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9,381,192 | 1. A method of treating fibrosis in a subject, the method comprising administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of a compound of Formula Ia, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof: wherein: R R alternatively, one of each of R wherein each bond represented by a dashed and solid line represents a bond selected from the group consisting of a single bond and a double bond; each R each R each R each R R R R each R R alternatively, R each A is independently selected from O, S, and NR Y Y each n is 0 or 1. | 10,515 |
9,788,270 | 1. An optical-wireless access system in which one or more base stations communicating with a wireless terminal are connected to an upper-level device via an optical access system, the optical access system comprising one or more optical network units (ONUs) arranged on the base station side, an optical line terminal (OLT) disposed on the upper-level device side, and optical transmission paths through which the ONUs and the OLT are connected, the ONU obtaining information on dynamic scheduling control or discontinuous reception control of the optical-wireless access system from the base station, and the OLT determining whether or not the ONU should be slept, using the information on the discontinuous reception of the wireless terminal and calculating a sleep start timing and a cycle of the ONU that minimize a waiting time in the base station of downlink data of the wireless terminal. | 4,347 |
9,468,928 | 1. A crushing ring of a crushing roll, comprising a base body with a through-opening, by means of which the base body can be connected to a shaft in a rotationally rigid fashion, at least one crushing tooth in the form of a projection that is provided on an outer circumference of the base body and extends radially outward, and a crushing cap that encases the projection at least in a circumferential direction, with said crushing cap including a front wall section in relation to a rotational direction of the crushing ring, a rear wall section and a head section that connects the front wall section to the rear wall section, wherein a first pin-shaped connecting member is provided for separably mounting the crushing cap on the projection, with said first connecting member extending through the front wall section of the crushing cap and being separably held in the projection, wherein a second pin-shaped connecting member is provided for separably mounting the crushing cap on the projection, wherein the second connecting member extends through the rear wall section of the crushing cap and is separably held in the projection, and wherein a longitudinal axis of the second pin-shaped connecting member extends at an angle (α) of 90° relative to a rear wall surface of the projection in relation to the rotational direction of the crushing ring or at an angle of less than 90° relative to the section of the rear wall surface of the projection that lies between the second connecting member and the head section of the crushing cap. | 38,404 |
8,384,531 | 1. Method to display a graphic upon a substantially transparent windscreen head up display of a host vehicle describing a preferred driving distance for the host vehicle, the method comprising: monitoring a speed of the host vehicle; monitoring a location of the eyes of an operator of the host vehicle; determining a preferred driving distance for the host vehicle based upon the speed of the host vehicle; determining a graphic describing the preferred driving distance for display upon the substantially transparent windscreen head up display; registering the graphic to the substantially transparent windscreen head up display based upon the location of the eyes of the operator; and displaying the graphic upon the substantially transparent windscreen head up display; and wherein the substantially transparent windscreen head up display comprises one of light emitting particles or microstructures over a predefined region of the windscreen permitting luminescent display while permitting vision through the windscreen. | 19,692 |
9,463,952 | 1. An apparatus for controlling a position of an elevator in a hoistway, comprising: a fixed belt having a length extending from below a lowest landing the elevator may reach to above a highest landing the elevator may reach; a dynamic leveling control module adapted for attachment to the elevator and interacting with said fixed belt to determine the position of the elevator, comprising: wherein said dynamic leveling control module determines a dynamic slowdown distance relative to an elevator landing for each elevator stop, and wherein said dynamic leveling control module includes a zero setting input connection for receiving a signal from a zero setting sensor and said processor resets a count from said position encoder each time the elevator passes the zero setting sensor. | 11,448 |
9,267,386 | 1. A fairing assembly comprising: an outer wall; a first side wall and a second side wall extending from opposing sides of the outer wall, wherein together the first side wall, the second side wall, and the outer wall form a cavity within the fairing assembly; and a saddle disposed within the cavity and extending between the first side wall and the second side wall, wherein the saddle has a first linkage adapted to connect to the first side wall and a second linkage adapted to connect to the second side wall, and wherein the first linkage and the second linkage extend from a central hub. | 24,560 |
8,829,021 | 1. Method of treating a mammal suffering from a pediatric tumor pathology selected from the group consisting of rhabdomyosarcoma, primitive neuroectodermal tumors (PNET) and neuroblastoma comprising administering a therapeutically effective amount of a compound of Formula I, where R is hydrogen or methyl, or a pharmaceutical composition containing the same and pharmaceutically acceptable carriers and/or excipients. | 39,655 |
8,963,113 | 1. An optoelectronic sensor for recognizing object edges of objects moved relative to the sensor, having a light transmission device with at least one light transmitter ( having at least two light receivers ( having an evaluation unit ( wherein the evaluation unit is configured to compare the results of comparisons of at least two sensed images with one another to recognize an object rear edge and an object front edge. | 40,320 |
9,077,552 | 1. A method comprising: in a network interface controller (NIC) residing in a server: | 2,884 |
8,792,396 | 1. A method of pre-equalizing a data signal transmitted in frequency division duplex by an originating communicating entity having a set of originating antennas to a destination communicating entity having a set of destination antennas, the method comprising: a step of transmitting a first pilot sequence by a destination antenna; a step of the originating entity estimating a first impulse response of a first propagation channel between the destination antenna and a reference antenna of the set of originating antennas; an iterative step comprising the substeps of: said iterative step being re-iterated for at least a portion of the set of originating antennas; said steps of transmitting a first pilot sequence, of estimating said first impulse response, and said iterative step being re-iterated for at least a portion of the set of destination antennas; and a step of determining pre-equalization coefficients for the data signal from a combination of a set of composite impulse responses. | 33,001 |
8,374,864 | 1. A method comprising: receiving at a communication device, an audio file comprising an audio communication; receiving at the communication device, a text file comprising a transcribed text created from the audio communication; and generating at the communication device, a mapping of the text file comprising the transcribed text to the audio file comprising the audio communication, independent of transcribing the audio communication, said mapping identifying locations of portions of the transcribed text in the audio communication wherein generating said mapping comprises processing the audio file at a speech recognition engine to match words in the text file to sounds in the audio file. | 12,332 |
9,260,997 | 1. An exhaust device of an outboard motor to discharge combustion gas from an engine of an outboard motor which includes the engine housed in an engine case and provided with a cylinder, a cylinder head and an exhaust manifold, each being a water cooled type, and a propulsion unit disposed on an outer portion of the engine case and driven by the engine, the exhaust device comprising: an exhaust pipe; a water jacket formed on the exhaust pipe to annularly cover an outer side of a front half portion of the exhaust pipe connected to a downstream end of the exhaust manifold, a first cooling medium supplied to the water jacket and is exhausted to an outside through a cooling system via an injection nozzle provided on an exhaust channel of a rear half portion of the exhaust pipe; a heat exchanger connected to other water jackets of the cylinder, the cylinder head and the exhaust manifold; a second cooling medium circulates in an inner part of the other water jackets of the cylinder, the cylinder head and the exhaust manifold, and the heat exchanger, through cooling system circulation channels; a muffler; an exhaust hose; a cylindrical partition wall, extending in up and down on an inner part of the engine case; an upper end of the partition wall is opened near an upper end of the engine case; a lower end of the partition wall is formed outside of a lower surface of the engine case and is opened to a muffler chamber housing the muffler and the exhaust hose to communicate with the inner part of the engine case and the muffler chamber; and an upper end of the exhaust hose is coupled to an exit of the exhaust pipe and a lower end of the exhaust hose is coupled to the muffler; wherein the exhaust hose is laid from the inner part of the engine case to the muffler chamber through the cylindrical partition wall; wherein the first cooling medium is at least one of seawater or fresh water; wherein the cooling system is independent from the cooling system circulation channels; wherein the exhaust pipe, having the front half portion in which a downstream side is directed upward along a flowing direction of exhaust and the rear half portion in which a downstream side is directed downward along the flowing direction of the exhaust, is formed in a siphon shape where middle portions of the front half portion and the rear half portion are highly curving in comparison to other portions of the exhaust pipe; wherein the first cooling medium is injected toward a downstream side of the flowing direction of the exhaust inside the exhaust pipe from the injection nozzle disposed on the rear half portion downstream of a to of the exhaust pipe, wherein this configuration makes the exhaust hose and the muffler a wet type, and wherein the exhaust hose and the muffler are made of rubber. | 32,377 |
8,916,852 | 1. An organic light emitting display device, comprising: a substrate; a support arranged on one side of said substrate, said support is stainless steel; a bonding agent arranged on an opposite side of said substrate from that of said support and facing said support, said bonding agent is an adhesive; a semiconductor layer arranged on the substrate; a plurality of organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) arranged in rows and columns in the organic light emitting display device with each of the plurality of organic light emitting diodes arranged on the semiconductor layer; an encapsulant arranged on a periphery of the substrate corresponding to an outer periphery of each of the plurality of organic light emitting diodes and the semiconductor layer; and an encapsulation substrate attached to the encapsulant, wherein the support is on either side of the row of OLEDs, on either side of the column of OLEDs, or surrounding a subset of the plurality of OLEDs but more than a single OLED and less than all the OLEDs in the organic light emitting display device. | 36,636 |
8,770,748 | 1. A progressive ophthalmic lens, comprising: a far vision area, a near vision area and a passage that extends between said far vision area and said near vision area, wherein between said far vision area and a top edge of said progressive lens there extends a top area and between said near vision area and a bottom edge of said lens there extends a bottom area; a useful area, defined according to a perimeter of a preselected frame, and an area between the perimeter and an outer area outside the useful area, wherein said useful area divides said top area into a top outer area and a top inner area and said bottom area into a bottom outer area and a bottom inner area, and wherein in at least one of said top outer and bottom outer areas there is an arch of a contour line of a lens power progression associated astigmatism of value 0.25 Dp that extends along the corresponding top outer and bottom outer areas between two points of the frame perimeter. | 30,376 |
