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8,992,935 | 1. An isolated, genetically modified Helicobacter pylori comprising a functional urease comprising a modified UreB subunit, wherein the modified UreB subunit comprises the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1, wherein at least ten additional contiguous amino acid residues have been inserted in a region between amino acid 549 and amino acid 550 of SEQ ID NO: 1, and wherein the modified Helicobacter pylori has a reduced ability to establish or maintain a persistent infection relative to a H. pylori expressing an unmodified urease. | 43,716 |
9,458,608 | 1. An automatic water shut-off and notification system for interfacing with a water valve and an existing security system having a security system control panel and at least one water sensor connected wired or wirelessly on a zone of the security system control panel, the automatic water shut-off and notification system comprising a control module, the control module comprising: a trig input terminal configured for connection with an output terminal of the security system control panel; a valve control terminal and a valve power terminal configured for connection with the water valve; a processor connected to the trig input terminal and the valve control and valve power terminals, the processor configured to act on a detection signal received at the trig input terminal indicating water detection by the at least one water sensor; a control module board; and a control module terminal strip mounted on the control module board and comprising the trig input terminal, the valve control terminal, and the valve power terminal, each terminal being electrically connected to the processor via the control module terminal strip, wherein the control module terminal strip further comprises: a positive power terminal configured for connection with a first auxiliary power terminal of the security system control panel; and a negative power terminal configured for connection with a second auxiliary power terminal of the security system control panel; wherein with the control module installed and operably connected to the security system control panel and to the water valve the control module is powered by the security system control panel and, upon water detection by one or more of the at least one water sensors, the security system control panel sends the detection signal via the output terminal to the trig input terminal of the control module, and in response the processor then activates the water valve via the valve control terminal and the valve power terminal to close the water valve and shut off the flow of water in a pipe in which the water valve is installed; whereby the configuration of the control module of the automatic water shut-off and notification system enables use of the functionality of the existing security system and the one or more water sensors connected thereto and the resulting output detection signal generated by the security system control panel to control the water valve. | 19,248 |
9,057,138 | 1. An energy supply system, comprising: an electricity generating device for regeneratively generating electrical energy feedable into an electricity supply grid; a hydrogen generating device for generating hydrogen using electrical energy from the regenerative electricity generating device; a methanation device for converting hydrogen generated by the hydrogen generating device and a supplied carbon oxide gas into a gas containing methane; and a gas providing device for providing one of a supplementary gas and a replacement gas in a variably specifiable supplementary/replacement gas quality suitable for feeding into a gas supply grid with the use of at least one of the gas containing methane from the methanation device and the hydrogen from the hydrogen generating device, wherein | 33,587 |
8,711,581 | 1. A synchronous rectifier network unit of a power converter, the synchronous rectifier network unit comprising: a coil; a first body diode of a first transistor, the first body diode being coupled to a terminal of the coil and to which a current flows at a first time instance when the current is generated to flow through the coil; the first transistor coupled to the terminal of the coil and configured to turn on when the first body diode conducts; and a rectification controller configured to rectify the current by differently controlling the turn-off time of the first transistor according to the current, the rectification controller including a current conducting detector configured to detect a time when the first body diode is conducted. | 41,286 |
9,226,237 | 1. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU), comprising: a baseband device and receiver configured to: | 13,551 |
8,508,196 | 1. A switching regulator with a soft-start function comprising: a first oscillation circuit for outputting a start-up switching signal when an output voltage of the switching regulator is lower than a predetermined voltage; a reference voltage circuit for outputting a gradually-increasing reference voltage at start-up of the switching regulator; an operational amplifier for comparing the gradually-increasing reference voltage with a feedback voltage determined based on the output voltage of the switching regulator; a second oscillation circuit for outputting a switching signal; a PWM comparator for comparing an output signal of the operational amplifier with the switching signal; a switch circuit for selectively outputting the start-up switching signal and an output signal of the PWM comparator based on the output voltage of the switching regulator; and a control circuit for controlling the gradually-increasing reference voltage, wherein the gradually-increasing reference voltage follows and matches a voltage across a capacitive element, wherein when the output voltage is below the predetermined threshold, the control circuit controls the voltage across the capacitive element to follow and match the feedback voltage, and when the output voltage exceeds the predetermined voltage, the control circuit controls the capacitive element to charge based on current sourced from a constant current source circuit. | 40,943 |
9,645,595 | 1. A method for measuring a frequency of phasor of a power system, comprising the following steps: (1) providing a grid-connected photovoltaic generation system with a control module ( (2) the control module ( wherein, X(M,l) is a transformed value of a measured result of phasor, M is a phasor reference point in the data windows ( and, D K,l and C K,l are a column of the factor of the derivative a (k) and a column matrix a factor of a conjugate transpose derivative [a (k) ]*, respectively; (3) the phasor reference point M being unified into one point, and the transformed value X(M,l) of the measured result of phasor being phase-shifted and calculated to obtain a phasor estimated value {circumflex over (X)}(M,l): (4) the control module ( wherein, e (5) the control module ( | 9,704 |
8,534,061 | 1. A dump truck comprising: a cooling oil tank for storing cooling oil; a braking system to which the cooling oil is supplied; a transmission to which the cooling oil is supplied via the braking system; a first hydraulic pump that is driven by an engine and supplies the cooling oil in the cooling oil tank to the braking system and the transmission; a second hydraulic pump that supplies the cooling oil in the cooling oil tank, in addition to the cooling oil from the first hydraulic pump, to the braking system and the transmission; a hydraulic motor whose output axis is connected to an input axis of the second hydraulic pump; a hydraulic oil tank for storing hydraulic oil; a third hydraulic pump that is driven by the engine and supplies the hydraulic oil in the hydraulic oil tank to the hydraulic motor; a flow amount adjuster that is provided along a bypass channel that lets a predetermined amount of the hydraulic oil from the third hydraulic pump bypass the hydraulic motor and adjusts a bypass flow amount in the bypass channel; and a controller that controls the bypass flow amount at the flow amount adjuster based on a brake status in the braking system, a capacity of the first hydraulic pump corresponding to a flow amount of the cooling oil required to lubricate the transmission, a capacity of the second hydraulic pump corresponding to a flow amount of the cooling oil to make up for the cooling oil from the first hydraulic pump in order to provide the cooling oil supplied when the braking system is in operation, and a capacity of the third hydraulic pump being smaller than a capacity of the second hydraulic pump. | 6,004 |
8,954,608 | 1. A method for synchronizing network clocks comprising the following steps: measuring with a first total field magnetometer the Earth's magnetic field at a first network node over a time period X as gauged by a first node system clock, wherein the first magnetometer has a resolution of 15 nano-Teslas or less; processing data measured by the first magnetometer to generate first sensor spatially-coherent data; measuring with a second total field magnetometer the Earth's magnetic field at a second network node over the time period X as gauged by a second node system clock, wherein the second magnetometer has a resolution of 15 nano-Teslas or less, and wherein the second magnetometer is physically separated from the first magnetometer by a distance of up to one kilometer; processing data measured by the second magnetometer to generate second sensor spatially-coherent data; transmitting the first sensor spatially-coherent data from the first network node to the second network node; calculating a clock drift between the first and second network nodes based on the first sensor spatially-coherent data and the second sensor spatially-coherent data; and adjusting the second node system clock to match the first node system clock based on the calculated clock drift. | 38,846 |
9,099,571 | 1. A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, comprising: encapsulating a semiconductor die with an encapsulant thereby forming a semiconductor structure having a front side and a back side, wherein the semiconductor die has an active surface generally flush with the front side, and side surfaces and a back surface embedded in the encapsulant, wherein the encapsulant is continuous; forming a conductive line at the front side of the encapsulant and the active surface of the semiconductor die; and forming a conductive via that extends from the front side to the back side of the semiconductor structure, the conductive via being in direct contact with the conductive line. | 24,317 |
9,160,737 | 1. A system for validating service execution requests, comprising: one or more processing units; and memory comprising instructions that when executed by at least some of the one or more processing units perform operations, comprising: | 36,046 |
8,957,624 | 1. A rechargeable battery system comprising: a plurality of rechargeable battery cells coupled between a plurality of terminals; and charge shuttling circuitry configured to couple with and shuttle electrical energy between individual ones of the rechargeable battery cells, and wherein the charge shuttling circuitry is configured to receive the electrical energy from one of the rechargeable battery cells at a first voltage and to provide the electrical energy to another of the rechargeable battery cells at a second voltage greater than the first voltage; wherein the charge shuttling circuitry comprises storage circuitry configured to receive and to store the electrical energy from the one of the rechargeable battery cells and to provide the electrical energy to the another of the rechargeable battery cells; and wherein the storage circuitry comprises a plurality of storage devices, and wherein the storage devices are coupled in parallel with the one of the rechargeable battery cells during the reception of the electrical energy from the one of the rechargeable battery cells and the storage devices are coupled in series with the another of the rechargeable battery cells during the provision of the electrical energy to the another of the rechargeable battery cells. | 48,582 |
