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9,496,132 | 1. A method of fabricating a layer of single crystal III-N material on a silicon substrate comprising: providing a single crystal silicon substrate with a crystal lattice spacing; epitaxially growing a rare earth oxide REO template on the silicon substrate, the template including a rare earth oxide layer adjacent the substrate with a crystal lattice spacing substantially matching the crystal lattice spacing of the substrate, and selecting the rare earth oxide layer to protect the substrate from nitridation; forming one of a rare earth oxynitride or a rare earth nitride adjacent the upper surface of the template; and epitaxially growing a layer of single crystal III-N material on the one of the rare earth oxynitride or the rare earth nitride. | 27,021 |
8,952,527 | 1. A semiconductor device comprising: a substrate including a plurality of wirings, a plating film formed to cover a surface of a first part of each said wiring, and an insulating film formed to cover a second part of each said wiring; a semiconductor chip having a plurality of bonding pads, and being mounted over a first surface of the substrate; and a plurality of solder bumps mounted over a second surface of the substrate opposite to the first surface, wherein each said bonding pad is electrically connected with a corresponding one of the plurality of solder bumps via one of said wirings, wherein the substrate has a quadrangular shape, wherein the plurality of solder bumps is arranged along each side of the second surface of the substrate in plan view, wherein each of selected ones of the plurality of wirings has an end portion, wherein a step portion is formed on the substrate, and is also formed along the plurality of solder bumps in plan view, and wherein the step portion has a side surface defined by both of a side surface of the insulating film and an exposed surface of the end portion of each of the selected ones of the plurality of wirings. | 16,941 |
8,377,959 | 1. A method of treating Lewy Body Dementia in a patient, comprising administering to a patient in need of such treatment a therapeutically effective amount of a compound of formula (I): or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. | 30,574 |
8,802,293 | 1. A positive-electrode material comprising: lithium vanadium phosphate particles, an average primary particle diameter of which is 0.3 μm or more and 2.6 μm or less, and crystallite sizes of which are 24 nm or more and 33 nm or less, wherein a crystallization degree of the lithium vanadium phosphate particles is 98% or more, and wherein the lithium vanadium phosphate particles are coated with a conductive carbon of a range of 0.5 mass % to 2.4 mass % with respect to a total mass of the lithium vanadium phosphate particles. | 28,780 |
9,790,151 | 1. A process for the formation of a mixture of the compounds 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene (1234yf) and vinylidene fluoride, comprising pyrolyzing 1,1,2-trifluoro-2-trifluoro-methyl-cyclobutane (TFMCB), wherein the TFMCB has a purity greater than 92%, under conditions effective to produce a reaction product comprising 1234yf and vinylidene fluoride in a 1234yf:vinylidene fluoride molar ratio of from about 0.5 to about 1.2. | 44,959 |
9,380,753 | 1. A seed, plant, plant part, or cell of inbred maize variety PH25HM, representative seed of said variety having been deposited under ATCC accession number PTA-123025. | 48,495 |
8,767,892 | 1. A synchronization system for initial setup—and continuous sustenance of local oscillators phases in a wireless receiver of a communication system, wherein the communication system is characterized by transmission of data packets having a predetermined preamble consisting of M identical sections of L symbols followed by a single section of the same kind, multiplied by −1, and wherein the wireless receiver is operative to perform decimation in an RF demodulator, comprising: A. a state-controlled twofold correlator characterized by selective operation in a preamble processing state or a midamble processing state, and having a symbol input for receiving a stream of complex input symbols from the RF demodulator, a correlator state control input, a symbols correlation output, and a slopes correlation output, and | 19,826 |
9,529,571 | 1. A configurable memory circuit for a Single Instruction, Multiple Data (SIMD) Digital Signal Processor (DSP) in a wireless communications system, for generating output vectors from sequential input data vectors, comprising: a rotate-and-distribute unit configured to rotate and distribute input data elements of the input data vectors; a two-dimensional register file configured to receive and store vectors generated by the rotate-and-distribute unit; a write controller configured to control writing of the vectors in the two-dimensional register file by generating write-enable signals for cells of the two-dimensional register file; and a read controller configured to generate the output vectors by reading on a per column basis selected cells of the two-dimensional register file, wherein, the write controller is further configured to control the writing in the two-dimensional register file such that at least two of the input data elements pertaining to a same vector among the input data vectors are stored in cells on different rows and different columns of the two-dimensional register file. | 37,471 |
9,821,301 | 1. Zeolite catalysts for producing lower olefins having 2 to 4 carbon atoms from hydrocarbon feedstocks with low boiling points having a range of boiling points from 35° C. to 200° C., comprising MFI-type crystalline aluminosilicates containing iron atoms and gallium atoms, the zeolite catalysts having molar ratios of iron atoms to total moles of iron atoms, gallium atoms, and aluminum atoms in the range from 0.2 to 0.6, and the zeolite catalysts having molar ratios of gallium atoms to total moles of iron atoms, gallium atoms, and aluminum atoms in the range from 0.1 to 0.4. | 28,706 |
9,035,170 | 1. A photovoltaic device character by being a device for generating power by absorbing light, characterized by being equipped with a photoelectric conversion element provided in structural members facing outdoors, and a power extraction unit for extracting power generated by the aforementioned photoelectric conversion element, wherein the aforementioned photoelectric conversion element comprises a semiconductor layer, a conductive layer laminated over the aforementioned semiconductor layer, a metal nanostructure having a plurality of periodic structures laminated over the aforementioned conductive layer or aforementioned semiconductor layer and being formed of a different material than the conductive layer, and a plurality of first projections including a pair of first and second electrodes wherein the aforementioned periodic structures are projecting in the direction of the aforementioned lamination, wherein the placement of the aforementioned first projections differ according to the aforementioned periodic structures, the aforementioned first and second electrodes are provided mutually separated in a direction along the surface of the aforementioned photoelectric conversion element, and the aforementioned power extraction unit includes a pair of terminals respectively connected to the aforementioned first and second electrode. | 34,159 |
9,447,175 | 1. A pharmaceutical composition comprising proteolytically processed, biologically active dichain neurotoxin, wherein the composition is free of detectable amounts of partially processed or unprocessed neurotoxin polypeptides, wherein the proteolytically processed, biologically active dichain neurotoxin is obtained by the steps of: a) contacting a solution comprising a mixture of processed and partially processed and/or unprocessed neurotoxin polypeptides with an antibody which has been raised against a peptide immunogen comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 25; b) allowing the binding of the antibody to the unprocessed and/or partially processed neurotoxin polypeptides whereby complexes comprising the antibody and partially processed or unprocessed neurotoxin polypeptides are formed; and c) removing the complexes formed in step b) to obtain a solution of processed, active dichain neurotoxin, wherein the solution is free of detectable amounts of unprocessed and/or partially processed neurotoxin polypeptides; and d) formulating the solution of processed neurotoxin polypeptides obtained in step c) with at least one stabilizer of the biologically active dichain neurotoxin selected from protein stabilizers and non-protein stabilizers in pharmaceutically acceptable diluents, carriers, and/or adjuvants. | 9,005 |
8,995,368 | 1. A method of transmitting control information by a base station (BS) in a carrier aggregation system, the method comprising: transmitting, to a user equipment (UE), bandwidth information of a component carrier; generating downlink control information (DCI) using a DCI format among N different DCI formats which can be used in the component carrier, wherein the DCI comprises an additional indication field which informs the UE about the DCI format used to generate the DCI; mapping the DCI to a DCI container among M different DCI containers; and transmitting, to the UE, the DCI mapped to the DCI container so as to enable blind decoding of the DCI by the UE, wherein each of the M different DCI containers has a predetermined bit size in accordance with the bandwidth information, wherein at least 2 DCI formats among the N different DCI formats can be mapped to a same DCI container among the M different DCI containers, wherein, if a bit size of the DCI container is greater than a total bit size of the DCI, different bits remaining after mapping the DCI in the DCI container are padded to a bit having a specific value, and wherein N and M are natural numbers and M is smaller than N. | 47,655 |
8,863,651 | 1. A popcorn popper blowout stopper for use with a popcorn popper having an open topped heating chamber, a passageway for popped popcorn extending from above said heating chamber, and a discharge outlet, the popcorn popper blowout stopper comprising: a screen assembly; a circular rim located about a periphery of and secured to the screen assembly, said rim and screen assembly forming a planar surface sized and supported within said heating chamber; and a handle assembly secured to said screen assembly, said handle assembly comprising a first portion extending outwardly and upwardly from a periphery of said circular rim, a second portion horizontally extending from said first portion, a third portion extending downwardly and outwardly from said second portion, and a forth portion vertically extending downwardly from said third portion; wherein said planar screen assembly is placed within said open topped heating chamber by a user, said handle assembly extending to a location outside of said heating chamber, said screen assembly covering uncooked popcorn kernels and being removed from said heating chamber by way of said passageway and outlet as the kernels become fully cooked and popped. | 9,191 |
9,243,810 | 1. A desiccant air conditioning system operable in a warm weather operation mode and/or a cold weather operation mode for treating an air stream entering a building space, comprising: a conditioner including a plurality of structures arranged in a substantially vertical orientation, said structures being spaced apart from each other with an air stream gap between each pair of adjacent structures, each structure having at least one outer surface facing an air stream gap across which a liquid desiccant can flow, wherein the air stream flows through the air stream gaps between the structures such that the liquid desiccant dehumidifies the air stream in the warm weather operation mode and humidifies the air stream in the cold weather operation mode, each structure further includes a separate desiccant collector at a lower end of the at least one outer surface for collecting liquid desiccant that has flowed across the at least one outer surface of the structure, said desiccant collectors being spaced apart from each other to permit airflow therebetween; a regenerator connected to the conditioner for receiving liquid desiccant from the desiccant collectors in the conditioner, said regenerator causing the liquid desiccant to desorb water in the warm weather operation mode and to absorb water in the cold weather operation mode; an apparatus for moving the air stream through the conditioner; and an apparatus for circulating the liquid desiccant through the conditioner and regenerator. | 34,862 |
8,893,689 | 1. A method for regenerating and cleaning an air-oil coalescing filter of a crankcase ventilation system of an internal combustion engine generating blowby gas in a crankcase, said coalescing filter coalescing oil from said blowby gas, said method comprising regenerating and cleaning said coalescing filter by intermittent rotation thereof, and by applying centrifugal force thereto by said intermittent rotation thereof, the intermittent rotation controlled according to pressure drop across said coalescing filter. | 34,537 |