8,781,416 | 1. A wireless communication device for cooperatively exchanging information with a plurality of other communication devices, comprising: a processor configured to determine, from signals received from other communication devices, one selected transmission mode for the communication channel conditions, said determination being by: wherein the characterization of the communication channel does not depend on the actual transmission mode in use at the time of characterization; and, wherein said transmission mode selection rules to determine said one selected transmission mode from said first subset of transmission modes and said second subset of transmission modes, comprise computational implementations from one or more of the first 3 mode selection principles; mode selection principle #1, mode selection principle #2, mode selection principle #3, being applied with cumulative effect in any numerical order followed by mode selection principle #4 followed by #5: | 17,066 |
8,417,005 | 1. A method for automatically segmenting a three-dimensional image depicting a subject, the three-dimensional image being acquired with a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system, the steps of the method comprising: a) acquiring with the MRI system, image data from a subject; b) reconstructing from the image data acquired in step a), a three-dimensional image depicting the subject and a volume-of-interest to be segmented; c) producing from the three-dimensional image reconstructed in step b), a monogenic signal that represents the three-dimensional image; d) analyzing the monogenic signal produced in step c) to determine locations in the three-dimensional image that correspond to points of maximal phase congruency; e) determining an orientation of each of the points of maximal phase congruency determined in step d); f) estimating a surface of the volume-of-interest using the determined points of maximal phase congruency and the determined orientation of each of the points of maximal phase congruency; g) segmenting the volume-of-interest from the three-dimensional image using the estimated surface of the volume of interest. | 40,911 |
9,270,133 | 1. A system for monitoring an energy storage system composed of multiple cells connected in series, comprising: a chain of monitors including first and second monitors, the first monitor being configured for monitoring cells in a first group of the cells in the energy storage system to produce first monitored data, and the second monitor being configured for monitoring cells in a second group of the cells in the energy storage system to produce second monitored data for delivery to a controller, the second monitor being further configured for receiving the first monitored data from the first monitor for delivery to the controller, a first group of switches, each coupled to a different one of the cells in the first group of cells and controlled by a control signal produced by the first monitor to control charging of the cell to which the switch is coupled, and a second group of switches, each coupled to a different one of the cells in the second group of cells and controlled by a control signal produced by the second monitor to control charging of the cell to which the switch is coupled, the controller being responsive to monitored data for producing control data identifying at least one of the multiple cells and instructing the chain of monitors to control charging of the identified cell, the control data being transferred over the chain of monitors, the first monitor being further configured to receive the control data from the second monitor and determine whether the identified cell is one of the cells in the first group of cells, the second monitor being further configured to receive the control data and determine whether the identified cell is one of the cells in the second group of cells, the first monitor producing the control signal to control the switch in the first group of cells that is the identified cell, if the identified cell is in the first group of cells, and the second monitor producing the control signal to control the switch in the second group of cells that is the identified cell, if the identified cell is in the second group of cells. | 49,003 |
9,687,775 | 1. A hydrogen permeation membrane, comprising: a metal and a ceramic material mixed together, wherein the metal comprises Ni, and wherein the ceramic material has the formula: where 0<x≦0.5, 0≦y≦0.5, 0<(x+y)<1; 0≦δ≦0.5, and T is Sc, Ti, Nb, Ta, Mo, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, Ga, In, Sn, or combinations thereof, wherein at least a portion of the ceramic material is prepared with EDTA, citric acid, or a combination thereof prior to mixing with the metal. | 37,285 |
9,294,003 | 1. A power control device comprising: a first terminal; a second terminal connected to a transmission line; a first cascade multilevel inverter (CMI) connected to the second terminal; a second CMI connected in series between the first terminal and the second terminal; and a control module that controls the first CMI to cause a voltage phasor of the first CMI and a current phasor of the first CMI to approach a perpendicular angle to each other. | 19,475 |
9,612,644 | 1. A microcomputer comprising: a central processing unit (CPU) that receives a power supply voltage; a power-on-reset unit that sets a reset signal to reset the CPU when the power supply voltage is lower than a threshold voltage, and cancels the reset signal when the power supply voltage is equal to or higher than the threshold voltage; a storage unit that stores a value indicating a rise time of the power supply voltage; and a delay unit that delays cancellation of the reset signal, wherein the storage unit stores a first value when the rise time is a first time and a second value when the rise time is a second time, the first time being shorter than the second time, and wherein the cancellation of the reset signal is delayed by a third time when the storage unit stores the first value and delayed by a fourth time when the storage unit stores the second value, the third time being shorter than the fourth time. | 3,536 |
8,733,321 | 1. A turbocharged spark ignition engine that is fueled with a first fueling system that introduced fuel into a region outside of the cylinders and a second fueling system that injects fuel as a liquid directly into the cylinders; and where as torque is increased a fuel management system increases the amount of fuel provided by the second fueling system relative to fuel provided by the first fueling system so as to avoid knock; and where when the engine is operated at maximum torque the fuel air ratio is substantially stoichiometric and only the second fueling system is used; and where as the torque is decreased below a first selected value of torque only the first fueling system is used. | 10,210 |
8,574,617 | 1. A method to reduce pain at the site of a subdermal implantation of one or more pharmaceutical pellets, comprising: implanting in an animal a pharmaceutical pellet; and implanting in said animal a pain relief pellet comprising between about 5 weight percent and a about 95 weight percent of one or more pain relief agents and between about 3 weight percent to about 5 weight percent of one or more surfactants, wherein said pain relief pellet is disposed adjacent said pharmaceutical pellet. | 19,060 |
9,337,657 | 1. A system comprising: a power supply bank configured to provide a supplied power to a utility grid, wherein the utility grid is configured to receive auxiliary power from the power supply bank as an auxiliary power source in addition to a primary power source comprising a wind turbine, a solar power source, or other renewable energy source; a power converter configured to boost a supplied voltage of the supplied power and to regulate the supplied power; an inverter configured to regulate a first voltage and to regulate an output current, wherein the output current is the current of an output power provided to the grid; a voltage bus having the first voltage; a regulator having a state machine; and a first controller configured to control power flowing through the system by controlling the power converter or by controlling the first voltage by controlling the inverter, wherein the regulator is configured to maintain electrical connection between the power supply bank and the utility grid during a power fluctuation in the utility grid by varying between a plurality of states according to the state machine, and wherein the utility grid has a voltage of approximately 0V during the power fluctuation. | 32,184 |
9,085,339 | 1. A pedaling system for forward and reverse pedaling of a vehicle that includes an automatic gear change operating at a very low speed, the pedaling system comprising: a driving wheel; large rods connected to the driving wheel and configured to reciprocate back and forth less than a half of a turn regardless of a direction of rotation of the driving wheel; a first spindle; a driven wheel arranged on the first spindle; two wheels, including a first wheel and a second wheel, connected to and driven by the large rods and mounted on a first set of ball bearings that are secured to the first spindle, the first wheel having a first pawl and the second wheel having a second pawl; a toothed free wheel secured to the first spindle between the first wheel and the second wheel with the first pawl and the second pawl configured to engage with the toothed free wheel; an engagement wheel having teeth secured to the first spindle; a third wheel secured to the first spindle and including a third pawl configured to engage with the engagement wheel and transmit movement to the driven wheel by an interaction of the pawl and with the teeth of the engagement wheel; and a housing filled with oil substantially enclosing the pedaling system. | 15,055 |
9,019,881 | 1. A method for waking up a Node B (NB) cell, comprising: when a User Equipment (UE) in an idle state arrives in an area of an NB cell in which the UE ever resided, but does not search out signals of the NB cell, reporting, by the UE, Proximity Indication (PI) information to a network side through a specific Tracking Area Update (TAU) process; and waking up the NB cell by the network side when determining that there is a need to wake up the NB cell according to footprint information which is reported by the UE and obtained in the specific TAU process, wherein reporting, by the UE, the PI information to the network side through the specific TAU process comprises: sending, by the UE, a specific TAU request to the network side, wherein the TAU request carries the PI information and the footprint information of the NB cell in which the UE ever resided, and a value of the PI information is set in an Evolved Packet System (EPS) update type field. | 20,113 |
8,445,155 | 1. A complex power generation system, comprising: a fuel cell module having a first and a second heat exchanging unit and generating a DC current by an electrochemical reaction between hydrogen and oxygen; a first cycle receiving warm water within a first temperature range from the first heat exchanging unit and supplying the received warm water to a heat pump, and receiving warm water within a second temperature range from the heat pump and supplying the received warm water to the first heat exchanging unit; a second cycle receiving warm water within a third temperature range from the heat pump and discharging warm water within a fourth temperature range through the second heat exchanging unit; and wherein the second cycle is connected to a heating cycle including a plurality of heat consumption units, and wherein the warm water supplied from the second cycle to the heat pump is warm water within a fifth temperature range introduced from the heating cycle. | 17,291 |
8,851,760 | 1. A bearing block attachable and removable from a shaft having a hole with a spring pin and attachable and removable from a mount surface having spring pins, the bearing block comprising: a mount block having an inner race, an outer race and balls there between, the inner race extending from the mount block in a shoulder, the shoulder having an outer end and two co-linear holes there through near the outer end; the mount block having a surface, the surface having at least two block holes, the block holes each containing a sleeve, the sleeve is shorter than the depth of the block holes; whereby the spring pin is inserted into the shoulder holes and the shaft hole thereby securing the mount block to the shaft and the block holes are inserted over the spring pins on the mount surface securing the bearing block to the mount surface. | 12,576 |
8,464,265 | 1. A method for managing a pool of computational resources, each computational resource allocatable from the pool of resources, used for a period of time following allocation, and deallocated and returned to the pool following allocation and use, wherein the computational resources are communications ports, the method comprising: storing resource descriptions and resource-reallocation-enabling information in entries of a resource table, wherein the resource-reallocation-enabling information in each entry is a message sequence number; when receiving a resource-allocation request, when receiving a request to deallocate a resource, | 46,329 |
