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9,280,735 | 1. A data processing apparatus comprising: a user-information acquisition unit configured to acquire information of a second user different from a first user, wherein the first user inputs a job to cause the data processing apparatus to perform data processing; a data processing unit configured to perform data processing in response to the first user's input job; a data processing-information recording unit configured, when the second-user information is acquired by the user-information acquisition unit and the data processing is executed by the data processing unit, to record, on the basis of the execution of the data processing by the data processing unit in response to the first user's input job, processing information based on the data processing in connection with the second-user information; and a notification unit configured to notify the second user of the processing information based on the data processing executed by the data processing unit, wherein, when the data processing executed as a result of the first user's input job is performed by the data processing apparatus, the notification unit notifies the second user of execution of the job input by the first user. | 17,225 |
9,201,397 | 1. A digital holography device comprising: a hologram generating section for generating a first hologram and a second hologram each obtained by extracting components identical in phase shift amount of a reference light beam from a polarizer array hologram which is recorded in a pixel of an image capturing device mounted with a polarizer array and includes two or more kinds of hologram information that differ in the phase shift amount; a dividing section for dividing the first hologram into a plurality of first regions, and dividing the second hologram into a plurality of second regions in a second pattern identical to a first pattern in which the first hologram is divided into the plurality of first regions; a comparing section for comparing a first average value of an intensity in a first region of the first hologram and a second average value of an intensity in a second region of the second hologram which region corresponds to the first region; and a correcting section for, in a case where the first average value and the second average value differ, in order that an intensity of zeroth-order diffracted light is accurately removed, correcting at least one of the intensity in the first region of the first hologram and the intensity in the second region of the second hologram which region corresponds to the first region. | 12,824 |
8,653,768 | 1. A method for calculating the flux in a rotating electrical machine which is electrically supplied by an inverter, the method comprising: determining an inverter voltage vector (u determining an inverter current vector (i calculating an estimated flux vector as (ψ comparing a length of the estimated flux vector with a reference flux magnitude (ψ compensating for errors by changing the length of the estimated flux vector (ψ wherein a compensated flux offset vector (ψ | 42,279 |
9,778,728 | 1. An integrated circuit comprising: at least one processor forming a central processing unit (CPU) in the integrated circuit; and a plurality of components, wherein the plurality of components includes a first component coupled to the CPU, wherein the first component is configured to remain powered while the CPU and other ones of the plurality of components are powered off, and wherein the first component is configured to cause the CPU and the other ones of the plurality of components to power up, and the first component is configured to program at least a portion of the other ones of the plurality of components with configuration data stored in the first component, and the first component is configured to release the at least one processor from reset to execute kernel code when a state of the plurality of components is prepared for kernel code execution subsequent to the plurality of components being programmed with the configuration data by the first component, and wherein releasing the at least one processor from reset to execute kernel code includes bypassing an execution of read-only memory (ROM) load code and boot code responsive to programming at least the portion of the other ones of the plurality of components, wherein the ROM load code and the boot code is not executed between a determination that the CPU and the other ones of the plurality of components are to be powered up and the release of the at least one processor to execute the kernel code, and wherein the kernel code is a core of an operating system and manages resources in a system that includes the integrated circuit for use by application programs executed by the processors, and wherein a second one of the plurality of components is a memory controller coupled to a memory during use, and wherein the CPU is configured to store state corresponding to the other ones of the plurality of components in the memory prior to the other ones of the plurality of components and the CPU powering down, and wherein the configuration data stored in the first component matches a portion of the state stored in the memory, wherein the first component is configured to determine that the CPU and the other ones of the plurality of components are to be powered up by collecting N sensor samples from one or more sensors coupled to the integrated circuit during use, wherein N is a positive integer, and wherein the first component is configured to filter the N sensor samples to detect an attribute of the N sensor samples, and wherein the first component determines that the CPU and the other ones of the plurality of components are to be powered up responsive to detecting the attribute in the N sensor samples. | 18,149 |
9,853,316 | 1. A fuel cell system, comprising: a control valve configured to control a pressure of anode gas to be supplied to a fuel cell; a pressure detection unit configured to detect the pressure of the anode gas to be supplied to the fuel cell; and a controller in communication with the control value and the pressure detection unit, wherein the controller is programmed to: | 40,597 |
9,623,818 | 1. A sensor system for an electronic architecture in a vehicle, comprising: at least one sensor module for capturing at least one physical variable; at least one first interface of the sensor system connected to the at least one sensor module and to a first bus system for communication with the first bus system; and at least one second interface of the sensor system connected to the at least one sensor module and to a second bus system for communication with the second bus system, wherein data of the at least one sensor module is able to be output via the first and second bus systems, wherein the data of the at least one sensor module is not routed via a control unit when output via the first and second bus systems. | 565 |
9,791,725 | 1. A repairing method for a defective pixel, comprising: positioning a center of the defective pixel to obtain a center coordinate of the defective pixel; and repairing the defective pixel according to the center coordinate; before the positioning a center of the defective pixel to obtain the center coordinate of the defective pixel, positioning the defective pixel to obtain a pixel coordinate of the defective pixel, wherein the pixel coordinate and the center coordinate do not coincide; the center coordinate is located on a center point of the defective pixel; the pixel coordinate is a pixel coordinate of one point which is different from the center point in the pixel region where the defective pixel is located; wherein the positioning a center of the defective pixel to obtain a center coordinate of the defective pixel, comprises: performing a scanning respectively in four directions, with the pixel coordinate as a center, including: in direction of upward, until an upper edge of the defective pixel are scanned, and obtaining an upper edge coordinate; in direction of downward, until an lower edge of the defective pixel are scanned, and obtaining an lower edge coordinate; in direction of leftward, until an left edge of the defective pixel are scanned, and obtaining an left edge coordinate; in direction of rightward, until an right edge of the defective pixel are scanned, and obtaining an right edge coordinate; calculating a vertical coordinate of the center coordinate according to the upper edge coordinate and the lower edge coordinate, and calculating a horizontal coordinate of the center coordinate according to the left edge coordinate and the right edge coordinate, so as to obtain the center coordinate; wherein the obtaining an upper edge coordinate, a lower edge coordinate, a left edge coordinate and a right edge coordinate, comprises: performing the scanning, from the pixel coordinate, respectively in the four directions of upward, downward, leftward and rightward, and then determining, when gray-scale values corresponding to coordinates change, the coordinates as the upper edge coordinate, the lower edge coordinate, the left edge coordinate and the right edge coordinate. | 24,714 |
9,296,652 | 1. A construction material mixture used as concrete additive, wherein the construction material mixture contains a pozzolanic substrate and a photocatalyst, wherein the pozzolanic substrate and the photocatalyst are a dry mixture, characterized in that the construction material mixture is a cement-free dry mixture, wherein the photocatalyst has a primary particle size of between 2 nm and 100 nm and a secondary particle size of between 100 nm and 1 μm, wherein the pozzolanic substrate consists at least 90 weight % of fly ash with a grain size of between 0.1 μm and 1 mm, wherein the pozzolanic substrate and the photocatalyst are uniformly mixed so that the photocatalyst is at least partially coated on the surface of the pozzolanic substrate. | 43,443 |
9,481,444 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a laminated plate of an aerodynamic lift structure including: | 6,669 |
8,932,873 | 1. A method for monitoring the concentration of a water borne substance in an aqueous medium, comprising the steps of: introducing a defined amount of the aqueous medium into a gas circulatory system of an analytical apparatus comprising a high temperature reaction chamber and a measuring chamber, wherein the gas circulatory system extends through the high temperature reaction chamber and the measuring chamber, and wherein the introducing of the aqueous medium occurs upstream of the high temperature reaction chamber or into it; evaporating the aqueous medium in the high temperature reaction chamber; reacting the water borne substance with at least one reaction partner in the high temperature reaction chamber to a gaseous reaction product; registering the current value of a measured variable, which is a function of the concentration of the chemical species of the reaction product in the gas circulatory system, wherein the concentration of the chemical species of the reaction product in the gas circulatory system depends, on the one hand, on a time-dependent state of the gas circulatory system and, on the other hand, on the concentration of the substance in the aqueous medium; and ascertaining the concentration of the substance in the aqueous medium by applying the current value of the measured variable, wherein: in the ascertaining of the concentration of the substance in the aqueous medium, the contribution to the concentration of the chemical species of the reaction product in the gas circulatory system by the state of the gas circulatory system is ascertained on the basis of a model of the state, and a correction of the concentration of the chemical species of the reaction product in the gas circulatory system occurs on the basis of this contribution; for producing a clean state of the gas circulatory system, the gas circulatory system is purged, at given times or state dependently, with a carrier gas, which is free of the chemical species of the reaction product, except for possible negligible impurities, and following purging with the carrier gas, a time behavior of the measured variable is observed without introducing additional sample of the aqueous medium, in order to win current data for modeling of time behavior of the contamination; the gas circulatory system is not purged with the carrier gas after each ascertaining of the concentration of the chemical species of the reaction product in the gas circulatory system, but, instead, there occurs, after a first introducing of a first defined amount of an aqueous medium into the gas circulatory system and following ascertaining of the concentration of the chemical species of the reaction product, at least one further introducing of a second defined amount of an aqueous medium into the gas circulatory system and, subsequently, the then present concentration of the chemical species of the reaction product is ascertained on the basis of the current value of the measured variable; the current concentration of the substance in the second defined amount of the aqueous medium is ascertained on the basis of the concentration of the chemical species of the reaction product in the gas circulatory system and the model of the state of the gas circulatory system, in which enter the concentration of the chemical species of the reaction product in the gas circulatory system as a result of earlier introducings and combustions of defined amounts of the aqueous medium. | 33,440 |