9,547,363 | 1. An electronic device, comprising: a processor, for connecting the electronic device with a first external electronic device and a second external electronic device, wherein a first sensor and a second sensor are deployed on the first external electronic device and the second electronic device, respectively; and a third sensor for gathering sensor data from the electronic device, wherein the first sensor, the second sensor, and the third sensor have the same type, wherein the processor gathers information from the first sensor, the second sensor, the first external electronic device, and the second external electronic device, and determines whether to turn off at least one of the first, second, and third sensors according to the information gathered, wherein when a power-saving configuration is used, the processor activates one of the first, second, and third sensors having the longest battery life according to the information gathered and the remaining battery levels of the electronic device, the first external electronic device, and the second external electronic device. | 40,978 |
9,802,658 | 1. A vehicle comprising: an underbody with a non-rising region having a rear end and a rising region with a front end at the rear end of the non-rising region, the rising region of the underbody rising up from the non-rising region toward a rear end of the vehicle to form a diffuser; and an air guiding element arranged at the underbody of the vehicle for controlling aerodynamic properties of the vehicle, the air guiding element having opposite first and second ends, the first end being substantially aligned with or rearward of the front end of the rising region of the underbody, the air guiding element being reversibly transferable between a primary position and a secondary position, in the secondary position, the second end of the air guiding element projecting below the underbody and, in the secondary position, the air guiding element and areas of the underbody arranged behind the air guiding element, as seen in a forward direction of travel, form an angle of more than 75° to each other. | 44,426 |
9,272,770 | 1. A method of improving lateral and directional control of an aircraft rolling on a runway of an airport during a takeoff phase, wherein the aircraft is equipped with a plurality of spoilers, said aircraft is controlled laterally on the ground at least by a rudder which is controlled by pilot input, said method comprising: automatically monitoring to detect an activation situation while the aircraft is on the ground and during a takeoff run, wherein the activation situation includes at least one of an engine failure or actuation of a rudder control to deflect a rudder of the aircraft; automatically producing at least one control command, in response to the monitoring detecting the activation situation, to at least partially actuate said spoilers in a symmetric manner; and at least partially activating automatically, in response to the at least one said control command, at least two of said spoilers symmetrically to reduce lift of the aircraft and improve lateral and directional control of the aircraft on the ground. | 28,331 |
9,160,080 | 1. Electric cable comprising: an inner conductor, a primary isolation surrounding the inner conductor, an electric shield surrounding the primary isolation, and a secondary isolation surrounding the shield, wherein at least at one end of the cable the secondary isolation is removed so that the shield is stripped, a sleeve is pushed over the stripped shield, a part of the shield protruding beyond the sleeve in the direction of the end is folded back over the sleeve, wherein the sleeve has a circumferential radially accessible groove as well as a step-like offset such that the sleeve has a first diameter at a first side and a second, smaller diameter than the first diameter at a second side facing towards the end of the cable in that the part of the shield that is put over the sleeve is intermetallically connected to the sleeve. | 12,448 |
9,401,276 | 1. An apparatus for forming porous silicon layers on at least two surfaces of a plurality of silicon templates in a batch electrochemical anodic etch process, said apparatus comprising: a plurality of edge-sealing template mounts, said plurality of mounts operable to prevent formation of porous silicon at the edges of a plurality of templates; an electrolyte disposed among said plurality of templates; an electrolyte temperature controller; an external liquid circulation and gas bubble extractor; and a power supply operable to switch polarity, change current intensity, and control etching time to produce said porous silicon layers. | 15,322 |
8,829,368 | 1. A resistive film type input device comprising: a first insulating substrate disposed on a side adjacent to a liquid crystal display unit; a second insulating substrate which is disposed opposite the first insulating substrate with a gap interposed therebetween, the second insulating substrate disposed on a side of an input operation of the input device; a planar resistive film which is formed on a surface of the first insulating substrate opposed to the second insulating substrate in an X direction and a Y direction intersecting the X direction on the surface of the first insulating substrate; feeding electrodes which apply a voltage to both end portions of the resistive film on the first insulating substrate, the feeding electrodes include a first feeding electrode which applies a voltage to both end portions in the X direction of the planar resistive film and a second feeding electrode which applies a voltage to both end portions in the Y direction of the planar resistive film at time different from that of the first feeding electrode; a plurality of detecting electrode films each having a right triangular plane shape and formed on a surface of the second insulating substrate opposed to the first insulating substrate in a manner not to contact the planar resistive film when the second insulating substrate is not pressed down, the plurality of detecting electrode films being arranged such that a plurality of pairs of the detecting electrode films are arranged in the X direction or in the Y direction with hypotenuses thereof adjacent to each other and each of the extended hypotenuses intersects both the X direction and the Y direction of the second insulating substrate, the plurality of detecting electrode films being electrically separated from each other: and a potential detecting unit for detecting potentials of the plurality of detecting electrode films respectively in a first period when the first feeding electrode applies a voltage to both end portions in the X direction of the planar resistive film, and in a second period when the second feeding electrode applies a voltage to both end portions in the Y direction of the planar resistive film, wherein the potential detecting unit is configured to upon the first period, detect a potential of a contact location of the planar resistive film through the detecting electrode film contacted to the planar resistive film among the plurality of detecting electrode films to specify a location in the X direction of the contact location, and upon the second period, detect a potential of a contact location of the planar resistive film through the detecting electrode film contacted to the planar resistive film among the plurality of detecting electrode films to specify a location in the Y direction of the contact location. | 18,704 |
8,470,564 | 1. An engineered transaminase enzyme, comprising: a polypeptide comprising an amino acid sequence that has a T residue at position X9 and is at least 90% identical to SEQ ID NO: 6, wherein the polypeptide has transaminase activity. | 9,132 |
8,432,038 | 1. A device, comprising: a semiconductor substrate having a front surface and a back surface and including an integrated circuit (IC) component formed on the front surface; an interlayer dielectric (ILD) layer formed overlying the front surface of the semiconductor substrate; a contact plug formed in the ILD layer and electrically coupled to the IC component; and a via structure formed in the ILD layer and extending through the semiconductor substrate, wherein the via structure comprises a metal layer, a metal seed layer surrounding the metal layer, a barrier layer surrounding the metal seed layer, and a metal silicide layer sandwiched between at least a portion of the metal layer and at least a portion of the metal seed layer. | 37,584 |
9,523,554 | 1. An accessory mounting interface for a firearm, the interface comprising: a firearm accessory having at least one through hole extending from a first surface to a second surface of the firearm accessory and a slot protrusion separated into first and second halves surrounding the at least one through hole, the first and second halves each having an inner arc; a first elongated fastener arranged through the through hole and having a first end extending below the second surface of the firearm accessory; and a second fastener rotationally mated to the first end of the first elongated fastener and having a length greater than a width, the length measured along a longitudinal axis of the second fastener, the second fastener comprising two straight edges parallel to each other and two curved edges, the two curved edges having a first radius of curvature that equals or is slightly less than a radius of curvature of the inner arcs; wherein the first elongated fastener and the second fastener are configured to engage an elongated slot in a firearm, the elongated slot having a length greater than a width, and wherein the length of the elongated slot is greater than a length of the slot protrusion, and wherein the width is greater than the width of the second fastener but less than the length of the second fastener, such that the second fastener can pass through the elongated slot when the longitudinal axis of the second fastener is arranged parallel to a longitudinal axis of the elongated slot, but cannot pass through the elongated slot when the longitudinal axis of the second fastener is arranged obliquely to the longitudinal axis of the elongated slot, at least one of the two straight edges configured to prevent the second fastener from rotating beyond a closed position once a portion of the second fastener has passed through and at least partially cleared the elongated slot, the slot protrusion is configured to abut an interior portion of the elongated slot, and the slot protrusion and the second fastener are configured to align the accessory mounting interface relative to the elongated slot. | 13,223 |
8,510,009 | 1. A method for controlling an electronically slip-controllable vehicle brake system, including: a master cylinder actuatable at least indirectly by a driver, a brake circuit, connected to the master cylinder, and having at least one wheel brake; an electronic control unit; a valve unit, triggerable by the electronic control unit, for modulating the brake pressure at a wheel brake of the vehicle brake system; a pressure generator, which is actuatable by a drive motor that is triggerable by the control unit; at least one sensor element, detecting an actuation of the master cylinder; and a pressure fluid reservoir, which is disposed between the valve unit for modulating the brake pressure in the wheel brakes and the intake side of the pressure generator, the method comprising the steps of: detecting an automatic braking event; detecting actuation of the master cylinder during the automatic braking event; upon detecting the actuation of the master cylinder during an automatic braking event, triggering at least one valve unit for modulating the brake pressure in a wheel brake in such a way that pressure fluid flows out of the wheel brake into the pressure fluid reservoir; and triggering in parallel with the at least one valve unit, the drive motor of the pressure generator to control the pressure drop at the wheel brake. | 10,531 |
9,330,584 | 1. A method of developing an electroluminescent sign based on an image file, comprising: (a) electronically processing the image file to generate image data representing at least one electroluminescent lamp and corresponding electrical configuration data, the electroluminescent lamp comprising a substrate, a front electrode layer, at least one illuminating image layer and a rear electrode layer, wherein the front electrode layer is applied to an inner face of the substrate, wherein the at least one illuminating image layer is formed on a rear face of the front electrode layer and forms one or more images to be illuminated, and wherein the rear electrode layer is formed on a rear face of the at least one illuminating image layer; (b) producing the at least one illuminating image layer on the front electrode layer of the electroluminescent lamp from the image data; and, (c) configuring a luminescence controller of the electroluminescent sign based on the electrical configuration data, wherein, in use, the configured luminescence controller controls voltage supply to the at least one illuminating image layer. | 8,554 |