8,976,982 | 1. An audio signal processing system comprising: an editing device configured for editing a signal processing configuration, the signal processing configuration including one or more protected components relating to protected component audio signal processing, the one or more protected components associated with one or more protected component enabling keys, and an audio signal processing device provided with an audio signal interface for inputting audio signals, the audio signal processing device configured for, based on whether the one or more protected component enabling keys are stored in the audio signal processing device or not, executing an audio signal processing on inputted audio signals from the audio signal interface in accordance with the signal processing configuration including the one or more protected components, wherein the audio signal processing device or the editing device is provided with: a disabling device configured for disabling the audio signal processing device from executing the audio signal processing on the inputted audio signals from the audio interface when at least one of the one or more protected component enabling keys is not stored in the audio signal processing device; and an enabling device configured for enabling the audio signal processing device for executing the audio signal processing on the inputted audio signals from the audio interface when the one or more protected component enabling keys are stored in the audio signal processing device, the executed audio signal processing including the protected component audio signal processing. | 25,281 |
8,760,458 | 1. A scan-type display device control circuit, suitable for receiving a plurality of successive frame data and driving a light-emitting diode (LED) display device accordingly, comprising: a ping-pong buffer, comprising a first storage area and a second storage area; a data storage controller, for receiving the frame data in sequence and storing the frame data in the first storage area or the second storage area alternately; a line scan controller, logically connected to the ping-pong buffer, for capturing a plurality of line data of the frame data from the first storage area or the second storage area alternately; a display buffer, logically connected to the line scan controller, for temporarily storing the line data; and a scrambled pulse width modulation (PWM) signal generating device, logically connected to the display buffer or the line scan controller, wherein the scrambled PWM signal generating device captures the line data and generates a scrambled PWM signal according to the line data; wherein for each frame, | 38,252 |
8,765,449 | 1. A method for the anaerobic digestion of a raw feedstock containing raw organic solids, said method comprising: transferring a quantity of said feedstock into a first digestion tank; mixing and chopping said feedstock to reduce the size of the raw organic solids contained in said feedstock; holding said feedstock in said first digestion tank for a predetermined period of time to provide for at least partial microbial hydrolysis of said feedstock, wherein said feedstock has a pH of 5.5 to 6.5; ceasing the mixing of said feedstock and allowing the settling of solids from a supernatant; drawing off a portion of said supernatant from said first digestion tank and transferring said drawn off portion to a second digestion tank; collecting first gases from said first digestion tank and transmitting said first gasses to a third digestion tank; maintaining the temperature of said supernatant in said first digestion tank between 24° C. to 35° C.; operating said second digestion tank as an upflow fluidized bed reactor, said reactor having a top and a bottom, wherein supernatant pumped from said first digestion tank enters said second digestion tank at said bottom and exits said second digestion tank at said top as filtered supernatant, wherein said feedstock has a pH of 5.5 to 6.5; adjusting the upflow velocity of the supernatant moving through said second digestion tank to minimize suspended and colloidal solids in said filtered supernatant; drawing off a second portion of said filtered supernatant from said second digestion tank; collecting second gases from said second digestion tank and transmitting said second gases to said third digestion tank; maintaining the temperature of said supernatant in said second digestion tank between 24° C. to 35° C.; heating said filtered supernatant to a mesophilic temperature or a thermophilic temperature; adjusting the pH of the filtered supernatant to maintain a pH of 7.8 to 8.5 in said third digestion tank; transferring said second portion of filtered supernatant to said third digestion tank; operating said third digestion tank as a packed bed reactor having an upper portion containing a second digester media, where the second digester media is selected from the group consisting of low angle anaerobic digester media and enhanced surface area media, and a lower portion containing high angle anaerobic digester media, said filtered supernatant flowing through said lower portion then through said upper portion; injecting said first and second gasses into said third digestion tank upper portion; discharging filtered effluent from said third digestion tank; and collecting and storing methane gas produced in said third digestion tank. | 45,810 |
8,893,005 | 1. A method of displaying visual data on a display of a terminal device comprising: the terminal device displaying an icon having at least one of expander indicia, notification indicia and presence state indicia illustrated thereon on a display of the terminal device; the terminal device running a first application associated with the icon and illustrating the icon on a foreground of the display of the terminal device such that the icon is on the foreground of the display of the terminal device; the terminal device displaying a window on the display associated with at least one second application unrelated to the first application that is being run by the terminal device and a user of the terminal device is actively using the second application by providing input to the terminal device that is associated with the at least one second application such that the icon is within the foreground of the display of the terminal device; and the terminal device receiving presence state data from a first server to which the terminal device is communicatively connected and updating the presence state indicia of the icon in response to the received presence state data, the presence state data comprising information identifying at least one of a location of the user and an activity of the user; the terminal device illustrating a portion of the displayed icon folding away from one of the notification indicia, presence state indicia, and expander indicia upon a determination that input indicates a pointer is over that indicia to provide a more complete view of that indicia; and the terminal device illustrating the portion of the displayed icon folding over a portion of the one of the notification indicia, presence state indicia, and expander indicia to partially cover the more complete view of the indicia upon a determination that the pointer is moved away from that indicia. | 30,506 |
9,152,837 | 1. Apparatus for verifying the presence of a particular human individual at a given location by altering and repeatedly assessing details of an iris of an eye of said human individual, said apparatus comprising, in combination: (a) a computer database in which are stored data representing a plurality of images of an iris and other identification data pertaining to each of at least one registered human individual (“RHI”), wherein each of said images is acquired during a different physiologic state of said RHI, each said state influencing said image of said iris; (b) a first processor coupled to the database for accessing selected information from the database and for producing at least one prompt signal; (c) at least one first camera arranged (d) a prompt producing device, for producing at least one prompt in response to said at least one prompt signal received from said first processor, for inducing at least one involuntary anatomic change in said iris of said PHI; wherein said first processor is operative to: to verify the identity of the PHI; thereby to verify that the PHI is the same individual as one of said at least one RHI by assessing said PHI iris during a plurality of physiologic states, or to determine that the PHI is not the same individual as any one of said at least one RHI. | 11,620 |
8,756,505 | 1. A method comprising: defining a graphical user interface through which a plurality of media players implemented on a computing device are to be controlled, wherein the graphical user interface comprises a user interface element displayed as part of the graphical user interface; associating at least one function with the defined user interface element; associating at least one playlist and a plurality of entries of the at least one playlist with the graphical user interface, said association comprising identifying a type for each entry of the at least one playlist based upon attributes of the computing device on which the graphical user interface is operating, wherein each entry comprises a first media file or a pointer to the first media file; storing the graphical user interface and the association of the playlist with the graphical user interface in a manner interpretable by a web browser; and associating computer program process code with the graphical user interface, wherein the computer program process code comprises instructions for: | 38,236 |
9,374,298 | 1. A method comprising: monitoring, by a network device, for one or more indicia of stress; determining, based on the one or more indicia of stress, a stress condition exists; in response to the stress condition, causing one or more link aggregation actors and partners to enter a grace state for a grace period, the one or more link aggregation actors and partners logically aggregate links to form one or more link aggregation groups for respective network devices; while the one or more link aggregation actors and partners are in the grace state, pacing, by the one or more link aggregation actors and partners, link aggregation formation on a plurality of links for the respective network devices by delaying formation of one or more new link aggregation groups for the plurality of links until a hold is released and periodically releasing the hold on a selected size of subsets of links for the plurality of links to support formation of one or more new link aggregation groups, the selected size of the subsets of links being increased or decreased in response to changes in severity of the stress condition; and exiting the grace state upon expiration of the grace period. | 6,685 |
8,475,336 | 1. A hydraulic control system for controlling a dual clutch transmission, the hydraulic control system comprising: a source of pressurized hydraulic fluid; a first, a second, a third and a fourth variable force solenoid in downstream fluid communication with the source of pressurized hydraulic fluid; a first flow control solenoid in downstream fluid communication with the first variable force solenoid; a second flow control solenoid in downstream fluid communication with the second variable force solenoid; a first clutch actuator in downstream fluid communication with the first flow control solenoid for selectively actuating a first clutch of the dual clutch transmission; a second clutch actuator in downstream fluid communication with the second flow control solenoid for selectively actuating a second clutch of the dual clutch transmission; a first logic valve assembly in downstream fluid communication with the third and the fourth variable force solenoids, wherein the first logic valve assembly has a valve movable between a first and a second position; a second logic valve assembly in downstream fluid communication with the first logic valve assembly, wherein the second logic valve assembly has a valve movable between a first and a second position; a third logic valve assembly in downstream fluid communication with the first logic valve assembly wherein the third logic valve assembly has a valve movable between a first and a second position; a first actuator in downstream fluid communication with the second logic valve assembly, wherein the first actuator is movable between a first and second position when the valve of the first logic control valve assembly is in the first position and the valve of second logic control valve assembly is in the first position; a second actuator in downstream fluid communication with the second logic valve assembly, wherein the second actuator is movable between a first and second position when the valve of the first logic valve assembly is in the first position and the valve of second logic valve assembly is in the second position; a third actuator in downstream fluid communication with the third logic valve assembly, wherein the third actuator is movable between a first and second position when the valve of the first logic valve assembly is in the second position and the valve of third logic valve assembly is in the first position; and a fourth actuator in downstream fluid communication with the third logic valve assembly, wherein the fourth actuator is movable between a first and second position when the valve of the first logic valve assembly is in the second position and the valve of third logic valve assembly is in the second position, and wherein the third variable force solenoid modulates a first hydraulic fluid pressure to move at least one of the four actuators into the first position and the fourth variable force solenoid modulates a second hydraulic fluid pressure to move the at least one of the four actuators into the second position. | 19,348 |