9,045,372 | 1. A honeycomb structure body comprising: a plurality of honeycomb segments having porous partition walls with which a plurality of cells extending from one end surface to the other end surface to become through channels of a fluid are formed, and an outer peripheral wall positioned at the outermost periphery and disposed to surround the partition walls, and having plugged portions arranged in one end portion of each of predetermined cells and the other end portion of each of the remaining cells; and joining material layers having a plurality of pores and joining the plurality of honeycomb segments in a state where the honeycomb segments are arranged adjacent to each other so that side surfaces of the honeycomb segments face each other, wherein a ratio of a number of pores having a value of 1.2 or less which is obtained by dividing a maximum diameter of each of the pores by a minimum diameter of the each of the pores is 60% or more of the number of all the pores of each of the joining material layers, and wherein the number of all the pores is obtained by counting a total number of pores in a 1.0 mm | 4,878 |
8,543,286 | 1. A method comprising: receiving classification data for a hazard associated with a system of a vehicle, the classification data indicating a classification of the hazard under standard 26262 of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO); receiving fault tree data for a fault tree of the hazard; analyzing the fault tree data using a fault tree analysis (FTA) application; identifying a minimal cut-set for the hazard; retrieving standards data for the hazard based on the classification of the hazard, the standards data indicating a minimum value for minimal cut-sets under the 26262 standard; comparing a number of elements in the minimal cut-set with the minimum value; and indicating whether the minimal cut-set complies with the 26262 standard based on the comparison. | 43,225 |
9,221,409 | 1. A vehicle power control system, comprising: a power source; a plurality of control circuits; a plurality of electronic control units (ECUs), wherein each of said plurality of control circuits is coupled to at least one of said plurality of ECUs, and wherein each of said plurality of ECUs is electrically connected to at least one vehicle electrical component of a plurality of vehicle electrical components; and a power distribution module coupled to said power source, said power distribution module comprising: | 17,977 |
8,921,627 | 1. A process for producing a branched-paraffin-rich diesel or aviation boiling point range hydrocarbon product from a renewable feedstock comprising: a) treating the feedstock in a first reaction zone having a process flow by hydrogenating and deoxygenating the feedstock using a catalyst at reaction conditions in the presence of hydrogen to provide a first reaction zone product stream comprising hydrogen, carbon dioxide, and a hydrocarbon fraction comprising n-paraffins in the diesel or aviation boiling point range; and b) selectively separating, in a hot high pressure hydrogen stripper, a gaseous stream comprising at least a portion of the hydrogen, water, and carbon oxides from the first reaction zone product stream leaving a remainder stream comprising at least the n-paraffins; c) injecting at least a portion of the remainder stream into the first reaction zone as a liquid quench stream wherein the liquid quench stream is injected counter current to the flow in the first reaction zone; and d) introducing at least a portion of the remainder stream to a second reaction zone to contact an isomerization catalyst at isomerization conditions to isomerize at least a portion of the n-paraffins and generate a branched paraffin-rich stream. | 10,036 |
9,429,121 | 1. A fuel injection system for a high-pressure injection in an internal combustion engine, comprising: a fuel distributor; and a holder for fastening the fuel distributor to an add-on structure, wherein the holder has a holder body, the holder body having a first layer which is at least essentially made from a metallic material, at least one second layer which is at least essentially made of a metallic material, and at least one elastically deformable damping layer situated between the first layer and the second layer, and wherein the holder body is connected to the fuel distributor by welding. | 11,557 |
9,510,429 | 1. A LED-based lighting unit with implemented radar, comprising: a plurality of individually-controllable groups of LEDs; conductive wiring electrically coupling said LEDs in a series parallel configuration; a radar circuit electrically coupled to a first portion of said conductive wiring; said first portion of said conductive wiring at least selectively powering said radar circuit and at least selectively powering said LEDs; and a radar antenna electrically coupled to said radar circuit; wherein each group of LEDs is individually controllable based on radar frequency signals received at said radar circuit via said radar antenna. | 48,277 |
9,830,855 | 1. A foldable display device, comprising: a flexible substrate ( 1 ), a plurality of horizontal scan lines (S 1 -Sn), which are mutually parallel and in interval on the flexible substrate ( 1 ), and a plurality of sub pixels ( 10 ) aligned in array on the flexible substrate ( 1 ); wherein one scan line is located corresponding to the sub pixels ( the flexible substrate ( control switch units of one column are respectively located in the first display region ( | 3,210 |
9,607,271 | 1. A computing apparatus comprising: a) a key that that is either a key molecule, ion, electron or photon and has freedom of motion within a cell body; b) a cell body that has length, width and height in the range of 10 c) wherein walls of the three dimensional cells are made of material that can anchor an antenna-like transmitter/receiver that is capable of transmitting and receiving and re-transmitting a radiant energy pulse; d) wherein antenna-like processes happen through dissociative key anti-docking and associative key docking that are both reversible processes; e) wherein dissociative anti-docking and associative docking are coupled events wherein a quantum of energy from associative docking together with negative differential entropy is coupled with the equal and opposite quantum of energy for dissociative anti-docking together with positive differential entropy; and f) wherein the dissociative key anti-docking and associative key docking coupled events can be used to move a signal of quantized energy. | 18,691 |
8,822,050 | 1. An electric storage apparatus comprising: an electric-generating element performing charge and discharge; and a case accommodating the electric-generating element and an electrolytic solution, wherein the case includes: an injection portion used for injecting the electrolytic solution into the case; a cap closing the injection portion; a worked portion provided by working a wall face itself of the case corresponding to outer shapes of the injection portion and the cap; and a valve provided between the injection portion and the worked portion and configured to discharge gas produced within the case to the outside of the case. | 3,052 |
8,436,714 | 1. A method for generating, an RFID activation command that is transmitted from an RFID reader and processed in an RFID tag, the method comprising: generating a reader identification code that provides identification of the RFID reader to the RFID tag, the reader identification code provides authentication information that enables the RFID tag to exclusively lock onto the RFID reader after activation; inserting the reader identification code in a first field within a command that communicate activation information between the RFID reader and the RFID tag; and transmitting the command to the RFID tag, wherein the activation of the RFID tag is based on a timer controlled session/inventory flag state that is related to system transmit power control operations such that when the RFID tag is accessed at a first reader transmit power level, it temporarily does not respond to reader commands transmitted at a higher power level than the first power level. | 8,074 |
8,645,728 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a plurality of processing elements each corresponding to a processor core; and a controller coupled to the plurality of processing elements that, responsive to execution by the controller of instructions stored in a non-transitory computer readable medium, is to lower an operating point of a first processing element of the plurality of processing elements if a first number based on cycles per instruction (CPI) associated with a second processing element of the plurality of processing elements is higher than a first threshold, and to increase the operating point of the first processing element if the first number is lower than a second threshold. | 46,953 |
9,066,501 | 1. A system for breeding swiftlets for their edible nests comprising: a production facility within a residential location comprising at least one man made cave structure including an enclosure, the enclosure including an aerial feeding chamber and a cage; a plurality of vertical walls disposed within the enclosure and including a plurality of roosting structures dispersed on the walls; a breeding apparatus for producing aerial feed for the swiftlets; a feed dispenser mounted on a ceiling of the cage for dispensing the aerial feed to the swiftlets; a water dispenser mounted on the ceiling of the cage for dispensing water to the swiftlets; a pneumatic propulsion mechanism for propelling the aerial feed through a pipe connected at a first end to the pneumatic propulsion mechanism and at a second end to the feed dispenser, the pneumatic propulsion mechanism comprising an air intake suction port at a first end and a discharge port connected to the pipe connected to the feed dispenser, the air intake suction port draws the aerial feed from within a container air flushed from the pneumatic propulsion mechanism and propels the aerial feed through the pipe top the feed dispenser and introduces the feed into the aerial feeding chamber; a humidifier operable to maintain the humidity of the enclosure at about 80%; an air conditioner for maintaining the temperature within the enclosure in the range of about 26° C. to 28° C.; and an electric audio system operable to emit sounds within the enclosure. | 6,345 |
9,118,517 | 1. An electronic circuit comprising: a current regulator sinking a current, the current regulator regulating the current sinked to be approximately constant; a bias circuitry coupled with the current regulator, the bias circuitry biasing a transmission line at a bias voltage and supplying the current to the current regulator; and a voltage regulator including a power output and regulating a voltage of the power output to be approximately constant, the voltage regulator receiving the current sinked by the current regulator from the current regulator, and being coupled to another electronic circuit, the voltage regulator supplying the current sinked by the current regulator to the other electronic circuit through the power output, the voltage regulator powering a data communications transmitter module transmitting data to a data communications receiver module via the transmission line. | 28,510 |
8,597,381 | 1. A compact log having a longitudinal extent from end-to-end, a core midsection, a lower part and a side surface, wherein the log comprises: a plurality of longitudinally extending, end-to-end incisions therethrough, wherein the incisions extend from a bottom surface of the log, intersect in the log's core midsection and fail to extend to the log's side surface; and an air duct in the bottom surface of the log that extends from the log's side surface to the core midsection of the log and fails to extend to the upper part of the log in order to avoid burning of the side surface of the log, wherein the air duct is configured as a groove, and wherein the air duct is radially offset from the incisions so that the air duct intersects the incisions only at the log's core midsection and only adjacent the bottom surface of the log. | 9,750 |
8,520,679 | 1. A system comprising: a memory to store a plurality of link identifiers at a respective plurality of memory addresses; and logic, at least partially implemented in hardware, to: | 31,104 |