9,712,514 | 1. A method of establishing privileged communication sessions to target services, comprising: executing, at an intermediate element, by at least one hardware processor of at least one server; receiving, over a network from a client machine running a user client application, a request to access a plurality of target services, wherein said request comprises authentication credentials; using said authentication credentials, retrieving, for at least one of said plurality of target services, a respective set of privileged credentials; establishing, over said network, a plurality of interactive sub-sessions between said intermediate element and respective ones of said plurality of target services, wherein at least one of said sub-sessions is established with said respective set of privileged credentials; unifying said plurality of interactive sub-sessions into a single super-session on said intermediate element and creating a super-session data record to document activities performed by said user client application during said plurality of interactive sub-sessions; establishing, over said network, said single super-session with said user client application, such that said single super-session provides said user client application with interactive control of each of said plurality of interactive sub-sessions established with said respective ones of said plurality of target services; during said single super-session, identifying connections between said activities performed by said user client application during said plurality of interactive sub-sessions and maintaining, in said super-session data record, a correlated listing of said identified connections between said activities performed by said user client application in said plurality of said interactive sub-sessions; and during said single super-session, managing activities performed by said user client application during different interactive sub-sessions of said super-session by analyzing said correlated listing of identified connections, wherein said managing activities comprising managing activities for performing a task using said single super-session, wherein said plurality of said target services perform different respective aspects of said task, wherein data communication between said user client application and said plurality of target services is conducted via said intermediate element. | 3,671 |
8,562,250 | 1. A method of injecting surface water into soil beneath a ground area comprising: installing a series of elongated channel members into a series of holes formed extending into the ground, said channel members having a series of lengthwise extending channel features defined therein opening to the outside of the members, said channel features each have a curving wall extending radially outward from an attached central core and curving circumferentially to an end portion curving radially back inward towards said central core but terminating before reaching said central core, to form a lengthwise slot extending into a partially continued space defined by said curving wall, said wall able to be compressed substantially by ground pressure to reduce the volume in said partially confined space and create a pumping action extending said channel members to a substantial depth below grade, further including installing a pattern of shorter and longer length channel members into said ground area, with the longer members upper ends installed at a depth in the area of a bottom end of each of said shorter members, whereby soil moisture tends to enter said channel features formed therein and drain downwardly through said channel features to inject water into the soil around said channel member lower ends. | 41,373 |
8,577,577 | 1. A moving body comprising: a support member configured to support a subject and capable of oscillating at least in a front-back direction of the moving body during travelling of the moving body; at least one ground-contacting element with a circular cross section, the ground-contacting element attached to the support member; a drive portion configured to apply torque to the ground-contacting element; and a control loop coupled to the drive portion and configured to control the drive portion to adjust the torque applied to the ground-contacting element so as to allow the moving body to travel while keeping an inverted state of the support member, wherein the control loop controls the drive portion to apply normal torque and additional torque to the ground-contacting element, the normal torque being determined according to a deviation between a target value and a controlled variable including at least one of an inclination angular velocity and an inclination angle of the support member in the front-back direction, the additional torque being proportional to a velocity parameter of the moving body raised to the exponential power of N, the velocity parameter being proportional to a velocity of the moving body, wherein N is greater than 1. | 38,984 |
8,869,472 | 1. A system comprising: a first plurality of elongated members, each of the first plurality of elongated members having a right end and a left end; a second plurality of elongated members, each of the second plurality of elongated members having a right end and a left end; wherein one or more right ends of the first plurality of elongated members are attached to one or more left ends of the second plurality of elongated members; wherein the first plurality of elongated members has a lower coefficient of thermal expansion than a second plurality of elongated members; wherein the first plurality of elongated members and the second plurality of elongated members comprise a tubular structure; wherein responsive to an increase in temperature greater than a baseline temperature the one or more right ends of the first plurality of elongated members move towards the one or more left ends of the second plurality of elongated members as the first plurality of elongated members expand more than the second plurality of expanded members; and wherein responsive to a decrease in temperature less than the baseline temperature the one or more right ends of the first plurality of elongated members move away from the one or more left ends of the second plurality of elongated members as the first plurality of elongated members contract more than the second plurality of expanded members. | 48,225 |
9,193,118 | 1. A method of manufacturing a silicone hydrogel contact lens body, comprising: providing a first mold member and a second mold member, the first mold member comprising a concave molding surface configured to mold an anterior surface of a contact lens and the second mold member comprising a convex molding surface configured to mold a posterior surface of a contact lens, the first mold member and the second mold member being configured to form a lens-shaped cavity therebetween when combined as a mold assembly, the molding surface of at least one of the first mold member and the second mold member comprising a thermoplastic polymer, the molding surface having a percent polarity from 3% to 20% and a surface energy from about 25 mN/m to about 40 mN/m; | 3,180 |
9,763,884 | 1. A dual drug delivery device, comprising a time controlled, immediate release drug delivery system for sublingual administration of a first active ingredient to a subject in need thereof, the system comprising a core comprising 10-45% (w/w) microcrystalline cellulose, 20-70% (w/w) of filler, wherein said filler is calcium sulphate dihydrate or anhydrous dibasic calcium phosphate, or combination thereof, and 0.1-30% (w/w) of said first active ingredient, and between 0 and 6% w/w cross-linked sodium carboxymethyl cellulose, based on the total weight of the core, and a first coating surrounding the core, said first coating comprising ethylcellulose as a hydrophobic polymer and microcrystalline cellulose as a hydrophilic substance, wherein the mass ratio of the hydrophobic polymer and the hydrophilic substance is between 1:5 and 5:1, wherein the first coating of the drug delivery system is surrounded by a second coating comprising a second active ingredient, and wherein the second coating comprises a cyclodextrin, or a derivative or polymer thereof, and wherein the second active ingredient is testosterone or a functional analogue of testosterone. | 15,755 |
8,625,070 | 1. A projection system, comprising: a support frame; an optical element; and a mount configured to mount the optical element to the support frame, wherein the mount comprises at least one damper, comprising a piston, configured to provide damping to motion of the optical element relative to the support frame, the at least one damper further comprising: | 30,860 |
9,506,783 | 1. A robot comprising: a flight system and a flight control system configured to maneuver the robot over ground-based obstacles and position the robot at a calibration station corresponding to a support structure having an adjustable surface; a sensor configured to identify status information for the adjustable surface when the robot is positioned at the calibration station, the status information for the adjustable surface including an orientation of the adjustable surface; and a calibration system configured to determine calibration information for the adjustable surface based on status information corresponding to the adjustable surface when the robot is positioned at the calibration station. | 27,448 |
8,958,590 | 1. A listening device comprising an ITE part adapted for being located in an ear canal of a user and a BTE part adapted for being located behind an ear of the user, the ITE and BTE parts being at least mechanically connected by a connecting element, the listening device comprising a microphone, a receiver, a rechargeable energy source, and electric charge terminals for allowing charging of the rechargeable energy source when electrically connected to charging terminals of a charging station, wherein the electric charging terminals of the listening device are located in an electrical connector of the BTE part connectable to the electrical connector of the connecting element, wherein said microphone and said receiver are located outside the BTE part, wherein the BTE part comprises a hermetically closed outer housing. | 19,887 |
9,376,504 | 1. A separation method performed in a production facility to improve yield, the method comprising: filtering a first large-particles stream from a first liquid stream containing small particles of a process stream by using a first mechanical separation device in a counter-flow wash process in a series; adding water to the first large-particles stream in a tank to create a lower-solids stream; heating the lower-solids stream in the tank; and removing extra water from the lower-solids stream by using a second mechanical separation device in the counter-flow wash process that further separates a second large-particles stream from a second liquid stream containing small particles of the lower-solids stream; wherein the separation method is performed downstream of liquefaction and upstream of fermentation. | 9,721 |
9,386,189 | 1. A method of converting a color gamut, comprising: converting each RGB value of red (R), green (G), blue (B), cyan (C), magenta (M), yellow (Y), and white (W) of a target color coordinate into a tristimulus value XYZ; generating a first reference conversion matrix for converting each tristimulus value XYZ into an R′G′B′ value according to a color gamut of a reference display; calculating a low power corrected value for correcting the R′G′B′ value based on a user-supplied low power ratio value; generating a second reference conversion matrix in which the low power corrected value is applied to the first reference conversion matrix; converting each tristimulus value XYZ into an R″G″B″ value by using the second reference conversion matrix; generating a lookup table (LUT) comprising an R″G″B″ value corresponding to each RGB value; converting image data of the RGB values into image data of the R″G″B″ values using the LUT; and displaying an image on a display device based on the image data of the R″G″B″ values, wherein the low power corrected value is calculated according to the following equation: wherein “a” is the low power corrected value, “exc” is an R′G′B′ value exceeding 255, and “b” is the user supplied low power ratio value. | 1,243 |
9,069,913 | 1. A circuit topology, comprising: a signal transmitting terminal adapted to receive a first DC voltage via a first node and a first resistor; the first node is electrically connected to a second node via a third resistor and an energy consuming element; a first signal receiving terminal electrically connected to the second node; the second node is electrically connected to a third node; and a second signal receiving terminal electrically connected to the third node; the third node is electrically connected to a second DC voltage via a second resistor, wherein the energy consuming element is an inductor or a Ferrite Bead. | 29,400 |
