmitting an analog signal for the blade passing signal; a signal splitter for splitting the analog signal into at least two split analog signals; at least two analog-to-digital (AD) converters, each AD converter converting each split analog signal to at least two digital waveform samples; and a blade monitoring system that: | 1,257 |
9,085,499 | 1. A process for controlling the flowrate of and conserving energy in pumping one or more circulating streams in a consistent-pressure process for the separation of an adsorbed compound from a feed stream comprising two or more chemical compounds by adsorptive separation in a simulated moving bed contained in one or more multi-bed adsorbent chambers comprising a plurality of access points, wherein a feed stream and a desorbent stream each are injected into and an extract stream comprising the adsorbed compound and a raffinate stream each are individually withdrawn from the one or more adsorbent chambers during a cycle of processing through shifting individual access points, in which the at least one circulating stream comprises varying proportions of feed, desorbent, extract and raffinate circulated through the one or more adsorbent chambers by pumping at a flowrate which varies during the cycle of processing by at least about 10%, comprising propelling one or more variable-speed pumps which circulate the one or more circulating streams by connection of at least one variable-speed pump to variable-speed driving means, and further comprising manipulating the speed of the variable-speed pump utilizing an algorithm of predictive load control, wherein the algorithm of predictive load control anticipates changes in the flowrate before receiving actual flowrate data during bed transitions within the one or more multi-bed adsorbent chambers in connection with indexing of a rotary valve, used for shifting the individual access points, to pre-position the speed of the variable speed pump. | 40,982 |
9,550,381 | 1. A tape cassette comprising: a cassette case that includes a top face, a bottom face, a front face, and a pair of side faces, the pair of side faces extending in a front-rear direction orthogonal to the front face; a tape containment area, in the cassette case, in which a tape roll is accommodated, the tape roll being a wound tape that is a printing medium; a first wall portion provided along a portion of an outer perimeter of the tape containment area, the first wall portion being configured to shape a feed path for the tape that extends from the tape roll, the first wall portion including a first edge portion that faces a first surface of the tape; a guide portion provided downstream from the first wall portion on the feed path, the guide portion being configured to be in contact with the tape regardless of an amount of the tape of the tape roll accommodated in the tape containment area, the guide portion facing a second surface of the tape; a second wall portion provided between the first wall portion and the guide portion, the second wall portion being configured to shape the feed path, the second wall portion including a second edge portion that faces the first surface of the tape; a third wall portion provided on an opposite side of the tape from the second wall portion, the third wall portion being configured to shape the feed path, the third wall portion including a third edge portion that faces the second surface of the tape; and a fourth wall portion provided between the second wall portion and the guide portion, the fourth wall portion including a fourth edge portion that faces the first surface of the tape, the second edge portion being provided in a position along a virtual straight line that connects the first edge portion and the fourth edge portion, wherein a length of the fourth wall portion in an up-down direction is longer than a length of the second wall portion in the up-down direction, the up-down direction being orthogonal to the top face and the bottom face. | 15,377 |
8,673,199 | 1. A method for producing an orthosis with at least one plate-shaped part which is adapted to a thigh, comprising: providing a deformable metal plate-shaped support with a solidifiable material connected to said metal plate-shaped support, wherein said solidifiable material comprises a fiber material enclosed by a film or a tube; removing air enclosed by said film or said tube to produce a uniform laminate; deforming said support on a thigh to produce an adapted shape fitted to said thigh, whereby said metal plate-shaped support retains said adapted shape by virtue of dimensional stability of said metal plate-shaped support; removing said metal plate-shaped support and said solidifiable material from said thigh; heating said solidifiable material present on said metal plate-shaped support in the adapted shape of said metal plate-shaped support, said heating step producing a solidified part in said adapted shape; and removing said metal plate-shaped support from the solidified part in said adapted shape. | 4,006 |
9,138,686 | 1. A method of removing carbon monoxide (CO), hydrocarbons (HC), and nitrogen oxides (N X ) from an exhaust stream of an internal combustion engine that is powering an automotive vehicle, the engine being configured and controlled to primarily operate fuel-lean, but also to periodically operate fuel-rich to generate ammonia (NH 3 ) in the exhaust stream, the method comprising: controlling the engine during fuel-rich operation so that the exhaust stream from the engine contains nitrogen oxides (N passing the exhaust stream from the engine in contact with particles of a platinum group metal (PGM) catalyst to convert an amount of N adding oxygen to the exhaust stream and passing the exhaust stream in contact with particles of a CO-selective oxidation catalyst to oxidize CO in the exhaust stream to carbon dioxide (CO | 26,527 |
9,061,082 | 1. A system comprising: a chamber configured to house an object for disinfection, the chamber comprising: a computer system for operating the set of ultraviolet radiation sources to deliver a target dose of ultraviolet radiation to at least one target surface of the object. | 47,575 |
8,464,497 | 1. A wind energy installation, comprising: a mast; a rotor assembly supported by the mast, the rotor assembly having at least one blade; and at least one stay cable having an end and extending uninterrupted along its length to an opposite end, the end of the stay cable attached to an upper region of the mast at a height greater than a tip of the blade of the rotor assembly, the stay cable comprising a bundle of parallel wires with each wire individually pulled to a tension value, the stay cable stressed to support the mast while wind rotates the tip of the blade without collision of the stay cable. | 29,190 |
9,035,055 | 1. A compound represented by the following formula (II): wherein each of L | 6,876 |
8,556,998 | 1. A method for dewatering a water-containing combustible solid excluding coal, comprising heating, in a sealed vessel, the water-containing combustible solid at a temperature of 100° C. to 300° C. under a pressure not less than a saturated steam pressure at said heating temperature, while simultaneously applying a shearing force of 0.01 MPa to 20 MPa to said water-containing combustible solid. | 48,623 |
8,598,743 | 1. An apparatus comprising a plurality of resonators electrically interconnected and arranged in an array to form a composite resonator for wireless power transfer, each one of the plurality of resonators including a block of a magnetic material having a conductor wire wrapped around a cross section thereof to form at least one loop enclosing an area substantially equal to the cross section, wherein the plurality of resonators are oriented so that a dipole moment of each one of the plurality of resonators is aligned with a dipole moment of each other one of the plurality of resonators. | 12,689 |
9,391,510 | 1. An envelope tracked power supply comprising a high bandwidth, low delay closed loop switch mode power supply stage, comprising: a single pulse width modulator for generating a width modulated pulse in dependence on an input signal and an output voltage of the switch mode power supply stage; a single wideband transformer, having a winding of a first side connected to receive the modulated pulse, and first and second windings of a second side; a first transistor having a conductive path connected between a first supply voltage and an output of the switch mode power supply stage; a second transistor having a conductive path connected between a second supply voltage and the output of the switch mode power supply stage; and an anti-shoot-through circuit comprising: | 42,473 |