8,948,934 | 1. A method for communicating data between a vehicle and a mobile ground-based unit, said method comprising: communicatively coupling the vehicle to the mobile ground-based unit; initiating a Broadband over Power Line (BPL) link between the vehicle and the mobile ground-based unit when power is supplied to the vehicle; communicatively coupling the mobile ground-based unit to a ground-based network using a communications device configured to communicate data received from the vehicle between the mobile ground-based unit and the ground-based network, wherein the mobile ground-based unit is configured to enable vehicle information exchange to occur with the ground-based network in remote settings without a wired power infrastructure; and updating data stored in the vehicle with data received from the mobile ground-based unit. | 42,170 |
8,666,580 | 1. A hybrid vehicle comprising: an internal combustion engine; a first electric motor configured to have a power transmission path between the first electric motor and an output shaft of said internal combustion engine, for outputting a motoring torque when said internal combustion engine is started; a second electric motor configured to have a power transmission path between the second electric motor and the output shaft of said internal combustion engine; a vibration reduction torque calculation unit for setting, when said internal combustion engine is started, a periodic vibration reduction torque for suppressing torque pulsation occurring as said internal combustion engine rotates, based on a rotational position of the output shaft of said internal combustion engine; and a torque control unit for controlling output torques of said first and second electric motors so that, when said internal combustion engine is started, a partial torque of said vibration reduction torque is output from said first electric motor and a shortage of said vibration reduction torque due to said partial torque is compensated for by the output torque from said second electric motor. | 49,592 |
9,041,306 | 1. An illumination device, comprising: input terminals of the illumination device for coupling to AC mains; a light emitting diode (LED) string connected in series with the input terminals of the illumination device; a rectifier, having input terminals which are connected in series with the LED string and the input terminals of the illumination device, and having output terminals; a controllable voltage source, having input terminals coupled to the rectifier output terminals, and having output terminals; and a series arrangement of at least one auxiliary LED and an auxiliary ballast resistor connected across the output terminals of the controllable voltage source. | 32,598 |
8,662,206 | 1. An apparatus for making a second borehole in the ground, a cross section of which second borehole partially intersects a cross section of an existing first borehole, the apparatus comprising: a boring device; and a guide device operatively connected to the boring device, the guide device including at least a first guide element configured to interact with a wall of the existing first borehole and a direction-influencing device configured to influence a direction of the second borehole while the second borehole is being made, wherein the guide device is configured to guide the boring device relative to the existing first borehole, and wherein the first guide element and the direction-influencing device are always disposed entirely in the existing first borehole. | 25,103 |
8,659,702 | 1. An image displaying apparatus comprising: a display unit; a touch type operating unit comprising a first group of at least one touch key and a second group of at least one touch key for performing various operations of the image displaying apparatus; a setting unit configured to set whether an on-screen display (OSD) is produced on the display unit for each operation item; first and second groups of light sources provided in the operating unit to respectively illuminate the first and second groups of touch keys; and a turn-on/off controller configured to control a turn-on/off state of the first group of light sources instead of the OSD when an operation is performed for an operation item that is not set to produce the OSD, wherein the image displaying apparatus controls the turn-on/off state of at least one of the first group of light sources or the second group of light sources in accordance with a touch operation of touch keys, and executes a preset operation of the image displaying apparatus in accordance with the touch operations of the touch keys, wherein the second group of touch keys relates to a power source operation, and the first group of touch keys relates to an operation other than the power source operation, and wherein the first group of touch keys includes two touch keys used to perform audio volume up and down operations, the first group of light sources further comprises other light sources of a different display color configured to respectively illuminate the two touch keys, and the turn-on/off controller controls the turn-on/off state of the other light sources when the item that is set not to display the OSD is one of audio volume and audio mute items and the operation is performed for the audio mute item. | 34,297 |
9,815,025 | 1. A method of reducing corrosion in a CO2 removal system, comprising: providing a treated flue gas to an absorber; absorbing, in an absorber, CO2 from the treated flue gas with an amine solvent to produce a CO2-lean treated flue gas, wherein during the step of absorbing, metals dissolve in the amine solvent; sending the amine solvent having dissolved metals to a metal removal system; processing the amine solvent having dissolved metals with a metal ion chelator in the metal removal system to yield a purified solvent, wherein the metal ion chelator is chemically bonded to a solid phase, wherein the purified solvent has ionic metals in an amount of equal or less than 1 mg/I; and circulating the purified solvent to the absorber. | 5,080 |
8,557,478 | 1. A fuel cell formed by stacking an electrolyte electrode assembly and separators, said electrolyte electrode assembly comprising an anode, a cathode, and an electrolyte interposed between said anode and said cathode, said electrolyte electrode assembly being sandwiched between said separators, said separators each comprising: a sandwiching section having a fuel gas channel for supplying a fuel gas along an electrode surface of said anode and an oxygen-containing gas channel for supplying an oxygen-containing gas along an electrode surface of said cathode, separately; a bridge connected to said sandwiching section, and having a reactant gas supply channel for supplying the fuel gas to said fuel gas channel or supplying the oxygen-containing gas to said oxygen-containing gas channel; and a reactant gas supply unit connected to said bridge, a reactant gas supply passage for supplying the fuel gas or the oxygen-containing gas to said reactant gas supply channel extending through said reactant gas supply unit in a stacking direction, wherein a flow path member is detachably provided at said reactant gas supply unit via a seal member which seals the reactant gas supply unit, the seal member including a first seal and a second seal, the flow path member detachably provided between the first seal and second seal; and said flow path member includes an orifice section having orifice holes for reducing a flow rate of the fuel gas or the oxygen-containing gas supplied from said reactant gas supply passage to said reactant gas supply channel, the flow path member being provided between the separators sandwiching the electrolyte electrode assembly. | 4,665 |
9,344,967 | 1. A wireless system, comprising: a machine-to-machine (M2M) device, comprising: and configured to cause the M2M device to enter a deep sleep mode upon acceptance of said sleep time by said corresponding base station, wherein said deep sleep mode is entered by removing power from said RF transceive elements. | 3,668 |
8,698,972 | 1. A liquid crystal display device comprising: a liquid crystal display panel; a top chassis arranged on a front surface of the liquid crystal display panel; a bottom chassis disposed behind a rear surface of the liquid crystal display panel; at least one optical sheet arranged between the liquid crystal display panel and the bottom chassis; a light-guide portion arranged between the bottom chassis and the optical sheet; a reflective portion arranged between the light-guide portion and the bottom chassis; a side frame provided with a side wall to surround an outside of the light-guide portion, an outside of the reflective portion and an outside of the bottom chassis, the side frame comprising a support rib extending from the side wall to mount the liquid crystal display panel and the optical sheet; a printed circuit board arranged between the side frame and the bottom chassis, the printed circuit board provided with a plurality of light-emitting diodes; a reflective surface provided on an inner surface of the side frame to direct light irradiated from the light-emitting diodes to a side of the light-guide portion; and a holder to support one surface of the printed circuit board and connect the side frame with the bottom chassis, wherein the light-guide portion comprises a light-emitting surface facing the liquid crystal display panel, and light emitted from the plurality of light-emitting diodes enters an incident surface of the light-guide portion that is perpendicular to the light-emitting surface, and wherein the plurality of light emitting diodes are disposed between the reflective surface of the side frame and the incident surface of the light-guide portion in a direction perpendicular to a thickness direction of the light-guide portion. | 34,633 |
8,783,235 | 1. An air cleaner structure of an air cleaner for a scooter type vehicle is mounted above a power unit which has an integrated internal combustion engine and a power transmission device connected to a rear wheel, comprising: an air cleaner case of the air cleaner formed in a shape elongated from a side of the internal combustion engine toward a side of the rear wheel in a fore-and-aft direction when viewed from a side; an intake-air outlet passage, to which an upstream end of a connecting tube leading to the internal combustion engine is connected, formed forward in a front of the air cleaner case; a filter member of a cleaner element placed at a rear of the intake-air outlet passage in the air cleaner case; and a blowby gas return passage connected to a blowby gas return pipe of the internal combustion engine, wherein the blowby gas return passage and an additional air passage, which communicate with an interior of the air cleaner case, are juxtaposed with each other in a vertical direction and are formed forward around the intake-air outlet passage in the front of the air cleaner case such that the blowby gas return passage is located below the additional air passage. | 12,308 |
8,491,812 | 1. A composition for cleaning and sanitizing contained bodies of water sanitized with chlorine, comprising: 30% copper sulfate pentahydrate (CuSO 50% zinc sulfate monohydrate(ZnSO 20% aluminum sulfate octadecahydrate (Al the composition reducing an amount of chlorine added to the contained body of water to sanitize the contained body of water, the composition causing debris and other particulate matter to sink to a bottom of the contained body of water for easy removal, the composition killing and reducing to safe levels any microorganisms in the contained body of water, and the hydrates in the composition gaining one or more additional water molecules or losing one or more attached water molecules during manufacture, processing, transportation or use of the composition, without negatively affecting the physical format of the composition or the effectiveness of the composition for cleaning and sanitizing contained bodies of water when added to the contained body of water. | 40,486 |