9,096,360 | 1. A merchandise storage and display container comprising: a container body including a front panel, a rear panel, an inner end panel connected to one of the front and rear panels, and an outer end panel connected to the other of the front and rear panels; a hang tab integrally extending from the outer end panel; the hang tab defining a hanger opening adapted to receive a portion of a hook to allow the container body to be supported by the hang tab; the outer end panel being selectively movable between open and closed conditions; a locking tab extending from and moving with the outer end panel between the open and closed positions; when the outer end panel is in the closed condition, the locking tab extending through a portion of and engaging a portion of the inner end panel to hold the outer end panel in the closed position; wherein the hang tab is connected to the outer end panel with first and second spaced legs; wherein the locking tab is connected to the outer end panel between the first and second spaced legs; and the first and second spaced legs and the locking tab are connected to an outer edge of the outer end panel; the outer edge positioning the locking tab against the one of the front and rear panels connected to the inner end panel. | 47,948 |
8,979,365 | 1. A device for supporting connection elements of a mobile X-ray machine, the device comprising: a chain, an articulation and a deformation of which is confined to a single horizontal plane, the chain configured to contain the connection elements of the mobile X-ray machine in the single horizontal plane; a first set of at least one guide rail extending in a first guide direction; and a movable carriage mounted to the first set of at least one guide rail, wherein the chain comprises a first end configured to attach to an arm of the X-ray machine and an opposite end configured to attach to the movable carriage. | 19,252 |
8,785,106 | 1. A resist composition comprising: a base component (A) that exhibits changed solubility in a developing solution by the action of acid; a photoreactive quencher (C); and an acid generator component (B) that generates acid upon exposure, wherein the photoreactive quencher (C) contains a compound (C1) represented by general formula (c1) shown below: wherein X represents a cyclic group of 3 to 30 carbon atoms which may have a substituent; R | 47,795 |
9,116,267 | 1. An electronic device, comprising: display layers; a light source configured to provide light; a printed circuit substrate on which the light source is mounted; a light guide plate configured to receive the light and to provide the light to the display layers as backlight illumination, wherein the light guide plate is adhered to the printed circuit substrate using adhesive; and a reflector configured to reflect the light into the light guide plate, wherein the reflector is adhered to the printed circuit substrate using additional adhesive. | 39,039 |
8,581,650 | 1. A duty cycle correction circuit comprising: a duty cycle correction unit configured to correct a duty cycle of an input clock signal according to a duty cycle correction code and generate an output clock signal; a duty cycle detection unit configured to detect a duty cycle of the output clock and generate a detection voltage and an up-down signal; a voltage detection unit configured to generate an input noise signal according to the level of the detection voltage; a noise detection signal generation unit configured to detect a variation of the input noise signal and generate a noise detection signal; and a duty cycle correction control unit configured to generate the duty cycle correction code in response to the noise detection signal and the up-down signal. | 3,323 |
8,383,319 | 1. A lithographic printing plate precursor comprising a substrate and having thereon an imagable layer, the precursor comprising in its outermost layer, polymeric particles having an average diameter of from about 3 to about 20 μm, and the polymeric particles comprising a core of a crosslinked polymer and having grafted hydrophilic polymeric surface groups, which polymeric surface groups are grafted onto the particle surfaces by polymerizing hydrophilic monomers in the presence of the crosslinked polymeric particles, wherein the polymeric particles comprise grafted hydrophilic polymeric surface groups that comprise one or more hydrophilic groups selected from the group consisting of amide, sulfonic acid, sulfonic acid salts, carboxylic acid, carboxylic acid salts, phosphoric acid, phosphoric acid salts, phosphonic acid, phosphonic acid salts, and polyalkylene oxide groups, wherein the outermost layer is an outermost topcoat containing the polymeric particles, said topcoat having a dry coverage of from about 0.2 to about 2.5 g/m | 12,177 |
9,657,473 | 1. A rinse ring securement system for a toilet pedestal frame, the system comprising: a rinse ring comprising at least one quarter turn feature; the toilet pedestal frame comprising at least one corresponding quarter turn connection/receiving feature, wherein the quarter turn feature of the rinse ring is rotatably and slidably connected with respect to the rinse ring but is not removable therefrom. | 5,275 |
9,706,151 | 1. An optical disk player comprising: an optical disk drive to read first video data of a first format from an optical disk; at least one hardware processor coupled to the optical disk drive, the at least one hardware processor to: wherein the at least one hardware processor to: | 48,586 |
8,593,415 | 1. A method for processing a user input in a mobile terminal, the method comprising: displaying data on a touch screen of the mobile terminal; receiving a touch input on a portion of the data on the touch screen; detecting movement of the mobile terminal while the touch input on the portion of the data is maintained; changing a size of the data based on an area where the touch input is received in response to the movement of the mobile terminal; and displaying the size-changed data on the touch screen. | 10,649 |
9,476,333 | 1. A burner for an exhaust purifying device comprising: a tube, which includes: an air supply port for supplying the air for combustion into the tube; a fuel supply port for supplying fuel into the tube; and an ignition portion for igniting the pre-mixed air-fuel mixture in the combustion chamber, wherein the premixing chamber includes a first mixing chamber and a second mixing chamber, the second mixing chamber connected to the first mixing chamber and the combustion chamber, the tube further includes: the diffusion unit includes a connecting hole having a diameter less than the inner diameter of the tube. | 39,319 |
8,527,315 | 1. An operation support apparatus performing processing using a computer for giving guidance leading to the start of tasks to a worker carrying out an operation in which execution timings for respective tasks are determined in advance, the apparatus comprising: a proficiency storage unit of a computer memory storing, for each worker, proficiencies with respect to tasks performed in the operation and determined corresponding to a difference between an output time of guidance related to a task and a task record time for the task; a guidance output unit of a computer processor obtaining a proficiency of a worker with respect to a task to be performed from the proficiency storage unit, correcting corresponding to the proficiency of the worker a guidance base time determined based on an operation schedule and determining a guidance control time corresponding to the proficiency of the worker, and instructing an output device to output the guidance to the worker at the guidance control time; a task record collecting unit of a computer processor creating task record information containing a task content and a task time of a task performed by the worker; and a proficiency determining unit of a computer processor correcting the proficiency of the worker with respect to the task based on the guidance control time of the guidance and the task time contained in the task record information, and updating the proficiency of the worker with respect to the task stored in the proficiency storage unit, wherein the guidance output unit obtains a latest proficiency from the proficiency storage unit when the proficiency of the worker with respect to the task to be performed is updated by the proficiency determining unit. | 42,669 |
8,460,898 | 1. A method for producing fermentable sugars comprising: (a) providing lignocellulosic biomass comprising lignin, cellulose and hemicellulose; (b) suspending the biomass of (a) in an organic solvent solution comprising water, ammonia in an amount of about 2% to about 20% relative to weight of dry biomass and one or more nucleophile, whereby a biomass-solvent suspension is formed under alkaline conditions; (c) heating the biomass-solvent suspension to a temperature of about 100-220° C. for about 5 minutes to about 5 hours whereby lignin is fragmented and is dissolved in the suspension; (d) filtering free liquid under pressure after heating the suspension in (c) whereby the dissolved lignin is removed and whereby carbohydrate-enriched biomass with high retention of hemicellulose is produced; (e) optionally washing the carbohydrate-enriched biomass of (d) with an organic solvent solution producing a solvent-washed carbohydrate-enriched biomass; (f) removing solvent from the carbohydrate-enriched biomass of (e), or of (d) when (e) is omitted; (g) contacting the readily saccharifiable carbohydrate-enriched biomass of (f) with an enzyme consortium, whereby fermentable sugars are produced. | 12,529 |
9,576,264 | 1. A method comprising: receiving, by a computer-based system and based on scanning at a first location, data for a disaggregation event associated with an item at the first location; wherein the first location impacts the scanning of the data that is obtained by a proximity-based scanner at the first location, wherein the proximity-based scanner scans a parent electronic product code (EPC) and child EPC at the first location, wherein the proximity-based scanner communicates with the computer-based system; storing, by the computer-based system, the data for the disaggregation event in a database as ungrouped data elements formatted as a block of binary (BLOB); tuning, by the computer-based system, the database to optimize database performance, wherein the tuning includes placing frequently used files on separate file systems to reduce in and out bottlenecks; obtaining, by the computer-based system, the data from the database for the disaggregation event; in response to the parent EPC at the first location not being known, storing, by the computer-based system, the parent EPC in storage; associating, by the computer-based system, the disaggregation event with the parent EPC at the first location; determining, by the computer-based system, that an event sequence exists for the parent EPC at the first location; in response to the event sequence not existing, initiating, by the computer-based system, an event sequence for the parent EPC at the first location; in response to the child EPC not being known, storing, by the computer-based system, the child EPC in storage; associating, by the computer-based system, the disaggregation event with the child EPC; in response to a decommissioning event existing earlier in the event sequence, setting, by the computer-based system, a parent EPC state to a condition reflecting error; checking, by the computer-based system, for an aggregation event earlier in the event sequence than a current aggregation event; in response to the aggregation event not existing for the parent EPC, setting, by the computer-based system, the parent EPC state to a condition reflecting error; in response to the parent EPC being not reusable, checking, by the computer-based system, that there is only one commissioning event earlier in the event sequence than the current disaggregation event; in response to more than one commissioning event, setting, by the computer-based system, the parent EPC state to a condition reflecting error; in response to an event sequence not existing for a child EPC, initiating, by the computer-based system, an EPC event sequence for the child EPC; in response to beginning the event sequence with the current disaggregation event, and the child EPC being an item, setting, by the computer-based system, a child EPC state to indicate a missing commissioning event; in response to the decommissioning event existing earlier in the event sequence, setting, by the computer-based system, the child EPC state to a condition reflecting error; in response to more than one earlier aggregation event existing where the child EPC appears as a child, setting, by the computer-based system, the child EPC state to a condition reflecting error; in response to more than one commissioning event for the child EPC for an individual item, setting, by the compute-based system, the child EPC state to a condition reflecting error; in response to the child EPC being the container, and the container being not reusable, setting, by the computer-based system, the child EPC state to a condition reflecting error for an aggregation event earlier in the event sequence in which the child EPC appears as the parent; and in response to the child EPC being the container, and the container being not reusable and more than one commissioning event earlier in the event sequence than the current disaggregation event, setting, by the computer-based system, the child EPC state to a condition reflecting error only. | 3,935 |