9,220,247 | 1. A fishing lure comprising a mechanically-actuated tone generator, wherein the mechanically-actuated tone generator comprises: a spring system having at least one coil spring with a first end fixedly attached to the lure and a second end which is free; at least one spring channel structured and arranged to accommodate the at least one spring; and a striker channel located at one end of the spring channel, adjacent to the second end of the spring, the striker channel being structured and arranged to accommodate at least one striker, wherein the striker channel is arranged approximately perpendicularly relative to the at least one spring channel; the at least one striker being structured and arranged to move freely within the striker channel and impact the second end of the at least one spring to generate at least one mechanically-actuated tone, wherein the spring system and the at least one striker are enclosed within the lure such that the spring system and the at least one striker are not exposed to an external environment outside the lure. | 21,375 |
8,623,314 | 1. A process for recovering ammonia from an ammonium sulfate stream, the process comprising: reacting the ammonium sulfate stream with a lime slurry to form a slurry comprising calcium sulfate and ammonia; providing the slurry comprising calcium sulfate and ammonia to a stripper configured to recover the ammonia from the slurry; providing heat to the stripper by a heat source from a chilled ammonia process, wherein a carbon dioxide-lean ammoniated solution from a regenerator in the chilled ammonia process exchanges heat with the slurry comprising calcium sulfate and ammonia; and extracting an ammonia vapor stream from the stripper. | 26,802 |
8,421,746 | 1. A method of conveying control instructions using multi-dimensional motion sensing of a remote control unit, the method comprising: obtaining a registration of the remote control unit with a wireless home entertainment hub; obtaining a registration of a plurality of devices with the wireless home entertainment hub; receiving at the wireless home entertainment hub a first instruction to move a display of video content from a first device of the plurality of devices to a second device of a plurality of devices based on a sensed first motion of the remote control unit, the first motion orienting the remote control unit to be directed toward the second device while the first device displays the video content; and transmitting the first instruction to at least one of the plurality of devices. | 31,074 |
9,452,815 | 1. A system for providing propulsion to a marine vessel, the system comprising: an input shaft defining a first longitudinal axis and configured for being rotatably driven by a prime mover in a first rotary direction at a first angular velocity; a rotatable pinion gear coupled to the input shaft, wherein the pinion rotates in the first rotary direction at the first angular velocity; a plurality of planet gears coupled to the pinion gear and having individual rotational axes for each of the plurality of planet gears, wherein each of the plurality of planet gears rotate about their individual rotational axis in a second rotary direction that is opposite the first rotary direction of the pinion gear in response to rotation of the pinion gear in the first rotary direction; a planet carrier supporting each of the plurality of planet gears and holding the plurality of planet gears in the same orbital position around the pinion gear, the planet carrier rotating in the first rotary direction in response to rotation of the pinion gear in the first rotary direction, wherein the planet carrier rotates at a second angular velocity that is dependent on the first angular velocity of the pinion gear and a relative diameter between the pinion gear and the plurality of planet gears; a ring gear surrounding the plurality of planet gears and directly engaged with each of the plurality of planet gears, the ring gear rotating in the second rotary direction corresponding to the second rotary direction of each of the plurality of planet gears about their individual axes and opposite the first rotary direction in response to rotation of the planet carrier and the pinion gear in the first rotary direction, the ring gear rotating at a third angular velocity that is dependent on the first angular velocity of the pinion gear, the second angular velocity of the planet carrier, and the relative diameter between the pinion gear and the plurality of planet gears; an internal output shaft coupled to the planet carrier and coaxial with the input shaft and extending in first longitudinal direction away from the planet carrier, the internal output shaft rotating in the first rotary direction at the second angular velocity corresponding to the first rotary direction and the second angular velocity of the planet carrier; an external output shaft coupled to the ring gear and coaxial with the input shaft and the internal output shaft and extending in the first longitudinal direction away from the ring gear and surrounding the internal output shaft, the external output shaft rotating in the second rotary direction at the third angular velocity corresponding to the second rotary direction and the third angular velocity of the planet carrier; a forward propulsor element coupled to the external output shaft and rotatable therewith; an aft propulsor element coupled to the internal output shaft and rotatable therewith; wherein the planet carrier is freely rotatable and selectively constrainable between free rotation without constraint and a full constraint, wherein constraint is provided by a first rotation altering element coupled to the planet carrier and being selectively activatable for altering the rotational speed of the planet carrier; wherein the ring gear is freely rotatable and selectively constrainable between free rotation without constraint and full constraint, wherein constraint is provided by a second rotation altering element coupled to the ring gear and being selectively activatable for altering the rotational speed of the ring gear; wherein activation of one of the first or second rotation altering elements affects the rotational speeds of both the ring gear and planet carrier; and wherein each of the plurality of planet gears are engaged with both the pinion gear and the ring gear, with each of the plurality of planet gears being radially aligned and disposed radially between the pinion gear and the ring gear, and wherein each of the plurality of planet gears are also supported by the planet carrier and will orbit around the pinion gear along with the rotation of the planet carrier. | 22,757 |
9,415,681 | 1. An automobile urea tank forming method, comprising the following steps: (a) producing an upper half casing and a lower half casing through an injection molding method; (b) after the upper half casing and the lower half casing are formed, assembling built-in parts of the upper half casing and the lower half casing; (c) welding the assembled upper half casing and the assembled lower half casing to form a whole; and (d) assembling components on surfaces of the upper half casing and the lower half casing, wherein, in step (a) in the injection molding process, a baffle and a tank body surface component assembling structure are injection molded with the upper half casing; a fender assembling screw and a sensor port welding structure are injection molded with the lower half casing; alternatively, a tank body surface component assembling structure is injection molded with the upper half casing; and a baffle, a fender assembling screw, and a sensor port welding structure are injection molded with the lower half casing. | 5,277 |
8,576,734 | 1. An information processing apparatus being capable of communication with an external apparatus via a network, the information processing apparatus comprising: a rate setting unit that sets a communication rate of data communication with the external apparatus; a receiving unit that receives packets from the external apparatus via the network by using the set communication rate; a measurement unit that measures an inter-packet gap indicating a time period until the receiving unit starts, after completing a reception of a first packet, a reception of a second packet to be received following the first packet; a determining unit that determines whether or not the measured inter-packet gap exceeds a predetermined threshold; and a rate control unit that maintains the currently set communication rate in a case where the measured inter-packet gap exceeds the predetermined threshold, and changes the currently set communication rate to a communication rate faster than the currently set communication rate in a case where the measured inter-packet gap does not exceed the predetermined threshold, wherein a counter is included in the apparatus, the counter being configured to (a) count a count value of a communication clock while a receiving valid signal is a low level and not a high level, (b) output a high level signal in response to the count value being not more than the predetermined threshold, and (c) output a low level signal in response to the count value being more than the predetermined threshold, and wherein the rate control unit operates in accordance with the signal output by the counter. | 8,783 |