9,329,676 | 1. A control method, applied in an electronic device which comprises a voice recognition engine and comprises or is connected to a microphone, the method comprising: acquiring first airflow information collected by the microphone; determining whether the first airflow information satisfies a first preset condition; and controlling the voice recognition engine to enter a second state from a first state when the first airflow information satisfies the first preset condition, wherein power consumption of the voice recognition engine in the first state is lower than power consumption of the voice recognition engine in the second state, wherein, after controlling the voice recognition engine to enter the second state from the first state, the method further comprises: | 7,042 |
9,127,641 | 1. A sea electricity energy production device, which is located primarily onshore on land facing wave action from the sea in proximity thereto, for driving a Francis reaction turbine to generate electricity, comprising: a submerged water gate for controlling an incoming flow of sea water into a flush tank of the device, the flush tank having an abutment wall at a distal side thereof against which the incoming flow of sea water surges against and over a top portion thereof; one or more paddle wheels positioned above a holding tank on a distal side of the abutment wall that receive the water flow through the water gate and surging over the top portion of the abutment wall and falling by gravity to rotate the paddle wheels, the rotation of the paddle wheels being coupled to a crankshaft axle to drive main gears for the crankshaft in rotary motion; a series of pressure tanks having pistons driven by the main gears for the crankshaft driven by the paddle wheels to pressurize water flow from the holding tank into the pressure tanks, the pressure tanks having an output flow of water pressurized by the pistons for feeding into penstocks; and the penstocks feeding the pressurized water flow to a Francis reaction turbine built on land that receives the pressurized water flow from the pressure tanks to drive the turbine and generate electricity. | 47,354 |
8,683,133 | 1. A memory bank prefetch controller in a shared memory multiprocessor system comprising: a memory including a plurality of memory banks, each memory bank having a predetermined address range and separately energizable; a pending prefetch address register for each processor of said multiprocessor system storing an address of a pending prefetch; a memory bank comparator for each processor of said multiprocessor system connected to said pending prefetch address register and receiving a read request address from a predetermined processor of said multiprocessor system, said memory bank comparator generating a corresponding memory bank kill prefetch signal if both said pending prefetch address and said read request address fall within said predetermined address range of one of said plurality of separately energizable memory banks and if said pending prefetch address and said read request address are differing addresses; and a request manager corresponding to each separately energizable memory bank of said shared memory connected to said memory bank comparator, said request manager aborting a prefetch upon receipt of a corresponding prefetch kill signal. | 38,795 |
9,029,681 | 1. A microsystem enabled photovoltaic (MEPV) module, the MEPV module comprising: an absorber layer including an array of photovoltaic (PV) elements and a top surface; a fixed optic layer coupled to the top surface of the absorber layer, the fixed optic layer including an array of spaced apart quasi-collimating (QC) micro-optical elements, each QC micro-optical element designed and arranged to couple incident radiation from a quasi-telecentric intermediate image into a respective one of the array of PV elements such that the coupled radiation is quasi-collimated; a translatable optic layer including an array of spaced apart focusing micro-optical elements, each focusing micro-optical element: a translation stage coupled between the fixed optic layer and the translatable optic layer; and a motion processor electrically coupled to the translation stage to control motion of the translatable optic layer relative to the fixed optic layer. | 24,985 |
8,496,570 | 1. A device for stimulating bone growth, comprising: a transducer coil for generating a stimulating magnetic field; a substantially rigid housing configured to support and contain the transducer coil, wherein the housing includes a first surface having a convex curvature that curves around a first axis, the first surface configured to be positioned on a wearer over a location on the wearer's back to deliver the magnetic field to that location; a strap extending from the housing substantially parallel to the first axis; and a pad constructed of a relatively soft and flexible material and configured to be secured to the first surface of the housing, wherein the pad comprises first and second slits, and the strap passes through the first or second slit. | 46,204 |
9,556,424 | 1. An isolated polypeptide of bacteria, the polypeptide having 1-deoxy-D-xylulose 5-phosphate synthase (DXS) activity, wherein the polypeptide has at least 90% sequence identity with SEQ ID NO: 21, wherein the polypeptide has an amino acid at position 213 of SEQ ID NO: 21 that is substituted with an asparagine, and/or an amino acid at position 234 of SEQ ID NO: 21 that is substituted with a cysteine, and wherein the polypeptide has enhanced DXS activity and increases the production of terpene greater than a corresponding polypeptide not having said substitutions. | 17,687 |
9,088,656 | 1. A method for processing interaction requests from a customer, the method comprising: receiving by a computer system over a data channel from an end user device accessible to the customer, a request for an interaction, the request including data from an application running on the end user device; identifying, based on the data, an access number from a pool of access numbers and reserving the identified access number; transmitting the identified access number to the end user device over the data channel; receiving, in response to the transmitting of the identified access number, a call from a telephony device to the access number; establishing a voice media session with the telephony device in response to the call; temporarily storing the data in response to the request for the interaction; identifying the stored data based on the access number called by the telephony device; and returning the access number to the pool in response to the identifying. | 14,190 |
9,557,935 | 1. A method of writing data of a storage system by host, the method comprising: issuing by the host a first writing command to write data to a storage; determining by the host a queue depth of the first writing command; storing the first writing command in an entry which is assigned in advance and is comprised in a cache of the host when a queue depth of the first writing command is a first value; generating by the host a writing completion signal in response to the first writing command; and issuing by the host a second writing command. | 38,139 |
9,429,079 | 1. A method for operating a gas turbine, in which turbine a CO 2 -containing gas is compressed in a compressor, the compressed gas being used to burn a fuel in a first combustor having first burners to form hot combustion gas that is fed to a first turbine to drive the first turbine, the gas turbine also comprising a second combustor having second burners downstream of the first turbine that forms hot combustion gas that is fed to a second turbine to drive the second turbine, the method comprising: measuring species concentrations of a gas mixture flowing through the gas turbine at several points within the gas turbine with a distributed plurality of species concentration sensors, the species comprising O controlling the gas turbine, optimizing the combustion performance of said gas turbine, or both, based on the measured species concentration values, the controlling of the gas turbine, optimizing the combustion performance of the gas turbine, or both based on the measured species concentration values comprising: | 44,806 |
9,482,487 | 1. An adapter for a QD socket, comprising: a first post portion having a proximal region, a distal region, a longitudinal axis extending between the proximal region and the distal region, a loop, and a first tab shaped to interface with a QD socket; a second post portion having a longitudinal axis coincident with the longitudinal axis of the first post portion, a second tab shaped to interface with the QD socket; and a guide mechanism shaped to limit rotation of the second post portion relative to the first post portion, the guide mechanism having a guide ridge in one of the first post portion or the second post portion interfacing with a guide valley in the other one of the first post portion or the second post portion; wherein the second post portion is coupled to the first post portion and translatable along the longitudinal axis of the first post portion between a first configuration defining a first transverse distance between the first and second tabs and a second configuration defining a second transverse distance between the first and second tabs, the first transverse distance greater than the second transverse distance; and wherein the second post portion is positioned closer to the proximal region of the first post portion in the first configuration than in the second configuration. | 19,923 |
9,216,657 | 1. An electric vehicle charging station (EVCS), comprising: a pedestal including a docking station; an electrical connector assembly adapted to be received in the docking station and to connect a main power source to a rechargeable battery in a vehicle whose driveline is powered at least partially by the battery; an accelerometer configured to sense seismic activity and output an output signal indicative of the seismic activity; a switch configured to switch between the main power source and an alternate power source that is isolated from the main power source; a circuit breaker connected between the main power source and the electrical connector assembly; and a controller coupled to the accelerometer and to the switch, the controller receiving the output signal and being programmed to: | 3,066 |
9,085,365 | 1. A ventilation system for ventilation of an aircraft area, comprising: a ram-air duct, which comprises an air inlet, a first ram-air duct branch and a second ram-air duct branch arranged in parallel to the first ram-air duct branch, the first ram-air duct branch and the second ram-air duct branch rejoining at a debouchment point downstream of a branching point where the first ram-air duct branch separates from the second ram-air duct branch, a supply line, which is connected to the ram-air duct downstream of the debouchment point where the first ram-air duct and the second ram-air duct rejoin, and which supplies air flowing through the ram-air duct to the aircraft area to be ventilated, the air flowing into the aircraft area to be ventilated from the supply line thereby ventilating the aircraft area to be ventilated, by removing heat energy or accumulations of fuel vapor from the aircraft area to be ventilated, a blower arranged in the first ram-air duct branch, and a heat exchanger of an aircraft system to be supplied with cooling energy and a shut-off valve, the heat exchanger and the shut-off valve arranged in the second ram-air duct branch. | 6,340 |
8,373,608 | 1. A method of verifying programmable antenna configurations, the method comprising: selecting a desired antenna configuration pattern from a plurality of antenna configuration patterns; issuing commands to an array of antenna element switches coupled to a plurality of reconfigurable antenna elements, wherein the commands cause the array of antenna element switches to switch to programmed positions causing the reconfigurable antenna array elements to form the desired antenna configuration pattern; monitoring actual positions of the array of antenna element switches; and verifying that the actual positions of the array of antenna element switches match the programmed positions of the array of antenna element switches. | 22,877 |