9,483,077 | 1. A data transfer and charging system comprising: a portable device with at least one multipurpose connector, the portable device recognizing at least one non-standard charge signaling option to initiate charging, signals of the at least one non-standard charge signaling option preclude simultaneous data transfer; a docking station to charge and transfer data to the portable device, the docking station selectively coupled using data transfer lines to the portable device via the at least one multipurpose connector, the docking station further comprising: | 25,845 |
8,354,582 | 1. A device for connecting a direct current (“DC”) producing thermoelectric generator that includes a DC bus through a facility electrical panel to an electric power company alternating current (“AC”) grid wherein electrical grid power lines are connectable to special circuits of said device that are further connectable to said thermoelectric generator, said device comprising: (A) a first special circuit of said device for producing DC having a voltage reduced from voltage of said electrical grid power lines, said first special circuit including: (B) a second special circuit of said device that integrates DC produced by said first special circuit with the output of said thermoelectric generator, said second special circuit providing a grid referenced AC voltage output to a main electrical service panel at a defined frequency, voltage and phase said second special circuit consisting of: (C) a third special circuit coupling positive and negative DC between said first circuit and said DC bus of said thermoelectric generator; and (D) at least two light dimmer circuits: | 45,152 |
9,268,861 | 1. A method comprising: analyzing, by a server computer, closed captioning text associated with a media program being experienced in a time period by a user having a client device; in response to the analyzing of the closed captioning text, automatically extracting an entity from the closed captioning text by the server computer; determining, by the server computer, an online web page describing the entity; utilizing, by the server computer, a graph model to retrieve a relevant information item for the entity, the graph model comprising a plurality of entity nodes and a plurality of query nodes; and communicating, within the time period by the server computer, the relevant information item to the client device. | 15,885 |
9,578,599 | 1. A method comprising: a child node transmitting a first data packet to a first parent node in a wireless system; and the first parent node transmitting a second data packet to a second parent node in the wireless system, wherein the second parent node is a parent node of the first parent node, wherein the first data packet includes a first identifier identifying the first parent node, first data information, and a first length of the first data information, wherein the child node identifies itself to the first parent node based on a first assigned time slot during which the first data packet is transmitted, but the first data packet omits inclusion of a child node identifier, wherein the second data packet includes a second identifier identifying the second parent node, the child node identifier, the first data information, and the first length of the first data information, and wherein the first parent node identifies itself to the second parent node based on a second assigned time slot during which the second data packet is transmitted, but the second data packet omits inclusion of the first identifier identifying the first parent node. | 32,405 |
9,148,084 | 1. A machine comprising: a rotor, a converter-controlled drive with a variable rotational frequency, a working machine, wherein the drive and the working machine are connected to one another such that a torque is transmitted, a frequency converter which is electrically connected to the drive and converts input frequencies to output frequencies, wherein the output frequencies are grouped into a plurality of concentration ranges based upon a rotational speed of the machine, wherein each concentration range defines a blocking range, and wherein the machine has an operating rotational speed range which lies outside the blocking ranges. | 2,986 |
9,574,005 | 1. A formulation comprising a protein and valinamide as a stabilizing agent, wherein the formulation is stable against photostress. | 48,742 |
9,139,051 | 1. A pneumatic tire comprising: a pair of bead portions; a side wall portion which extends to an outer side in a tire radial direction from each of the bead portions; a tread portion which is connected to an outer end in the tire radial direction of each of the side wall portions; a toroidal carcass layer which is provided between a pair of the bead portions; a side wall rubber which is provided in an outer side of the carcass layer in the side wall portion; and a tread rubber which is provided in an outer side of the carcass layer in the tread portion, wherein the tread rubber has a cap portion which is formed by a nonconductive rubber and constructs a ground-contacting surface, a base portion which is formed by a nonconductive rubber and is provided in an inner side in the tire radial direction of the cap portion, and a conductive portion which is formed by a conductive rubber and reaches a bottom surface of the tread rubber from a ground-contacting surface, and wherein the conductive portion comprises: a first conductive portion which extends to an inner side in the tire radial direction from the ground-contacting surface and reaches an inner peripheral surface of the cap portion; a second conductive portion which is provided in succession with the first conductive portion, extends to one side in the tire width direction between the cap portion and the base portion, and reaches a topping rubber of the carcass layer or the side wall rubber; a third conductive portion which is connected to the second conductive portion between the cap portion and the base portion, and extends to an inner side in the tire radial direction from an outer peripheral surface of the base portion so as to reach the bottom surface of the tread rubber; and a fourth conductive portion which is provided in succession with the third conductive portion, extends to another side in the tire width direction along the bottom surface of the tread rubber, and reaches the topping rubber of the carcass layer or the side wall rubber, and wherein the fourth conductive portion only extends in the direction opposite of the second conductive portion. | 2,774 |
8,367,498 | 1. A method comprising: providing a semiconductor substrate; forming a fin structure over the semiconductor substrate, the fin structure at least partially embedded within a dielectric layer and including a first semiconductor material portion over the semiconductor substrate and a second semiconductor material portion over the first semiconductor material portion; forming a gate structure over a portion of the fin structure and the dielectric layer, such that the gate structure traverses the fin structure, thereby separating a source region and a drain region of the fin structure, wherein the source and drain regions of the fin structure define a channel therebetween; after forming the gate structure, removing the second semiconductor material portion from the source and drain regions of the fin structure, wherein removing the second semiconductor material portion from the source and drain regions of the fin structure includes forming a trench in the source and drain regions of the fin structure, the trench extending below a top surface of the dielectric layer; and after removing the second semiconductor material portion, forming a third material portion in the source and drain regions of the fin structure. | 12,205 |
9,090,562 | 1. A compound of Formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof: wherein X X Z is NR each of R each of R R R each of R R R | 9,488 |
8,974,927 | 1. An apparatus for producing hydrogen from an aqueous electrolyte solution, the apparatus comprising: a plate-shaped hydrogen-developing body comprising at least one from the list of islands, strips, meanders, and a grid of magnesium (Mg), zinc (Zn), or alloys thereof in or in contact with a matrix of iron (Fe) or Fe alloy; and an outlet for accumulating hydrogen which develops on the plate-shaped hydrogen-developing body when the plate shaped hydrogen-developing body is provided in contact with an aqueous electrolyte solution, wherein the plate-shaped hydrogen-developing body is one of a plurality of hydrogen-developing bodies, the plurality of hydrogen-developing bodies configured as plate-shaped bodies in a face-to-face configuration, wherein each of the plurality of hydrogen-developing bodies comprises two electrolyte-contacting surface formed as a pair of opposite surfaces of a continuous first layer and a non-continuous second layer, such that the non-continuous second layer is bonded to the continuous first layer, wherein the continuous first layer is the matrix of Fe or Fe alloy and the non-continuous second layer is the at least one from the list of islands, strips, meanders, and a grid of Mg, Zn, or alloys thereof. | 43,116 |
9,331,525 | 1. A method of controlling access to an electrical power network, comprising: receiving, at an energy access point, a power network access rule from a distribution operator via a power grid, the power network access rule defining an access condition which permits a device to access the power grid; receiving, at the energy access point, a device usage rule from the device, the device usage rule being a condition when the device is permitted use of the power grid, and the device usage rule being provided to and stored in the device from an energy provider during an initial registration of the device with the energy provider; comparing, at the energy access point, the device usage rule with the received power network access rule; and permitting, at the energy access point, transfer of energy between the power grid and the device upon a positive comparison between the device usage rule and the power network access rule, wherein the distribution operator provides a distribution network for the energy, and wherein the energy provider buys and sells the energy. | 46,409 |
8,481,712 | 1. A compound having the formula: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein: B is: L is CH or N; E is N or CR W is O or S; R R | 35,098 |
8,770,132 | 1. An offshore wind turbine complete set, characterized in comprising: a foundation utilizing a steel-concrete structure and including a plurality of tanks which are respectively provided with an opening, wherein the plurality of tanks include a middle tank surrounded by a plurality of side tanks that are symmetrically distributed around the middle tank, wherein the plurality of side tanks are further away from a center of gravity of the offshore wind turbine complete set than the middle tank so as to provide uprighting force, and wherein a volume of the middle tank is larger than the volume of each of the plurality of side tanks; a tower column, a lower end of which is installed on a pile cap of the foundation, a ballast tank being provided inside the pile cap of the foundation; and a wind turbine set, which is installed on an upper end of the tower column; wherein the openings of the plurality of tanks are under water when the offshore wind turbine complete set floats on the water, and the tanks are injected with air or the water, and the buoyancy and uprighting force are provided by the plurality of tanks, so as to keep the entire structure in a vertical floating state on the water consistent with the state of installation on the offshore site, but without external force. | 9,952 |
9,160,236 | 1. A method, comprising: controlling burst-mode operation of a converter having an oscillator configured to set a switching frequency of on-off driven power switches of the converter in response to a feedback control signal based on an output error voltage of the converter; operating the oscillator, when a load on the converter is light, relative to a maximum capacity of the converter, in a hysteretically controlled burst-mode including causing said oscillator to stop oscillating when said feedback control signal reaches a first threshold value; and introducing a nonlinearity in a derivative of a functional relation between the switching frequency and said feedback control signal, while the feedback control signal is between a lower, second threshold value, and the first threshold value and the oscillator is not in the burst-mode, such that the switching frequency remains equal to or smaller than a value of the switching frequency when the feedback control signal is equal to the second threshold value. | 4,848 |
8,913,512 | 1. A telecommunication apparatus enabled for high-speed packet access, the apparatus being arranged to operate according to a reduced and a further reduced mode of transmission of dedicated physical control channel transmission, the telecommunication apparatus comprising: a data transmission controller arranged to wherein the sporadic data transmissions include silence insertion descriptor frames transmitted in a silence period of a speech transmission, wherein the data transmission controller is arranged to wherein the first number of silence insertion descriptor frames are subsequent to the first and second silence insertion descriptor frames. | 9,524 |
9,487,511 | 1. The compound represented by 5-((1R,2R)-2-((cyclopropylmethyl)amino)cyclopropyl)-N-(tetrahydro-2H-pyran-4-yl)thiophene-3-carboxamide or a salt thereof. | 659 |