9,529,091 | 1. An information acquisition device comprising: a positioning unit that measures a current position and acquires positional information thereof; an information acquisition unit that acquires information; a storage unit that stores the information acquired by the information acquisition unit and the positional information acquired by the positioning unit; and a control unit that causes the positioning unit to sequentially perform positioning at a predetermined time interval, while the information acquisition unit is activated, controls the positional information acquired to be periodically thinned automatically and causes only remaining positional information to be stored in the storage unit in another time period to be periodically thinned automatically, and causes only the remaining positional information to be stored in the storage unit in the another time period other than a predetermined time period with a base point of time when acquisition of information by the information acquisition unit is performed while the information acquisition unit is activated, and causes a sequence of the positional information acquired to be stored in the storage unit without thinning in the predetermined time period. | 48,928 |
9,520,746 | 1. A system, comprising: a primary battery configured as a power source to power components of a mobile device; a secondary battery configured as an additional power source to power the components of the mobile device; and a battery controller configured to: | 26,121 |
8,869,742 | 1. A semiconductor wafer processing apparatus, comprising: a chuck including an electrode exposed to a plasma generation volume, the electrode defined to transmit radiofrequency (RF) power to the plasma generation volume, the electrode having an upper surface defined to hold a substrate in exposure to the plasma generation volume, the chuck having a top surface that circumscribes a perimeter of a top surface of the electrode; and a gas distribution unit disposed above the plasma generation volume and in a substantially parallel orientation with respect to the electrode, the gas distribution unit defined to include an arrangement of gas supply ports defined to direct an input flow of a plasma process gas into the plasma generation volume in a direction substantially perpendicular to the upper surface of the electrode, the gas distribution unit further defined to include an arrangement of through-holes that each extend through the gas distribution unit to fluidly connect the plasma generation volume to an exhaust region, wherein each of the through-holes is defined to direct an exhaust flow of the plasma process gas from the plasma generation volume in a direction substantially perpendicular to the upper surface of the electrode, and wherein the gas distribution unit is defined as a plate formed to separate the plasma generation volume from the exhaust region, and wherein each gas supply port in the arrangement of gas supply ports is defined at a lower surface of the plate to provide for distribution of plasma process gas to the plasma generation volume; an outer peripheral structure having a top surface and a bottom surface and formed to extend in a solid form between its top and bottom surfaces, the bottom surface of the outer peripheral structure disposed on the top surface of the chuck, the gas distribution unit disposed on the top surface of the outer peripheral structure, the outer peripheral structure defined to surround and enclose a perimeter of the plasma generation volume such that an uninterrupted fluid seal is present between the bottom surface of the outer peripheral structure and the top surface of the chuck around the perimeter of the plasma generation volume, and such that an uninterrupted fluid seal is present between the top surface of the outer peripheral structure and the gas distribution unit around the perimeter of the plasma generation volume. | 46,177 |
9,309,159 | 1. A method of fabricating a thermostructural composite material part comprising making a carbon or ceramic fiber preform and densifying the preform with a matrix, method in which a single thickness of multilayer fabric having yarns weighing not less than 200 tex is used for making at least a portion of the preform having a total multilayer thickness of less than 2 mm, wherein, in order to make said preform portion, the method comprises: making a multilayer fabric having yarns weighing not less than 200 tex; subjecting the multilayer fabric to an operation of spreading the yarns so as to reduce the thickness of the multilayer fabric; and making said preform portion from the spread multilayer fabric, a ratio between the number of layers of warp yarns of the multilayer fabric and the thickness in millimeters of said preform portion being not less than four; a thread count of the multilayer fabric during weaving being selected so as to obtain a volume fiber ratio lying in the range 25% to 45% in the fiber preform. | 40,468 |
8,684,845 | 1. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program executable by a processor of an information processing apparatus using an operation apparatus, which incorporates a motion detector, to be operated by a player, said information processing apparatus displaying a movable object disposed in virtual space on a display apparatus, wherein said program causes said processor of said information processing apparatus to perform: detecting a motion state of said operation apparatus based on a motion of said operation apparatus; generating a wind object in said virtual space directly according to operation data from said operation apparatus when said motion state is a predetermined state; moving said wind object; determining a collision between said wind object and said movable object; and controlling the movable object including moving said movable object when it is determined in said collision determining that the collision has occurred. | 20,075 |
8,687,387 | 1. A quasi-resonant controlled switching regulator comprising: an energy storage component configured to receive an input signal and to supply an output signal to a load; a main switch coupled to the energy storage component, wherein the energy storage component stores energy when the main switch is turned ON, and transfers the stored energy to the load when the main switch is turned OFF; a control circuit having a first input terminal, a second input terminal, a third input terminal, and an output terminal, wherein the first input terminal is configured to receive a sample signal indicative of a current flowing through the energy storage component, the second input terminal is configured to receive a feedback signal indicative of the output signal, the third input terminal is configured to receive an updated minimum OFF time signal, and wherein based on the sample signal, the feedback signal and the updated minimum OFF time signal, the control circuit generates a switching signal at the output terminal to control the main switch; and a frequency limitation circuit coupled to the control circuit to receive the switching signal, and wherein the frequency limitation circuit is configured to generate the updated minimum OFF time signal based on the difference between an OFF time period of the main switch and an offset value to limit the frequency of the switching regulator. | 9,560 |
8,853,154 | 1. A polypeptide comprising a fibronectin type III tenth ( 10 Fn3) domain which binds to myostatin and comprises AB, BC, CD, DE, EF, and FG loops, wherein the BC, DE, and FG loops comprise the amino acid sequences of SEQ ID NOs: 34, 39, and 75, respectively. | 1,589 |
9,704,176 | 1. An apparatus, comprising: a sensor to measure first neuro-response data from a person when exposed to media output via a first media delivery platform type, the sensor to measure second neuro-response data from the person when exposed to media output via a second media delivery platform type, the first media delivery platform type being different than the second media delivery platform type; a performance estimator to: a platform selector to rate at least one of the first media delivery platform type or the second media delivery platform type based on the first and the second performance metrics, at least one of the performance estimator, the sensor or the platform selector including hardware. | 44,054 |
9,091,098 | 1. A method of assembling a tubular building structure of a wind turbine tower comprising a circumferential wall structure formed from a plurality of wall elements, the method comprising: mutually assembling two or more of the plurality of wall elements by use of screw sockets fixedly mounted in holes in the plurality of wall elements and bolts which are screwed into the screw sockets to perform the assembly of the tubular building structure; performing a first surface treatment of an exterior of the plurality of wall elements; inserting the screw sockets into the holes in the plurality of wall elements; performing a second surface treatment of the exterior of the plurality of wall elements with the screw sockets inserted therein; wherein the mutual assembly of the plurality of wall elements is performable from inside the tubular building structure of the wind turbine tower fastening the bolts to the mounted screw sockets; wherein the screw sockets are mounted in the plurality of wall elements at a manufacturing site; wherein the plurality of wall elements are subsequently transported to an erection site of the tubular building structure; wherein two or more of the screw sockets each comprise a serrated circumferential surface adapted to provide frictional resistance against rotation of each of the two or more screw sockets after mounting; and wherein the wind turbine tower comprises a bedframe, the method further comprising mounting the bedframe by use of the screw sockets and bolts. | 31,547 |