8,998,772 | 1. An automated manual transmission for a vehicle comprising: a shifting section provided with a plurality of shifting units for implementing different gear ratio between an input shaft and an output shaft; a variable power transfer unit transferring continuously and variably power of a power providing device to the shifting section in series by self-controllable slip operation, a driving gear engaged to the power providing device; a driven gear that is connected to the variable power transfer unit and meshes with the driving gear to transfer the power of the power providing device to the variable power transfer unit; and a transfer gear coupled to the variable power transfer unit and receiving the power having passed through the variable power transfer unit from the driven gear, wherein the variable power transfer unit is disposed between the power providing device and the shifting section. | 1,716 |
8,431,547 | 1. A double-stranded DNA construct comprising: a first structural gene sequence whose nucleotide sequence is identical to the nucleotide sequence of a region of a target gene in an animal cell; a second structural gene sequence identical in sequence to, and in an inverted orientation relative to, the first structural gene sequence such that a repeating sequence which is identical to the region of the target gene is present in the DNA construct; a stuffer fragment which consists of nucleotides other than the nucleotides of the repeating sequence, and which separates and links the first and second structural gene sequences; and a promoter operably connected to the first structural gene sequence, the stuffer fragment, and the second structural gene sequence. | 33,720 |
8,392,242 | 1. A computer-implemented method, comprising: detecting a link selection event in which a user selects a link on a web page of an originator web site of an originator entity to access a target web site of a target entity; in response to the link selection event, programmatically causing the user to be charged a first fee and the target entity to be charged a second fee, said first and second fees being based on a linking campaign of said target entity; calculating a monetary amount to be paid to the originator entity in connection with the link selection event in accordance with said linking campaign, said monetary amount being greater than the first fee and greater than the second fee; and programmatically causing said monetary amount to be paid to the originator entity in connection with the link selection event, whereby the user and target entity each contribute to a payment made to the originator entity in accordance with said linking campaign; the method being performed by a service provider computer system that is separate from the originator web site and the target web site, said service provider computer system operated by a service provider entity that is different from the originator entity and the target entity; wherein the monetary amount is calculated by the service provider computer system by summing the first and second fees to generate a total contribution amount, and by deducting from said total contribution amount a transaction fee charged by the service provider. | 16,249 |
9,274,650 | 1. A locating method applied to an optical touch device, the optical touch device comprising at least one image detecting component for detecting an imaging position of an object and generating a touch position of the object on a plane according to the imaging position, the at least one image detecting component comprising a plurality of pixels, the locating method comprising: dividing the plurality of pixels into a first group and a second group along a first direction; analyzing dimension ratios of a darkness point respectively relative to the first group and the second group when the darkness point formed by the object is simultaneously detected by the first group and the second group, wherein a first algorithm is utilized to calculate the imaging position of the darkness point inside the image detecting component when the darkness point formed by the object is detected by the first group, and a second algorithm is utilized to calculate the imaging position of the darkness point inside the image detecting component when the darkness point formed by the object is detected by the second group; utilizing the first algorithm and the second algorithm to respectively calculate a first subgroup imaging position of the darkness point on the first group and a second subgroup imaging position of the darkness point on the second group; setting the dimension ratio of the darkness point relative to the first group and the dimension ratio of the darkness point relative to the second group as weight indices; and multiplying the first subgroup imaging position and the second subgroup imaging position respectively by the corresponding weight indices and adding up two multiplication results, so as to obtain the imaging position of the darkness point. | 37,192 |
9,201,077 | 1. A direct competitive enzyme linked immunoabsorbent assay (ELISA) for determining progesterone concentration in a sample taken from an equine test subject, comprising: a) providing in at least one container immobilized antibody that specifically binds to and is specific for progesterone; b) obtaining at least one plasma or serum sample from said test subject, c) treating each of said plasma or serum sample(s) by (i) mixing a volume of the sample with a volume of acid which reduces the pH of the sample to about 4 thereby releasing progesterone from cortisol binding globulin and albumin present in said sample, and (ii) adding to the acidified sample a volume of assay buffer, the combined volumes of said buffer and said acid being equal to the volume of said sample before acidification, thereby providing a 1:1 dilution of the treated sample; d) contacting the immobilized antibody in one of said container(s) with an aliquot of one of the treated sample(s) resulting from step c), said aliquot having a volume sufficiently low to provide accuracy and precision of the assay; e) introducing into the sample-contacted container(s) a known amount of tracer reagent, in solution, comprising progesterone operably linked to an enzyme, the progesterone moiety of the tracer reagent capable of being specifically bound by the immobilized antibody and said linked enzyme moiety capable of producing a detectable signal indicative of progesterone concentration when reacted with a substrate therefor; f) incubating the contents of the sample container(s) under conditions promoting competitive binding of progesterone in the tracer reagent and treated sample(s) to said immobilized antibody; g) removing unbound tracer reagent, if any, from the contents of the sample container(s) after step f) via washing; h) adding said substrate to the washed container(s) of step g); i) measuring the detectable signal(s) produced in the container(s) of step h) from the enzyme-substrate reaction(s); and j) correlating the measured detectable signal(s) with at least one standard containing a known concentration of progesterone, thereby determining the progesterone concentration in each of said sample(s). | 17,791 |
9,647,314 | 1. A directional coupler for a wireless communication device, the directional coupler comprising: a first transmit line having a first input port and a first output port respectively configured to receive and provide a first signal to be transmitted from the wireless communication device; a second transmit line having a second input port and a second output port respectively configured to receive and provide a second signal to be transmitted from the wireless communication device; a coupling line having (i) a first portion coupled to the first transmit line, (ii) a second portion, in series with the first portion, coupled to the second transmit line, and (iii) a coupled port configured to selectively provide a coupled signal corresponding to each of, in respective modes, the first signal and the second signal; and a second coupled port configured to provide a second coupled signal corresponding to each of, in respective modes, the first signal and the second signal, wherein the coupled port corresponds to a forward coupled port and the second coupled port corresponds to a reverse coupled port, the first transmit line includes a first portion and a second portion arranged in series, wherein (i) the first portion of the first transmit line is coupled to the portion of the first coupling line and (ii) the second portion of the first transmit line is coupled to a second coupling line corresponding to the second coupled port, and the second transmit line includes a first portion and a second portion arranged in series, wherein (i) the first portion of the second transmit line is coupled to the second portion of the first coupling line and (ii) the second portion of the second transmit line is coupled to the second coupling line corresponding to the second coupled port. | 591 |
8,564,682 | 1. A method for creating content in a portable terminal, comprising: selecting a composite mode from a camera menu after executing a camera function; displaying an image selected by a user on a preview screen; capturing an image of at least one object that is recognized within an image being received by a camera in the portable terminal; extracting at least one object from image data input through the camera according to a compactness of pixels corresponding to an edge portion of each object recognized by the camera unit; and creating the content by combining the captured image of the at least one object with the image selected by the user. | 38,299 |
8,833,344 | 1. A dual fluid quill assembly comprising: a first quill tube of a first length; a second quill tube of a second length, the second quill tube nested within the first quill tube, wherein the second length is different than the first length; an adapter defining an axial bore configured to receive the first quill tube and the nested second quill tube; and a manifold adjacent to the adapter, the manifold including a sealing surface sealingly engaged with a first end of the first quill tube and a first end of the second quill tube, the sealing surface applying a first sealing contact force to the first end of the first quill tube and a second sealing contact force to a first end of the second quill tube, wherein the first sealing contact force is different than the second sealing contact force. | 34,161 |
9,510,241 | 1. A carrier selection method, comprising: obtaining, by a second base station, load status information of a control channel of one or more first base stations on each carrier, wherein the load status information comprises signal strength information of the control channel of the first base station on each carrier, the signal strength information is determined by control channel element (CCE) information of the first base station and transmit power information of the first base station on the control channel, and the load status information is used for determining a load amount of the control channel of each carrier; and selecting, by the second base station, according to the load status information, an operational carrier for the second base station or a primary cell carrier for a user equipment served by the second base station. | 6,893 |
8,877,251 | 1. A method of making a powder for inhalation consisting of a first step (a) of mixing particles of a force-controlling agent selected from magnesium stearate, with particles of one or more pharmacologically active materials, wherein the mixing is achieved by one or more of the processes of sieving or blending, wherein the blending is not carried out in a high shear mixer wherein the mixing results in the particles of the force-controlling agent being disposed on the surface of the particles of the one or more pharmacologically active materials as either a particulate coating or as a continuous or discontinuous film; and a second step of (b)(1) sieving or blending the powder obtained in step (a) with 50-99 weight percent of a carrier material based on the total weight of the formulation, or (b)(2) blending the powder obtained in step (a) with a first portion of a carrier material to form a second mixture, and in a subsequent step mixing the remainder of the carrier material with said second mixture, said carrier material having a particle size of 50-500 μm, wherein the particles of one or more pharmacologically active materials comprise particles of an anti-cholinergic drug in salt form selected from the group consisting of oxitropium bromide, glycopyrronium bromide, ipratropium bromide and tiotropium bromide. | 6,492 |