8,349,375 | 1. A method of making a clear gel hops extract solution, comprising the steps: heating polyoxyl castor oil in a container to a temperature of about 90° F. to about 250° F.; heating a hops extract to a temperature of about 90° F. to 250° F.; mixing an amount of the hops extract with the polyoxyl castor oil so as to constitute from 0.2 wt % to 70 wt % hops extract and from 30 wt % to 99.8 wt % polyoxyl castor oil, wherein the hops extract is sufficiently dispersed or dissolved in the polyoxyl castor oil so that a gel hops extract forms that contains no visible particles of the hops extract; and dissolving or finely dispersing the gel hops extract in water or an aqueous solvent system to yield a clear gel hops extract solution comprising from 0.0005 wt % to 24.5 wt % of alpha acids and from 0.0001 wt % to 12.5 wt % of beta acids. | 7,646 |
8,427,813 | 1. A supercapacitor electrode, comprising: a first network of nanowires; and a second network of nanowires; wherein the first network of nanowires and the second network of nanowires are interpenetrating; and wherein the first network of nanowires and the second network of nanowires form hierarchical porous channels, such that substantially all pores in the supercapacitor electrode have diameters less than 20 nm or greater than 100 nm. | 43,522 |
8,901,894 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a first circuit coupled between a first node and a second node, wherein the first circuit is configured to receive a source current via the first node and a battery discharge current via the second node, wherein the first circuit is configured to divide the source current into first and second portions Ic and Icr, respectively; wherein the first circuit is configured to divide the battery discharge current into first and second portions Idc and Idcr, respectively; wherein the first circuit is configured to transmit Ic to the second node, and wherein the first circuit is configured to transmit Idc to the first node; a second circuit coupled to the first circuit and configured to receive Icr and Idcr, wherein the second circuit is configured to generate a first voltage that is related to Icr, wherein the second circuit is configured to generate a second voltage that is related to Idcr; an analog-to-digital (ADC) conversion circuit coupled to the second circuit, wherein the ADC circuit is configured to generate a first digital signal that represents the first voltage, and wherein the ADC circuit is configured to generate a second digital signal that represents the second voltage; wherein Icr is equal Ic/N; wherein Idcr is equal to Idc/M; where N and M are values greater than one; wherein the first circuit comprises: a first FET comprising a first source coupled to the first node and configured to receive the source current, a first drain, and a first gate; a second FET comprising a second source, a second drain, and a second gate; a third FET comprising a third source coupled to the second node and configured to receive the battery discharge current, a third drain, and a third gate, and; a fourth FET comprising a fourth source, a fourth drain, and a fourth gate; wherein the first, second, third, and fourth drains are coupled together; wherein the first and second gates are coupled together; wherein the third and fourth gates are coupled together; wherein the first and second sources are coupled to the second circuit and configured to be at one common voltage in order to transmit Idcr to the second FET; wherein the third and fourth sources are coupled to the second circuit and configured to be at another common voltage in order to transmit Icr to the fourth FET. | 27,627 |
9,394,664 | 1. A hydraulic breaker hammer casing assembly for converting a hydraulic breaker hammer to a pile driving apparatus, said casing assembly comprising a support housing configured to immovably secure therein a hydraulic breaker hammer; said support housing having protective side walls, one of said protective side walls connectable to a support member displaceable along a boom of a pile driving rig, an impact shaft of said hydraulic breaker hammer being positioned near a bottom end of said support housing; an attachment cylinder secured at said open bottom end of said support housing or adapted for securement to a bottom end of the hydraulic breaker hammer; a drive cap for vertical sliding fit in said attachment cylinder and transversely captive therein; and an adjustable pile guide housing secured adjacent a front open end of said attachment cylinder and secured to said support housing for seating engagement about a top end portion of a pile to orient said hydraulic breaker hammer support housing axially aligned with said pile and with said drive cap sitting on a top end of said pile, for guiding, in axial alignment with said impact shaft, said pile to be driven in a soil surface. | 39,625 |
8,392,345 | 1. A computer system for coordinating the systematic variation of content delivered to users via a digital data network during interactive sessions between the users and a plurality of external content systems external to the computer system, the computer system comprising: a processor; an experiment engine executed by the processor to generate a unique set of tracking codes to allow the plurality of external content systems to pass back information about the users to a rules generator, the rules generator to receive the passed back information to determine an optimal content element to be delivered by each of the plurality of external content systems; one or more sets of rules to: the rules generator executed by the processor to deliver one or more of the sets of rules as specific programmatic commands to the plurality of external content systems via the digital network and receive the passed back information; a data collator to: a plurality of plug-ins to allow the computer system to communicate with the plurality of external content systems, the plurality of plug-ins to translate the one or more sets of rules into a form executable by different ones of the plurality of external content systems. | 38,660 |
8,664,865 | 1. An organic light emitting system, comprising: an organic light emitting device (OLED) having an anode, a cathode, and an organic light emitting layer disposed between the anode and cathode, the OLED configured to provide an output voltage signal associated with ambient light impinging on a surface of the OLED; and a control system coupled to the OLED, the control system configured to receive the output voltage signal from the OLED and to control emission of light from the OLED based on the output voltage signal received from the OLED. | 23,478 |
9,114,107 | 1. A composition comprising a peptide of formula (II) or a salt thereof: wherein: X is (2,4)-4-(4-ferrocenyl-1H-1,2,3-triazol-1-yl)pyrrolidine-2-carboxylic acid, and βA is beta-alanine. | 12,416 |
9,613,476 | 1. An identification management system at a dwelling, comprising: one or more bridges at the dwelling configured to be in communication with a door lock system that includes a door lock and a drive shaft, the door lock system including a sensor coupled to a drive shaft and configured to assist in locking and unlocking of a lock of a lock device, each of a bridge including a computing device in an interior of a dwelling with an internet-facing radio, and a second radio communicating with one or more Bluetooth LE devices or an equivalent device, the door lock system including an engine with a memory coupled to the sensor and the drive shaft, wherein the memory stored with states of the door that are used with the sensor to determine if the door is locked or unlocked, the engine configured to provide energy to the door lock system for locking and unlocking of the door, the door lock system including an energy source configured to provide electrical energy; a device coupled to the energy source and the engine, the device configured to convert electrical energy received from the energy source into mechanical energy; | 11,510 |
8,916,000 | 1. A system for producing carbon nanotubes, comprising: a plurality of synthetic substrates: a reaction chamber in which a process is performed for producing carbon nanotubes on the plurality of synthetic substrates; a processing chamber in which a pre-treating process and a post-treating process are performed, wherein the pre-treating process applies catalysts on the plurality of synthetic substrates and the post-treating process retrieves carbon nanotubes formed on the plurality of synthetic substrates; and a first transporter configured for transporting the plurality of synthetic substrates continuously between the reaction chamber and the processing chamber; wherein the processing chamber includes a substrate accommodating part for accommodating the plurality of synthetic substrates before they are loaded to the reaction chamber and after they are unloaded from the reaction chamber, the substrate accommodating part comprising: a cassette having first supports adapted to accommodate the plurality of synthetic substrates before they are loaded to the reaction chamber and second supports adapted to accommodate the plurality of synthetic substrates after they are unloaded from the reaction chamber. | 41,224 |
9,010,163 | 1. A lock assembly comprising: a lock cylinder having a bore disposed therein and at least one pocket located adjacent the periphery of the bore; wherein the cylinder includes a chimney that houses top pins and corresponding springs; a plug including a cassette slot, top opening, and a plunger bore; wherein the plug is held in the lock cylinder by a retaining clip; a plunger that fits in the plunger bore of the plug; a locking tab having a slot disposed therein; wherein the slot of the locking tab receives a portion of the plunger; a cassette that has a key slot configured to receive a key, and openings configured to receive a plurality of pins that when the key is inserted into the key slot, the pins do not extend beyond a shear line located between the periphery of the lock cylinder bore and its chimney; wherein the cassette includes a tool slot configured to receive a tool for engaging the plunger to selectively move at least a portion of the locking tab to the pocket; wherein when the at least the portion of the locking tab is located in the pocket the locking tab does not block the cassette from being removed from the bore in the lock cylinder; and wherein the cassette is available to be rekeyed. | 799 |
8,498,794 | 1. An anti-skid control apparatus comprising: an anti-skid control means for controlling a pressure reducing valve and a pressure increasing valve, each of which operated for a target wheel selected from plural wheels when an anti-skid condition is established for the target wheel, the pressure increasing valve controlled in order to linearly change a pressure difference between a pressure in a conduit connecting a master cylinder to the pressure increasing valve and a pressure in a conduit connecting a wheel cylinder to the pressure increasing valve in a manner where a distance between a valve body and a valve seat of the pressure increasing valve is adjusted by setting a pressure increasing slope of brake hydraulic pressure applied to the wheel cylinder for the target wheel; a pump for discharging brake fluid to the conduit connecting the master cylinder to the pressure increasing valve; a motor controlled by the anti-skid means to drive the pump; an estimating means for estimating an occurrence of a factor by which the brake hydraulic pressure on the master cylinder side at the pressure increasing valve fluctuates rapidly relative to the brake hydraulic pressure on the wheel cylinder side at the pressure increasing valve; and an output means for generating an output for maintaining the pressure increasing valve in a disconnecting state during a predetermined time period in which the pressure increasing valve is controlled, when the occurrence of the factor is estimated, wherein the estimating means estimates the occurrence of the factor when the anti-skid control is executed for a wheel provided in a same conduit system as that of the target wheel, the pressure reducing valve is controlled for the wheel provided in the same conduit system as that of the target wheel, and the brake fluid is discharged by the pump to the conduit connecting the master cylinder to the pressure increasing valve, or when the anti-skid control is executed for a wheel provided in a same conduit system as that of the target wheel, the brake fluid is discharged by the pump to the conduit connecting the master cylinder to the pressure increasing valve, and before a predetermined time has passed since the pressure reducing valve had been controlled for the wheel provided in the same conduit system as that of the target wheel. | 38,964 |
8,847,966 | 1. A method in a computing device for logging events in a graphics program that executes on a graphics card having a graphics processing unit (GPU), wherein the computing device includes a central processing unit (CPU), wherein the graphics card is communicatively coupled to the CPU, and wherein the graphics card outputs graphics content for display on a display device, method comprising: receiving the graphics program via the computing device, wherein the graphics program includes instructions executable on the GPU; receiving, via the computing device, a selection of a variable on which the graphics program operates, wherein the variable is stored in a memory of the graphics card during execution of the graphics program, and wherein the graphics program does not output a value of the variable when the graphics program is executed; automatically generating a logging instruction executable on the GPU, wherein the logging instruction causes the value of the variable to be output via the graphics card when the graphics program is executed; and automatically generating a log processing instruction executable on the CPU, wherein the log processing instruction retrieves the variable output via the graphics card to obtain the value of the variable at the computing device. | 31,082 |