9,526,424 | 1. A computer-implemented method of triggering optical coherence tomographic data collection in a length of a vessel, the method comprising: collecting optical coherence tomography data with respect to a location in the vessel using an optical coherence tomography probe disposed in the vessel; determining, using a computer, a line radius for each rotation angle of the probe within a frame of the optical coherence tomography data to generate line radii; determining, using a computer, a smoothed radius profile of the vessel using the line radii; determining, using a computer, a parameter indicative of blood clearing in response to measured intensity values for one or more frames of optical coherence tomography data using a maximum smoothed radius value determined from the smoothed radius profile; determining if a blood clearing state has occurred using the parameter; and generating a trigger signal in response to the blood clearing state. | 30,281 |
9,170,148 | 1. A fluid level sensor comprising: a linkage having a first end and a second end, the first end configured to be attached to a reference point; a float attached to the second end; and an accelerometer attached to a surface of the linkage and operable to move with movement of the float, herein the accelerometer has a sensing axis and the accelerometer is operative to measure changes in the sensing axis orientation relative to a fixed external force vector acting on the float. | 8,815 |
9,473,041 | 1. A switching power supply apparatus comprising: a first converter configured to have efficiency characteristics in which power conversion efficiency of a rated load is higher than power conversion efficiency of a light load and that converts power-supply voltage that is input into direct-current voltage to output the direct-current voltage; a charge unit configured to store the direct-current voltage output from the first converter; an amount-of-charge detecting unit configured to detect an amount of charge in the charge unit; and a controller configured and programmed to switch driving and stopping of the first converter based on the amount of charge detected by the amount-of-charge detecting unit; wherein the controller is configured and programmed to stop the first converter if the amount of charge in the charge unit is higher than a first threshold value and drive the first converter if the amount of charge in the charge unit is lower than a second threshold value regardless of a current through a load; the controller is configured and programmed to output the direct-current voltage subjected to the conversion in the first converter and store the direct-current voltage subjected to the conversion in the first converter in the charge unit when the first converter is driven and output the direct-current voltage stored in the charge unit when the first converter is stopped; a frozen period, during which the first converter is stopped to be in a frozen state, is controlled depending on an amount of power, which is defined by a product of power and time, consumed by the load and the frozen period is lengthened as the amount of power decreases; and depending on a level of the load, power is supplied by varying a period during which the first converter is in a drive state and a period during which the first converter is in the frozen state, which is an input power of 0, converting fixed loss which is not related to the current into variable loss which is related to the current, such that efficiency is almost constant regardless of the current through the load. | 34,078 |
9,590,022 | 1. An organic electroluminescence device, comprising: a transparent substrate; and an array of pixels over the transparent substrate, each of the pixels comprising at least one first sub-pixel and at least one second sub-pixel, wherein the at least one first sub-pixel comprises a first organic light emitting diode emitting in a first direction, and the second sub-pixel comprises a second organic light emitting diode emitting in a second direction substantially opposite to the first direction, wherein the first organic light emitting diode comprises a conductive layer, a first reflecting layer, a first organic electroluminescence layer between the conductive layer and the first reflecting layer, and a first thin conductive layer on the first reflecting layer, wherein the first thin conductive layer has a thickness of less than 500 angstroms. | 31,611 |
8,653,325 | 1. A method for increasing seed size in a plant comprising over expressing a REV gene, wherein the REV gene is an Arabidopsis thaliana REV gene, and wherein the REV gene is under the control of a promoter associated with an oleate 12-hydroxylase:desaturase gene, or a leafy cotyledon gene (LEC2). | 43,774 |
9,225,042 | 1. A method of forming passages of an integral manifold adjacent a cell stack of a flowing electrolyte battery, the method comprising: forming a mould cavity adjacent the cell stack, wherein the mould cavity is open to capillary openings of cells of the cell stack; inserting a manifold plug that defines a manifold cavity into the mould cavity, wherein the manifold plug includes a plurality of holes that are substantially parallel to each other and substantially perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the manifold plug, and wherein each of the holes in the plurality of holes extends entirely through the manifold plug and thus has a first opening on a first side of the plug and a second opening on an opposite side of the plug; locating a plurality of pins in the mould cavity, each pin in the plurality of pins having a shank and an inner end, wherein the inner end is of a smaller diameter than the shank, the shank of each of the pins extends into the first opening on the first side of the plug and out the second opening on the opposite side of the plug, and wherein the inner end of each pin is positioned inside a capillary opening and the shank of each pin abuts an end of the capillary opening; filling the mould cavity with material; allowing the material to solidify into a moulded section; removing the pins from the moulded section and from the manifold plug; removing the manifold plug from the moulded section; whereby, passages are formed in the moulded section adjacent the manifold cavity, which passages are in fluid communication with both the capillary openings and the manifold cavity; and welding a side panel onto the moulded section to seal outside ends of the passages from which the pins have been removed. | 33,528 |
9,541,004 | 1. An isolated antagonist antibody or antigen-binding fragment thereof that comprises the three CDRs of the variable light chain set forth at positions 24 through 35, positions 51 through 57, and positions 90 through 98 of SEQ ID NO 7 and the three CDRs of the variable heavy chain set forth at positions 26 through 35, positions 50 through 67, and positions 99 through 103 of SEQ ID NO: 8, wherein the antibody binds the extracellular domain of EphB3 with an affinity (K D ) of 10 −6 M or less. | 19,059 |
9,410,458 | 1. An engine system, comprising: a heater for heating a catalytic converter in an exhaust system of a vehicle; a first electronic circuit configured to receive a parameter associated with a battery in said vehicle and determines a state of charge of said battery based on said parameter; and a second electronic circuit configured to: a third electronic circuit configured to start said engine when said state of charge is less than a second state of charge threshold and said measured temperature of said engine is less than an operating temperature, wherein said second electronic circuit determines at least one of said first and second state of charge thresholds such that sufficient power is available to increase a temperature of said catalytic converter to an activation temperature using said heater and to continue to activate said heater while said measured temperature of said engine is less than said operating temperature. | 44,460 |
9,112,241 | 1. A pyrophosphate compound represented by the formula: (wherein M represents one or more elements selected from Mn, Zr, Mg, Co, Ni, V and Cu, and 0.3≦x≦0.9). | 238 |