8,470,990 | 1. A protein synthesis inhibitor comprising: a first binding domain having a surface that mimics or duplicates a surface of sparsomycin that binds with a first contact site in a large ribosomal subunit; and a second binding domain having a surface that mimics or duplicates a surface of anisomycin that binds with a second contact site in the ribosomal subunit, wherein the first domain is attached to the second domain so as to permit both the first domain and the second domain to bind with its respective contact site thereby to disrupt protein synthesis in a ribosomal subunit, and wherein the protein synthesis inhibitor has a molecular weight of less than about 1,500 and an IC | 33,567 |
9,587,622 | 1. A lifting tool for use in lifting components from a wind turbine gearbox housing during service or repair comprising: a frame-like structure for securing to the gearbox housing from which an upper housing part has been removed to define an opening therein; one or more rollers or pulleys mounted on the frame-like structure; and a lifting chain, cable, wire or rope extending over the rollers or pulleys attachable to a component located within the gearbox housing and to be lifted; wherein a lower region of the frame-like structure is formed with connecting portions for engagement with the gearbox housing at the periphery of the opening for fully supporting the lifting tool on the gearbox housing. | 47,983 |
9,274,481 | 1. An image forming apparatus comprising: an image bearing member on which an electrostatic latent image is formed; a developing device that develops the electrostatic latent image formed on the image bearing member by using developer; a temperature detecting portion that detects information regarding the temperature of the developer in the developing device; a density detecting portion that detects a density of a control image formed on the image bearing member; a controller that controls the amount of the developer supplied to the developing device based on the detection result of the density of the control image and a target value; and a change portion that changes an electric potential difference between an electric potential of the electrostatic latent image of the control image and a DC bias applied to the developing device or the target value so as to suppress a variation in the amount of charged developer in the developing device, based on the detection result acquired by the temperature detecting portion, wherein a first period during which only a DC bias is applied and a second period during which an AC bias is applied are alternated in the developing device, and the controller decreases the first period in a case where the temperature of the developer rises based on the detection result acquired by the temperature detecting portion. | 4,773 |
8,974,731 | 1. A sample processing apparatus, comprising: a sample carrier receiving region configured to receive a sample carrier, wherein the sample carrier includes at least one sample channel carrying at least one sample, at least one agent chamber carrying at least one agent to be moved to the at least one sample channel to facilitate processing of the at least one sample, and the at least one agent chamber includes at least one chamber cover covering at least one opening of the at least one agent chamber, inhibiting flow of the at least one agent from the at least one agent chamber to the at least one sample channel; an optical detection system, including: an electromagnetic radiation source configured to transmit electromagnetic radiation; a first beam reflector configured to reflect the transmitted electromagnetic radiation, producing reflected electromagnetic radiation; and a beam reflector controller that rotates the first beam reflector, which scans the reflected electromagnetic radiation across the at least one sample channel, which facilitates opening the at least one chamber cover, and a fluid mover that moves the agent out of the at least one agent chamber after the at least one chamber cover is opened and into the at least one sample channel. | 21,169 |
9,804,279 | 1. A method for determining parameters of a reaction of a gamma quantum within a scintillator of a Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scanner, comprising transforming a signal measured in the scintillator using at least one converter into an electric measurement signal, wherein the method comprises the steps of: obtaining access to a reference parameters memory comprising reference signals represented in a time-voltage (W sampling the electric measurement signal (S) measured in the time-voltage (P comparing results of the sampling of the electric measurement signal (S) measured in the time-voltage (P comparing results of the sampling of the electric measurement signal (S) measured in the time-amplitude fraction (P selecting reference shape parameters so that the reference (W) is best fitted to the results of the sampling of the electric measurement signal (S) in the time-voltage (P determining the parameters of the reaction of the gamma quantum within the scintillator for the electric measurement signal (S) based on pre-calibrated functions that determine the values of parameters of signal shape depending on the parameters of the reaction of gamma quantum within the scintillator; wherein the parameters of the reaction of the gamma quantum include energy deposited within the scintillator and a position and a time of the reaction. | 15,868 |
8,527,124 | 1. A loader vehicle, comprising: a frame system; a front pair of wheels and a rear pair of wheels being respectively individually mounted to front and rear pairs of axels and being subject to rapidly changing loads, and said front and rear pairs of wheels being associated with said frame system; front and rear pairs of drive units respectively, being associated with said front and rear pairs of wheels; and a controller being configured to compute a slip error for each wheel of said front and rear pairs of wheels, with each computation being dependent on an integral term derived from multiplying an operator torque command directed to one wheel of one of said front and rear pairs of wheels times a measured wheel speed of said one wheel minus the average speed of the pair of wheels of another of said front and rear pairs of wheels, and to compute a slip target value for said one wheel, said controller further being configured to use said slip error and said slip target value to arrive at an adjusted torque command that is applied to the one of said front and rear pairs of drive units that is associated with said one wheel. | 29,919 |
9,432,673 | 1. An image processing device comprising: an acquisition section adapted to acquire coded data and control the output or recording of the coded data; a generation section adapted to generate image data; a coding section adapted to generate the coded data by coding the generated image data in response to an output request from the acquisition section; an output section adapted to output the generated coded data to the acquisition section; and a control section adapted to determine, based on an amount of the generated coded data, the sizes of vertical and horizontal synchronizing signals used to output the coded data to the acquisition section, notify the determined sizes to the acquisition section, and control the output section to output the coded data according to the vertical and horizontal synchronizing signals of the determined sizes after the notification, wherein the control section determines the sizes of the vertical and the horizontal synchronizing signals by selecting a preset combination, from a plurality of preset combinations of sizes of the vertical and horizontal synchronizing signals, having the smallest sizes of the vertical and horizontal synchronizing signals capable of outputting the amount of generated coded data. | 17,064 |
9,055,544 | 1. A method of setting a maximum output power for user equipment, the method comprising: defining, at the user equipment, a range for the maximum output power, the range including a maximum value and a minimum value, the minimum value being based on a maximum power signaled by a base station, a power class of the user equipment, a maximum power reduction permitted, an additional maximum power reduction permitted, a reduction term dependent on transmission bandwidth, and a power management term representing a limit on power reduction due to transmission on different radio access technologies by the user equipment; and setting, by the user equipment, the maximum output power within the defined range. | 8,433 |
8,520,432 | 1. A spin-transfer torque memory unit, comprising: a ferromagnetic strip having a first portion and an opposing second portion, the ferromagnetic strip having a free magnetization orientation; a tunneling barrier separates a first magnetic reference layer from the first portion of the ferromagnetic strip and forming a magnetic tunnel junction; a conductive and non-ferromagnetic layer separates a second magnetic reference layer from the second portion of the ferromagnetic strip and forming a spin valve; a bit line is electrically coupled to the spin valve; a source line is electrically coupled to the ferromagnetic strip; and a read line is electrically coupled to the magnetic tunnel junction. | 32,706 |
9,565,612 | 1. A method of wireless communication, comprising: receiving at an access terminal a first set of signals from a first access node on a first carrier, wherein the access terminal is associated with the first access node; determining a carrier-to-interference associated with the first access node based on the first set of signals; receiving at the access terminal a second set of signals from a second access node on the first carrier; determining whether the second access node is a preferred access node for the access terminal based on the second set of signals and a preferred roaming list; and performing a carrier switch to receive signals from the first access node on a second carrier when the carrier-to-interference is less than or equal to a threshold and when the second access node is not a preferred access node for the access terminal. | 10,066 |
8,379,902 | 1. An audio output control device that is connected to a directional speaker that outputs audio in a specific direction, and an audio output direction adjustment mechanism that adjusts the audio output direction of the directional speaker, the audio output control device comprising: an imaging unit that images a specific range from an advertisement display surface; a target detection unit that detects a person photographed in the image captured by the imaging unit as a target; an audio output control unit that causes the audio output direction adjustment mechanism to direct the audio output direction of the directional speaker toward the target detected by the target detection unit, and causes the directional speaker to output audio; and an orientation detection unit that determines the orientation of the face of the target based on an image captured by the imaging unit after the directional speaker outputs audio as controlled by the audio output control unit. | 7,836 |
9,385,389 | 1. A fuel cell comprising: a membrane electrode assembly which includes an electrolyte membrane, an anode provided on one surface of the electrolyte membrane, and a cathode provided on another surface of the electrolyte membrane; and a current-collecting portion provided on a periphery of the membrane electrode assembly, wherein: the electrolyte membrane includes thick portions each having a relatively large thickness, and cracks formed in at least one of the anode and the cathode, and the sum of lengths of components of individual cracks in an electric conduction direction which is toward the current-collecting portion and is an in-plane direction of the electrolyte membrane is larger than the sum of lengths of components of individual cracks in a direction perpendicular to the electric conduction direction. | 6,668 |
8,540,767 | 1. A method for deploying a cardiac valve prosthesis, comprising: providing an implantation device, wherein the implantation device comprises, | 33,670 |
9,775,558 | 1. A system for treating sleep apnea of a subject having an airway by enhancing expiratory positive airway pressure, the system comprising: (a) a pressure generator configured to generate a pressurized flow of breathable gas for delivery to the airway of the subject, (b) one or more sensors configured to generate one or more output signals conveying measurements related to one or more parameters of the subject; and (c) one or more processors configured to execute computer program modules, the computer program modules comprising: | 19,579 |
9,694,976 | 1. An inventory system, comprising: mobile drive units configured to move inventory holders that are configured to store inventory items; and a management module configured to: | 36,596 |