9,829,946 | 1. A power reception device comprising: a communication control unit comprising a memory unit; and a power source control unit configured to control supply of power supply voltage to the communication control unit, the power source control unit comprising a switch electrically connected to the communication control unit, wherein the memory unit comprises: wherein the second transistor is provided over the semiconductor substrate with the insulating film provided therebetween. | 35,488 |
8,769,258 | 1. A method comprising: receiving, at a computing device, a message containing an attachment comprising an executable code; comparing, by the computing device, a type of the attachment to one or more lists of attachment types; if the type of the attachment is not in the one or more lists, converting, by the computing device, the executable code from an executable format to a non-executable format, such that the executable code is rendered inoperable, using an application-level process that retains semantic content of the message; and forwarding the attachment containing the non-executable format from the computing device to a target recipient of the message. | 29,733 |
9,576,109 | 1. A computer-implemented method for revenue allocation, comprising: under control of one or more computers configured with specific executable instructions, generating, based at least in part on a work, an electronic book; | 27,948 |
8,672,386 | 1. A seat latch structure comprising: a base bracket mounted on a vehicle seat and having a first insertion hole and a second insertion hole, and an opening which is formed on one side thereof and receives therein a striker fixed to a vehicle body; a claw having a first through-hole corresponding to the first insertion hole and a locking groove formed on one side thereof; a pawl on one side of the claw and having a second through-hole corresponding to the second insertion hole; a first rotating shaft and a second rotating shaft inserted into the first through-hole of the claw and the second through-hole of the pawl, respectively; and a double torsion spring connecting the first through-hole and the second through-hole into which the first rotating shaft and the second rotating shaft are inserted, respectively; wherein a mounting hole is formed inside the opening and extending through the base bracket, and a damper that extends through the mounting hole is positioned between the opening of the base bracket and the locking groove of the claw; and wherein the damper is formed of a rubber material, and during insertion of the striker, the damper is deformed and presses the claw to prevent movement of the claw. | 38,667 |
8,407,332 | 1. A method, executing on hardware, for in-network power management of network-connected devices, the method comprising: a first computing, device having a power management module, accessing an in-network computing device table stored in a local memory, of network-connected computing devices cross-referenced to computing device processing capabilities; the power management nodule retrieving processing capabilities from the in-network computing device table for a network-connected second computing device; the power management module sending a Wake-on-Local Area Network (LAN) message to the second computing device; and, the power management module sending a server-on-cloud power management message to the second computing device, with instructions for enabling capabilities selected from a group consisting of processing and memory management; wherein the server-on-cloud power management message comprises a packet which comprises at least; a media access control header; a plurality of bits, which indicate a broadcast of the server-on-cloud power management message that relates to each processor of the second network-connected computing device, that are to be awakened by the packet; a plurality of bits that identify uniquely each processor, of the second network-connected computing device, that are controlled by the packet; a parameter that relates to a processor voltage identification digital (VID) voltage and a frequency range of each of the processors of the second network-connected computing device; a plurality of bits, which indicate a broadcast of the server-on-cloud power management message that relates to each core of each processor, of the second network-connected computing device, that are to be awakened by the packet; and, a parameter, which relates to a VID voltage and a frequency range of each core of the processors of the second network-connected computing device. | 9,916 |
9,527,772 | 1. A treatment process for the production of a hydraulic composition with entrained air comprising an inerting agent and a constituent comprising carbonaceous materials, the process comprising: obtaining a representative value of an adsorption of probe molecules by the carbonaceous materials; and producing the hydraulic constituent or treating said constituent with a quantity of inerting agent which depends on said value, wherein the inerting agent comprises at least one polymer comprising at least one chain having hydrophobic end groups and an intermediary hydrophilic group between the hydrophobic end groups, wherein said process further comprises | 18,613 |
9,718,254 | 1. A gypsum board comprising: a cover sheet; and a gypsum layer disposed on said cover sheet with said gypsum layer comprising a reaction product of; | 20,706 |
8,852,863 | 1. Method for amplifying and detecting nucleic acid sequences in a reaction cartridge comprising the following steps: (i) providing a sample comprising at least one nucleic acid molecule and a throw-away microfluidic cartridge, (ii) in a first reaction chamber of the cartridge providing reagents for an amplification reaction, (iii) mixing the sample with the amplification reagents, (iv) amplifying the at least one nucleic acid in the first reaction chamber of the cartridge, (v) transferring at least parts of the amplification reaction into a second and third reaction chamber of the cartridge each comprising a probe set, wherein (vi) performing a melting point analysis in the second and/or third reaction chamber in order to determine which of the probes has specifically bound a nucleic acid, | 1,077 |
9,746,204 | 1. A water heater of a latent heat recovery type capable of heating water by recovering latent heat of combustion gas, said water heater comprising: a burner including a plurality of burner port portions and generating combustion gas from an opening at an end of each of said plurality of burner port portions; a heat exchanger heating water flowing through inside by heat exchange with combustion gas generated in said burner; a fan including a fan case, an impeller housed within said fan case, a drive source attached to said fan case so as to drive said impeller, and a rotation shaft connecting said impeller and said drive source, and suctioning combustion gas having passed through said heat exchanger and emitting combustion gas to outside of said water heater; and an exhaust connection portion having a connection portion case and provided with an exhaust port for emitting combustion gas delivered from said fan to outside of said water heater, said exhaust connection portion having a drainage water discharge portion for discharging drainage water accumulated downstream of said fan in a path of a flow of combustion gas, wherein in plan view as seen from a shaft direction of said rotation shaft, a tongue portion extending between an internal space of said fan and an internal space of said exhaust connection portion is located at one end of a boundary between the internal space of said fan and the internal space of said exhaust connection portion, a circumferential wall of said fan case and a circumferential wall of said connection portion case are linearly connected to each other at the other end of said boundary, and said drainage water discharge portion is provided in a region surrounded by said boundary, said circumferential wall of said connection portion case and a tangent line of said exhaust port, and located along said circumferential wall of said connection portion case. | 9,314 |
9,309,139 | 1. A method for making display quality glass sheets comprising: (I) melting batch materials in a furnace to produce molten glass; (II) fining the melted batch materials in a finer; (III) forming a glass ribbon from the fined, molten glass; and (IV) separating glass sheets from the ribbon; wherein: (a) the furnace has an internal surface, a portion of which contacts molten glass; (b) said portion of the internal surface that contacts molten glass comprises ZrO 2 as its major constituent; (c) the melting of step (I) comprises employing a plurality of electrodes to pass electrical current through the molten glass; (d) each of the plurality of electrodes comprises molybdenum as its major constituent; (e) molten glass leaves the furnace and enters the finer at a rate R, where at steady state, R satisfies the relationship: (f) at steady state, the glass sheets produced in step (IV) are characterized by: (i) the glass making up the glass sheets is an alumina-silicate glass; (ii) the average content of ZrO 2 in the glass sheets satisfies the relationship: where [ZrO (iii) the average content of MoO 3 in the glass sheets satisfies the relationship: where [MoO (iv) prior to removal of any unacceptable glass sheets, a population of 50 sequential sheets has an average level of solid defects plus gaseous defects of a size greater than 100 microns that is less than or equal to 0.012 defects per pound of glass, where each of the glass sheets has a thickness that is less than or equal to 2.0 millimeters and a weight of at least 10 pounds. | 7,901 |
9,072,560 | 1. A medical device storage system comprising: at least one medical device; at least one data carrier comprising a proximal end and a distal end including a distal portion, the data carrier including an enlarged substantially planar portion at the proximal end and a wall defining an opening, the substantially planar portion comprising opposite top and bottom surfaces that are connected by a side surface of the substantially planar portion, the substantially planar portion comprising a first lobe and a second lobe that are connected to each other at the distal portion, planar end surfaces of the first and second lobes engage one another, the at least one medical device being disposed in the opening such that the wall and the distal portion define an enclosure that extends completely around a proximal portion of the at least one medical device; a storage device comprising one or more cavities, the medical device being received in one of the cavities, the storage device including a ledge and an inner surface defining a cut-out extending through opposite top and bottom surfaces of the storage device, the data carrier being received in the cut-out such that the side surface engages the inner surface, wherein pushing one side of the data carrier through the cutout causes the data carrier to pivot against the ledge such that an opposite side of the data carrier rises up to allow the data carrier to be released from the storage device. | 1,361 |
8,862,448 | 1. A system for modeling a progression of a disease within a population, comprising: a plurality of point-of-care (POC) devices each comprising at least one programmable processor for executing at least one assay according to at least one assay protocol wherein the assay protocol comprises at least fluid transfer instructions to be performed by the POC devices; a central computing device operably in data communication with said plurality of POC devices, wherein the POC devices are positioned at distributed locations physically separate from the central computing device; wherein said at least one assay protocol when changed at the central computing device based at least on said modeling results, is sent from the central computing device to said plurality of POC devices for execution of a changed assay protocol by the devices without having to provide new devices to the distributed locations. | 6,790 |
9,710,797 | 1. An electronic commerce (e-commerce) system for communicating with a customer client device and a vendor client device, comprising: an electronic payment gateway comprising: a memory for hosting a database configured to store information that includes at least: at least one processor configured to generate a first Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) email message, the first SMTP email message for advertising at least one product, a network interface configured: wherein the at least one processor and the network interface are further configured to perform an order execution procedure based on the received order email message, wherein the order execution procedure includes purchasing the product for the customer from the vendor client device. | 23,997 |