8,662,600 | 1. A working vehicle with an electromagnetic brake, comprising: a left wheel and a right wheel which are drive wheels driven for travel by a left traction motor and a right traction motor, respectively; a working machine which is driven for executing ground work; a left electromagnetic brake and a right electromagnetic brake provided corresponding to the left wheel and the right wheel, respectively, and which execute a brake release operation of the left wheel and the right wheel by supply of electricity from a power supply, and execute a brake operation of the left wheel and the right wheel when the supply of electricity from the power supply is cut off; a common brake releasing unit which is common to the left electromagnetic brake and the right electromagnetic brake and which electrically connects the power supply and the left electromagnetic brake and the right electromagnetic brake to supply electricity from the power supply to the left electromagnetic brake and the right electromagnetic brake when a brake release instruction is obtained; and a controller which controls the common brake releasing unit, wherein the controller compares electricity supply states of the left electromagnetic brake and the right electromagnetic brake, and controls the common brake releasing unit to disconnect an electrical connection between the power supply and the left electromagnetic brake and the right electromagnetic brake, and to brake the left wheel and the right wheel, when a difference between the compared electricity supply states exceeds an allowable upper limit. | 11,208 |
9,422,469 | 1. A method of synthesizing mixed chain length surfactants from a mixture of primary alcohols, the method comprising: receiving a mixture of primary alcohols comprising greater than two different chain length primary alcohols in equal parts of each primary alcohol; reacting in a single reactor the mixture of primary alcohols to produce a mixture of at least five Guerbet alcohols having different molecular weights wherein: i. the number of Guerbet alcohols produced is equal to twice the number of primary alcohols minus one; ii. the mixture of at least five Guerbet alcohols comprises a lowest molecular weight Guerbet alcohol, a highest molecular weight Guerbet alcohol, a Guerbet alcohol having a molecular weight halfway between the molecular weight of the lowest molecular weight Guerbet alcohol and the highest molecular weight Guerbet alcohol; iii. the Guerbet alcohol having the molecular weight halfway between the molecular weight of the lowest molecular weight Guerbet alcohol and the highest molecular weight Guerbet alcohol has a highest concentration of the Guerbet alcohols in the mixture of at least five Guerbet alcohols; iv. the lowest molecular weight Guerbet alcohol and the highest molecular weight Guerbet alcohol each have a lowest concentration of the Guerbet alcohols in the mixture of at least five Guerbet alcohols; and v. remaining Guerbet alcohols in the mixture of at least five Guerbet alcohols have concentrations increasing as molecular weight approaches the molecular weight halfway between the molecular weight of the lowest molecular weight Guerbet alcohol and the highest molecular weight Guerbet alcohol and decreasing as molecular weight approaches the lowest and the highest molecular weight Guerbet alcohols; and producing a surfactant composition from the mixture of greater than two Guerbet alcohols; wherein the mixture of primary alcohols is derived from a natural source selected from the group consisting of palm oil, algal oil, canola oil, castor bean oil, coconut oil, corn oil, cotton oil, fish oil, flaxseed oil, hempseed oil, jatropha oil, lard, mustard seed oil, nut oil, olive oil, palm kernel oil, peanut oil, rapeseed oil, safflower seed oil, soybean oil, sunflower oil, tall oil, tallow, yellow grease, and any oil produced by using the following: bacteria, yeast, fungi, unicellular organisms, multicellular organisms or a combination thereof; wherein the reacting the mixture of primary alcohols to produce the mixture of greater than two Guerbet alcohols is stopped when a Guerbet alcohol conversion of at least 80% is obtained; and wherein unreacted primary alcohols are removed from the mixture of greater than two Guerbet alcohols. | 24,475 |
9,040,120 | 1. A method comprising: a) forming a coextruded organic film substrate by a co-extrusion process; b) depositing a first inorganic nanocoating layer directly on to a surface of the film substrate at open atmosphere to enhance the wettability of the film substrate for metallization, wherein the first inorganic nanocoating layer is silica, and wherein the inorganic nanocoating layer is deposited on to at least one surface of the film substrate prior to all winding and deposited in a process that is inline with the coextrusion process, wherein the inorganic nanocoating layer is less than 8 nm in average thickness; and wherein the surface roughness of the inorganic nanocoating layer is characterized by root mean square value of less than about 5 nm; and c) depositing a metal layer directly on the first inorganic nanocoating layer by a vacuum metallization process to produce a coated film substrate, wherein the metal layer is not a metal oxide layer, wherein the metal layer is aluminum, and wherein the metal layer has a thickness from about 5 to about 50 nm. | 45,980 |
9,837,793 | 1. A semiconductor light-emitting device, comprising: a light-emitting layer, having a first side and a second side opposite to the first side; a first N-type waveguide layer, disposed at the first side; and a plurality of semiconductor layers, disposed at the second side, wherein the semiconductor layers comprise at least one P-type semiconductor layer and a plurality of N-type semiconductor layers, and a quantity of the N-type semiconductor layers is more than a quantity of the at least one P-type semiconductor layer, wherein the at least one P-type semiconductor layer comprises a P-type waveguide layer, the N-type semiconductor layers comprise a second N-type waveguide layer disposed at a side of the P-type waveguide layer. | 11,609 |
9,357,372 | 1. A method for determining a provider of wireless communication services, the method comprising: receiving, by a diameter roaming gateway computing device, a request for wireless communication services from a mobile device of a roaming user; identifying, by the diameter roaming gateway computing device, from the received request at least one of a plurality of categories of wireless communication services; and determining, by the diameter roaming gateway computing device, a mobile network operator using one or more predefined rules based at least on the identified one of the plurality of categories of wireless communication services, a location of the mobile device, and availability of the identified one of the plurality of categories of wireless communication service, wherein the mobile network operator is at least one of Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) or a local network operator. | 47,441 |
9,060,758 | 1. A needle assembly storage device comprising: a housing having an opening adapted to receive an injection device; an array of needle assembly storage compartments moveably disposed within the housing; an actuator adapted to cause movement of the array, wherein actuation of the actuator aligns a needle assembly compartment with the opening; wherein two adjacent needle assembly storage compartments within the array of needle assembly storage compartments are coupled via a hinge. | 35,931 |
8,810,592 | 1. A system for storing and distributing vertex attributes, the system comprising: a primitive distribution unit configured to: construct a first primitive batch that includes a first plurality of primitives and a first plurality of vertexes, wherein each vertex in the first plurality of vertexes is associated with a primitive in the first plurality of primitives, store vertex attributes of a first vertex included in the first primitive batch into a first vertex attribute buffer that is specified by a first vertex attribute buffer index that is also included in the first primitive batch and that is associated with the first vertex, wherein the vertex attributes include a first vertex attribute that is based on an inline vertex attribute that is identical to a vertex attribute already received by the primitive distribution unit, wherein the inline vertex attribute includes a vertex parameter included in a pushbuffer, and distribute the first vertex attribute buffer index to multiple parallel processing engines; and at least two multiple parallel processing engines, wherein each parallel processing engine is configured to: read one or more of the vertex attributes from the first vertex attribute buffer, and process the one or more vertex attributes to produce shaded pixels of an image, wherein at least one of the parallel processing units is configured to read the first vertex attribute from the first vertex attribute buffer and process the first vertex attribute as an indexed vertex attribute. | 2,486 |
9,582,606 | 1. Within a system comprising a processor and a memory, a method comprising: via the processor, receiving a schema as an input; for at least one element in the schema: | 36,464 |
8,482,530 | 1. A sensor array comprising: a plurality of sensors of varying length, wherein the sensors have a length direction and a width direction smaller than the length direction, centroids of adjacent sensors are staggered in the length direction of the sensors, and a first distance in the width direction between a sensor and a first adjacent sensor on a side of the sensor is less than a second distance in the width direction between the sensor and a second adjacent sensor on the same side of the sensor. | 3,440 |