8,637,434 | 1. A system for synthesizing an array of polymers, the system comprising: a flow cell, wherein the flow cell comprises a flow cell body and a substrate, wherein the flow cell body and the substrate are configured to form a flow cell cavity, wherein the substrate includes an array synthesis surface within the flow cell cavity, and wherein the flow cell cavity includes an anti-reflective coating; | 13,746 |
8,819,850 | 1. A method comprising: selecting, at a computing device executing a security management application, an application program installed at the computing device, wherein the application program provides a plurality of functions; determining, by the computing device, that tiered access should be configured for the application program; presenting, by the computing device, a list indicating the plurality of functions and user interface controls that assign function access controls to the plurality of functions; setting, by the computing device and via a user interface control, a function access control for a function of the plurality of functions, the function access control defining whether access to the function should be allowed when the computing device is in a lock state; and storing, by the computing device, a setting defining the function access control. | 38,589 |
9,036,665 | 1. A method comprising: detecting a mac-sync failure between a pair of communicatively coupled distributed trunking (DT) switches that are coupled to each other over a communication link and coupled to a second switch over a logical trunk including an aggregation of trunks; in response to detecting the mac-sync failure, dynamically identifying, by at least one of the DT switches, a type of the mac-sync failure between the pair of DT switches, the identified type of the mac-sync failure being a selected one of a plurality of different types of mac-sync failures; and dynamically notifying an information technology (IT) entity about the identified type of the mac-sync failure between the pair of DT switches. | 19,547 |
9,181,168 | 1. A process for the production of at least one of methyl acetate and acetic acid which process comprises contacting in a reactor a carbon monoxide-containing gas and a carbonylatable reactant selected from at least one of methanol and reactive derivatives thereof with a catalyst which comprises a mordenite loaded with copper and silver, the loading of the copper and silver being carried out by ion-exchange of part or all of the cation-exchangeable sites of the mordenite with copper and silver ions, to produce at least one of methyl acetate and acetic acid and subsequently regenerating the catalyst; wherein the loading of copper and silver is carried out onto a mordenite which is in the ammonium form or in the proton form: and further wherein the catalyst is regenerated by (i) ceasing contact of the catalyst with the carbonylatable reactant and the carbon monoxide-containing gas; (ii) optionally purging the reactor with an insert gas; (iii) regenerating the catalyst with a regenerating gas comprising a molecular oxygen-containing gas and an inert diluent; (iv) terminating the regeneration; (v) optionally purging the reactor with an inert gas; and (vi) resuming contact of the catalyst with the carbonylatable reactant, and a carbon monoxide-containing gas. | 38,640 |
9,191,616 | 1. A computer-implemented method for identifying a local participant of a conferencing event within a video of the conferencing event, the computer-implemented method comprising performing computer-implemented operations for: detecting a head of the local participant within the video; in response to detecting the head of the local participant within the video, indicating a region in the video in which the detected head resides, the region being indicated by a virtual frame; receiving contextual data for the local participant and associating the contextual data with the local participant of the conferencing event detected within the video; and sending the video, the contextual data, and a location of the virtual frame within the video to a remote computer system participating in the conferencing event. | 4,183 |
8,729,622 | 1. A three dimensional semiconductor memory device, comprising: a stacked structure including cell gates stacked therein that are insulated from each other and first string selection gates laterally separated from each other, the first string selection gates being disposed over an uppermost cell gate of the cell gates; vertical active patterns extending through the first string selection gates, each vertical active pattern extending through each of the cell gates stacked under the first string selection gates; multi-layered dielectric layers between sidewalls of the vertical active patterns and the cell gates and between the sidewalls of the vertical active patterns and the first string selection gates; and at least one first supplement conductive pattern, the first supplement conductive pattern being in electrical contact with a sidewall of one of the first string selection gates and being spaced apart from the vertical active patterns by the first string selection gates therebetween. | 30,263 |
8,749,173 | 1. A method comprising: during an OFF mode of a dimmer, alternately enabling at least two different current paths for a current flowing through the dimmer, wherein two of the current paths comprise a low impedance path to a reference node and a path to a voltage supply node of a switching power converter controller; and during a dimming mode of the dimmer, controlling power conversion by a power converter. | 38,331 |
8,580,144 | 1. A blue phase liquid crystal composition, comprising: a blend of: at least one nematic liquid crystal at least one chiral dopant in an amount from about 5 to about 90 parts by weight per 100 parts by weight of the nematic liquid crystal; at least one nanorod in an amount from about 0.000001 to about 10 parts by weight per 100 parts by weight of the nematic liquid crystal and chiral dopant, wherein said nanorods comprise an iron nanorod, a copper nanorod, a zinc nanorod, a silver nanorod, a gold nanorod, or a carbon nanotube, or any combination thereof. | 22,648 |
9,296,793 | 1. A method for protecting a mammal from ionizing radiation, comprising administering to a mammal in need thereof an amount of Salmonella flagellin effective to extend the survival of the mammal, wherein the flagellin is capable of inducing NF-κB activity. | 39,275 |
9,245,591 | 1. A memory module, comprising: a plurality of memory cells; and a plurality of signal lines for communicating with a processing device, the memory module configured such that upon encountering a first condition while processing a command received by the memory module, the memory module limits a voltage on a first signal line of the plurality of signal lines to be no more than an intermediate voltage greater than voltage levels corresponding to a binary zero state and less than voltage levels corresponding to a binary one state for a period of time for indicating an occurrence of the first condition, wherein the memory module is configured to receive a first signal on the first signal line, and during the period of time the memory module limits a voltage on the first signal line to be no greater than the intermediate voltage, a voltage level on the first signal line corresponding to the binary zero state is interpreted by the memory module as a binary zero state of the first signal and the intermediate voltage on the first signal line is interpreted by the memory module as a binary one state of the first signal such that during the period of time, the memory module receives the first signal on the first signal line while at the same time the memory module communicates the occurrence of the first condition on the first signal line to the processing device, wherein the first signal comprises a clock signal and the first condition comprises a busy condition. | 44,782 |
9,486,097 | 1. An apparatus comprising: A storage device attached to a vertical support surface; and a plurality of folding walkers each having a frame releasably attached to the storage device in a vertical orientation adjacent the support surface, the frames each having a central section and right and left side sections that fold against the central section when stored; the storage device including a plurality of J-shaped upper retainers on the support surface, each of the J-shaped upper retainers having a hook tip that extends toward the vertical support surface to thus be shaped to engage a wall-adjacent upper portion of a selected one of the walker frames and hold the selected walker frame vertically against outward movement based on gravity and also hold the walker frame adjacent the vertical support surface while permitting rotation of the walker frame about a vertical axis for optimal viewing of the walker frame; and a plurality of lower retainers on the support surface, each lower retainer having a pair of tips extending away from the vertical support surface to thus be shaped to engage a lower portion of the walker frame and thus hold the lower portion stably below the upper portion while still permitting rotation of the frame on the vertical support surface for inspection. | 21,926 |
9,038,226 | 1. An oral hygiene assembly for indicating a maximum duration of time to employ oral hygiene, said assembly comprising: a handle configured to be gripped by a user wherein said handle is positionable proximate the user's mouth; a bristle coupled to said handle wherein said bristle engages the user's teeth when said handle is positioned proximate the user's mouth; a processor coupled to said handle; a light emitter coupled to said handle, said light emitter being operationally coupled to said processor, said light emitter selectively emitting light wherein said light emitter is configured to communicate the maximum duration of time; and an actuator coupled to said handle, said actuator being operationally coupled top said processor wherein said actuator selectively actuates said processor; wherein said handle being elongated along a longitudinal axis extending through a first end and a second end of said handle; wherein said handle having a width being greater than a height of said handle wherein said handle has a rectangular parallelepiped shape; wherein a bristle portion of said handle having a width being greater than a gripping portion of said handle; wherein said bristle portion of said handle having a length being less than a length of said gripping portion of said handle; wherein said light emitter being one of a plurality of light emitters being arranged in a plurality of columns and rows; wherein said plurality of columns and rows of said plurality of light emitters are centrally positioned on a bottom side of a bristle portion of said handle; wherein said plurality of light emitters each being sequentially illuminated by said processor. | 37,788 |
8,801,268 | 1. A detent escapement for a timepiece comprising: an escape wheel; a balance mounted for undergoing oscillation movement about a balance staff, the balance having an unlocking stone and having an impulse jewel for contacting a wheel tooth of the escape wheel; a blade having a locking stone for contacting the wheel tooth of the escape wheel, the blade being supported for undergoing movement in approaching and separating directions relative to the escape wheel; a one-side actuating spring for contacting the unlocking stone and for undergoing elastic deformation along the approaching and separating directions with respect to the blade; and an adjustment mechanism for adjusting a projecting amount of a spring tip portion of the one-side actuating spring from a blade tip portion of the blade. | 45,094 |
8,563,525 | 1. A method of treating an inflammatory-related disease associated with cytokine expression levels, which comprises administering to an animal in need of such treatment at least one compound selected from the group consisting of: Meisoindigo, tri-acetylated glyco-Meisoindigo (pro drug) or tri-acetylated glyco-isoindigo, shown as Formulas (IV), (V), and (VI) respectively, wherein the compound is administered in an amount sufficient to treat the inflammatory-related disease by inhibiting pro-inflammatory cytokine expression or by stimulating anti-inflammatory cytokine expression, but the amount is less than sufficient to substantially inhibit cyclin dependent kinases and wherein the inflammatory-related disease is selected from the group consisting of: Crohn's disease; ulcerative colitis; and urological chronic pelvic pain syndrome (UCPPS). | 18,520 |
8,423,322 | 1. A system for evaluating changes in the operational efficiency of an HVAC system over time comprising: at least one HVAC control system associated with a first structure that receives temperature measurements from at least a first structure conditioned by at least one HVAC system, and receives status of said HVAC system; one or more processors that receive measurements of outside temperatures from at least one source other than said HVAC system and compare said temperature measurements from said first structure, wherein said one or more processors compares the inside temperature of said first structure and the outside temperature over time; and one or more databases that store at least said temperature measurements obtained from said first structure over time, wherein said one or more processors compares an inside temperature recorded inside the first structure with an inside temperature of said first structure recorded at a different time to determine whether the operational efficiency of the HVAC system has decreased over time. | 26,786 |