9,218,956 | 1. A method of constructing a structure for interconnecting semiconductor components, comprising: forming a bi-layer capping coating on a layer to be transferred located on a substrate, the bi-layer capping coating comprising a nitride-containing layer on the layer to be transferred and an amino silane layer on the nitride-containing layer, each layer of said bi-layer capping coating providing protection and adhesion, wherein said amino silane layer is composed of an amino silane compound represented by the formula: forming a carrier assembly on the bi-layer capping coating; removing the substrate such that the layer to be transferred is attached to said carrier assembly to provide a transferred layer; joining an exposed surface of the transferred layer to a receiver substrate; and removing the carrier assembly by an oxygen-based plasma removal process, wherein said nitride-containing layer protects a metallic element in said transferred layer from said oxygen-based plasma removal process. | 21,553 |
8,673,349 | 1. A method for treating or providing prophylaxis against a Burkholderia infection in a patient comprising, administering to the lungs of the patient an aerosolized pharmaceutical formulation comprising an aminoglycoside encapsulated in a liposome, wherein the lipid component of the liposome consists of electrically neutral lipids, the pharmaceutical formulation is a solution or a suspension, and the aerosol comprises free aminoglycoside in an amount effective to provide immediate bactericidal activity against the | 39,485 |
9,644,517 | 1. An exhaust treatment device for treating exhaust comprising: a main body defining an interior, the main body interior extending along a longitudinal axis from a first closed end to a second end, the main body defining a circumferential wall extending between the first closed end and the second end, the circumferential wall defining an inlet opening towards the first closed end, the main body also defining an outlet; an inlet arrangement disposed at the inlet opening, the inlet arrangement defining an inlet channel leading to the interior of the main body, the inlet arrangement being configured to orient the inlet channel at an angle to the main body; an aftertreatment substrate disposed within the interior of the main body between the inlet opening and the outlet, the aftertreatment substrate being spaced from the first closed end; a mixing region disposed within the main body interior between the first closed end and the aftertreatment substrate; a restrictor arrangement disposed within the interior of the main body between the first closed end and the aftertreatment substrate, the restrictor arrangement separating the mixing region into a first chamber and a second chamber, the restrictor arrangement defining a restricted passageway between the first and second chambers, the restricted passageway extending into the first chamber towards the first closed end so that exhaust entering the main body interior from the inlet channel is swirled within the first chamber before entering the restricted passageway and passing to the second chamber; and a dosing arrangement disposed at the main body, the dosing arrangement being configured to receive an injector to spray reactant into the exhaust so that the reactant mixes with the exhaust in the first chamber, the dosing arrangement being configured so that an injection axis of any injector mounted to the dosing arrangement is not coaxial with the longitudinal axis of the main body. | 2,868 |
9,232,358 | 1. A method for reusing a multicast broadcast single frequency network (MBSFN) subframe, in relay communication, comprising: configuring a policy of using unicast on a reused MBSFN subframe; and implementing the configured policy to reuse the MBSFN subframe, | 10,114 |
9,314,762 | 1. An anti-soot reformer, comprising a furnace; a channel unit located in said furnace and comprising: a temperature controller programmed to maintain a temperature higher than 150° C. and lower than 300° C. within the mixing space; and a reactor connected with said mixing space of said channel unit. | 27,068 |
8,795,135 | 1. A method for controlling an engine, the engine being coupled to a transmission, comprising: spinning down the engine to a rest state; in response to a first operating condition, restarting the engine by at least partially engaging the transmission to assist in spinning-up of the engine from the rest state while a vehicle is traveling; and adjusting at least one of a throttle position, spark advance, cam angle, and fuel timing in response to a second operating condition. | 34,202 |
8,531,066 | 1. A spindle motor comprising: a rotor including a rotary shaft and magnets; a stator including an electromagnetic force generated by the magnets and the armature, wherein the stator includes a plate having a stepped portion in a portion thereof, which faces the rotary shaft, and wherein the plate has an upper stepped portion being stepped upward to face the armature. | 33,932 |
9,399,408 | 1. A method of controlling creep torque in a motor driven vehicle, comprising: calculating a downhill gradient of a road; calculating a filter time constant using the downhill gradient and a predetermined basic creep torque; and a variable control step of applying the calculated filter time constant to a filter, inputting the predetermined basic creep torque to the filter, and controlling a motor of the motor driven vehicle based on a torque value output from the filter as a request torque, wherein the variable control step comprises: | 34,789 |
9,465,430 | 1. A memory with variable operation voltage, comprising: a first core memory module operated by a first control voltage for accessing a first data; a register for storing a plurality of control signals and selecting one among the control signals as a voltage control signal according to an input signal, wherein the register complies with a specification established by Joint Electron Device Engineering Council (JEDEC), wherein the register is different from the first core memory and the input signal is not determined according to the first control voltage; and a first voltage adjustment module electrically connected to the register, the first core memory module and an external voltage, respectively, so as to provide the first control voltage according to the voltage control signal and the external voltage, so that the first control voltage is adjustable according to the voltage control signal, wherein the first voltage adjustment module comprises: | 23,242 |
9,759,423 | 1. A method for thermal destruction of at least one feed comprising at least one organic compound by at least one induction plasma formed by at least one plasma-forming gas ionized by an inductor, wherein the following successive steps are carried out: a) introducing only said feed into the plasma and achieving a supply of oxygen gas in said at least one plasma-forming gas, and/or in the plasma or in the vicinity of the plasma, by means of which gases are obtained in which decomposition into atomic elements can be induced, wherein said feed is not mixed with water before its introduction into the plasma; b) in a reaction enclosure, carrying out a first operation for thermal destruction of only a portion of said gases in which decomposition of only a portion of said gases into atomic elements has been induced; c) carrying out a second operation for thermal destruction of the gases having undergone the first operation for thermal destruction by mixing, in a mixing device, said gases from the first operation for thermal destruction, with air and/or with oxygen; d) achieving a recombination of the atomic elements into gases by cooling at least one portion of the gases from the mixing; and e) discharging the gases. | 24,020 |
9,441,530 | 1. A connection box ( 10 ) for direct connection to a charging fluid duct ( 90 ) of a charging fluid supply ( 100 ) designed for intermixing a charge air (LL) and an exhaust gas (AG) to form a charging fluid (LF) for an internal combustion engine, the connection box ( 10 ) comprising: a housing ( a charge air connecting space ( at least one mixing channel ( the connection ( the at least one mixing channel ( | 10,793 |
9,214,688 | 1. A fuel cell system for generating power by supplying anode gas and cathode gas to a fuel cell, comprising: a valve provided in the fuel cell system and to be driven by a stepping motor; a stop-time valve control unit configured to control a valve body of the valve to a predetermined initialization position by controlling the stepping motor when a request to stop the fuel cell system is made; and a start-time valve initializing unit configured to rotate the stepping motor by a predetermined initialization step number smaller than a maximum step number of the stepping motor so that the valve body of the valve moves toward the initialization position when a request to start the fuel cell system is made. | 24,443 |
8,738,208 | 1. A propulsion control apparatus comprising: a converter for converting AC into DC to output; an inverter for converting the DC outputted from the converter into AC to supply to a motor, by using a VVVF control method when vehicle speed is not higher than a VVVF limited speed and a CVVF control method when the vehicle speed is higher than the VVVF limited speed; a filter capacitor provided at an intermediate link connection between the converter and the inverter; an auxiliary power supply, connected to the intermediate link connection, cooled by a self ventilation system; and a converter control unit, into which information of vehicle speed is inputted, for decreasing, based on the information, voltage at the intermediate link connection to a value at which temperature increase of the auxiliary power supply is within a limit, when vehicle speed indicated by the information of the vehicle speed is not higher than a predetermined speed which is lower than the VVVF limited speed and lower than a lower limit of a vehicle-speed range where input current into the converter is constant. | 10,874 |
9,096,637 | 1. A composition comprising an RNAi agent to HSF1 comprising a first strand and a second strand, wherein the sequence of the first strand comprises the sequence of SEQ ID NO: 785, wherein the first and/or second strand are modified or unmodified, and wherein the first and/or second strand are about 30 or fewer nucleotides in length. | 45,338 |
9,592,168 | 1. An absorbent article comprising an odour control material, said odour control material comprising at least one inclusion complex of cyclodextrin with an organic compound comprising an organic compound loaded into the cyclodextrin such that the organic compound is retained until it is exposed to humidity or wetted, which is dispersed in a matrix having an HLB between about 6 to about 8. | 28,851 |
8,970,720 | 1. A method of automatically selecting a photography mode comprising: storing, in a memory, one or more previous digital contexts wherein each previous digital context comprises a corresponding photography mode and a predetermined scene classification category; sensing a current digital context, the current digital context corresponding to a current sensed scene; using a semantic scene classification algorithm to select a predetermined scene classification category for the current sensed scene; determining if the selected predetermined scene classification category matches the predetermined scene classification category of at least one of the one or more previous digital contexts; if the selected predetermined scene classification category matches the predetermined scene classification category of at least one of the one or more previous digital contexts, creating an association between the current sensed scene and the matched previous digital context's corresponding photography mode; and if the selected predetermined scene classification category does not match any predetermined scene classification category of the one or more previous digital contexts, creating an association between the current sensed scene and a default photography mode. | 9,608 |