8,951,713 | 1. A negative-type photosensitive resin composition comprising an alkali-soluble resin, a polymerizable compound having at least one ethylenically unsaturated bond, a colorant, a photopolymerization initiator, and a solvent, wherein alkali-soluble resin is prepared from an alkali-soluble resin composition, wherein the alkali-soluble resin composition, comprising wherein the acid group-containing monomer is reacted with the monomer polymerizable with the acid group-containing monomer in a weight ratio of 5:95 to 45:55; wherein the alkali-soluble resin has a viscosity of 5 to 15 cps; and wherein the negative-type photosensitive resin composition has a viscosity of 3 to 10 cps. | 4,442 |
8,349,500 | 1. A solvent for dissolving an electrolyte salt of lithium secondary battery comprising at least one fluorine-containing solvent (I) selected from the group consisting of a fluorine-containing ether, a fluorine-containing ester and a fluorine-containing chain carbonate, 1,2-dialkyl-1,2-difluoroethylene carbonate (II) and other carbonate (III). | 6,147 |
8,722,392 | 1. A method for producing an improved distillers grains resulting from an ethanol production process comprising obtaining whole stillage, applying a mixture of microorganisms from the class Bacilli to the whole stillage in a fermentation process which application of microorganisms metabolizes the carbohydrates in the whole stillage with concomitant production of organic acids and reduction of oil by de-mulsification and liberation of oil for recovery, and separating the oil, whereby resultant distillers grains produced from the whole stillage have a reduced oil content and a concentration of energy dense organic acids. | 15,380 |
9,131,860 | 1. An apparatus for identifying the level of fetal risk during labor, comprising: at least one computer operative to receive input signals indicative of at least fetal heart rate (“FHR”) and maternal uterine activity in a patient, the at least one computer further operative (i) to determine from the FHR at least baseline FHR variability, FHR accelerations, and FHR decelerations, and (ii) to determine when each of at least (a) FHR, (b) baseline FHR variability, (c) FHR accelerations, (d) FHR decelerations, and (e) maternal uterine activity exhibit at least one non-reassuring characteristic from among a plurality of pre-defined non-reassuring characteristics for at least the parameters (a) through (e); and wherein the at least one computer is further operative to (iii) receive user-inputs indicative of the presence in the patient of one or more antecedent clinical parameters which elevate the level of fetal risk during labor, and (iv) to determine at a given point in time during labor a present level of risk to the fetus which takes into account only: wherein the at least one computer is further operative to indicate a predetermined action to be taken in response to the present level of risk to the fetus, and wherein further the indicated predetermined action is intervention in labor when the present level of risk to the fetus for an adverse outcome is at a predetermined level; and at least one output operatively connected to the at least one computer, the at least one output indicating the determined present level of risk to the fetus and the predetermined action to be taken in response to the indicated present level of risk to the fetus. | 18,994 |
8,988,258 | 1. A method for data compression, comprising: receiving a plurality of data chunks; sampling at least some of the plurality of data chunks using hardware logic; extracting a common portion from a number of the plurality of data chunks based on the sampling using hardware logic; storing one copy of the common portion; and storing a remainder for each of the plurality of data chunks as compressed data, wherein the remainder does not comprise the common portion. | 43,933 |
9,657,289 | 1. A peptide having a secondary structure stabilized by a crosslinked structure, comprising at least one combination of a special amino acid represented by the following formula (II): wherein m represents an integer selected from 1 to 10 and x is selected from the group consisting of Cl, Br, I, —OSO 2 Me, a tosyl group, a nosyl group, and —OSO 2 —Ar—R and wherein, R is CH 3 , NO 2 , CF 3 , or H, and an amino acid having, in the side chain thereof, a sulfanyl group; and having the crosslinked structure formed through a thioether bond between the side chain of the special amino acid residue and the sulfanyl group. | 26,957 |
9,624,314 | 1. A mesoporous polymeric material comprising one or more cyclodextrins crosslinked with at least an equimolar amount of one or more aryl fluorides, wherein the aryl fluoride is selected from the group consisting of tetrafluoroterephthalonitrile, decafluorobiphenyl, octafluoronaphthalene, and combinations thereof. | 43,905 |
9,606,936 | 1. A method, comprising: maintaining at least one table, the at least one table including a plurality of concurrently available pointers, each being associated with a corresponding one of a plurality of input/output (I/O) devices; creating for each pointer a first translation from a virtual address to a first type physical address associated with a first physical address space, and a second translation from the first type physical address to a second type physical address associated with a second physical address space, wherein the second type physical address is different from the first type physical address; receiving a first translation transaction from a first I/O device from the plurality of I/O devices, wherein the first translation transaction includes a first concurrent context and a first guest virtual address to be translated; isolating the first concurrent context residing in a shared memory based on the first translation transaction to form a first isolated context; receiving a second translation transaction from a second I/O device from the plurality of I/O devices, wherein the second translation transaction includes a second concurrent context and a second guest virtual address to be translated; isolating the second concurrent context residing in the shared memory based on the second translation transaction to form a second isolated context; performing the first translation, in response to the first translation transaction, of the first guest virtual address to the first physical address based on the at least one table and the first isolated context to generate a first translation result; performing the first translation of the second guest virtual address to the first physical address based on the table and the second isolated context to generate a second translation result; performing the second translation of the first translation result and the second translation result to create a respective third translation result and a fourth translation result; and concurrently performing direct memory access of the second physical address space using the third translation result and the fourth translation result by the first I/O device and the second I/O device. | 33,527 |
9,187,831 | 1. A method for coating a sliding surface of a first member so that the first member is adapted to contact a second member under a high temperature environment of 700° C. or more, the method comprising the steps of: (a) providing an electrode for use in an electro-discharge surface treatment, wherein the electrode is a green compact that includes a constituting material that includes a first coating material that contains 10% or more of chromium, by weight, and does not contain 20% or more of nickel, by weight, or a mixture of the first coating material and a second coating material that is different from the first coating material, wherein the first coating material comprises the chromium that oxidizes at a high temperature of 700° C. or more at an oxidation amount sufficient to form Cr (b) performing the electro-discharge surface treatment including causing a pulsed discharge between the electrode and the sliding surface of the first member so that electro-discharge energy melts a portion of the constituting material of the electrode during electro-discharge surface treatment; (c) forming a porous coating layer made of the constituting material of the electrode during the electro-discharge surface treatment, or of a reactant of the constituting material, on the sliding surface of the first member using the electro-discharge energy, wherein the second coating material is any one or a mixture of cBN, TiC, TiN, TiAlN, TiB (d) keeping the porous coating layer porous at least until the first member is disposed such that the sliding surface of the first member contacts the second member, wherein after the porous coating layer is formed on the sliding surface of the first member, the first member is disposed so that the porous coating layer of the sliding surface of the first member contacts the second member, and wherein the porous coating layer of the sliding surface contacts the second member under the high temperature environment of 700° C. or more and the chromium of the porous coating layer oxidizes at 700° C. or more of the high temperature environment to increase formation of the first lubricating material. | 18,391 |