9,172,251 | 1. A power supply system comprising: a power transmitting portion; a power receiving portion that contactlessly receives power from the power transmitting portion; a controlling portion that controls the transmission of power from the power transmitting portion; an efficiency detecting portion that detects transmitting efficiency between the power transmitting portion and the power receiving portion while power is being transmitted from the power transmitting portion to the power receiving portion; and a determining portion that determines whether the transmitting efficiency detected by the efficiency detecting portion is equal to or greater than a predetermined reference value by comparing the transmitting efficiency detected by the efficiency detecting portion to the predetermined reference value, wherein the controlling portion (i) temporarily stops power from being transmitted from the power transmitting portion if the transmitting efficiency detected by the efficiency detecting portion is less than the predetermined reference value, and (ii) continues to transmit power from the power transmitting portion if the transmitting efficiency detected by the efficiency detecting portion is equal to or greater than the predetermined reference value, after a specified period of time has passed after temporarily stopping power from being transmitted from the power transmitting portion due to the transmitting efficiency detected by the efficiency detecting portion being less than the predetermined reference value, the controlling portion starts to transmit power again with a minute power, which is less than a regular power that was transmitted before the controlling portion temporarily stopped power from being transmitted, the determining portion determines whether the transmitting efficiency detected by the efficiency detecting portion after starting to transmit power again with the minute power is equal to or greater than the predetermined reference value by comparing the transmitting efficiency detected by the efficiency detecting portion while the minute power is being transmitted to the predetermined reference value, and if the transmitting efficiency detected by the efficiency detecting portion while the minute power is being transmitted is equal to or greater than the predetermined reference value, the controlling portion starts to transmit power again with the regular power from the power transmitting portion, and if the transmitting efficiency detected by the efficiency detecting portion while the minute power is being transmitted is less than the predetermined reference value, the controlling portion temporarily stops power from being transmitted from the power transmitting portion and then starts to transmit power again with the minute power after the specified period of time has passed. | 14,629 |
8,657,064 | 1. An earpiece device comprising: an inner microphone; an outer microphone; an inner speaker, wherein the inner microphone, the outer microphone, and the inner speaker are operatively connected via a support structure; and a sealant element, wherein the sealant element includes at least an expandable first section and a second section, the expandable first section coupled to an element that actively fills the first section with a fluid, to expand the expandable first section, the first section including a first material, and the second section including a second material different from the first material, the first section and the second section being coupled via a conduit, the first section and the second section arranged to be at different depths of an ear canal when inserted into the ear canal, the second section extending farther into the ear canal than the first section, wherein the first section of the sealant element has a length such that the first section is configured to be inserted into a cartilaginous region of the ear canal, without extending into a bony region of the ear canal, such that at least the first section of the sealant element seals the cartilaginous region, the first material providing a different acoustic isolation than the second material, wherein the first section is configured to be expanded via the element from a first diameter to a second diameter greater than the first diameter to seal the ear canal, each of first section and the second section being configured to press against an ear canal wall of the ear canal such that the first section applies a first pressure at the second diameter and the second section applies a second pressure, the second pressure being less than the first pressure, and wherein the second section has a diameter that is greater than a diameter of the ear canal and is configured to be compressed upon insertion into the ear canal, to seal the ear canal. | 29,584 |
9,544,889 | 1. A method for processing physical downlink control channel data, comprising: generating a scrambling sequence corresponding to a control channel element according to an index number of the control channel element and/or a modulation mode used by the control channel element; performing scrambling on physical downlink control channel data by using the scrambling sequence; and sending the scrambled physical downlink control channel data to a user equipment, wherein the generating a scrambling sequence corresponding to a control channel element according to an index number of the control channel element and/or a modulation mode used by the control channel element comprises: generating a specific long sequence for the user equipment according to a UE Specific parameter; and extracting, according to a data length corresponding to the modulation mode used by the control channel element of the user equipment, a scrambling sequence corresponding to the control channel element in the specific long sequence. | 15,761 |
8,741,111 | 1. A method for making a coated article, comprising: providing a substrate; forming an aluminum nitride layer on the substrate, magnetron sputtering the aluminum nitride layer using argon gas as the sputtering gas and the argon gas having a flow rate of about 300 sccm to about 450 sccm; using nitrogen as the reaction gas and nitrogen having a flow rate of about 120 sccm to about 200 sccm; magnetron sputtering the aluminum nitride layer being carried out at a temperature of about 150° C. to about 200° C.; using aluminum targets and the aluminum targets being supplied with a power of about 8 kw to about 10 kw; a negative bias voltage of about −150 V to about −500 V being applied to the substrate; forming a titanium boride layer on the aluminum nitride layer; and repeating the steps of alternatingly forming the aluminum nitride layer and the titanium boride layer to form the coated article, and the outermost layer of the coated article being one of the titanium boride layers. | 48,578 |
8,569,102 | 1. A method of manufacturing a high density CIS thin film, comprising: preparing CIS nanoparticles; dispersing the CIS nanoparticles and dissolving a binder in a solvent to prepare CIS slurry; dissolving a filling element-containing salt and a binder in a solvent to prepare a filling element-containing slurry, wherein the filling element-containing salt is a mixed salt of at least two selected from the group consisting of copper salt, indium salt, gallium salt, zinc salt, and tin salt; mixing the CIS slurry and the filling element-containing slurry to prepare a slurry mixture; and coating the slurry mixture onto a substrate to form a CIS thin film, followed by heat treatment. | 34,346 |
9,694,695 | 1. A power source system, comprising: an electrical generator including a rectifying circuit configured by one or more rectifying diodes for allowing electric conduction from a ground side to a battery side; a fuse arranged between the electrical generator and a battery; and a driving apparatus, which is connected to the electrical generator in parallel at a side of the fuse opposite to the battery, including: a circuit configured by one or more semiconductor elements having one or more parasitic diodes for allowing electrical conduction from the ground side to the battery side; and a load, wherein the number of the parasitic diodes in the driving apparatus to be connected in series in a forward direction between a ground and the fuse is larger than the number of the rectifying diodes in the electrical generator to be connected in series between the ground and the battery side, wherein the parasitic diodes are configured to allow a short current flowing through the rectifying diodes to melt down the fuse so as to prevent current flow through the driving apparatus when the battery is connected in reverse, and wherein the circuit switches electrical conduction in the load. | 12,815 |
9,711,664 | 1. A production process of forming a flexible transparent solar cell that includes a flexible transparent substrate, a transparent front-electrode, a cell unit, a transparent back-electrode and a transparent encapsulating layer, which are disposed in this order; wherein the transparent front-electrode comprises: a first graphene layer in contact with the flexible transparent substrate; a metallic grid thin film layer located on a surface of the first graphene layer; and a second graphene layer located on a surface of the metallic grid thin film layer; and the transparent back-electrode comprises: a third graphene layer in contact with the cell unit; and a nano metal layer located on a surface of the third graphene layer; the production process comprising: providing the flexible transparent substrate; forming the transparent front-electrode on the flexible transparent substrate by a process comprising: forming the cell unit on the transparent front-electrode; forming the transparent back-electrode on the cell unit; and forming the transparent encapsulating layer on the transparent back-electrode. | 43,956 |
8,444,000 | 1. A paint tray comprising: a cavity defined by a bottom wall and a plurality of walls extending upwardly from the bottom wall, including a first end wall and a second sloping end wall, wherein the cavity terminates at a top edge; a top tray rim adjacent the top edge; a perimeter rim that extends downwardly and outwardly from the top tray rim; and a first handle disposed at a lower edge of the perimeter rim, wherein the first handle spans a first opening in the perimeter rim proximate the first end wall, and wherein the first opening is disposed between the first handle and the top tray rim. | 22,837 |
9,252,861 | 1. A reception apparatus comprising: a receiver which, in operation, receives a control signal mapped to one of a plurality of mapping candidates defined by a search space of a subframe; and a decoder which, in operation, performs blind decoding on the plurality of mapping candidates using one of a first transmission method and a second transmission method in accordance with an aggregation level configured for each of the plurality of mapping candidates, the first transmission method using a single antenna port to perform precoding and the second transmission method using multiple antenna ports to perform transmission diversity, and that obtains the control signal, wherein the mapping candidates are assigned numbers in ascending order from a mapping candidate corresponding to a lower aggregation level, the receiver receives a first number assigned to a mapping candidate corresponding to a position of switching between transmission methods among the numbers assigned to the plurality of mapping candidates, and the decoder performs blind decoding on a mapping candidate assigned a number lower than the first number using the first transmission method and performs blind decoding on a mapping candidate assigned a number equal to or greater than the first number using the second transmission method. | 4,726 |
9,733,098 | 1. A vehicle information providing device configured to communicate with a terminal device and with a plurality of vehicle-mounted devices installed on a plurality of vehicles that each have an electric motor as a drive source, the terminal device comprising: the vehicle information providing device comprising: | 18,324 |
9,376,864 | 1. A door curtain anti-dropping device for a rolling door, the electric rolling door comprising a door operator ( 1 ) and a door curtain (D) having a winding shaft (A) and a plurality of serially connected door slats wound about the winding shaft, the door operator ( 1 ) comprising a driving shaft ( 11 ) coupled to a first end of the winding shaft (A) to wind or the plurality of door slats, the door curtain anti-dropping device comprising: a first rotating shaft ( a reducer mechanism ( a brake mechanism ( a rotational speed detecting module ( a control circuit electrically connected to the electromagnetic generator ( wherein, when the door operator ( | 36,736 |