9,812,195 | 1. A nonvolatile semiconductor memory device, comprising: a cell array including a plurality of unit cell arrays arranged in a matrix, one of the unit cell arrays including a plurality of bit lines, a plurality of word lines intersecting the bit lines, and a plurality of electrically rewritable memory cells connected at intersections of the bit lines and the word lines between both lines and each including a variable resistance element; and a control circuit corresponding to one of the unit cell arrays configured to control voltages applied to the bit lines and the word lines, the control circuit including a row control circuit to select the word lines, and a column control circuit to select the bit lines, at least a part of the control circuit being provided beneath the corresponding unit cell array, the control circuit, during data write to the cell array, simultaneously writing a part of data having a plurality of bits to at least one of the memory cells belonging to one of the unit cell arrays, and another part of the data to at least one of the memory cells belonging another of the unit cell arrays, the memory cells written simultaneously being physically separated apart more than one memory cell from each other. | 1,801 |
8,377,908 | 1. A method of treating or inhibiting pathological calcifications of hydroxyapatite in a subject, comprising administering a fixed dose association of phytate and zinc with synergic effect to said subject in need thereof, wherein the zinc is adsorbed on a nucleus being formed or a crystal undergoing growth of hydroxyapatite. | 37,271 |
8,612,380 | 1. A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving a first request for an electronic document, the first request received by a server over a data network from a first client device, the electronic document including a document element; sending the electronic document from the server over the data network to the first client device in response to the first request, and granting the first client device authorization to modify the document element; receiving a second request for the electronic document, the second request received by the server over the data network from a second client device; sending the electronic document from the server over the data network to the second client device in response to the second request, and granting the second client device authorization to modify the document element, such that the first and second client devices have authorization to modify the document element concurrently; receiving a first document update over the data network at the server from the first client device, the first document update including a first modification with respect to the document element; receiving, by the server from the first client device, presence data that includes identification of a status of the electronic document for the first client device; receiving a second document update over the data network at the server from the second client device, the second document update including a second modification with respect to the document element; verifying at the server the first document update if the first client device is authorized to initiate the first modification, and if the first modification does not conflict with the second modification based on comparing the first document update with the second document update; automatically sending an updated document element for the electronic document to the second client device over the data network, the updated document element generated based at least in part on a verified document update; and in response to receipt of the presence data from the first client device, automatically sending a presence object from the server to the second client device, wherein the presence object is based on the presence data and enables a user of the second client device to distinguish between whether the first client device is associated with an editing activity or a viewing activity with respect to the electronic document. | 22,218 |
8,413,496 | 1. A pressure-compensation unit for a tank pressure sensor of a motor vehicle, comprising: a housing lid, an air hole, a gas-permeable filter diaphragm which covers the air hole, and a cap-shaped cover element which covers the filter diaphragm, wherein the housing lid has a dome-shaped prosection having a planar surface, the air hole is located in the planar surface, and the filter diaphragm is adhesion-bonded onto the planar surface. | 3,756 |
9,125,269 | 1. A controller for a driver circuit of a solid state light bulb assembly; wherein the solid state light bulb assembly comprises a light source; wherein the driver circuit comprises a power converter; the controller comprising: a data storage unit operable to store data items relating to an operating behavior of the light bulb assembly; a temperature sensor operable to determine a chip temperature of the controller; and a data processing unit operable to receive the chip temperature, to retrieve the stored data items from the data storage unit, to generate a control signal in dependence upon the chip temperature and the retrieved data items, and to output the control signal to the power converter for operation of the light source; wherein the data processing unit comprises a calibration unit; wherein the data items comprise a default thermal model indicative of a relationship between the chip temperature and a temperature of the light source; wherein the calibration unit is operable to determine light bulb assembly specific parameters of the default thermal model during a calibration phase, thereby yielding a light bulb assembly specific thermal model; and wherein the data processing unit is operable to determine a light bulb assembly specific state machine for the operation of the light bulb assembly, based on the light bulb assembly specific thermal model. | 13,528 |
9,662,898 | 1. A liquid storage body for storing liquid to be supplied to a liquid consumption apparatus that consumes the liquid, the liquid storage body comprising: a liquid storage chamber; a filler port; a lead-out port that leads the liquid stored in the liquid storage chamber out to a liquid consumption apparatus side; a liquid channel that connects a channel opening formed in the liquid storage chamber with the lead-out port; and a case, wherein the case includes an opening sealed with a flexible film to form a space area that is to become the liquid channel; wherein in a state where the liquid storage body is used, the lead-out port is positioned above the channel opening in the direction of gravity; and wherein the liquid channel includes: | 44,651 |
8,506,893 | 1. A selective catalytic reduction system for lean-burn gasoline and diesel engine emissions that expands the operating temperature range of the system, comprising a first and second zone, wherein the first zone is composed of an iron SCR catalyst and a second zone is composed of a copper SCR catalyst, and wherein the second zone is positioned adjacent and downstream of the first zone. | 1,749 |
8,926,301 | 1. An appliance for localized heating of a polymer material surface to be repaired by blowing a hot fluid inside a confinement chamber for confining a zone for treatment, the appliance comprising at least one deformable cap forming the confinement chamber and providing at least one outlet from the confinement chamber towards the outside of the cap, the cap being in gas-flow communication with a blower source for blowing a raised temperature fluid, the cap being deformable between two stations, including a natural resting station in which the cap occupies a spontaneous shape and a working station in which the cap defines the volume of the confinement chamber by being placed under stress by selectively using force generator means included in the appliance, wherein the cap is constituted by a generally plane blanket incorporating a framework in its general plane for shaping the confinement chamber under the effect of tensions applied locally by the framework on the blanket in its general plane, the framework being suitable for changing shape between a passive state in which the blanket and the framework that it includes are spontaneously plane, and an active state in which the framework is subjected to deformation by said force generator means and applies localized tensions to the blanket. | 13,934 |
8,428,524 | 1. An adaptive communication method of a receiver for receiving data from a transmitter through a wireless channel in a wireless communication system, comprising: receiving a signal from the transmitter through the wireless channel; estimating a characteristic of the wireless channel using the signal received from the transmitter; determining a parameter for adaptive transmit based on the signal received from the transmitter, the parameter being to be used for supporting determination of whether or not to use a transmit mode by the transmitter; transmitting a feedback signal including the parameter to the transmitter through the wireless channel, wherein the characteristic of the wireless channel includes signal to noise ratio (SNR) information, and wherein the parameter includes channel coding information and space time block code (STBC) information. | 477 |
9,345,952 | 1. A card handling apparatus comprising: a card holding area comprising a support structure for supporting a group of cards thereon; a card mover configured and positioned to move cards out of the card holding area through the opening; an opening through a wall of the card holding area for passage of cards from the card holding area therethrough; and a blocking element movable between a first position to prevent cards from passing from the card holding area through the opening and a second position to allow cards to pass from the card holding area through the opening. | 40,512 |
8,954,980 | 1. A method for managing processor application states of a portable computing device having a first CPU and a second CPU and a plurality of shared processor resources for the first CPU and the second CPU, comprising: maintaining in a memory of the portable computing device (1) a shared processor resource table comprising a first resource state set comprising states of the plurality of shared processor resources corresponding to a sleep application state and an active application state of the first CPU and a second resource state set comprising states of the plurality of shared processor resources corresponding to a sleep application state and an active application state of the second CPU, wherein the application states have corresponding values and (2) a plurality of trigger sets, wherein each trigger set is associated with the respective first CPU and second CPU and transitions a current application state of the associated CPU to a final application state based on certain conditions; issuing a request to a controller to perform a system operation, wherein the controller determines based on the system operation, that one of the first CPU and the second CPU needs to transition from the current application state to one of the sleep application state and the active application state based on the first resource state set or the second resource state set and a respective trigger set of the plurality of trigger sets; and the controller transitioning the one of the first CPU and the second CPU from the sleep application state to the active application state or vice versa without a software handshake based on the shared processor resource table and the trigger sets by: | 48,840 |
8,554,398 | 1. A system for operating a vessel, wherein the system comprises: a. a plurality of power sources for operating the vessel, wherein the power sources include a battery bank and an AC power source; b. an auxiliary device disposed on the vessel, wherein the auxiliary device comprises an electrical rotating source, and wherein energy harvested from the electrical rotating source is transferred to the DC power source, a load of the vessel, or both; and c. a power management system comprising: | 29,149 |
8,478,400 | 1. A method comprising: obtaining cardiac pressure data; obtaining cardiac impedance data; correlating the cardiac pressure data and cardiac impedance data to determine a phase relationship between the cardiac pressure data and the cardiac impedance data; and determining a degree of hemodynamic instability of a cardiac rhythm during an arrhythmia based upon the determined phase relationship. | 20,026 |