8,499,455 | 1. A method for installing a land wind power generator by using lead rails, the method comprising: a step (S a step (S a step (S a step (S a step (S a step (S a step (S | 15,383 |
9,640,329 | 1. A hybrid solar cells integrated structure, comprising, a glass shell comprising a glass block having a planar light transparent surface configured to be exposed to solar radiations; a complete dye-sensitized Solar Cell (DSC) module directly fixed to the planar light transparent surface of the glass block with sides normal to the planar light transparent surface extending therefrom, so as to receive solar radiations passing through said planar light transparent surface, said module having electric contacts; and a hole allowing passage to an external area of the glass block of electrical connections leading to said electrical contacts. | 31,659 |
8,682,015 | 1. A receiver, the receiver comprising: a housing, the housing forming a chamber, wherein a coil is disposed in the chamber and wherein the coil radiates a flux; a sleeve at least partially surrounding the coil such that a majority of flux radiated from the coil is blocked by the sleeve, wherein the sleeve is constructed of a highly conductive material and is insulated from the housing. | 23,984 |
9,205,224 | 1. An infusion catheter comprising: an elongate body defining a longitudinal axis, and including a proximal body end defining a fluid supply orifice, and a distal body end which includes a distal tip; the elongate body further defining a high head loss lumen in fluid communication with the fluid supply orifice and extending axially through the elongate body; the elongate body further defining a low head loss lumen in fluid communication with the fluid supply orifice, and the low head loss lumen extending axially through the elongate body and being positioned beside the high head loss lumen such that the high and low head loss lumens are not coaxial, and the low head loss lumen being in fluid communication with the high head loss lumen in a fluid apportioning apparatus at the proximal body end; and the elongate body further including an outer surface having a first set of side ports formed therein and defining a proximal infusion zone, and a second set of side ports formed therein and defining a distal infusion zone; the first set of side ports extending from the high head loss lumen to the outer surface, such that the first set of side ports are in fluid communication with the high head loss lumen; the second set of side ports extending from the low head loss lumen to the outer surface, such that the second set of side ports are in fluid communication with the low head loss lumen; and the high and low head loss lumens having different effective hydraulic diameters along a segment of the longitudinal axis, and at least one of the high and low head loss lumens having a blind distal lumen end. | 11,690 |
8,364,975 | 1. A method for protecting data, the method comprising: retrieving an encrypted version of a cryptographic key from storage of a processing system into a processing unit of the processing system, the cryptographic key being encrypted using a private processor manufacture key; using a processing unit key to decrypt the encrypted version of the cryptographic key, the processing unit key being (i) a public key corresponding to the private processor manufacture key and (ii) permanently burned into the processing unit; storing the decrypted key in protected storage in the processing unit, wherein the protected storage cannot be accessed by snooping a processing system bus communicatively coupled to the processing unit; using the decrypted key to create a session key with the processing unit, wherein the session key is different from the decrypted key; creating a corresponding session key with a trusted platform module of the processing system using an unencrypted version of the cryptographic key installed into the trusted platform module; and using the session key and the corresponding session key to establish a protected communication channel between the processing unit and the trusted platform module of the processing system. | 48,789 |
9,593,672 | 1. A wind turbine generator for supplying an output voltage to a power system, the wind turbine generator comprising: a turbine controller or a turbine converter controller not connected to the power system for generating a first signal representing a frequency of a voltage on the power system; a power converter for generating the output voltage supplied by the wind turbine generator; a component responsive to the first signal and to a second signal representing the output voltage supplied by the wind turbine generator, wherein the first signal is not combined with another frequency or phase representing signal before input to the component; the component for producing an error signal representing a phase angle difference between the first and second signals; and the error signal input to the power converter for controlling the power converter to control the output voltage by synchronizing the frequency of the second signal to the frequency of the first signal and by maintaining a desired phase angle difference between the first and second signals. | 36,118 |
9,346,450 | 1. A method for controlling an engine clutch that controls power transmission between an engine and a motor of a hybrid vehicle comprises: detecting a driver's demand torque; calculating a synchronization (sync) speed torque that the motor is able to output at a predetermined target speed for sync engagement; detecting a state of charge (SOC) of a battery of the hybrid vehicle; calculating a charging torque of an integrated starter-generator (ISG) operated by power of the engine; performing the sync engagement of the engine clutch when a speed of the motor is greater than the predetermined target speed for the sync engagement, in which the sync engagement engages the engine clutch after synchronizing speeds of both ends of the engine clutch; and selectively performing the sync engagement or launch slip engagement of the engine clutch based on the driver's demand torque, the sync speed torque of the motor, the SOC, and the charging torque when the speed of the motor is less than the predetermined target speed for the sync engagement, wherein the launch slip engagement engages the engine clutch by slip-controlling the engine clutch before the speeds of both ends of the engine clutch are synchronized, and wherein the step of selectively performing includes: comparing the driver's demand torque with the sync speed torque of the motor; and performing the launch slip engagement when the driver's demand torque is greater than the sync speed torque of the motor. | 28,388 |
9,085,971 | 1. A method for enhancing oil recovery (EOR) from an oil bearing formation, the method comprising: filtering at least some solids from a source water having a total dissolved solids content of from 10000 ppm to 50000 ppm in a filtration assembly to produce a first pre-treated water; treating the first pre-treated water with a nano-filtration (NF) assembly to produce a second pre-treated water wherein the second pre-treated water has reduced hardness and sulphate concentration relative to the source water; treating the second pre-treated water in a capacitive de-ionisation (CDI) assembly comprising at least one flowpath for the second pre-treated water arranged between a pair of oppositely charged electrodes which adsorb and thereby remove at least some ions from the second pre-treated water flowing through the flowpath, thereby producing treated water with a reduced salinity and solids content; and injecting the treated water with reduced salinity and solids content into the oil bearing formation to mobilize crude oil and enhance oil recovery. | 43,943 |
8,347,121 | 1. An energy efficient Ethernet method, comprising: receiving, from a physical layer device via an electronic communication, information relating to a power saving event in said physical layer device; determining an amount of power savings for said power saving event using said received information; determining one or more power saving statistics for a measurement interval based on said determined amount of power savings for a plurality of power saving events in said measurement interval; and adjusting, based on said determined one or more power saving statistics, a control policy that determines when said physical layer device should enter or exit a power saving state. | 32,242 |
8,362,644 | 1. A method for coupling photovoltaic arrays with a power conversion component comprising: arranging a first array and a second array in series; coupling a positive terminal of a first array to the power conversion component; coupling a negative terminal of a second array to the power conversion component; modulating an amount of current flowing between a negative terminal of the first array and a positive terminal of the second array so as to ramp up a level of current flowing through the arrays as the arrays are brought online with the power conversion component; and limiting a voltage of any terminal on either of the arrays so that the voltage on any of the terminals does not reach a restricted level. | 29,157 |
8,359,906 | 1. An environment testing apparatus, comprising: a test chamber into which a test object is placed; a wet bulb and a dry bulb disposed inside the test chamber, which obtain the temperature and the humidity of the air inside the test chamber; an air-conditioner which conditions the air inside the test chamber to predetermined temperature and humidity, based on signals from the wet bulb and the dry bulb; a cooling/heating unit accommodated inside the test chamber, which has a top surface for disposing thereon the test object and cools or heats the test object; a condensation amount sensor to be placed on the test object; and a controller which controls the condensation amount on the surface of the test object based on signals from the condensation amount sensor, by varying a temperature instruction value for the cooling/heating unit between a deviation-added value of a wet bulb temperature obtained by the wet bulb and a deviation-added value of a dew-point temperature of the test chamber. | 23,502 |
9,176,021 | 1. A device for leak detection by means of hydrogen as a tracer gas, which device is intended to be connected to an object to be tested and comprises a hydrogen sensor placed in a low-pressure enclosure and comprising: a pump connected to the low-pressure enclosure, a pressure gauge configured to measure the pressure in a vacuum line formed by the low-pressure enclosure connected to the pump, a multiway valve comprising a first port allowing admission of a gas flow containing the tracer gas into the vacuum line, and a second port allowing the admission of neutral gas, wherein the second port is configured to control the pressure in the vacuum line and said enclosure, as a function of the pressure gauge by controlling the admission of a neutral gas into the vacuum line through said second port; and wherein said leak detection device further comprises a circuit for balancing the voltage of the resistor of the hydrogen sensor, said circuit being configured to maintain a fixed temperature independently of the value of the pressure of the vacuum line, wherein said fixed temperature is between 100° C. and 250° C. | 14,425 |
9,004,291 | 1. A fluid filter comprising: an upper case member having a flow outlet; a lower case member having a flow inlet; a filter element having a folded filter material and a holding frame which holds the circumferential part of the filter material and is sandwiched between the upper case member and the lower case member; a reinforcing member extending in a direction transverse to the ridge line direction of the folds of the filter material and engaging the filter material from above the folds, the reinforcing member extending from one end of the filter material to an other end of the filter material, and a gap provided between the reinforcing member and an upper end of the folds when the reinforcing member is engaged with the filter material from above, wherein the reinforcing member is configured such that, when the height of the folds is defined as h | 47,727 |
8,950,132 | 1. A multi-story building, the multistory building comprising: at least two monolithic slabs, each slab spanning an entire story of the multi-story building; an exterior visible load-bearing steel structural frame located around the perimeter of the monolithic slabs, wherein the exterior visible load-bearing steel structural frame provides lateral outermost planar surfaces of the multi-story building that are offset and external to any outermost planar surfaces provided by premanufactured non-weight bearing walls, wherein the exterior visible load-bearing steel structural frame includes horizontal and vertical support members, wherein all of the horizontal and vertical support members are arranged around the perimeter of the monolithic slabs, and wherein each of the at least two monolithic slabs are supported by the vertical support members and a respective horizontal support member; premanufactured non-weight bearing walls, the non-weight bearing walls having a finished exterior and including at least one of electrical, insulating, plumbing or communications components; wherein each of the premanufactured non-weight bearing walls attach to two monolithic slabs; and wherein the monolithic slabs, the exterior visible load-bearing steel structural frame, and the premanufactured non-weight bearing walls are arranged to form units in the multi-story building. | 8,357 |