8,421,596 | 1. A door lock device comprising: an outer plate which is installed at the outer side of a door; an inner plate which is installed at the inner side of the door; an L-shaped outer handle which is protruded at a certain distance from the outer plate; a key insertion hole which is installed at a certain interval toward the lower portion from the outer handle of the outer plate; and an L-shaped inner handle which is protruded at a certain distance from the inner plate, wherein the door lock device further consists of: an illumination detection sensor which is installed on only the inner plate to thus detect an indoor illumination; an infrared detection sensor which is installed on only the outer plate to thus detect the infrared radiation from a human body; a microprocessor which receives an illumination detection signal detected by the illumination detection sensor, and compares the illumination detection signal with reference illumination data which is pre-stored therein, to thereby output a first emitting control signal in the case that it is judged that the detected illumination is lower than reference illumination, and output a second emitting control signal in the case that the infrared radiation from a human body is detected by the infrared detection sensor; a light emitting diode which is installed in one of the inner and outer handles; a light emitting diode drive which receives at least one of the first and second emitting control signals from the microprocessor and supplies the light emitting diode with electric power so that the light emitting diode emits light; a key board which is installed on the outer plate in order to enable a person to input a password or a password change signal into the microprocessor; and an acoustic output unit which outputs a melody for notifying that the door lock device has been locked or unlocked and outputs an alarm melody for alarming that the door lock device has not been unlocked if the door lock device has been locked although the L-shaped inner handle or the L-shaped outer handle has been turned toward a door opening direction, or alarming that the door lock device has not been locked if the door lock device has been unlocked although the L-shaped inner handle or the L-shaped outer handle has been turned toward a door closing direction, wherein the inner and outer handles are made of a transparent or semi-transparent high-intensity synthetic resin through which light from the light emitting diode can be transmitted, and wherein the light emitting diode is turned off if a predetermined time elapses, in the case that it is judged that the detected illumination is higher than reference illumination, and the light emitting diode is turned on continuously, in the case that it is judged that the detected illumination is equal to or lower than reference illumination. | 14,837 |
9,411,891 | 1. A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving a search request being initiated by a searching member profile, the search request including search criteria; detecting, in one or more databases, a team membership connection between the searching member profile and a team profile, the team profile defining a plurality of members having an affiliation with an organization, wherein the organization is the same for each member of the plurality of members; based on the detected team membership connection, identifying, by one or more processors, profile connections between member profiles and teammates of the searching member profile, the teammates being member profiles with team membership connections to the team profile, wherein: at least one team membership connection was approved for connecting a corresponding member profile with the team profile by an administrator of the team profile; identifying matching member profiles by matching the member profiles with the identified profile connection with the search criteria, wherein at least one matching member profile comprises an indirect profile connection between the at least one matching member profile and the searching member profile; communicating the matching member profiles with the identified profile connections to the searching member profile; and based on the identified profile connections between the teammates of the searching member profile and the matching member profiles, granting the searching member profile access rights to the matching member profiles that correspond to access rights the teammates are granted to the matching member profiles, wherein the access rights granted to the searching member profile are access rights granted to member profiles connected through a first-degree connection. | 32,072 |
9,016,075 | 1. An environmental control method comprising the steps of: providing a turbomachine assembly comprising a compressor, a motor and a turbine, wherein said compressor has a variable compressor geometry and is driven by a shaft, said motor and said turbine being coupled to said shaft; obtaining an input air stream; passing said input air stream through said compressor to obtain a compressed air stream; using a first valve to split said compressed air stream into a first compressed air stream and a second compressed air stream; cooling said first compressed air stream to obtain a cooled air stream; using a second valve to split said cooled air stream into a first cooled air stream and a second cooled air stream; passing said first cooled air stream through said turbine to obtain a turbine output stream; combining said turbine output stream with said second cooled air stream and said second compressed air stream to obtain a combined air stream, said combined air stream having a temperature and a flow rate; and controlling said compressor geometry, said motor, said first valve and said second valve to minimize a first difference between said temperature and a target temperature and a second difference between said flow rate and a target flow rate. | 3,677 |
9,761,333 | 1. A passive auxiliary condensing apparatus of a nuclear power plant, the passive auxiliary condensing apparatus comprising: a steam generation unit generating steam by a heat produced when operating a nuclear reactor; a cooling tank disposed outside the steam generation unit and storing cooling water therein; a heat exchanger installed inside the cooling tank and condensing the steam provided from the steam generation unit by the cooling water of the cooling tank, the heat exchanger having an inlet and an outlet; a steam pipe connecting an upper portion of the steam generation unit and the inlet of the heat exchanger such that the steam from the steam generation unit flows into the heat exchanger through the steam pipe; a steam-water separation tank disposed side by side with the cooling tank separately from each other, wherein the steam-water separation tank separates a mixture of water and steam provided from the heat exchanger into the water and the steam respectively and includes a bypass pipe including a check valve and connecting the inlet of the heat exchanger and an upper portion of the steam-water separation tank such that the steam flows from the steam-water separation tank to the heat exchanger without passing through the steam generation unit, wherein the steam provided from the steam generation unit circulates through the steam generation unit, the steam pipe, the heat exchanger, the inlet pipe of the steam-water separation tank, the steam-water separation tank, the outlet pipe of the steam-water separation tank and the steam generation unit. | 44,131 |
8,354,874 | 1. A cancellation circuit comprising: a first current source; a second current source; a third current source; a fourth current source; a load including a bias control module including a first capacitance connected to each of the first output of the bias control module and the second output of the bias control module; a second capacitance connected between (i) the first current source and the third current source, and (i) a ground reference; a third capacitance connected between (i) the second current source and the fourth current source, and (ii) the ground reference; a first switch, wherein the first switch and the first current source are connected between a voltage supply and the first node; a second switch, wherein the second switch and the second current source are connected between the first node and a reference potential; a third switch, wherein the third switch and the fourth current source are connected between the voltage supply and the second node; a fourth switch, wherein the fourth switch and the third current source are connected between the second node and the reference potential; and a switching control module configured to control (i) states of the first switch and the fourth switch via a first control signal, and (ii) states of the second switch and the third switch via a second control signal. | 12,435 |
9,200,120 | 1. An intermediate transfer member comprising a layer of a siloxyfluorocarbon networked polymer prepared from siloxyfluorocarbon monomers represented by the structure: wherein R 1 is an aliphatic or aromatic fluorocarbon chain; L is a C a H 2a linker group, where a is a number between 0 and about 10; and X 1 , X 2 , and X 3 are reactive hydroxide functionalities, reactive alkoxide functionalities, unreactive aliphatic functionalities of from about 1 carbon atom to about 10 carbon atoms, or unreactive aromatic functionalities including from about 3 carbon atoms to about 10 carbon atoms, wherein the surface free energy of the intermediate transfer member is from about 10 mN/m to about 40 mN/m to provide wetting of an ink applied to the intermediate transfer member and further wherein the intermediate transfer member exhibits no permanent adhesion of ink to the layer of siloxyfluorocarbon networked polymer. | 46,002 |
9,328,949 | 1. A system in a process control arrangement for preventing gas surge in an industrial compressor having a gas input and a gas output wherein the compressor is driven by an electric motor powered by a three-phase electric power supply comprising: a system gas input supply line; a system gas output line; a low pressure input suction line connected between said gas input supply line and the input of the compressor; a gas discharge line connected between the output of the compressor and said gas output line; bypass means connected between said gas discharge line and said low pressure input suction line for relieving excess pressure in said compressor gas discharge line; and adjustable speed drive (ASD) means powered by a three-phase electric power supply and connected to the electric motor; wherein stored in the ASD means is a two-dimensional compressor surge map for determining the occurrence of a gas surge in said gas discharge line based on the surge map, for reacting to the detection of such a surge with said bypass means being actuated by said ASD means, and for controlling the speed and power of the motor if required; wherein the two-dimensional surge map is based on power and speed of the electric motor and a graphical representation of the two-dimensional surge map comprises a first axis representing power and a second axis representing speed. | 35,355 |
8,475,870 | 1. A resin layer formation method for forming a resin layer on a surface of a substrate, with a resin layer applying apparatus having a rotatable turntable comprising the steps of: providing a substrate having a planar surface of the substrate; mounting the substrate on the rotatable turntable; applying a first coating of a resin on the surface of said substrate; forming a first resin flowable layer on the surface of said substrate by rotating said substrate on the turntable; forming a hardened non-flowable adjustment section only around a rotation center of said substrate by hardening only a part of said first flowable resin layer less than the entirety of said first flowable resin layer; applying a second coating of the resin at the rotation center side from said hardened adjustment section of said substrate or on said hardened adjustment section; and forming a second resin layer on said first resin layer by rotating said substrate on the rotatable turntable, wherein a substantially uniform thickness of the combined first and second resin layer is provided over the substrate. | 49,328 |
9,537,512 | 1. A method for implementing a turbo-diversity scheme in a wireless orthogonal frequency division multiplex (OFDM) system, the method comprising: encoding, at a first turbo encoder and a second turbo encoder, information comprising data signals, and generating two different turbo code blocks each comprising a set of systematic and parity bits; | 41,495 |
8,469,309 | 1. An assembly comprising: an integral monolithic structure including: a selectively removable gas turbine engine with a casing being mounted in supporting connection with the monolithic structure and wherein at least a portion of the gas turbine engine extends through the ring member; and a non-rigid interface between the gas turbine engine and the ring member; wherein, when mounted on the associated aircraft, the nacelle portion and the support structure portion cooperate to form a first load path operable to transmit an applied nacelle maneuvering force directly to the associated aircraft and when the applied nacelle maneuvering force is present, the gas turbine engine is substantially isolated from being acted on by the applied nacelle maneuvering force. | 12,651 |