9,344,111 | 1. An n-order noise shaper circuit with n≧3, wherein the n-order noise shaper circuit is arranged in a signal path of a transmitter and/or of a receiver of a mobile communication device, and is configured to receive a digital communication signal in a useful frequency band, comprising: a signal processor circuit in a forward path of the noise shaper circuit; and an n-order feedback filter circuit in a feedback path of the noise shaper circuit to thereby form a feedback loop, wherein the feedback filter circuit is configured to receive an error signal associated with the signal processor circuit and generate a correction signal, wherein the n-order feedback filter circuit comprises a transmission function H(z)=Σ a correction circuit configured to adjust the digital communication signal at an input of the signal processor circuit based on the correction signal generated by the n-order feedback filter circuit, wherein a first set of polynomial coefficients of the n-order feedback filter circuit are optimized with respect to the useful frequency band, wherein a second set of polynomial coefficients are optimized with respect to an optimization aim depending on an overall out of band noise and/or on a maximum out of band noise caused by the signal processor circuit, and wherein the useful frequency band and a frequency band associated with the overall out of band noise and/or the maximum out of band noise are different. | 47,686 |
8,981,571 | 1. A package assembly, comprising: a substrate; an electronic component located on the substrate and electrically connected to the substrate; and an encapsulation body encapsulating the electronic component with the substrate, wherein a portion of the substrate corresponding to the electronic component defines a plurality of through holes, the plurality of through holes is filled with the encapsulation body, a diameter of each of the plurality of through holes gradually reduces from a top surface of the substrate toward a bottom surface of the substrate, a smallest interior diameter of each of the plurality of through holes is less than an exterior diameter of a filling grain of the encapsulation body and wherein the plurality of through holes prevent melting remnants of the encapsulation body from flowing outside of the substrate. | 263 |
8,938,577 | 1. A cell location selector system, comprising: a multiplexer configured to select a next cell location among a plurality of priority encoders according to an opcode, wherein, if cell locations outputted by the priority encoders have a size less than a predetermined size, ‘0’s are appended to the end of each cell location, the multiplexer including first, second, and third inputs, a select input for receiving the opcode, and an output for providing a write pointer, wherein: the first input is coupled to a first priority encoder system for a single store cell; the second input is coupled to a second priority encoder system for two store cells; and the third input is coupled to a third priority encoder system for four store cells. | 5,765 |
9,703,314 | 1. A synchronous method of changing a frequency or phase, or both, of a first clock signal, without introducing transients, comprising: receiving a reference clock signal; cyclically generating two or more mutually exclusive phase pulses from the reference clock signal, the phase pulses having a predetermined phase relationship to each other; generating an output clock signal of a first frequency by dividing the reference clock signal by a first factor, by cyclically counting a corresponding first number of reference clock pulses; receiving information specifying a requested frequency and phase; and synchronously changing the frequency or phase, or both, of the output clock signal according to the received information, only when a phase pulse corresponding to a requested phase is asserted and the reference clock pulse count is in a predetermined state. | 38,245 |
9,329,666 | 1. A power throttling queue comprising: a queue having plurality of entries, each entry having a data field and a valid field, said queue filling entries in an order from a lowest ordered entry to a highest ordered entry, and draining entries from a highest ordered valid entry to a lowest ordered valid entry, said plurality of entries comprising a first portion and a selectively disabled second portion; and a throttling circuit coupled to said queue, for selectively disabling said second portion in response to a number of valid entries of said first portion, said throttling circuit keeping said second portion inactive regardless of said number of valid entries of said first portion in response to an override signal. | 19,561 |
9,357,031 | 1. A system for permitting applications to be treated as a service, instructions for the applications are stored on memory executed by a hardware processor, the system comprising: a. one or more servers having server memory storing a set of applications and a set of user profiles; and b. one or more client computers coupled to the one or more servers for receiving the set of applications modified at the one or more servers, wherein the set of user profiles indicate which applications within the set of applications are to be transmitted to the one or more client computers; wherein one or more of the applications transmitted to the client computers are associated with a time period after which the associated application will become inoperable on the client computers, the time period being stored on the server in the user profile, and upon login by the user, the time period stored on the server being verified by the one or more servers. | 11,121 |
8,883,316 | 1. A composite material comprising: a thermosetting mixture in an amount of 20-70 parts by weight, the thermosetting mixture including a liquid resin containing vinyl in an amount of more than 60% composed of carbon and hydrogen with its molecular weight being less than 11,000 g/mol, the liquid resin comprising 30%-75% of the weight of the thermosetting mixture, and a solid styryl resin of middle or low molecular weight with unsaturated double bonds having a molecular weight of 5,000-50,000 g/mol; | 45,659 |
8,445,215 | 1. A diagnostic assay, said diagnostic assay comprising: (a) determining the presence or absence of IgA anti-outer membrane protein A (anti-OmpA) antibodies in a sample by contacting said sample with an OmpA antigen or reactive fragment thereof, wherein said OmpA antigen or reactive fragment thereof is substantially-free of an OmpC antigen, under conditions suitable to form a complex of said OmpA antigen or reactive fragment thereof and IgA anti-OmpA antibody; (b) contacting said complex with a labeled indicator antibody to form a labeled complex; and (c) detecting the presence or absence of said labeled complex with a detection device, wherein the presence of said labeled complex is associated with Crohn's disease. | 34,678 |
9,721,248 | 1. A system for managing financial tokens associated with a financial account, whereby the system generates and authenticates tokens associated with the financial account in order to grant access to a user to conduct financial transactions on the financial account using an Automated Teller Machine (ATM) via a mobile device, the system comprising: an Automated Teller Machine (ATM) with a first Near Field Communication (NFC) transmitter; a memory; a computing processor; and a module stored in the memory, the module comprising instruction code executable by one or more computing processors, and configured to cause the one or more computing processors to: determine that the ATM is authorized for use, wherein determining that the ATM is authorized for use comprises comparing the received identification marker of the ATM with a list of identification markers accessible by the system; upon determining that the ATM is authorized for use, authenticate the device token, the authentication comprising comparing the device token with the server token, thereby resulting in a successful authentication of the device token; and communicate the successful authentication to the ATM. | 42,150 |
9,473,521 | 1. A method for mitigating false positive type errors while applying an information leak prevention policy to identify important information that it is desired to protect and to prevent said important information from leaking outwardly of an organization, the method comprising the computer implemented steps of: defining at least one positive criterion for a positive set, wherein said positive criterion comprises at least one indicator that a corresponding item contains information the distribution of which may be a possible breach of said information leak prevention policy; defining at least one negative criterion for a negative set, wherein said negative criterion comprises at least one indicator of benign traffic; establishing an ambiguity set defined by an intersection between said positive set and said negative set, said intersection containing items showing indications for both said positive set and said negative set, such that information items in said intersection, being all of the information items that belong simultaneously to said positive set and to said negative set, enter said ambiguity set; defining at least one ambiguity resolution criterion for resolving ambiguity of all members of said ambiguity set, thereby to positively place in or to remove said member from said positive set accordingly; monitoring and analyzing electronic traffic, where each information item in said traffic is searched for matches with said positive set; checking each item in said positive set for membership in said ambiguity set; resolving ambiguities of items in said ambiguity set using one of said ambiguity resolution criterion for each member of the ambiguity set and removing items from the positive set accordingly, said resolving being carried out on the items in all said items in said ambiguity set, being said items which are simultaneously members of said positive set and said negative set; and applying an information leak prevention policy for all items remaining in said positive set following said removal of items using ones of said ambiguity resolution criteria, said ambiguity resolution criteria thus identifying important information that it is desired to protect, said policy preventing said important information from leaking outwardly of said organization wherein said positive set comprises social security numbers and wherein said negative set comprises CUISP identifiers that are numbers valid for the set of social security numbers. | 25,501 |
8,479,866 | 1. An operational pedal support structure of an automotive vehicle, which is arranged in back of a dash panel constituting a front portion of a vehicle compartment, comprising: a fixed pedal support member provided on the side of the dash panel; a swing pedal support member supported relative to the dash panel so as to swing in a vertical direction around a front portion thereof and extending obliquely upward and rearward; a first pivotal axis provided at a rear portion of the swing pedal support member and extending in a vehicle width direction; a pedal body supported at the swing pedal support member via the first pivotal axis so as to swing around the first pivotal axis which constitutes a pedal-operation swing axis in a normal pedal-operational state; a vehicle-body side member provided in back of and away from the fixed pedal support member and fixed to a vehicle body; a rotational lever provided in front of and away from the vehicle-body side member, the rotational lever being supported at the fixed pedal support member via a second pivotal axis extending in the vehicle width direction so as to swing in a vehicle longitudinal direction around the second pivotal axis, the rotational lever contacting the vehicle-body side member and rotating around the second pivotal axis so as to press down the swing pedal support member downward, thereby moving the front pivotal axis downward, in case the fixed pedal support member moves rearward; a downward-move restricting means to allow a downward move of the first pivotal axis only in case the rotational lever rotates; and a pressing portion provided at the rotational lever so as to press down the swing pedal support member, thereby allowing the downward move of the first pivotal axis and enabling the pedal body to be compulsively moved downward, the pressing portion being positioned in front of the second pivotal axis. | 31,100 |
9,414,693 | 1. A replaceable basecover mechanism for covering at least a portion of an adjustable furniture item shroud, said replaceable basecover mechanism comprising: a covering material comprising a first edge and a second edge; a first coupling mechanism adjacent the first edge; a second coupling mechanism adjacent the second edge; and a stretch panel adjacent at least one of the first coupling mechanism and the second coupling mechanism, wherein the first coupling mechanism is configured to removably couple to the second coupling mechanism such that the covering material wraps at least a portion of the shroud. | 36,107 |