9,651,972 | 1. A demand regulating system, comprising: a storage unit that stores priority information indicating a priority for each of a plurality of consumption devices that consume a resource supplied from a supply facility; an operation unit that receives measurement information indicating a measurement result for consumption of the resource by the plurality of consumption devices, calculating a regulating quantity of demand for the resource on the basis of the measurement information, selecting from among the plurality of consumption devices, on the basis of the priority information and the regulating quantity, a plurality of control-target devices, which are targeted for demand regulating control reducing consumption of the resource, transmitting a first control instruction instructing the demand regulating control to demand side equipment that includes the plurality of control-target devices, and storing result information indicating the first control instruction in the storage unit; a control unit that is provided in the demand side equipment, receives the first control instruction, and executes the demand regulating control on the basis of the first control instruction; and an input unit that is provided in the demand side equipment, receives a first operation by a consumer, and transmits first request information requesting a change in the priority of each of the plurality of control-target devices, to the operation unit in accordance with the first operation, wherein the operation unit, upon receiving the first request information, specifies the plurality of control-target devices on the basis of the result information and the first request information, and reduces the priority of each of the plurality of control-target devices in the priority information, and wherein the operation unit increases the priority of each of the plurality of control-target devices in the priority information when a prescribed period of time has elapsed following the reducing of the priority of each of the plurality of control-target devices in the priority information. | 1,851 |
9,463,446 | 1. A carbon dioxide adsorbent comprising: a chabazite zeolite containing an alkali metal ion or alkaline earth metal ion, the chabazite zeolite having a Si/Al mole ratio of about 1 to about 9.9, the chabazite zeolite having mesopores. | 49,552 |
8,722,737 | 1. A method for treating lung cancer, prostate cancer, breast cancer or colon cancer comprising administering to a subject in need thereof an effective amount of curcumin and an effective amount of at least one compound chosen from compounds of formulae (I), (II), (III), and (IV): wherein in formula (I): in formula (II): in formula (III) in formula (IV) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. | 41,785 |
9,446,386 | 1. A method of producing a structured catalyst comprising: (a) preparing a slurry comprising one or more metal powders, including aluminum; (b) coating a metal substrate, a mat of metal fiber, or a woven metal fiber assembly, with said slurry; (c) subjecting the coated metal substrate, coated metal fiber mat or coated woven metal fiber assembly to a temperature of 650° C. to 950° C. under an inert or reducing atmosphere whereby at least one of the one or more metal powders melts and interdiffuses into the surface of the metal substrate, or metal fiber mat or woven metal fiber assembly; (d) leaching the coated metal substrate, coated metal fiber mat, or coated woven metal fiber assembly obtained in step (c) in a caustic solution; (e) bathing the coated metal substrate, coated metal fiber mat, or coated woven metal fiber assembly obtained in step (d) in a chelating acid solution; (f) passivating the coated metal substrate, coated metal fiber mat, or coated woven metal fiber assembly obtained in step (e). | 1,817 |
9,774,183 | 1. A subsea power distribution module for use in a direct current (DC) power system, said subsea power distribution module comprising: an outer vessel defining an interior chamber, said outer vessel configured to maintain a pressure within the interior chamber substantially the same as an ambient pressure outside said outer vessel; and a plurality of power modules disposed within the interior chamber of said outer vessel, each power module comprising: a pressure vessel defining an interior chamber and configured to maintain a substantially constant pressure within the interior chamber of said pressure vessel independent of the pressure within the interior chamber of said outer vessel; and a power converter disposed within the interior chamber of said pressure vessel. | 5,657 |
9,850,825 | 1. A vehicle control device for a vehicle with an automatic engine stop function, the vehicle being selectively operable either in EV mode in which the vehicle runs only by power of a motor or in HEV mode in which the vehicle runs by a power source including an engine, the vehicle control device comprising: a pump driven by the engine for supplying an operating oil; a valve timing change means that is supplied with the operating oil for changing an intake valve timing in a predetermined range between an advance side and a retard side, the valve timing change means being configured to lock the intake valve timing to a predetermined advance position in response to the engine being put in a non-operating state by an ignition OFF irrespective of presence or absence of the operating oil, the valve timing change means being configured to control the intake valve timing to a predetermined decompression valve timing when the engine is in the EV mode, wherein the predetermined advance position is more advanced than the predetermined decompression valve timing; a shift lever that is operable by the driver and includes a parking range to achieve the vehicle parking state; an engine controller that is configured, when the engine is in non-operating state and the shift lever is operated to the parking range, | 48,521 |
9,834,159 | 1. A control system comprising: a first storage memory that stores a plurality of pieces of data indicating, in association with each other, a factor that occurs with respect to a vehicle and control contents of the vehicle to be performed with respect to the factor; a second storage memory that can be accessed at a higher speed than the first storage memory; and a processor executing program instructions and configured to provide: wherein the first storage memory stores data which a required time until encountering the factor is longer than a threshold, wherein the second storage memory stores data which a required time until encountering the factor is equal to or shorter than the threshold, wherein when the estimated required time is longer than the threshold, the deciding unit decides control contents of the vehicle based on data stored in the first storage memory, and wherein when the estimated required time is equal to or shorter than the threshold, the deciding unit decides control contents of the vehicle based on data stored in the second storage memory. | 16,189 |
9,278,419 | 1. A lens shape machining method of machining a lens shape by using a lens shape machining device which has an onboard measuring device, and relatively moving a tool and a machining object along a spiral machining path, the method comprising the steps of: machining along the spiral machining path; acquiring shape measurement data by relatively moving a probe of the onboard measuring device with respect to the machining object along a spiral measurement path having a radius increasing and decreasing amount which is larger than a radius increasing and decreasing amount of the spiral machining path, after the machining, and measuring the machining object at a measurement point on the spiral measurement path by the onboard measuring device; determining interpolated shape measurement data at an intersecting point of a plurality of radial lines passing through a center of the lens shape and the spiral measurement path by interpolating the shape measurement data; determining a shape error amount which is a deviation between the interpolated shape measurement data and reference data, at the intersecting point of the radial lines and the spiral measurement path; determining a compensated machining amount for removing the machining error at the machining point which is the intersecting point of the radial lines and the spiral machining path, on the basis of the determined shape error amount; determining a machining point compensated machining amount at each of the machining points on the spiral machining path, on the basis of the determined compensated machining amount; creating a compensated machining path on the basis of the determined machining point compensated machining amount; and executing the machining of the machining object by relatively moving the tool of the lens shape machining device and the machining object along the created compensated machining path. | 34,620 |
9,153,981 | 1. A device for sourcing electrical power found at the charging receptacle of an electric utility vehicle for use by an electronic apparatus, comprising: a first fitting designed to connect electrically to a charging receptacle of an electric utility vehicle; a DC converter module in electric communication with the first fitting, the DC converter module configured to convert input DC voltage and current to a usable output DC voltage and current, wherein the input voltage is between about 30 and 50 volts; and a second fitting in electrical communication with the DC converter module, wherein the second fitting is configured to make an electrical connection with an electronic apparatus. | 20,031 |
8,961,210 | 1. A Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector comprising: a body including a USB receptacle to receive a USB plug of a device; one or more arms that are translatable to clamp/release said USB plug in said USB receptacle by holding/releasing said device in/from a particular position; and a driving mechanism to apply a force or torque to translate at least one of said one or more arms; wherein said driving mechanism comprises a knob, wherein said one or more arms comprise two arms, and wherein a distance between said two arms changes in response to rotation of said knob; and wherein said knob is rotateable in a first direction to release said USB plug from said USB receptacle and is rotateable in a direction opposite said first direction to lock said USB plug in said receptacle. | 4,974 |
8,441,825 | 1. An H-bridge circuit, comprising: an AC power source having a first and a second terminals; an H-bridge comprising: a bootstrap circuit comprising a bootstrap capacitor and providing a bootstrap voltage; a driving circuit receiving the bootstrap voltage and driving the bidirectional switch; and an energy compensation circuit coupled to the H-bridge, the bootstrap circuit and the driving circuit, and comprising a first, a second and a third terminals, wherein the first and the second terminals are coupled to the AC power source, and the second and the third terminals connect to the bootstrap capacitor to provide a compensation energy to the bootstrap capacitor. | 39,956 |
9,440,613 | 1. An active bolster for mounting at an interior trim surface of a passenger compartment in an automotive vehicle, comprising: a plastic-molded front trim wall for deploying toward a passenger in the passenger compartment; a plastic-molded bladder member joined along an outer perimeter with the trim wall by a hot weld seam to form an inflatable bladder, wherein the bladder member includes at least one substantially circumferential pleat adjacent the weld seam for unfolding in response to an inflation gas injected into the inflatable bladder; and a reaction member joined to a central region of the bladder member to provide a reaction surface for expansion of the bladder member; wherein the pleat has a peak disposed proximate to the reaction member and has an outer band between the peak and the hot weld seam at least a portion of which extends perpendicularly to the reaction member, wherein a buffer zone is formed circumjacent the outer band between the trim wall and the reaction member, and wherein the pleat has a vent opening at least partially formed in the outer band providing an unobstructed path for inflation gas from the inflatable bladder to the buffer zone. | 47,735 |