9,321,710 | 1. A process for producing phenol, the process comprising: (a) contacting a composition comprising an alkylaromatic compound with an oxygen-containing stream in the presence of an oxidation catalyst comprising a cyclic imide under oxidation conditions effective to oxidize 15 wt% or less of the alkylaromatic compound based upon the total weight of the composition and produce an oxidation product comprising unreacted alkylaromatic compound and an alkylaromatic hydroperoxide in a molar ratio of 6:1to 100:1; and (b) contacting at least a portion of the oxidation product with an acidic molecular sieve catalyst under cleavage conditions effective to convert at least a portion of the alkylaromatic hydroperoxide into phenol and a co-product. | 37,016 |
9,281,875 | 1. A system for transferring energy wirelessly, comprising: a source configured to transmit energy as an EM near-field according to parameters, wherein the source further comprises: a sink configured to receive the energy, wherein the sink further comprises: | 18,158 |
8,550,294 | 1. A card dispensing apparatus comprising: an array of card hoppers, wherein the array of card hoppers includes at least two vertical columns of card hoppers positioned side by side, wherein each vertical column includes two or more card hoppers, and wherein each of the individual card hoppers is configured to hold a plurality of horizontally oriented cards in a vertical stack; a plurality of card ejectors, wherein each of the card ejectors is fixedly associated with a corresponding one of the card hoppers; and a card carriage selectively movable between each of the card hoppers, wherein the card carriage is configured to respond to a card selection by moving into position proximate a corresponding one of the card hoppers, wherein the card ejector operably associated with the corresponding card hopper is configured to eject one of the cards from the corresponding card hopper in response to a signal associated with the card selection, wherein the card carriage is configured to receive the ejected card from the corresponding card hopper, and wherein the card carriage is further configured to transport the received card toward a card accept chute and dispense the card into the card accept chute for retrieval by a user. | 3,208 |
9,811,120 | 1. A flexible display device comprising: a flexible display panel comprising a folding area and a peripheral area; and a first outer member on a surface of the flexible display panel and comprising a first groove pattern extending in a first direction at the folding area, wherein the first groove pattern comprises: wherein a width of the first groove pattern satisfies the Formula and wherein W denotes the width of the first groove pattern, F denotes a distance between the first inclined portion and the second inclined portion in the second direction, S1 denotes a width of the first inclined portion in the second direction, S2 denotes a width of the second inclined portion in the second direction, π denotes a circular constant, and R denotes a radius of curvature of the flexible display panel at the folding area. | 47,988 |
9,267,653 | 1. A light fixture comprising: a fixture body comprising: a shroud disposed on the fixture body and defining an interior area, the shroud arranged to at least partially conceal the receiver in the interior area; a frame stem having first and second ends, the first end disposed on the receiver; a frame attached to the second end of the frame stem below the first end with respect to the receiver and the socket; a power receptacle and/or a communication receptacle disposed on the frame in a location below the light emitter with respect to the ceiling surface and at least a portion of the power receptacle and/or the communication receptacle is located within the interior area of the shroud; and a receptacle cover disposed on the frame, the receptacle cover moving between a closed position concealing the power receptacle and/or the communication receptacle and an open position allowing access to the power receptacle and/or the communication receptacle. | 33,239 |
9,336,752 | 1. A processing system comprising: a single processor comprising a first integrated circuit, wherein the first integrated circuit comprises a processor core, a display interface, and a memory controller coupled to a first bus interface, and wherein the display interface is adapted to display graphical information generated by a graphics engine that is not on the first integrated circuit; and a second bus interface for allowing communication with the first integrated circuit via the first bus interface, wherein the second bus interface is adapted to allow for communications with the graphics engine, wherein the processor core of the first integrated circuit performs at least some of the functions of the graphics engine when the graphics engine is disabled. | 7,707 |
9,649,935 | 1. A system for viewing weather hazards in a predetermined region, said system being intended to be on-board an aircraft and comprising: communication means for receiving weather information at each point of said region; a processor for determining, for each point of said region, from a current position of the aircraft and navigation parameters of the aircraft, a future instant at which the aircraft would reach said each point; an expert system using a Bayesian network representing a probabilistic model for estimating, at each point of said region, from said weather information, a weather hazard at said each point at said future instant; and a graphic interface for representing, at each point of said region, the weather hazards estimated by the expert system, wherein: the weather hazard is the presence of a weather event bounded by a boundary, and the Bayesian network estimates the weather hazard at a point of said region at the future instant at which the aircraft would reach the point from at least the weather information in said region for the future instant, a distance separating the current position of the aircraft and the point, a distance to the boundary of the weather event along a path perpendicular to a straight line through the current position and the point, and the age of said forecast weather information. | 43,434 |
9,375,885 | 1. A method of forming a contact lens, the method comprising the steps of: forming a media insert by attaching a data processor, a battery and a liquid meniscus lens to a substrate; positioning the media insert within a portion of a contact lens mold; depositing a reactive monomer mix into the contact lens mold and encapsulating the media insert therein; and exposing the reactive monomer mix to actinic radiation or heat to form the contact lens. | 15,745 |
9,168,843 | 1. An apparatus for charging a battery, comprising: a controller configured to select a driving mode based on a user operation; a Battery Management System (BMS) configured to execute a charge type based on the selected driving mode; and a battery configured to be charged based on a control of the BMS, wherein when the driving mode is a short-distance driving mode, the charge is controlled to be performed up to a low state of charge (SOC). | 30,256 |
8,601,229 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a memory operable to store memory configuration information; and a processor operable to perform a security enhancing operation on the memory configuration information in response to switching from a first processor operating mode to a second processor operating mode. | 1,552 |
9,261,866 | 1. A controller for hospitality or healthcare services configured for simultaneous operation of multiple associated utility devices, comprising: a primary controller having a multitasking operating system and a plurality of native control applications for controlling one or more native work operations, the primary controller including a primary control board, the primary control board including a field programmable gate array, the primary control board connected in communication with an input/output board for a ware washing machine wherein the input/output board for the ware washing machine includes a conductivity module, a valve drive module, a ware wash dispensing I/O microprocessor module, a control system network communications module, a thermistor module and a digital sensor input module; a plurality of external control applications loaded onto the primary controller for controlling at least one or more external work operations associated with a utility device for providing hospitality or healthcare services to said plurality of external control applications including an application for controlling at least one ware washing dispensing device; one or more of the native and external control applications operated simultaneously to monitor and control the native and external work operations; a user interface having sensory outputs associated with the plurality of native and external control applications; said sensory outputs further comprising a training option, tutorial option and an assistance option for the one or more work operations of a hospitality or healthcare device, and wherein the training, tutorial and assistance options include text, audio or video selected based on a sensitivity to at least: said primary controller encased in a controller housing that is separate from the at least one ware washing dispensing device and said housing including at least one water tight seal for use with a cable. | 8,889 |
9,400,590 | 1. A method for using a pen in an electronic device, comprising: detecting a pen use event; and responsive to the pen use event, displaying, on a display of the electronic device, a virtual button which performs substantially the same function as a physical button that is part of the electronic device; wherein the physical button comprises at least one of a mechanical switch and an optical switch, and the virtual button is displayed in a region of the display that is selected based on a location of the physical button on the electronic device. | 35,182 |
9,800,719 | 1. A mobile device comprising: at least one memory that stores computer-executable instructions; at least one processor configured to access the at least one memory and execute the computer-executable instructions; a first rechargeable battery configured to power the at least one processor; a second rechargeable battery configured to power the at least one processor; and one or more MOSFETs electrically coupled to the first rechargeable battery and the second rechargeable battery, the one or more MOSFETs configured to transition between a first state in which the one or more MOSFETs form a series connection between the first rechargeable battery and the second rechargeable battery and a second state in which the one or more MOSFETs form a parallel connection between the first rechargeable battery and the second rechargeable battery; wherein the at least one processor is configured to access the at least one memory and execute the computer-executable instructions to: | 1,390 |
9,429,282 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a support structure; a rotating base having a center of rotation, the rotating base substantially surrounding the center of rotation; a drive mechanism coupled to a first one of the support structure and the rotating base and configured to cause motion of the rotating base relative to the support structure; and a coupling assembly, comprising a plurality of wheels configured to rotatably couple to a peripheral portion of one of the support structure and the rotating base and to support the rotating base, wherein the coupling assembly is configured to allow the rotating base to rotate relative to the support structure and to constrain motion of the rotating base in a radial direction relative to an axis of rotation of the rotating base. | 31,002 |
9,165,781 | 1. A composition for forming a pattern reversal film, comprising: a polysiloxane; an additive; and an organic solvent, wherein: the polysiloxane comprises structural units and terminal ends, the structural units consisting of one or more of a structural unit of Formula (1) and one or more of a structural unit of Formula (2): where R 1 is a C 1-8 alkyl group, and where R 2 is an acryloyloxy group or a methacryloyloxy group; and n is an integer of 2 to 4, and the additive is selected from the group consisting of maleic acid, citric acid, salicylic acid, 3-hydroxybenzoic acid, 4-hydroxybenzoic acid, 2,6-dihydroxybenzoic acid, 3,5-dihydroxybenzoic acid, gallic acid, phthalic acid, pyromellitic acid, and ascorbic acid. | 44,105 |
9,719,860 | 1. A power device temperature monitor, comprising: an amplifier coupled to at least one of a plurality of inductors of the power device; an analog-to-digital converter coupled to an output of the amplifier coupled to the at least one of a plurality of inductors of the power device; and a computing device that receives an output of the analog-to-digital converter, the computing device configured to derive a temperature of the power device based on a comparison of a value associated with a voltage drop across the at least one of a plurality of inductors with characterization data that is accessed by the computing device. | 8,632 |
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