9,665,953 | 1. A CT scanner comprising: at least one source of X-rays and a multi-row detector array having non-flat and non-circular geometry, both supported so as rotate around an axis of rotation during a scan of an object translated along the said axis, wherein data for each detector is generated as a function of the X-ray energy received; and a data processor configured so as to perform equiangular resampling with row dithering of the data onto curves in a virtual detector array; wherein said curves project onto tilted lines in a virtual flat detector as to enable tangential filtering of the data. | 47,319 |
8,920,522 | 1. A battery manufacturing method, comprising: a first active material layer forming step of forming a first active material layer having a specified uneven pattern by applying a first application liquid containing a first active material on a surface of a base material to form a laminated body; an electrolyte layer forming step of forming an electrolyte layer having unevenness substantially in conformity with said uneven pattern on said surface of said laminated body, which is formed by laminating the first active material layer on the surface of the base material, by applying a second application liquid containing a polymer electrolyte onto a surface of the laminated body, at a side where the first active material layer is formed, after the first active material layer forming step; and a second active material layer forming step of forming a second active material layer having a substantially flat surface opposite to a surface touching the electrolyte layer by applying a third application liquid containing a second active material on a surface of the electrolyte layer after the electrolyte layer forming step, wherein the first active material layer forming step is executed by a nozzle-scan method, in which a nozzle having a plurality of dispense openings arranged in a row in a first direction each of which dispenses a fixed amount of the first application liquid is moved relative to the surface of the base material so that the first application liquid is applied onto the base material in stripes arranged in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, thereby forming a plurality of separated stripes of the first active material by one said movement of the nozzle. | 18,494 |
9,220,441 | 1. A medical system comprising: an image data acquisition unit that acquires image data corresponding to a three-dimensional (3D) image of a living body including an object; a user input unit that receives first input information for setting a point; and a processor that generates 3D data by using the image data, generates the 3D image by using the 3D data, detects 3D geometry information corresponding to a 3D caliper from the 3D data based on the first input information, sets the 3D caliper on the 3D image based on the detected 3D geometry information, and creates measurement information, wherein the processor sets a virtual plane on the 3D data, sets an observation plane consisting of a plurality of pixels based on the 3D data, detects a pixel corresponding to the point from the observation plane based on the first input information, detects a voxel which is on the virtual plane and corresponds to the pixel in a predetermined direction, and sets 3D geometry information of the detected voxel as 3D geometry information of the point. | 38,456 |
9,750,247 | 1. A nematotoxic composition comprising, as active compounds: Palmitic acid; Trans-aconitic acid and/or glucose and, optionally, S-carboxymethylcisteine, wherein a combination of the palmitic acid, Trans-aconitic acid and/or glucose, and optionally S-carboxymethylcisteine exhibits synergy. | 33,583 |
8,860,240 | 1. An apparatus for converting oscillating rotational mechanical energy into electrical energy comprising: two same-sized L-shaped iron bars with slots for magnets in their longer sides, and with the ends of their shorter sides flattened so that when one is rotated 180 degrees, the shorter ends of each will fit flush against the longer sides of the other, forming a rectangle, magnets that will fit into, but not through these slots with the poles of these magnets aligned in the same direction along a line passing through them, creating a strong magnetic field between those fitting into the slots of one of the L-shaped iron bar and those fitting into the slots of the other iron bar pulling one L-shaped iron bar against the other and, creating a permanent magnet dipole, two L-shaped iron bars which can be placed over the magnets in their slots, and tied to the L-shaped iron bars containing the slots, a coil wrapped such that one side of it will fit through, and be able to rotate in an oscillating manner through the gap between the magnet(s) in the slots of one of the L-shaped iron bars and the magnet(s) in the slots of the other access to mechanical forces which rotate this coil in a oscillating manner through this gap, leads which will conduct voltage induced in the coil by this action to outside the apparatus. | 42,871 |
8,409,647 | 1. A method for reducing chill haze in a liquid comprising a protein, the method consisting essentially of contacting the liquid with an aqueous dispersion of silica microgels having an average diameter of at least about 18 nm to 1000 nm thereby causing the coagulation and precipitation of haze-forming components. | 30,460 |
9,768,423 | 1. A battery pack comprising: a plurality of battery units, each of the battery units comprising a can, an electrode assembly accommodated in the can having opposing planar surfaces and opposing lateral surfaces between the planar surfaces and a cap plate coupled to the can, the battery units being arranged next to each other in a first direction such that the cap plates of each of the battery units are facing the same direction and such that the planar surfaces are coplanar; a protective circuit module on the battery units and electrically connected to the battery units; an upper cover on the protective circuit module; and a lower cover under the battery units and opposite the upper cover, the lower cover comprising lateral wall portions extending from both ends thereof in a second direction towards the upper cover and perpendicular to the first direction and shock preventing portions protruding outwardly in the first direction such that a thickness of the shock preventing portions in the first direction is greater than a thickness of the lateral walls in the first direction. | 19,983 |
8,796,942 | 1. An LED circuit, comprising: a light emitting unit including a plurality of light emitting diodes; and a switching unit switching to apply only positive voltage of an alternating current (AC) power supply to an anode of the light emitting unit. | 25,404 |
9,237,950 | 1. A method of manufacturing a joint implant for a joint of a specific patient comprising: obtaining a three-dimensional image of a bone of the joint of the specific patient from medical imaging scans of the bone of the patient; determining on the three-dimensional image a resection plane for contacting a corresponding planar surface of the joint implant for the specific patient; determining a three-dimensional image of a porous structure of a bone layer along the resection plane from the medical imaging scans of the patient; and manufacturing the joint implant with a layer of a patient-specific porous construct attached to the planar surface of the joint implant, the layer of the patient-specific porous construct being an inverse of the porous structure of the bone layer of the specific patient, such that the patient-specific porous construct mirrors the porous structure of the bone layer along the resection plane. | 48,389 |
9,583,978 | 1. A smart meter comprising: a power supply control unit configured to control stoppage of a supply of power through the smart meter to an electrical device when a command to stop the supply is received; a first communication unit configured to perform a first communication and to receive the command; a second communication unit configured to perform a second communication; and a communication control unit configured to: control the performance of the first communication until the command is received by the first communication unit; and prohibit the performance of the first communication and control the performance of only the second communication, after the command is received by the first communication unit, wherein the power supply control unit is configured to prohibit the supply of power from a power grid to an electrical device and control power from a predetermined storage battery to be supplied to the electrical device, after the command is received by the first communication unit, the smart meter: operates in one of a plurality of modes including a first mode and a second mode; and operates in the first mode when the command is not received, and operates in the second mode upon receiving the command, and the communication control unit is configured to: control the performance of the first communication during operation in the first mode; and prohibit the performance of the first communication and control the performance of only the second communication, during operation in the second mode, and wherein during operation in the second mode, the power supply control unit is configured to control stoppage of only the supply of the power from the power grid to the electrical device, out of the smart meter and the electrical device, and the smart meter operates under the power from the power grid even during operation in the second mode. | 32,862 |
9,159,866 | 1. A method of manufacturing a photo sensor, the method comprising: forming a light receiving unit, a first adjacent unit, and a second adjacent unit on a substrate, such that: forming a first photo sensor electrode and a second photo sensor electrode such that the first photo sensor electrode is electrically connected to the first adjacent unit and the second photo sensor electrode is electrically connected to the second adjacent unit, wherein: the first adjacent unit includes a crystalline semiconductor material and the second adjacent unit includes an amorphous semiconductor material, the amorphous semiconductor material of the light receiving unit includes silicon, and forming the light receiving unit, the first adjacent unit, and the second adjacent unit includes: | 254 |
9,822,119 | 1. A compound having the structure of Formula (IV), or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein, X and Y are each independently chosen from CH, CF, C—CH Z is -G, —CH X R is heteroaryl, alkynyl, or cycloalkylalkynylene. | 22,416 |
9,650,525 | 1. An ink composition comprising: water; pigment particles, wherein the ink composition has a pigment content ranging from about 8 wt. % to about 25 wt. % based on a total weight of the ink composition; and a rheology modifier, wherein the rheology modifier is an alkali swellable acrylic polymer emulsion having a solids content of about 30 wt. % and a pH below about 4 and the rheology modifier is effective to provide a pseudo-plastic aqueous ink formulation. | 33,351 |
9,211,164 | 1. A system for determining a position and a change in the position of an anatomical structure, comprising: a surgical navigation system; a substrate comprising means for removably and non-invasively attaching the substrate to an outer surface of a body, wherein the body includes an anatomical structure; a sensor attached to the substrate that can be tracked by the surgical navigation system to determine a position of the sensor; an ultrasonic imaging device attached to the substrate and utilized to determine a position of the anatomical structure relative to the sensor; a first circuit for calculating a global position of the anatomical structure by concatenating the position of the sensor and the position of the anatomical structure relative to the sensor; a second circuit for displaying the global position of the anatomical structure on a display unit; and a point source adapted to be disposed adjacent the anatomical structure, wherein the ultrasonic imaging device and the point source are utilized to determine the position of the anatomical structure relative to the sensor, wherein the ultrasonic imaging device comprises a plurality of ultrasound transducers and the point source is a passive point source that comprises a plurality of sonic reflective balls adapted to be disposed adjacent the anatomical structure, and wherein the ultrasound transducers are controlled so as to emit an ultrasonic beam one at a time, wherein each ultrasonic beam reflected by at least one of the sonic reflective balls to the ultrasound transducers is received by each of the ultrasound transducers to determine the position of the anatomical structure relative to the sensor. | 13,846 |
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