9,189,811 | 1. A computer-implemented method comprising: for individual ones of a plurality of electronic marketplace systems, mapping merchant items to a common catalog of items that groups items across the plurality of electronic marketplace systems, an individual group of items including identical items and similar items that are not identical; causing a virtual shopping cart interface to be displayed on a user device and within a network page of one of the plurality of electronic marketplace systems; storing, in a virtual shopping cart associated with the virtual shopping cart interface, one or more items that have been selected from the network page of the one of the plurality of electronic marketplace systems; mapping, by one or more hardware processors, an individual item of the one or more items that have been selected to a corresponding group of items in the common catalog of items; identifying, from the corresponding group of items, a plurality of alternative items that are individually offered at a price lower than a price of the individual item that has been selected, wherein the plurality of alternative items includes: at least one first alternative item that is identical to the individual item that has been selected; and ordering the plurality of alternative items based on a degree of similarity to the individual item that has been selected; generating a recommendation that includes at least a portion of the ordered plurality of alternative items, the portion of the ordered plurality of alternative items at least includes the at least one first alternative item and the at least one second alternative item; causing the recommendation to be displayed on the user device in association with the network page of the one of the plurality of electronic marketplace systems; receiving an indication of a selected alternative item of the portion of the ordered plurality of alterative items displayed in the recommendation; and adding the selected alternative item to the virtual shopping cart without redirecting to a site of an electronic marketplace system that offers the selected alternative item. | 36,032 |
9,825,895 | 1. A method for operating a message exchanging system including a plurality of access points that transmit annunciation signals including their addresses, a portable terminal configured to be connected to a wide area network and to receive the annunciation signals transmitted from the access points, and a message server that is connected to the wide area network and stores a message table in which a message is associated with each set of the addresses of the plurality of access points, in order for the portable terminal to acquire the message from the message server, the method comprising: a first step, effected though the portable terminal, of searching for access points in a vicinity of the portable terminal and receiving the annunciation signal including the address of the access point from each of searched access points; a second step, effected though the portable terminal, of transmitting to the message server, a message acquisition request which includes, as a query, a set of the addresses of the searched access points included in the annunciation signals; a third step, effected though the message server, of comparing the set of the addresses as the query which is included in the message acquisition request, with a plurality of sets of addresses recorded in the message table stored in the message server, and extracting a message corresponding to a set of the addresses which ranks high among the sets of the addresses that are arranged in descending order of similarity; and a fourth step, effected though the message server and the portable terminal, of transmitting the extracted message as a response to the portable terminal such that the portable terminal exchanges messages with other portable terminals which are in a vicinity of the portable terminal. | 35,236 |
8,938,322 | 1. An electric power distribution system for scheduling electric power distribution, said electric power distribution system including a plurality of computers, each of said computers within said electric power distribution system including a processor and associated memory from which computer instructions are executed by an associated processor, said electric power distribution system comprising: an electric power customer having at least one computer-controlled device that consumes said electric power, said computer-controlled device being scheduled to start according to a policy set by said customer and issuing a computer-based start request message according to said policy; an electric power provider for supplying said electric power to said computer-controlled device; and a load control system coupled to said customer and said provider, said load control system receiving said computer-based start request message, said load control system having an active pool data structure containing a group of computer-controlled devices for which computer-based start request messages have been received and for which said associated computer-controlled devices have been started by said load control system for said customer, said load control system having a reservation pool data structure containing a group of computer-controlled devices for which computer-based start requests have been received and for which said associated computer-controlled devices have not been started by said load control system for said customer, said load control system establishing an active pool parameter according to which said active pool data structure and said reservation pool data structure are managed in connection with said customer policy data, said load control system detecting a change in one of said start request messages associated with said devices within said reservation pool data structure, said start request messages associated with said devices within said active pool, or said active pool parameter, and moving at least one device from said reservation pool data structure to said active pool data structure based on said change and sending a computer-based start message associated with said at least one device to said customer so as to start said at least one device based on said chance. | 43,299 |
9,815,887 | 1. An isolated monoclonal antibody comprising a heavy chain variable domain and a light chain variable domain, wherein the heavy chain variable domain comprises a heavy chain complementarity determining region (HCDR)1, an HCDR2 and an HCDR3, wherein the light chain variable domain comprises a light chain complementarity determining region (LCDR)1, and LCDR2 and an LCDR3, and wherein: (a) the HCDR1 comprises the amino acid sequence set forth as SEQ ID NO: 82, the HCDR2 comprises the amino acid sequence set forth as SEQ ID NO: 84, and the HCDR3 comprises the amino acid sequence set forth as SEQ ID NO: 86 and the LCDR1 comprises the amino acid sequence set forth as SEQ ID NO: 90, the LCDR2 comprises the amino acid sequence set forth as SEQ ID NO: 92, and the LCDR3 comprises the amino acid sequence set forth as SEQ ID NO: 94; (b) the HCDR1 comprises the amino acid sequence set forth as SEQ ID NO: 98, the HCDR2 comprises the amino acid sequence set forth as SEQ ID NO: 100, and the HCDR3 comprises the amino acid sequence set forth as SEQ ID NO: 102 and the LCDR1 comprises the amino acid sequence set forth as SEQ ID NO: 106, the LCDR2 comprises the amino acid sequence set forth as SEQ ID NO: 108, and the LCDR3 comprises the amino acid sequence set forth as SEQ ID NO: 110; (c) the HCDR1 comprises the amino acid sequence set forth as SEQ ID NO: 114, the HCDR2 comprises the amino acid sequence set forth as SEQ ID NO: 116, and the HCDR3 comprises the amino acid sequence set forth as SEQ ID NO: 118 and the LCDR1 comprises the amino acid sequence set forth as SEQ ID NO: 122, the LCDR2 comprises the amino acid sequence set forth as SEQ ID NO: 124, and the HCDR3 comprises the amino acid sequence set forth as SEQ ID NO: 126; or (d) the HCDR1 comprises the amino acid sequence set forth as SEQ ID NO: 130, the HCDR2 comprises the amino acid sequence set forth as SEQ ID NO: 132, and the HCDR3 comprises the amino acid sequence set forth as SEQ ID NO: 134 and the LCDR1 comprises the amino acid sequence set forth as SEQ ID NO: 138, the LCDR2 comprises the amino acid sequence set forth as SEQ ID NO: 140, and the LCDR3 comprises the amino acid sequence set forth as SEQ ID NO: 142, and wherein the monoclonal antibody specifically binds to a Norovirus viral protein VP1 with a K D of 1 nM or less. | 16,832 |
9,046,264 | 1. A method for controlling a burner for heating liquid glass feeders of a glass furnace, said method comprising: a) feeding at least one burner with a combustible gas and oxygen; b) injecting an additional gas as a complement to said oxygen; and c) controlling a flow rate of the injected additional gas, wherein the flow rate of the additional gas is slaved to a flow rate of the oxygen or the combustible gas such that the sum of the flow rates for said combustible gas, said oxygen, and said additional gas is greater than or equal to a minimum flow rate D | 1,774 |
9,249,442 | 1. A method of converting biomass to biofuel which comprises co-culturing in a fermentation reactor biomass with a first cellulolytic, thermophilic microorganism and a second hemicellulolytic, extremely thermophilic, xylose-fermenting microorganism for a time and under conditions sufficient to ferment hexose and pentose sugars which are produced as said biomass is hydrolyzed and converted to biofuel and to ferment said sugars at a substrate conversion rate of at least 50% over a period of about 50 to about 150 hours, wherein said first microorganism is Clostridium thermocellum and said second microorganism is Caldicellulosiruptor obsidiansis and said co-culturing is conducted at 60° C. | 30,150 |
9,312,814 | 1. A demodulation device, comprising: a spin device configured to output an oscillation signal; a phase control unit configured to assign a predetermined phase locking characteristic to the spin device, thereby causing the oscillation signal to be tuned to a modulation signal that is input to the spin device; and a detector configured to demodulate the oscillation signal that is output by the spin device and tuned to the modulation signal, thereby restoring information carried on the oscillation signal, wherein the phase control unit comprises a current generation unit configured to assign a phase locking characteristic to the spin device by applying a predetermined current to the spin device; and wherein the phase control unit further comprises a magnetic field generation unit configured to assign a phase locking characteristic to the spin device along with the current generation unit by applying a predetermined magnetic field to the spin device. | 35,330 |
9,739,624 | 1. An electric-vehicle power management system comprising: a processing hardware unit; a calendar module configured to, by way of the processing hardware unit, obtain a user itinerary indicating multiple appointment locations to be visited by a user of an electric vehicle and associated times to visit the appointment locations; a routing module configured to, by way of the processing hardware unit, determine optional routes connecting the appointment locations indicated by the user itinerary; and a vehicle-energy module configured to, by way of the processing hardware unit, predict states of charge, or changes in state of charge, for the electric vehicle in connection with the optional routes, yielding state-of-charge predictions; wherein the routing module determines selected routing, of the optional routes, based on the state-of-charge predictions from the vehicle-energy module; and wherein determining the selected routing comprises consideration of at least one factor selected from a group consisting of: | 35,215 |
9,705,705 | 1. A method for accessing a shortest path bridging network in a multi-homing manner, comprising: receiving a Link State Protocol Data Unit (LSP) message flooded by an edge node containing an inter-node Link Aggregation Group (LAG) port in a network, wherein the LSP message carries a Backbone Media Access Control Address (B-MAC), a Base Virtual Local Area Network Identifier (Base VID), and a Portal System Number of the edge node; generating, according to the Base VID and the Portal System Number, a Backbone Virtual Local Area Network Identifier (B-VID) corresponding to the edge node; and establishing a forwarding table according to the B-MAC and the B-VID. | 32,802 |
9,530,970 | 1. A benzimidazole compound represented by the following Chemical Formula 1: wherein, in Chemical Formula 1, A is CR″ or N wherein R″ is hydrogen or a C1 to C10 alkyl, Ar x and y are each independently an integer of 1 to 5, provided that 2≦x+y≦5, R is hydrogen or a C1 to C7 alkyl, n is an integer of 0 to 3, R′ is one selected from the group of a substituted or unsubstituted C1 to C50 alkyl and a substituted or unsubstituted C6 to C50 aryl, and m is 1 or 2. | 13,809 |
9,781,682 | 1. A method for power-on control of a mobile terminal, comprising: when a power-on detection flag bit of a mobile terminal is at a high level, judging whether there is an external power supply access event; if it is judged that there is an external power supply access event, it is detected that the mobile terminal is in a power-off status currently, and the power-on detection flag bit has been set to a low level, then triggering an external power supply power-on event, and setting the power-on detection flag bit to a high level; if it is judged that there is no external power supply access event, then further judging whether there is a key-pressing event; and if it is judged that there is a key-pressing event, it is determined that the key-pressing event is used for controlling to turn on the mobile terminal, and the power-on detection flag bit has been set to a low level, then triggering a key-pressing power-on event, and setting the power-on detection flag bit to a high level. | 43,452 |
9,107,319 | 1. A DC link capacitor assembly comprising: a DC link capacitor disposed within a housing, wherein the housing comprises: a top surface; a bottom surface disposed spaced downward from the top surface; at least one side surface connecting the top surface to the bottom surface; an opening defined at a front side between the top surface and the bottom surface; an external capacitor accommodation part disposed outside the at least one side surface; and a through-hole defined in the at least one side surface disposed on a side opposite to the opening, wherein: the external capacitor accommodation part comprises at least two external capacitor accommodation parts that are spaced apart from each other; and the through-hole is defined between the two external capacitor accommodation parts. | 9,701 |