9,397,579 | 1. A controller for a DC/DC converter, said controller comprising: a signal generator operable for transferring pulses of a PWM (pulse width modulation) signal to a first channel and a second channel alternately thereby generating a first pulse signal at said first channel and a second pulse signal at said second channel alternately, and operable for controlling said PWM signal to regulate an output of said DC/DC converter; and control circuitry, coupled to said signal generator, operable for controlling a plurality of switches including a first switch, a second switch, a third switch, and a fourth switch according to said first and second pulse signals, wherein said controlling comprises: wherein said control circuitry is operable for generating a plurality of driving signals according to said first and second pulse signals, and each driving signal of said driving signals has a turn-on status to turn on a corresponding switch in said switches and a turn-off status to turn off said corresponding switch, and wherein said control circuitry further comprises: a plurality of delay units, comprising a first delay unit, a second delay unit, a third delay unit, and a fourth delay unit, operable for generating said driving signals according to a plurality of logic outputs, each logic output of said logic outputs having a first level and a second level, wherein said first delay unit is operable for setting a first driving signal of said driving signals to said turn-on status after a predetermined delay from detecting that a first logic output of said logic outputs is at said first level, and setting said first driving signal to said turn-off status in response to detecting that said first logic output is at said second level, wherein said second delay unit is operable for setting a second driving signal of said driving signals to said turn-on status after a predetermined delay from detecting that a second logic output of said logic outputs is at said first level, and setting said second driving signal to said turn-off status in response to detecting that said second logic output is at said second level, wherein said third delay unit is operable for setting a third driving signal of said driving signals to said turn-on status after a predetermined delay from detecting that a third logic output of said logic outputs is at said first level, and setting said third driving signal to said turn-off status in response to detecting that said third logic output is at said second level, and wherein said fourth delay unit is operable for setting a fourth driving signal of said driving signals to said turn-on status after a predetermined delay from detecting that a fourth logic output of said logic outputs is at said first level, and setting said fourth driving signal to said turn-off status in response to detecting that said fourth logic output is at said second level. | 17,776 |
8,831,815 | 1. A method of detecting and compensating for a failure in a starter circuit that comprises first and second relays in a circuit path between a battery and a starter motor of a vehicle, said method comprising: monitoring the first and second relays in the circuit path to determine if at least one of the first or second relays is in a closed position when it should be in an open position; and disabling a vehicle starter operation if it is determined that at least one of the first or second relays is in the closed position when it should be in the open position. | 10,898 |
8,880,669 | 1. A method comprising: receiving data that was collected from a plurality of network devices; wherein the data includes at least one device identifier for a neighboring network device of at least one network device of the plurality of network devices; comparing the at least one device identifier for the neighboring network device to one or more device identifiers of known network devices; in response to determining that the at least one device identifier for the neighboring network device does not match a device identifier for the known network devices, adding the at least one device identifier to a list of unidentified inventory; generating a score for the neighboring network device based, at least in part, on how many devices of the plurality of network devices detected the neighboring network device; determining a rank, within the list of unidentified inventory, for the neighboring network device based, at least in part, on the score and how many devices of the plurality of network devices detected the neighboring network device; wherein the rank, within the list of unidentified inventory, for the neighboring network device is higher when a greater number of devices of the plurality of network devices detect the neighboring network device than when a fewer number of devices of the plurality of network devices detect the neighboring network device; wherein the rank indicates that the neighboring network device has a greater likelihood than one or more other network devices identified by the list of unidentified inventory that the neighboring network device should be included in a network inventory; wherein the method is performed by one or more computing devices. | 35,212 |
8,748,738 | 1. A process for obtaining stable extract of sensitizing betalainic dyes of vegetal origin from beets, Indian figs, buganvillea or other natural products containing betalains comprising the steps of: a) obtaining an extract of sensitizing betalainic dyes of vegetal origin from beets, Indian figs, buganvillea or other natural product containing betalains; b) acidifying said extracts by first adding a weak organic mono- or di-carboxylic acid to pH=2 and then adding an inorganic acid to pH=1; and c) diluting said extracts with water so that the weight ratio between water and extract volume is about ½. | 11,137 |
9,362,071 | 1. A method of monitoring a circuit breaker provided in a gas filled enclosure, comprising: determining at least one gas characteristic of a gas in the enclosure; determining at least one fault arc energy characteristic of the circuit breaker; and forecasting with an electronic controller a maintenance event for the circuit breaker based on both the determined at least one gas characteristic and the determined at least one fault arc energy characteristic. | 6,913 |
9,715,895 | 1. A robot system for ferrying media cartridges in a data storage library, the robot system comprising: a robot controller subsystem that directs movement of the robot system along a conductive rail structure; a set of signal brushes adapted to maintain electrical signal contact between the robot system and the conductive rail structure; a set of power brushes adapted to maintain electrical power contact between the robot system and the conductive rail structure; a signal processing circuit having a set of signal brush inputs coupled with the set of signal brushes, and an instruction signal output coupled with the robot controller subsystem; and a power processing circuit having a set of power brush inputs coupled with the set of power brushes, and a power signal output coupled with the robot controller subsystem, such that the robot controller subsystem is powered according to the power signal output and directs movement of the robot system along the conductive rail structure according to the instruction signal output. | 7,297 |
9,678,337 | 1. A viewer comprising: a multifocal lens capable of setting a focal length among a plurality of predetermined focal lengths; a controller that controls the focal length of the multifocal lens; a measuring section that measures a gazing point distance of a user and detects a change in the gazing point distance, the gazing point distance being the distance from the eyes of a user to a position at which the user is gazing; a selection section that selects a focal length to be set among the plurality of focal lengths based on the measured gazing point distance when the measuring section detects a change in the gazing point distance; a determiner that determines a time duration from detection of a change in the gazing point distance to a change in the focal length of the multifocal lens in a case where the focal length selected by the selection section is different from a current focal length; and a detector that detects a blink or saccadic eye movement of the user, wherein in switching the focal length of the multifocal lens from the current focal length to the focal length selected by the selection section, the controller changes the focal length of the multifocal lens upon detection of a blink or saccadic eye movement by the detector during the time duration determined by the determiner from the detection of the change in the gazing point distance. | 22,699 |
9,063,690 | 1. An information processing apparatus including a printer driver to be executed by a computer, the information processing apparatus comprising: a device control program including a main unit to be executed on an external apparatus, which is installed from an external control program including a main unit, wherein the main unit in the device control program is updated independently from the main unit in the external control program; a first storage unit to receive additional function information for adding a function to the external control program whose version corresponds to the version of the main unit in the external control program and store the additional function information in a first storage area; a second storage unit, different from the first storage unit, to store the additional function information in a second storage area if the second storage unit does not store the same version of the additional function information stored in the first storage unit; and a determining unit to identify additional model information whose version corresponds to the main unit in the device control program among the additional model information stored in the first storage area and the second storage area. | 17,812 |
9,348,337 | 1. An environment recognition guide system for a movable medical equipment, the medical equipment comprising a movable carrier on which at least a wheel, a driving motor, and a motor control circuit are disposed, wherein the motor control circuit is connected to the driving motor and the motor control circuit controls the driving motor to operate for driving the wheel to cause the movable carrier of the medical equipment to move forward in a moving direction along a preset guide path in an environmental space, the environment recognition guide system comprising: a processor unit; a depth camera, which is connected via an image processing device to the processor unit, the depth camera being arranged at a front position of the medical equipment facing the moving direction in order to acquire an environment image pixel depth signal existing in front of the medical equipment; an environment data storage device, which is connected to the processor unit and stores therein predetermined object image pixel depth signals of a plurality of objects existing along the preset guide path in the environmental space; an object image recognition device, which is connected to the processor unit to compare the environment image pixel depth signal acquired by the depth camera with the predetermined object image pixel depth signals stored in the environment data storage device for comparison; a distance determination device, which is connected to the processor unit; and a distance reference value storage unit, which is connected to the distance determination device and stores therein a safe distance reference value, a deceleration distance reference value, and a stop distance reference value; wherein when the processor unit receives the environment image pixel depth signal acquired by the depth camera, the object image recognition device compares the environment image pixel depth signal with the predetermined object image pixel depth signals stored in the environment data storage device for recognition; when the environment image pixel depth signal is determined matching the predetermined object image pixel depth signals, a movement control signal is generated and applied to the motor control circuit to allow the motor control circuit to control the driving motor to operate for driving the medical equipment to move along the preset guide path; the depth camera captures an obstacle image pixel depth signal of an obstacle existing in front of the medical equipment; and the processor unit, upon receiving the obstacle image pixel depth signal of the depth camera, computes an obstacle distance between the depth camera and the obstacle that is transmitted to the distance determination device, so that the distance determination device, upon determining the obstacle distance is greater than the safe distance reference value, generates and applies the movement control signal to the motor control circuit to allow the motor control circuit to control the driving motor to operate. | 35,529 |