8,385,696 | 1. An optical nanofiber resonator comprising: an optical waveguide whose diameter is equal to or smaller than the wavelength of a propagation light; a light emitter disposed at a predetermined position of the optical waveguide; and a first reflector and a second reflector formed in the optical waveguide with the light emitter interposed therebetween, wherein at least one of the first reflector and the second reflector transmits a part of the propagation light. | 10,683 |
8,540,916 | 1. A process for manufacturing a curved structural part comprising a composite material reinforced with continuous fibers, wherein a cross section of the curved structural part includes at least two wings, with said fibers extending from one wing to the other, the curved structural part being curved with a radius of curvature and having a width parallel to the radius of curvature, with a section having a local increase in the width parallel to a local radius of curvature, the width increasing in a direction towards an interior of a curve of the curved structural part, the process comprising: fabricating a mold of the curved structural part having at least two faces, with said two faces forming a male mold section between a minimum radius of curvature of the curved structural part corresponding to the local increase in the width of the section of the curved structural part and another radius of curvature belonging to one of the two faces; preparing a stack of multidirectional fibers comprising one or more fiber plies oriented in a nominal direction of +/−α or 90° in relation to a longitudinal direction of the curved structural part where α is in the range of 30° to 60°; cutting a first multidirectional strip in the stack extending longitudinally and having a width at least equal to a maximum width of the curved structural part; applying the first multidirectional strip over the mold by pressing to gradually conform the first multidirectional strip to the mold; initiating the application of the first multidirectional strip on the face having the minimum radius of curvature in an area corresponding to the local increase in the width of the section of the curved structural part; and pressing and tightening the first multidirectional strip over the other faces. | 35,574 |
9,162,200 | 1. A method of injecting and reacting super-critical phase carbon dioxide without pressure loss, the method comprising: (A) preparing gas phase carbon dioxide; (B) producing liquid phase carbon dioxide by pressurizing the prepared gas phase carbon dioxide; (C) producing super-critical phase carbon dioxide by adjusting a temperature of the produced liquid phase carbon dioxide; (D) filling incompressible fluid in a reactor and an injection line from an injection unit and pressurizing the incompressible fluid; (E) injecting the produced super-critical phase carbon dioxide into the reactor; and (F) controlling a pressure of the injected super-critical phase carbon dioxide by a pressure regulating unit, wherein the gas phase carbon dioxide is changed into the liquid phase carbon dioxide by pressurizing the gas phase carbon dioxide to a pressure at a critical point by a booster pump and transferred to a piston pump provided next to the booster pump in step (B), the liquid phase carbon dioxide is changed into the super-critical phase carbon dioxide by heating the liquid phase carbon dioxide to a temperature at the critical point or more by a heater installed at an outer peripheral portion of a pump body when the liquid phase carbon dioxide passes through the pump body of the piston pump in step (C), water or salt water is filled as the incompressible fluid and the super-critical phase carbon dioxide is pressurized beyond the critical point in step (D), and the super-critical phase carbon dioxide injected into the reactor is maintained at the critical point by using a thermometer and a pressure gauge in step (E), such that the super-critical phase carbon dioxide reacts with a sample in the reactor without phase change of the super-critical phase carbon dioxide. | 32,954 |
9,504,989 | 1. A method for making a monolithic contactor comprising: preparing an adsorbent composition comprising a carrier, a binder, and an adsorbent material, wherein said adsorbent material comprises a zeolite material and said binder comprises phosphate and water-soluble colloidal silica; shaping said adsorbent composition into a monolithic body that defines a plurality of channels; drying said monolithic body; and fire drying said dried monolithic body. | 36,211 |
9,828,945 | 1. A ram air turbine comprising: a turbine comprising a blade and a turbine shaft; a one-piece strut removably coupled to the turbine, wherein the one-piece strut comprises a gearbox section, a drive section, and a generator adapter section; the turbine shaft comprising a bevel gear oriented perpendicularly to the turbine shaft and positioned within the gearbox section of the one-piece strut; a driveshaft positioned within the drive section of the one-piece strut, wherein the driveshaft comprises a first end and a second end, the driveshaft comprising a keyed joint at the first end, and the driveshaft is removably coupled to a generator at the second end, wherein the first end extends into the gearbox section and the second end extends into the generator adaptor section; a pinion gear that engages with the bevel gear and is removably secured to the driveshaft by an interference fit, wherein the pinion gear includes a key configured to interact with the keyed joint of the driveshaft to maintain a position of pinion gear relative to the driveshaft; a spanner nut coupled to the driveshaft and compressing the pinion gear against a shoulder on the driveshaft; and a pinion bearing coupled to and surrounding the pinion gear, wherein the driveshaft is supported at the first end by the pinion bearing and is supported at the second end by a generator bearing assembly located within the generator adapter section. | 24,287 |
8,698,706 | 1. In an organic light-emitting diode driving system comprising a matrix of elements arrayed in a plurality of rows and columns, wherein each element is comprised of an organic LED, a rectifier diode and a capacitor electrically connected, the improvement wherein there is a zener diode in series with each organic light-emitting diode, and wherein there are metal row electrodes electrically connected to each element's capacitor; metal column electrodes electrically connected to each element's rectifier diode; current mode data programming column driver ICs; row driver ICs; and a transparent front electrode electrically connected to each element's organic LED. | 39,670 |
9,370,065 | 1. An electronic device comprising: a power source; a LED module; and a short-circuit protection circuit; wherein, the LED module comprises a positive input port and a controlled port; the power source comprises an output port; the short-circuit protection circuit comprises a control unit, the control unit comprises a power port and a control port; the output port of the power source is connected to the positive input port of the LED module and the power port of the control unit, and configured to provide power to the LED module and the control unit via the output port; the control port of the control unit is connected to the controlled port of the LED module, the control unit is configured to control the LED module to work or do not work; wherein, the control unit further comprises a trigger port, the short-circuit protection circuit further comprises: a feedback module connected between the positive input port of the LED module and ground, configured to detect a voltage of the positive input port and produce a feedback voltage proportional to the voltage of the positive input port; a comparison module connected to the feedback module, configured to compare the feedback voltage with a reference voltage and produce a first comparison signal when the feedback voltage is less than the reference voltage; and a trigger module connected to the comparison module and the trigger port of the control unit, configured to produce an off trigger signal to the trigger port of the control unit to trigger the control unit to control the LED module to not work, when the trigger module receives the first comparison signal output by the comparison module. | 33,021 |
9,295,735 | 1. A diagnostic composition comprising a non-PEGylated liposomal delivery vehicle for administering pharmaceutical agents via convection-enhanced delivery to the central nervous system, said vehicle comprising a diagnostic agent encapsulated in a liposomal formulation, wherein the ratio of said diagnostic agent to said liposomal formulation is between 0.3:1 and 0.5:1 (w/w), wherein said liposomal formulation consists essentially of DSPC, DSPG and CHOL at a 7:2:1 molar ratio, and wherein said liposomal formulation comprises liposomes having a mean diameter of between 75 and 120 nm. | 25,857 |