9,117,482 | 1. A hybrid drive comprising: a disk channel comprising a head actuated over a disk, the disk comprising a plurality of data sectors; a non-volatile semiconductor memory (NVSM) comprising a plurality of memory segments; and control circuitry operable to: | 49,173 |
8,991,191 | 1. A thermally actuated venting system comprising: a thermally actuated air vent for opening an air vent outlet in a gas turbine engine associated compartment, the vent outlet located at or near the top of the compartment, a passive thermal actuator in the compartment, the thermally actuated air vent including a hinged door operably connected to the passive thermal actuator for opening the vent outlet, a thermal fuse incorporated in the thermal actuator for closing the door during a fire in the compartment, the thermal actuator operable for opening the thermally actuated air vent based on a temperature of the compartment and venting hot air from the compartment, the thermal actuator including a piston disposed within a cylinder, a chamber within the cylinder between the piston and a bottom wall of the cylinder, a piston rod extending upwardly from the piston through an aperture in a top wall of the cylinder, a distal end of the piston rod connected to the hinged door, and a phase change material in the chamber having a liquid state below a predetermined actuation temperature and a gaseous state above the predetermined actuation temperature, the thermal fuse including the piston rod or a portion of the piston rod made of a fuse material having a melting point above the predetermined actuation temperature and the melting point being in a range between 786 and 1202 degrees Fahrenheit. | 8,764 |
9,278,181 | 1. A device for administering injections comprising: a housing having an upper end, a lower end including a bottom surface with an injection needle opening, and an axis extending between said upper and lower ends of said housing; an injection needle disposed within said housing for moving along said axis between a retracted position in which said injection needle is disposed within said housing and an extended position in which a distal end of said injection needle extends through said injection needle opening at said bottom surface of said housing; a first conduit for directing a first liquid component toward said injection needle; a second conduit for directing a second liquid component toward said injection needle; an injection actuator coupled with said injection needle for moving said injection needle from said retracted position to said extended position and advancing said first and second liquid components toward said injection needle for dispensing a liquid solution including said first and second liquid components from said distal end of said injection needle; a first syringe barrel in fluid communication with said first conduit, and a first plunger in said first barrel for alternatively drawing said first liquid component into said first barrel and dispensing said first liquid component from said first barrel and into said first conduit; a second syringe barrel in fluid communication with said second conduit, and a second plunger in said second barrel for alternatively drawing said second liquid component into said second barrel and dispensing said second liquid component from said second barrel and into said second conduit; a plunger base moveable along said axis of said housing and being connected with said first and second plungers for ensuring simultaneous movement of said first and second plungers between said upper and lower ends of said housing so that said first and second liquid components are simultaneously drawn into and dispensed from said first and second syringe barrels; wherein said first conduit comprises a first one-way check valve for directing flow of said first liquid component in a single downstream direction, said first one-way check valve including an upstream opening coupled with said first reservoir and a downstream opening, a first T-connector having a first opening in fluid communication with said downstream opening of said first one-way check valve, a second opening in fluid communication with said first syringe barrel, and a third opening, and a first tube having a proximal end in fluid communication with said third opening of said first T-connector and a downstream end in fluid communication with said injection needle, wherein said first liquid component flows between said first and second openings of said first T-connector as said first liquid component is drawn into said first syringe barrel and flows between said second and third openings of said first T-connector and into said proximal end of said first tube as said first liquid component is dispensed from said first syringe barrel; wherein said second conduit comprises a second one-way check valve for directing flow of said second liquid component in a single downstream direction, said second one-way check valve including an upstream opening coupled with said second reservoir and a downstream opening, a second T-connector having a first opening in fluid communication with said downstream opening of said second one-way check valve, a second opening in fluid communication with said second syringe barrel, and a third opening, and a second tube having a proximal end in fluid communication with said third opening of said second T-connector and a downstream end in fluid communication with said injection needle, wherein said second liquid component flows between said first and second openings of said second T-connector as said second liquid component is drawn into said second syringe barrel and flows between said second and third openings of said second T-connector and into said proximal end of said second tube as said second liquid component is dispensed from said second syringe barrel; at least one catch projecting from an outer surface of a needle housing for selectively coupling said needle housing and said plunger base together for providing simultaneous movement of said needle housing and said plunger base along said axis of said housing; at least one catch actuator coupled with said at least one catch for selectively decoupling said needle housing from said plunger base so that said needle housing and said plunger base are capable of moving independently of one another along said axis of said housing; and a plunger spring having an upper end in contact with said plunger base and a lower end in contact with said housing, wherein said plunger spring is compressed when said at least one catch of said needle housing is coupled with said plunger base for storing energy in said plunger spring, wherein said at least one catch is adapted for being decoupled from said plunger base so that said energy stored in said plunger spring urges said plunger base away from said bottom surface of said housing for driving said first and second plungers into said respective first and second syringe barrels as said plunger base moves away from said bottom surface of said housing. | 25,572 |
9,211,225 | 1. A method of treatment comprising: selecting a patient suffering from venous insufficiency, postphlebitic syndrome, lymphedema, edma, painful swelling, or excessive fluid accumulation; obtaining a therapeutic compression garment comprising: wrapping the first band around a limb of the patient; securing, by the first attachment mechanism after the wrapping, the first band wrapped around the limb; and delivering, by the therapeutic compression garment after the securing, therapeutic compression in the range of 8-15 mm Hg, 15-20 mm Hg, 20-30 mm Hg, 30-40 mmHg, or greater than 40 mm Hg to the limb. | 37,955 |
9,087,481 | 1. A luminance correcting method for an organic light emitting display, comprising: analyzing an image displayed on a display unit of the organic light emitting display and measuring luminance and color coordinates of reference gray level data; setting reference offset values corresponding to respective color data in the reference gray level data corresponding to an image analysis result; detecting a difference between a first reference offset value corresponding to a first color from among the reference offset values and a second reference offset value corresponding to a second color from among the reference offset values, the first color being different from the second color, and comparing the difference with a reference value, wherein the difference between the first and second reference offset values is a numerical value that is compared with the reference value; and setting an additional offset value corresponding to at least one gray level among remaining gray level data excluding the reference gray level data when the difference between the first reference offset value and the second reference offset value is not less than the reference value. | 23,586 |
8,605,263 | 1. Strain measuring system of wind turbine blades during the performance of static tests, comprising a plurality of mono-mode optical fibers, equipment for measuring strain at multiple locations in the mono-mode optical fibers using Rayleigh scattered light, each of said mono-mode optical fibers being attached to a blade subjected to the static tests for obtaining high spatial resolution measurements of strain on the blade during said tests. | 46,556 |
9,265,110 | 1. A light emitting diode (LED) power supply comprising: a converter having a power switch, the converter configured to generate an output voltage for supplying a LED load; a LED dimming circuit having a dimming switch, the dimming switch being turned ON and OFF by a PWM dimming signal; and a LED driving control circuit comprising: a feedback circuit coupled to the LED load, the feedback circuit configured to generate a feedback signal indicative of the output voltage; an enabling circuit coupled to the feedback circuit, the enabling circuit configured to generate an enable signal according to the feedback signal, a first reference signal and the PWM dimming signal; and a feedback loop control circuit coupled to the feedback circuit and the enabling circuit, the feedback loop control circuit configured to generate a control signal for controlling the power switch according to the feedback signal only when the enable signal is in an active state; when the feedback signal is higher than the first reference signal, the enable signal synchronizing with the PWM dimming signal, and when the feedback signal is lower than the first reference signal, the duty cycle of the enable signal being higher than the duty cycle of the PWM dimming signal. | 46,365 |
9,038,582 | 1. An internal combustion engine, comprising: a first cylinder having an intake valve in fluid communication with an intake manifold; a second cylinder having an exhaust valve in fluid communication with an exhaust manifold; a transfer passage fluidly connecting the first cylinder with the second cylinder; a first fuel injector configured to provide a first fuel directly to the first cylinder; a second fuel injector disposed in the transfer passage and configured to provide a second fuel to the second cylinder via the transfer passage; wherein the first cylinder operates to push a substantially homogeneous mixture of air and first fuel through the transfer passage into the second cylinder, wherein the second fuel injector is configured to provide a first fuel injection plume of second fuel into the second cylinder, wherein the second fuel injector is configured to provide a second fuel injection plume of second fuel into the second cylinder, and wherein the second fuel injector injects the first and second fuel injection plumes separately into the substantially homogeneous mixture of air and first fuel as said mixture is passing through the transfer passage from the first cylinder to the second cylinder, such that a stratified mixture is formed in the second cylinder that includes first, second and third regions of different reactivities, the first region including a mixture of air and the first fuel, the second region containing a mixture of air, the first fuel and the second fuel and being disposed around a peripheral portion of the at least one cylinder, and the third region containing a mixture of air, the first fuel and the second fuel and being disposed around a central portion of the at least one cylinder. | 39,729 |
8,872,021 | 1. A method for manufacturing a photoelectric conversion device, comprising the steps of: forming a single crystal semiconductor layer having one conductivity type over a substrate; forming a buffer layer including a single crystal region and an amorphous region over the single crystal semiconductor layer; forming a first semiconductor layer including a single crystal region and an amorphous region over and in contact with the buffer layer wherein the single crystal region in the first semiconductor layer has a sharp-pointed growing end; and forming a second semiconductor layer having a conductivity type opposite to the one conductivity type over the first semiconductor layer, wherein a proportion of the amorphous region in the first semiconductor layer gradually increases with respect to a proportion of the single crystal region in the first semiconductor layer as the distance from the buffer layer in the direction of the second semiconductor layer increases, wherein the first semiconductor layer has i-type conductivity, and wherein the single crystal region of the first semiconductor layer is grown from the single crystal region of the buffer layer. | 45,866 |
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