9,797,286 | 1. An exhaust treatment system, comprising: a selective catalyst reduction filter (SCRF) device including a filter portion having a washcoat disposed thereon that defines a washcoat thickness (WCT); a reductant delivery system configured to inject a reductant that reacts with the washcoat according to an initial reductant storage model, the SCRF device operating at a first efficiency based on the initial reductant storage model; an Electronic Control Unit (ECU) programmed to execute control of the exhaust treatment system, the ECU comprising: a WCT compensation module configured to electrically communicate a WCT compensation value based on the WCT of the SCRF device; and an SCRF storage module in electrical communication with the reductant delivery system and the WCT compensation module, the SCRF storage module configured to adjust the initial reductant storage model based on the WCT compensation value to generate a modified reductant storage model. | 30,393 |
8,537,388 | 1. An information processing apparatus comprising: an image processing unit configured to perform processing on data included in an electronic document data; a determination unit configured to determine whether a designated font is prohibited from being embedded; and an embedding unit configured to, when it is determined by the determination unit that the designated font is not a font which is prohibited from being embedded, embed the designated font as a font resource in document data, and when it is determined by the determination unit that the designated font is a font which is prohibited from being embedded, create an image based on the designated font and embed the created image into the document data, wherein the embedding unit creates a subset of the designated font and embeds the subset of the designated font to the document data in a case where the determination unit determines that the designated font is not a font which is prohibited from being embedded. | 20,334 |
9,614,243 | 1. A multilayered structure suitable as an electrode in a power source, comprising; a conductive laminar layer, a laminar enzyme layer containing an essentially dry enzyme capable of oxidizing or dehydrogenating carbohydrate material, and a laminar fuel layer containing a source of chemical energy comprising an essentially dry carbohydrate material, wherein said laminar fuel layer essentially abuts with said laminar enzyme layer or wherein said laminar fuel layer is separated from said laminar enzyme layer by a laminar intermediate layer to form said multilayered structure. | 47,886 |
9,353,727 | 1. A method of in situ calibrating load sensors of a horizontal axis wind turbine, the wind turbine comprising: a rotor including a hub and a plurality of wind turbine blades, which extend radially from the hub, the hub being connected to a drive train including a generator, which converts mechanical rotational motion of the rotor into electrical energy, wherein said plurality of blades comprises at least a first wind turbine blade provided with a plurality of first load sensors positioned in a first cross-section of the first wind turbine blade, and wherein the method comprises the steps of: a) determining a rotor azimuth angle of the first wind turbine blade, b) determining a pitch angle of the first wind turbine blade, c) measuring loads in the first cross-section of the first wind turbine blade using the first load sensors, d) calculating theoretical loads based on at least the rotor azimuth angle and the pitch angle of the blade determined in steps a) and b), e) comparing the loads measured in step c) with the theoretical loads calculated in step d), and f) calibrating the first load sensors based on the comparison of step e), wherein the calibration are based only on measurements carried out during normal use of the wind turbine, when the generator is cut out, and wherein values collected in steps a)-d) are repeatedly sampled and calculated for each sample; wherein the rotor azimuth angle and the pitch angle are continuously sampled; and wherein the rotor azimuth angle and the pitch angle may change values between subsequent determinations. | 2,099 |
8,805,514 | 1. An implantable neurostimulator system comprising: a device implantable in a human patient, the device in operable communication with a plurality of electrodes configured to sense signals from the patient corresponding to EEG signals, the device comprising: an apparatus configured to remain external of the patient, the apparatus comprising: | 5,846 |
9,399,257 | 1. A method of forming a ceramic reinforced titanium alloy metal comprising the steps of: providing, in a pre-alloy powdered form, a ceramic reinforced titanium alloy composition that is capable of achieving a dispersion-strengthened microstructure; directing a low energy density energy beam at a portion of the alloy composition; and forming a ceramic reinforced titanium alloy metal having ceramic particulates of less than 10 μm, wherein the step of forming comprises the sub-steps of: withdrawing the energy beam from the portion of the powdered alloy composition; and cooling the portion of the powdered alloy composition at a rate greater than or equal to 10 | 23,976 |
9,103,060 | 1. A method of operating a washing machine comprising: an infiltrating detergent process that, after supplying washing water to a washing tub, rotates one of the washing tub and a pulsator at a first speed in a direction so that the washing water and a laundry are moved toward and pushed against an inner wall of the washing tub, and infiltrates detergent into the laundry; a first washing process that alternately repeats rotating the pulsator in a direction by a first rotation angle and rotating the pulsator in an opposite direction during washing laundry to create a first frictional force between the laundry and separating contaminants from the laundry using the first frictional force; a first macerating process that alternately repeats rotating the pulsator in a direction by a second rotation angle smaller than the first rotation angle and rotating the pulsator in an opposite direction by the second rotation angle; a second washing process that alternately repeats rotating the pulsator in a direction by a third rotation angle bigger than the first rotation angle and rotating the pulsator in an opposite direction during washing laundry to create a second frictional force larger than the first frictional force between the laundry and separating contaminants from the laundry using the second frictional force, wherein the first speed is higher than a speed of the second washing process; and a third washing process that alternately repeats rotating the pulsator in a direction and rotating the pulsator in an opposite direction to create a third frictional force between the laundry and further separates the contaminants from the laundry using the third frictional force. | 12,638 |
9,255,472 | 1. A process for bioconverting a subterranean carbon-bearing deposit selected from coal seams, coal deposits and shale deposits comprising the steps of: injecting a fluid into the carbon bearing deposit with at least one injection well and removing injected fluid and product from the deposit through at least one production well; controlling fluid pressure within at least a portion of the deposit by use of said injected fluid, said pressure being controlled such that a net effective stress for said portion of the deposit is decreased and a permeability of said deposit is increased, and such that the fluid pressure within at least a portion of the deposit exceeds the fluid pressure that normally exists in that portion; bioconverting at least a portion of carbonaceous materials in the carbon bearing deposit to methane by a microbial consortium including at least one methanogen; and withdrawing the injected fluid and methane from said carbon bearing deposit. | 29,983 |
8,506,258 | 1. A method of manufacturing a wind turbine blade, the method comprising: moving fibers through a resin bath to wet the fibers with resin; moving the wet fibers through a heated die to cure the resin and shape the resin and fibers into an elongate composite pultrusion; cutting the elongate composite pultrusion into individual pieces to form a plurality of pultruded composite pieces; laminating the plurality of pultruded composite pieces together to form a spar portion elongated along a longitudinal first axis and flat along a second axis transverse to the first axis, wherein each of the pultruded composite pieces overlaps with the others in the spar portion at least one longitudinal location; and attaching the spar portion to a skin to form a portion of a wind turbine blade structure. | 29,972 |
9,545,619 | 1. A catalyst material comprising: (a) copper, present in the range of about 20 weight % to about 80 weight % based on the total weight of the catalyst material, calculated as CuO; (b) one or more stabilizer oxides, each stabilizer oxide being selected from the group consisting of group consisting of zinc oxide, aluminum oxide, zirconium oxide, titanium oxide, silicon dioxide, zinc aluminate, magnesium aluminate, zinc aluminate and silica aluminate, calcium aluminate, clays and zeolites and mixtures thereof, each stabilizer oxide being stable under reducing conditions, the one or more stabilizer oxides being present in a total amount in the range of about 20 weight % to about 70 weight % based on the total weight of the catalyst material, calculated as the most stable oxide for each metal; and (c) one or more multiple-valence metals, each multiple valence metal being selected from manganese, cerium, chromium, vanadium, iron, cobalt, lanthanum, nickel, molybdenum and tungsten, each multiple-valence metal being present in a positive oxidation state, the one or more multiple-valence metals are present in the range of about 0.1 weight % to about 40 weight % based on the total weight of the catalyst material, calculated as the most stable oxide for each metal. | 43,040 |
8,787,051 | 1. A method for controlling an equivalent resistance of a converter, wherein the method is adapted to an apparatus for controlling the equivalent resistance of the converter, and the apparatus includes a voltage conversion module, the method comprising: receiving a power source input signal; generating a first control signal according to a voltage level and a state of the power source input signal to adjust an equivalent resistance of the voltage conversion module and cause the voltage conversion module to operate in a damper mode or a converter mode; converting the power source input signal to an output signal when the voltage conversion module operates in the converter mode; adjusting the equivalent resistance of the voltage conversion module to provide a required damper resistance when the voltage conversion module operates in the damper mode; detecting the voltage level or a current level of the power source input signal to generate a second control signal, and adjusting the equivalent resistance to provide a required holding current for a dimmer and cause the voltage conversion module to operate in a bleeder mode or the converter mode to convert the power source input signal to the output signal, after the voltage conversion module finishes operating in the damper mode; and adjusting the equivalent resistance of the voltage conversion module so that the current level is greater the required holding current of the dimmer when the voltage conversion module operates in the bleeder mode. | 39,376 |
8,460,264 | 1. A wearing article, comprising: a chassis having wherein said chassis is contoured by front and rear ends opposed to each other in said longitudinal direction and extending in said transverse direction and side edges opposed to each other in said transverse direction and extending in said longitudinal direction so that said front and rear ends cooperate with each other to form a waist-opening and said side edges cooperate with each other to form a pair of leg-openings in said crotch region, said chassis further includes an opening formed to extend from at least one of said front and rear waist regions across said crotch region, and said liquid-absorbent structure is attached to said chassis to cover said opening, said opening is deformable under contraction of said waist region elastics in said transverse direction, said waist region elastics are waist region elastic sheets and each of which is directly sandwiched between the skin-facing inner surface of the chassis and the liquid-absorbent structure, partial sections of the opening in the front and rear waist regions are formed in the respective waist region elastic sheets, and the leg elastics extending along said side edges of the crotch region intersect the opening in the crotch region. | 47,996 |