8,851,737 | 1. A rubber extruder for pressurizing and kneading inputted rubber, comprising: a cylinder and a screw arranged in the cylinder; and a sampling device mounted on an outlet-side end portion of the cylinder and having a center hole which becomes a path for rubber extruded from the cylinder at the center part and a rubber sample taking-out path on an inner peripheral surface of the center hole, respectively, and provided with a path opening/closing means which opens/closes the rubber sample taking-out path, wherein a path opening/closing means which opens/closes the rubber sample taking-out path is provided; and diameters of the cylinder and the screw are gradually reduced toward the distal ends, the distal end portion of the screw reaches the vicinity of a rubber taking-in port of a pair of gears of a gear pump, a screw shaft is inclined with respect to a line which connects gear shafts of the pair of gears of the gear pump, and the sampling device is provided with a surface on the cylinder side perpendicular to the screw shaft and a surface in parallel with a mounting surface on the cylinder side of the gear pump in a sectional shape thereof, and forms a substantially triangular shape, and the screw projecting from the cylinder penetrates the center part thereof. | 15,443 |
9,640,690 | 1. A multi-layered film, comprising: a substrate; and a fluoropolymer coating layer including a fluoropolymer; and a primer layer, including a primer having a main chain backbone having compatibility with the fluoropolymer and a functional group enhancing adhesive strength to the fluoropolymer coating layer through a dipole-dipole interaction by C—F wherein the fluoropolymer coating layer is formed by coating a composition including the fluoropolymer that does not include a compatibilizer having compatibility with the fluoropolymer, on the primer layer, and wherein the fluoropolymer coating layer has a gradation in which a concentration of the primer increases toward a surface close to the primer layer, and a concentration of the fluoropolymer increases toward a surface opposite to the primer layer. | 16,730 |
9,519,118 | 1. A fiber optic system, comprising: a fiber optic housing defining at least one interior chamber configured to support fiber optic equipment; and a removable front section connected to the fiber optic housing and defining at least one front section interior chamber coupled to the at least one interior chamber of the fiber optic housing; wherein the removable front section is configured to support at least one fiber management device to manage one or more optical fibers connected to fiber optic equipment disposed in the fiber optic housing. | 38,014 |
9,800,062 | 1. A power supply system including a pair of resonance circuits, each of the resonance circuits including a resonance coil and a capacitor connected to the resonance coil, in which a non-contact power supply is conducted by electromagnetic resonance in the pair of resonance circuits, the power supply system comprising: a changeover unit configured to change over a connection of the resonance coil and the capacitor to a series connection or to a parallel connection a detector configured to detect an impedance on a power supply side or a power receipt side; and a changeover controller configured to control a changeover in the changeover unit depending upon the impedance detected by the detector. | 20,507 |
8,567,326 | 1. A secondary air seeder assembly for use in connection with a primary air seeder assembly connected to and towed by a tractor and an air seeder cart connected to and towed by the primary air seeder assembly, said secondary air seeder assembly comprising: a wheeled frame attached to and towed by the air seeder cart; at least one material applicator assembly attached to said wheeled frame and positioned to dispense material within and along a tire track formed in the earth by one or more of the tractor, primary air seeder assembly, and the air seeder cart. | 30,225 |
8,852,519 | 1. An exhaust gas purifying catalyst comprising: a crystalline metal oxide support and a noble metal particle supported on said support, wherein said noble metal particle is epitaxially grown on said support, wherein said noble metal particle is dispersed and supported on the outer and inner surfaces of said support, wherein said noble metal particle is supported in a generally hemispherical shape on said support, wherein the width (W) of the portion of contact between said support and said noble metal particle and the height (H) of said noble metal particle from the surface of said support satisfy the following formula (1): wherein the height (H) of said noble metal particle from the surface of said support is 0.5 nm or more, and wherein the particle diameter of said noble metal particle as measured by a carbon monoxide adsorption method is from 0.5 to 10 nm. | 32,388 |
8,884,048 | 1. A process for producing an ester comprising: (i) esterifying an acid or anhydride with an excess of an alcohol to produce a crude ester in a first esterification reaction, (ii) recovering excess recycle alcohol from the crude ester formed by the esterification, (iii) recycling said recovered excess recycle alcohol of the first esterification reaction together with fresh alcohol, characterised by controlling the ratio of the amount of recycle alcohol of step (ii) and the amount of fresh alcohol in dependence on the level of the impurities in the recycle alcohol of step (ii), to control the true molar excess of the alcohol, (iv) reacting a stoichiometric excess of said recycle alcohol, having an alcohol content of at most 90% wt, with acid or anhydride in a separate, second esterification reaction to a conversion of at least 90%, calculated on the acid or anhydride, (v) boiling off excess alcohol and inerts from the second esterification reaction mixture in a distillation step, (vi) adding fresh alcohol to the reaction mixture after the distillation step, and (vii) reacting the mixture formed in step (vi) to a conversion of at least 99%, calculated on the acid or anhydride. | 5,925 |
9,182,154 | 1. A control system for adaptively controlling an operation of a vapor compression system, comprising: a memory configured to store a mapping relationship between control inputs of the vapor compression system, wherein the mapping relationship maps values of at least a first control input to values of at least a second control input, such that a value of the first control input defines a value of the second control input forming a set of control inputs, wherein the first control input and the second control input are one of a value of a speed of a compressor, a value of a position of an expansion valve, a value of a speed of an evaporator fan and a value of a speed of a condenser fan; and a processor configured to execute a supervisory controller and an optimization controller, wherein | 7,482 |
8,704,542 | 1. A device for controlling a temperature of an integrated circuit chip under test, comprising: a thermal block having a top wall, a left wall, a right wall, and front wall, and a rear wall, the front wall having a first port for introducing a temperature controlled fluid into the thermal block and a second port for the temperature controlled fluid to exit the thermal block; a centrally disposed aperture in the thermal block forming an enclosure for capturing an IC chip socket; a first fluid channel defining a path around the centrally disposed aperture; a second fluid channel extending across the centrally disposed aperture; and a fluid control mechanism for selectively diverting fluid through said first and second fluid channels. | 38,038 |
8,808,931 | 1. A fuel cell system comprising: a fuel cell, a fluid circuit defining a fluid loop for re-circulating fluid within the fuel cell system, and an ion exchange filter positioned along said fluid circuit, wherein the filter comprises: a cartridge including a fluid inlet and outlet, and a strong base anion exchange resin disposed within said cartridge; wherein the resin is: in bead form with a bead diameter of from about 300 to 1000 microns, derived from monomers comprising styrene and divinylbenzene, and comprises a repeating unit represented by Formula I: wherein: L is located at the meta or para position of the ring and is selected from: a chemical bond between the nitrogen atom and an aromatic carbon atom or a methyl or ethyl group; R X is selected from at least one of: a bicarbonate anion and carbonate anion. | 14,593 |
9,355,790 | 1. An ultracapacitor electrode having an enhanced electrolyte-accessible surface area, comprising: a porous silicon substrate having a solution side and a collector side, the collector side operable to couple to a current collector and the solution side positioned to interact with an electrolytic solution when in use; and a conductive coating formed on the solution side of the porous silicon substrate and having a first side positioned to interact with an electrolytic solution when in use and a second side opposite the first side, the conductive coating having discontinuous regions that allow access of an electrolyte solution to the second side during use to enhance electrolyte-accessible surface area of the conductive coating. | 29,633 |
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