9,804,293 | 1. A method for detecting genesis of an intense tornado, said method comprising: determining that a mesocyclone without an intense tornado has formed; flying an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) above the mesocyclone in a flight pattern where the mesocyclone is continuously monitorable from above by the UAV; and continuously monitoring the mesocyclone until detecting tornadic-stage-structure parameters using a plurality of sensors on the UAV that provide an indication that the mesocyclone has evolved into a more intense tornadic-stage structure that includes a central eye surrounded by an eyewall, where the tornadic-stage-structure parameters include a depression in a top surface of an upper cloud deck of the mesocyclone, and the depression is detected via downward-looking images of the mesocyclone provided by an imaging camera. | 11,117 |
8,494,523 | 1. A radio communications system, comprising base stations accommodated in a mobile communications network and a mobile station executing radio communications with the base stations, the mobile station comprising: a searching unit which searches radio signals transmitted from the base stations, searches the base stations, and obtains identification information of one or more target base stations capable of communications; and a first transmitting unit which transmits the identification information of the target base stations obtained by the searching unit, the target base stations each comprising: a first storage unit which pre-stores the identification information of the target base station; a first receiving unit which receives the identification information transmitted by the first transmitting unit; and a second transmitting unit which, upon receiving the identification information received by the first receiving unit, transmits the identification information which is not stored in the first storage unit, of the received identification information, to the mobile station, the mobile station further comprising: a second receiving unit which receives a No Good (NG) list indicating identification information not stored in the target base stations and identification information of unusable base stations from the second transmitting unit; a second storage unit which stores the No Good (NG) list received by the second receiving unit; a discriminating unit which discriminates necessity of handover; and a requesting unit which, if the discriminating unit discriminates the necessity of handover, requests the target base stations having identification information other than the identification information indicated in the No Good (NG) list to perform the handover. | 1,236 |
9,331,692 | 1. A luminous keyboard, comprising: a sensing circuit pattern for generating at least one non-contact key signal; at least one key, wherein when said at least one key is depressed, said at least one non-contact key signal is correspondingly generated by said sensing circuit pattern; a lateral-emitting type illumination element for providing a light beam; a light guide panel, wherein said lateral-emitting type illumination element is located at a lateral side of said light guide panel, and said light guide panel has at least one light-guiding dot for collecting and scattering said light beam from said lateral-emitting type illumination element; a supporting plate for connecting and supporting said at least one key, wherein said supporting plate has at least one light-transmissible part corresponding to said at least one key; a light-transmissible substrate arranged between said supporting plate and said light guide panel, wherein said light-transmissible substrate comprises at least one light diffusion structure corresponding to said at least one key for changing an optical path of said light beam from said at least one light-guiding dot; and a sensing circuit board on which said sensing circuit pattern is formed, the sensing circuit board arranged between said light guide panel and said supporting plate, and having at least one perforation corresponding to said at least one light diffusion structure; wherein said light beam from said at least one light-guiding dot is sequentially transmitted through said at least one perforation, said at least one light diffusion structure, said at least one light-transmissible part and then directed to said at least one key, wherein said at least one light diffusion structure comprises plural microstructures, and said plural microstructures are formed on said light-transmissible substrate; or wherein said at least one light diffusion structure is at least one lens, and said at least one lens is formed on said light-transmissible substrate; or wherein said at least one light diffusion structure has a lens profile, and said at least one light diffusion structure is integrally formed with said light-transmissible substrate. | 34,888 |
8,892,311 | 1. A controller for controlling a front wheel drive motorised vehicle, said motorised vehicle having a left drive wheel and a right drive wheel, said motorised vehicle being differentially steered in dependence on a speed of said left drive wheel and a speed of said right drive wheel, said controller comprising: a control signal interface configured to receive control signals from a user control device of said motorised vehicle, said control signals indicating at least a demanded forward speed for said motorised vehicle; an acceleration measurement interface configured to receive acceleration measurements from at least one acceleration sensor mounted on said motorised vehicle, said at least one acceleration sensor providing a first acceleration measurement with respect to a first axis and a second acceleration measurement with respect to a second axis, said motorised vehicle being configured to be driven in a plane defined by said first axis and said second axis; an acceleration magnitude calculation unit configured to calculate an acceleration magnitude of said motorised vehicle in dependence on said first acceleration measurement and on said second acceleration measurement; a speed modification unit configured to calculate a forward speed reduction factor in dependence on said acceleration magnitude and to apply said forward speed reduction factor to said demanded forward speed to produce an applied forward speed; and a motor control unit configured to control said speed of said left drive wheel and said speed of said right drive wheel in dependence on said applied forward speed. | 2,479 |
8,607,950 | 1. A dual clutch for engaging an engine-side input shaft having a first transmission-side output shaft, a second transmission-side output shaft, or a first and second transmission-side output shafts comprising: a first clutch comprising: a second clutch comprising: an input bearing: an actuating device for moving said first pressure plate, said second pressure plate, or said first and second pressure plates; and, a fastening plate connected to said actuation device for axially fastening to a clutch housing of said dual clutch, a transmission housing of a motor vehicle transmission, or said clutch housing of said dual clutch and said transmission housing of a motor vehicle transmission, wherein said actuating device is designed to pre-center relative to said clutch housing, said transmission housing, or said clutch housing and said transmission housing in a radially adjustable manner, and said fastening plate is designed to be radially fixed to said clutch housing, said transmission housing, or said clutch housing and said transmission housing. | 36,414 |
9,278,006 | 1. An ankle prosthesis for use with an ankle, comprising: a) a talar implant designed to be implanted in or on the talus; b) a tibial implant designed to be implanted in or on the tibia; and c) an intermediate implant designed to be interposed between the tibial implant and the talar implant, wherein the intermediate implant is designed to be mounted to move relative to the talar implant at a contact interface in order to allow the ankle to move, wherein the ankle prosthesis is provided with configurable coupling means including a base, a first portion of the base being connected to the intermediate implant, said configurable coupling means adapted for adjusting a position of said base relative to the tibial implant angularly about a medullary axis (ZZ′) of the tibia and linearly along an axis which is substantially normal to said medullary axis so as to position the base in an angularly and linearly chosen position relative to the tibial implant and for fastening the base to the tibial implant in the chosen position, wherein the configurable coupling means include engagement means for engaging the intermediate implant into the tibial implant. | 42,564 |
9,469,125 | 1. A printing system, comprising: a printhead receiving assembly to receive a printhead including a first nozzle array arrangement for jetting a first printing fluid on a substrate location, a second nozzle array arrangement for jetting a second printing fluid on the substrate location, and a third nozzle array arrangement for jetting a third printing fluid on the substrate location; and a processor | 49,755 |
9,157,418 | 1. A sustainable power supply unit for ISO containers comprising photo voltaic solar panels that produce electric power, a mainframe forming the sides of said unit, ISO corner castings attached to each corner of said mainframe, the height of said mainframe being less than three feet, said ISO container corner castings allowing mounting and attachment on top of ISO containers and stacking of two or more sustainable power supply units during transportation and storage, wherein the power supply unit has the same length and width as an ISO container so that a stack comprising two or more power supply units forms a unit that, during transportation and storage, can be handled like a single ISO container, said stack complying with the ISO container standard. | 48,383 |
8,581,694 | 1. An interrogator for an RFID tag, the interrogator comprising: a) a time-out circuit and an actuatable RF signal generator for transmitting an electromagnetic signal, b) wherein upon first actuation of the RF signal generator, regardless whether an RFID tag is detected, or not, the RF signal generator transmits a first electromagnetic signal having a first limited total continuous transmit time that is no longer than a predetermined transmit time, followed by an interim period of a defined length where the time-out circuit renders the interrogator incapable of transmitting the electromagnetic signal, followed by the RF signal generator transmitting a second electromagnetic signal having a second limited total continuous transmit time that is no longer than the predetermined transmit time, c) wherein no matter how frequently the RF signal generator is actuated, the time-out circuit prevents the first, second and subsequent transmissions of the electromagnetic signal that are each no longer than the predetermined transmit time after a prior electromagnetic signal has been transmitted from the RF signal generator until the interim period has expired. | 27,177 |
8,834,604 | 1. A method of processing at least two gasses in a gas processing system, the method comprising the steps of: providing a membrane including: a dense, gas impermeable layer, wherein the dense layer is a ceramic oxide material that conducts ions, electrons, and combinations thereof; a first and second porous layer, wherein each of the first and second porous layers is a ceramic oxide material having a non-symmetrical load bearing skeleton of graded porosity, said first porous layer on an air side of said membrane and said second porous layer on a process gas side of said membrane, and wherein the dense layer is positioned between the first and second porous layers; contacting the first porous layer with a first gas and the second porous layer with a second gas, wherein each porous layer provides a reduction of an oxygen partial pressure gradient across the dense layer and reduces resultant stresses in the dense layer that are small compared to its strength thereby improving long term mechanical durability of the dense layer, and wherein an oxygen partial pressure on the air side of the first porous layer of the membrane being about 0.2 atmospheres and an oxygen partial pressure on the process gas side of the second porous layer of the membrane ranges from about −10.1 to about −12.2 as measured by log pO producing a product selected from the group consisting of synthesis gas, hydrogen gas, and carbon monoxide. | 43,366 |
9,706,107 | 1. A method of controlling the view captured by a video camera using unique nametags, the method comprising: identifying a plurality of items at a location from video captured of the location by the video camera, wherein the plurality of items includes at least one person and at least one non-person object; associating a unique nametag of a plurality of unique nametags to each item of the plurality of items, wherein each one of the plurality of unique nametags describes the item to which the unique nametag is associated; receiving a first indication that a first unique nametag of the plurality of unique nametags has been selected by a user; and directing the video camera to capture a first view of a first position of a first item associated with the first unique nametag. | 21,292 |
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